ABOUT ME

Hi, I’m Christine a fellow sojourner in this life.

My journey, and yours, began before we ever took our first breath, even before the beginning of time. You see, God put plans in place for each of us, even preparing good works for us to do to partner in His wonderful design as we live in personal relationship with Him. I entered into that relationship when I was 36 and it’s been an amazing ride since then.

The LORD called me His beloved and named me “Free.” Life has been wonderful and hard and joyous and pain-full and peaceful and sorrow-full and thrilling. And trusting in the LORD to bring goodness from it all ensures it has all been worth it!

I married my childhood sweetheart, Dave and it has been an amazing roller coaster journey for sure! He is so supportive of the call on my life! I recently jumped in to semi-retirement to focus on my writing so we packed up and moved from the home where we raised our family to be closer to our grandbabies.

Our children truly cause me to rejoice in God’s Word,

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Our daughter Sharon is married to our son-in-love, Kenny and have blessed us with two beautiful granddaughters. Our daughter Sarah is married to our son-in-love, Randy and have blessed us with a beautiful granddaughter and sweet grandson. Our Son Matt left a legacy of loving people well, before going home to Heaven (now reunited with his twin) when he was 22.

Writing is how God has asked me to impact my world. I'm really more of a scribe, simply chronicling the goodness of our God. I also have the great joy of serving as the Director of Ministry & Events for Catalyst4Christ Ministries.

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Buying Time

The world will tell you that “time is money.”
In part, it’s true. Every moment is precious and we can only spend it once. We sell off bits of the gift of time, our life, to buy things that we think add to our happiness here. I don’t know about you, but I’ve become dissatisfied with this exchange. This spending of the most precious to gain the fleeting. I’ve not bought into the American “bigger/more is better” but it’s so easy to just slip into the daily-ness of life here that we can’t remember how we actually spent the past week, month, year… Same old, same old as the sand slips quickly through the hourglass. Oh, wealth can afford you to hire people to free up some of your time, but you have to maintain the wealth, that takes time.
But what if I told you that you could buy more time. How much would you want? What would you be willing to sell to buy it?
The paradigm shift comes when you realize that Timeis the most valuable commodity on earth. It’s easy, from this perspective…

Flying

Flying - 5/25/18 the first day of the rest of my life and there is a beautiful blank canvas before me...
That used to scare me, now I’m just timid about the first stroke.But the palette is being prepared for the Master and His work is always beautiful, so I rest as I wait.
Metaphors will abound today, for I love them!They breathe life into our limited language and paint deeper understanding in our minds.;-)
Last night, as I drove away from HDC, the place & people who have been my home for over 13 years, my heart broke and it was a Gilgal moment. Remembering pulling into the parking lot for the first time over 18 years ago, now leaving it for the last time…So, so much life has happened in between!And God in His faithfulness to me, bound me up in short time and as I blew a blessed kiss and waved goodbye the tears began cease and my heart, held fast within His loving hands, overflowed with gratitude for the great gift, actually a desire of my heart that I expressed on that first day…

The Watch

The watch. All I could think of was his watch, I knew he'd have been wearing it, he always did. I needed it, as if it held some great key with which to padlock my grief, my heart just had to have it. And as my eyes fell upon it, I had a knowing that he'd been wearing it and I reached for it and clutched it to my heart. The pin for the band broken, probably upon impact, tearing the leather. And there was a deep scratch on the crystal, these, the only evidence of that his breath had passed from this life and into the next. The second hand ticked steadily on as if nothing had happened. I almost wanted it to have been damaged, just enough to have stopped those ticking hands, to stop time, to mark the moment that a piece of my heart had been torn away. Broken, shattered, time was now warped for me. Yesterdays are now the only tomorrows I have with him.

The watch seemed too heavy in my hand. Oh, yes, it was a large watch to be sure. He liked them that way. He loved watches…

Thrice Sealed

Father God in His loving care, has pressed us in His hand. Indelibly our fate is sealed untouched by any man.
His love so great He sent His Son and yet again we’re sealed, Through cross and death and Blood, and yet, in Jesus we are healed.
And is our God, perfectly complete, He poured His Spirit out And Holy Spirit once-for-all, sealed us - now no doubt.
Thrice sealed, each member of the Godhead completing His own part. Thrice sealed, for surely we aid Him not, His grace, it needs no help. Thrice sealed, for all eternity complete and completed by Him.
None can snatch us, none can have us, none can thwart His mighty will.
Thrice securely, thrice assuredly, thrice, eternally sealed.

Written for my son Matt as we celebrate his life and lay him in the cleft of the rock. August 13, 2016

Broken Pitcher

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