“God if you want to show me that you care about the small things right now, help me find the shovel!”

Have you ever uttered a prayer that had only a little faith but a lot of desperation wondering if God sees, hears and cares? This was that kind of prayer. And yes, it was for shovel… sort of.

While my sister Ang was getting some much needed fresh air, 5-year-old Arie had informed her mom that her small snow shovel was still missing even after her big brother had helped with a lengthy search the day before. The recent dump of snow had buried everything left out in the yard, making the search very unfruitful.

Ang pushed through her weariness, marked out a perimeter and started the search with the girls.

It was the Tuesday before Christmas, and normally a missing shovel would be no big deal, but it wasn’t a normal Tuesday.

It was the Tuesday after the Sunday she was blindsided by a phone call delivering the news that her husband Jordan had tested positive for COVID-19.

Have you ever felt stirred within your soul? You wonder if it's possibly God or your lunch? 

This past January, I was being stirred. God had been speaking through His Word and the Holy Spirit and stirring in my heart a desire to know Him, make Him know and to go together. On February 23, I felt a full green light. I drafted a post in a local Christian moms Facebook group I was part of. I hovered over the "Post" button for a minute considering the possibility that I was simply crazy and imagined the whole thing. I hit "Post" anyway. 

What happened when my friend Jennie who was no longer fine with just being fine met Jesus. Watch her story here.

Yesterday my sweet, tenderhearted and rambunctious little man turned 3. It seems like just yesterday I was blogging about his entry into the world. These days, I'm feeling extra thankful for him.

This past summer we were camping in BC. We were at an extended family members home for a laundry and swimming stop. We had drilled the kids in the car about water safety not going near the water without their floaties on.