Worth the Wait

As I hung up the phone with my former employer I thought to myself – There’s no turning back now. He had offered me a job working with teens and while it was extremely tempting, contemplation over the course of the next few hours brought the words of a...
Jaden’s Birth Story

Jaden’s Birth Story

The Morning Of It was 6 a.m. June 22. I’d gotten up every 2 hours since I first laid down my head at 11:30 p.m. the previous night and I had this feeling that my on again off again sleep pattern marked the last night’s rest I’d get as just Brie. Not...
The Birth of Something New

The Birth of Something New

If May marked graduations, commencements and the closing of one chapter in preparation for the next. Then June is that first page of a new book that you’ve been anxious to crack open. It’s fresh with possibilities of what the future holds and you can barely contain...
A New Testimony

A New Testimony

Do not remember the past events, pay no attention to things of old. Look, I am about to do something new, even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. – Isaiah 43:18-19 Have you ever read something...
How It Feels to Walk on Water

How It Feels to Walk on Water

“And climbing out of the boat, Peter started walking on the water toward Jesus.” Matthew 14:29 The story of Peter and Jesus walking on water is easily one of the most popular and often quoted passages of scripture. Pastors and preachers typically focus on...