About the Blog and Jessica

The purpose of this blog is to provide you with new ways to feel more alive through hope, joy, love and inspiring stories. Through my experiences, I hope to teach others how to get closer to God and have a meaningful relationship with Him. It's my way of bringing a little bit of Heaven down to Earth.

I felt the call to join my husband in the ministry in 2012. He is very much the leader in our ministry relationship but I like to be there as a supporter, team mate and partner as much as possible. We feel stronger together than apart. We pastor a small church in our hometown that we absolutely adore. We love people, our community and the journey that God has brought us down as a couple.

My second job is as a math teacher. I LOVE working with my students and putting the gift God gave me to good use. Being a teacher is rewarding, fun and fulfilling. I feel blessed to work in an area that I am passionate about: helping others see difficult things more clearly.

We have two furbabies: Sergeant, the yorkie, and Flash, the Australian Shepherd. Sergeant is strong, independent, smart and attentive while Flash is sweet, shy, snuggly and silly. We also have outside cats and a growing mini goat herd.

Our goal in life is to reach the people of our community and beyond. We feel called to share the love of Jesus with anyone who'll listen and are excited about the journey with those who will join us.

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Reforming Undesirable Behavior

You know that thing you do that you don't wanna do but you keep doing it because you can't stop doing it? These behaviors might include: lying, cheating, raging, gossiping, pornography, drinking, drugs, eating, throwing up, etc. Reforming these behaviors on your own can prove to be a little tricky. I'd say reforming undesirable behavior might even be impossible on your own. But there is still hope for us. With the love of God, the power of the Holy Spirit and a renewed mind, you can reform your behavior. Youth conference with lots of God encounters! An encounter with God is the easiest way to reform undesirable behavior because the encounter will fill you with the fear of the Lord. The fear of the Lord renews our minds in a way that informs our bodies of what's beneficial to our spiritual health in the eyes of God. So, your mouth doesn't want to lie anymore; your tongue won't allow you to eat certain things; your eyes will be opened to the evil of pornogra

Patient for the Promise

Going off the 🏕 grid is really in right now, right? A lot of people are buying 🌳 land, getting a tiny home and moving towards the simple, slow life. It’s exciting and exhilarating and dreams are coming true everyday for people who hope to be self sustained. Going in faith on a 🗣🙏🏼 word of God is kind of the same feeling. He gives us a vision, a word or a dream that is irresistible. It’s exciting and exhilarating as we think about what He has for us and what it will look like. Our dreams come true as we see His word unfold right in front of us. What we don’t realize when we get started is the 😳 opposition that inevitably pops up along the way. For example, when people dream about living the simple life in the country they see 🌤 sunrises and sunsets with ☕️ coffee on the front porch in a white rocking chair. They see quiet, peaceful evenings spent with the family in the yard. They see baby 🐐 goats and 🐱 kittens frolicking in the barn. That IS a reality of a dream co

Lose Control

It's hard to let go sometimes, isn't it? Maybe not for everyone but for a lot of people, it's easier to just do things yourself so you know it'll be done "right" (by right I mean done the way you want it). Or even the times when things are NOT getting done we think, "I'll just do it myself!" In the past year, God has been teaching me that I am not the one that controls my circumstances, He is. Quite frankly, He's teaching me how much easier it is if I just hand over the reins. What's funny is He had the reins the whole time! We just THINK we have control. God has revealed this to me through recent events and the quality of my life has greatly improved. Once we figure this out and let Him rule, everything else falls into place...everything seems to get easier...we start to feel real freedom. In reality, my circumstances, financially or physically or anything else I've been worried about, have not changed at all; my mind has been tran

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