Growing Hope Garden Update

I want my hands to be covered in soil and joyfully declaring the goodness of God...

Footprints Were Not Seen

Maybe I am even more amazed by what God didn’t allow me to do. How God didn’t let me serve where my heart wanted. How God closed ministry opportunities that I thought had finally arrived. All because He loved me enough to grow me into who I am now.

Someone Worth Celebrating

Today is my husband’s 33rd birthday. ... There are too many things about Scott Donald Wagoner that need to be celebrated.

His Love Endures Forever

Trust isn’t based on your feelings. That is a good thing when you have become so numb that you cannot feel anything anymore. Trust believes that God’s love endures forever

Watching Things Grow

God doesn't want you to take the easy way, because He loves watching you grow.

I Don’t Touch People

I don’t touch people. That has been my default response after 14 years of teaching public high school students.

Good-bye 2010s

Nothing could have prepared me for the last ten years, and to be honest, I am glad I wasn’t prepared. Those years brought me to the point where I had to confront my deepest fears, address the deep seeded sin in my life, and rely on God in a way I could have never imagined.

Contending for the Faith

Who could possibly write more than 100 pages over a book of the Bible that only has twenty-five verses? ... Oh boy, did I have something to learn.

When Does Life Start?

My watch battery died at 10:57 yesterday morning. I know it was that time, because the time is frozen there.

Final Thoughts on Humility (Part 8)

You are also tired, because if you are giving the impression that you have this whole life thing under control you don’t need help. Yet the truth is, is that you are struggling, but are too proud to ask for help