Who Am I?

My favorite thing is to serve the King. (And snowshoe.) I think we can all serve King and Kingdom in whatever we're doing. (Even snowshoeing.) It all becomes an adventure (especially snowshoeing) when we seek first God's Kingdom and do our best to follow His Word and His lead. Not every moment is easy, but every moment is satisfying, and lots of them are fun (like the moments when I snowshoe).

My upcoming book, Raccoon Gangs, Pigeons Gone Bad, and Other Animal Adventures, is full of animal stories! It's also about how becoming so involved with so many of God’s creatures in such close quarters would explode so many things in my heart and mind about His creativity and character. Every day was a revelation, not to mention an adventure! Before I knew it, there were things about God and His wild ones that I just had to say. And lots of stories I just had to tell about certain amazing animals you won’t forget.

 

Our Maker & Me.

When I gave my life to God and got to know Him better, my ideas about who He is and how He relates to us completely changed. The way I live my life changed, and it keeps getting better. I also experienced the power of the Holy Spirit, which changed my life again. That’s a whole other avenue it’s taking me a lifetime to discover, but it provides this winning combination of both peacefulness and adventure!

Words & Me.

My work with words involves editing other people’s books and also writing my own. I’ve been helping people polish their God-glorifying, life-changing books for over 25 years, and I still get a kick out of playing around with the written word every day (and being paid for it—all those English honors classes were not for nothing). It’s soul-satisfying work right down to my core, but also hard work writing or editing what I hope is intriguing text that’s also readable and publishable. It’s even more soul-satisfying when people are touched by reading something I’ve worked on.

I’ve the privilege of editing for Chosen, a division of Baker Publishing Group.

Family & Me.

I’m a wife/mother/grandmother/small-scale chicken farmer. Add to the list domestic pet owner/reluctant pigeon keeper (that last one took a chapter in my book to explain). I dearly love all the objects of affection this list implies. And I’m a churchgoer/volunteer. Having close biological family is fantastic. Yet with or without that, we all need a close spiritual family, which is vital to our well-being in so many ways.