God expects us to grow and many of the seasons of our lives can either foster that growth or cause us resist it. I pray that I will use these circumstances in my life to grow as a Christian and in the many roles that I have been given.

I write through many of my trials and my posts here are in some ways a very public diary. To see all the blogs from my journey, you can click below.

Though I considered myself a Christian for a long time, I feel that my husband introduced me to the Bible. He taught me how to read it, slowly and until I could understand it. Then he taught me how to study it and develop my own positions on what it meant. As opinionated as my husband is, he emphasized the importance of developing my own understanding of the Scriptures. With a much better understanding of the overarching plan that God outlines in the story of the Bible, I have better understood the length, width, height and depth of God’s love for us. I have realized how essential understanding the Scriptures is to our Christian walk, especially the Old Testament and the role of the Israelites in God’s plan for mankind. And I want to help anyone who desires to understand it to have a guide and a help available to them.

When we stumbled into our infertility journey, I was having all sorts of pain and issues health-wise. I’m sad to say that most of my health issues were tabled for years with birth control and during the first 4 years trying-to-conceive children. In truth, I didn’t have answers to almost any of my health issues most of my life because they were centered around Women’s Health, which is an area that the medical community has not understood well for a long time, choosing to suppress women’s reproductive cycles instead of restore it to good health.

The most beautiful chapters of my life are still being written. I truly think the most growth we go through in life is through the stages of parenting. I have been the most humbled, stretched and convicted of my own need for growth and change while seeking to model the type of Christian adult I want to be for my children. I also found a surprising amount of common ground in my marriage, a unique and delicate balance of strong personalities, when it came to our children and the path we desire to lead them in. Learning about my husband’s unique wiring and personality helped me to understand my second son and embrace the beautiful differences. Learning more about myself has helped me to be patient with my older son, who shares my mindset in many ways. The weaving together of the family is a work that reflects God’s relationship with us. As we put together the pieces of the puzzle of our lives, we can begin to see the bigger picture and the ways God designed the family to glorify Him.

I sometimes marvel at how different the path I’ve set for my children’s education is than my own. And yet, I know why. I struggled to reconcile Christian teaching with education and so I give my children the gift of a Christ-centered education that doesn’t differentiate between Bible history and world history. Despite my Master of Science in Engineering, I felt unequipped for much of “real-life” and undeveloped in critical thinking, so we have adopted a Classical-eclectic approach to learning. We strongly desire to be the primary influence for our children and guide and then support our children as they navigate fighting for a Godly worldview themselves.