Hello and welcome. I am a Grandma with a blog. My children are grown and this is a “retirement” adventure–a journey that when I was younger I would never have dreamed I would be taking.

As a child, I vaguely remember hearing about computers, but they had little impact on my life. They were owned mostly by corporations and were little more than ginormous calculators. If you would have asked me to define the internet, I would have taken a wild guess and said it was some kind of double-layer net used in fishing or another sport. Spellcheck was a function of the Dictionary. Spyware was spelled spy wear and consisted of such items as dark sunglasses and a tuxedo. Spam was in a can in the pantry.

I learned how to drive before I learned to type, and that was on a typewriter (my high school didn’t even own personal computers). Even in college, I used the card catalog for help with finding resources for my research papers. I turned in those papers, handwritten on loose-leaf paper or in a composition notebook.

If you had told me that someday I would have a plethora of information at my fingertips coming through a device that I could carry around with me, I would have thought you had a fantastic imagination. If you had suggested that someday I would be able to write something, and after pushing a few buttons, that which I had written might instantly be read by someone halfway across the world, I wouldn’t have even known how to process that information!

Yet, here I sit and that which I would have thought was fiction is a fact. I want to use this opportunity for good. This is a Christian blog. It is intended to encourage fellow believers in their daily walks with God.

Please note: I do not have a Biblical degree of any kind. Except for a semester of discipleship training at Ellerslie Mission Society in Windsor, CO, I have no formal religious training. But “Peter and John…were uneducated, common men [yet] they…astonished [those who had been trained in religious matters, because] they recognized that [Peter and John] had been with Jesus” (Acts 4:13). I have been with Jesus for a very long time. And I have had the privilege of spending my entire adult life in lay ministry putting to use the degree I do have in education to teach the Bible.

Besides that, being a consistently good enough wife and mother is the only thing I have done that is noteworthy. But I have talked to God every day of my life since I was a preschooler. And I have read the Bible more times than I can remember. If either of these things means anything to you, you may be able to glean some wisdom from what I have penned on these pages. I do not expect you to agree with all I have written. Instead, it is my prayer that this will encourage you to daily get into the Word of God for yourself asking Him to personally show you what He wants you to see.

Blessings