2024, how sweet you were. 

Memory packed and refining. 

Heart wrenching and life giving.  

Miracle receiving. 

Sleepless and full of belly laughs. 

Another year closer to settling and sanctifying into the woman God has called me to be. 

Abide was my word for 2024. 

Some days I lost. Some days I won. But I never gave up. 

That word sat at the forefront of my head and heart in most moments. I craved the lessons knowing that every second, opportunity, season and person will never be the same again. 

At moments, I feel like I failed miserably and I did at times, but now seeing outside of the forest as a whole- I grew in the depths of abiding, greatly with the deepest convictions and most beautiful lessons.  

This year I’ve learned weariness and sustaining. 

I’ve felt loss and gained perspective in the fact that God is and will always be the one to run to with open arms. A lesson He continues to refine me in. 

I’ve learned that if God has called us to it, He will give us the strength to carry through. 

I’ve learned and been shown as I held my second son that God IS God of the impossible. 

And most of all…Year after year, and yet again, God was always the light that led me home at the end of the days. 

The light where I saw so much beauty in this year. It’s always Him. 

Here is to 2025. Having no

Idea what this year may hold, but holding onto the one who does. 

➡️Some of my favorite and most refining moments to 2024:

-Finding out we were having another precious miracle boy on the sands of Costa Rica. 

-Welcoming our second son into this world on July 18. Almost a highway baby and still working on writing out that story! God is God of the impossible! 

-Watching two little boys become best friends instantly. 

-Celebrating John turning 40! Miracles upon miracles. If the enemy had his way, this day would have never come. But God’s plan is more than we ever could have imagined! 

-Losing my Grandma Iris, the last of that side of grandparents. She was a woman who waited for Heaven and prayed fervently for us and our boys. A painful, yet beautiful reminder that today may be all we have left. 

-Spending another year in ministry and watching multitudes of families restored and free.

-Taking the boys back to the coast where it all started for John and I. A moment that had us both in tears thinking of all the miracles that God has done. What life looked like then and how full our arms and hearts are now. 

-Learning to get slow on the land. To take the time to pick the wildflowers and discover what God made them for. 

-Watching our hens hatch chicken babies and adding to our chicken crew. One of our greatest joys is living off the land. 

-Having families infiltrate our home all year as we got to share this precious little haven with many that we love and cherish. 

-Taking the time every evening to run to the back field and chase 750 thousand birds that settled on the property for over a month straight. A memory every evening that no words could describe. 

-Chasing just about every sunset that crested the back field. 

-Learning how to grace myself more than I ever have. A life long struggle for me. One of the many lessons of motherhood and one that I will forever be learning. 

-Dancing with my little boy at two weddings after he walked up with the sweetest grin and asked for my hand to the dance floor-“mommy, you dance with me?” 

2025, I’m here for the next sweet memories that you will bring 🤍