Our Kitchen Table

  This is my kitchen table. This is it’s best side. Up close you can see that it’s laminate has been melted off in many sections due to hot pots and unfortunate incidents with fingernail polish remover. If you sit at the far right hand corner you will...

If I had known would I have still done this?

God started me down a arduous journey two years ago. I was naive enough to think it might just be a long run. My runner’s head thought I would just push through a few more rough miles on some unknown terrain but I could do that pretty easy. However, the conviction God...

Kinda makes you want to pull your hair out

Remember we first got started? We just had that seemingly simple plan of we’ll get a house, follow some state rules, recruit some great staff, mostly run it on a shoe string and volunteers, and just fill these girls with the love of God. We’re still trying...

If I Get Hit By A Bus

A few members of our team have shared some interesting conversations and follow up emails last week. The main subject is if I die. In and of itself this topic is a bit disconcerting. But, we were mostly talking about properly sharing and storing passwords to our bank...

House hunting can make you nutty

You may have seen me doing some pretty strange things around St. Charles County over the past 100 days or so. You might have seen me stalking for sale signs. You may see me with a measuring tape marking off lengths. If you were driving behind me you might find it odd...

Part 1: God whispered “Nehemiah”

Do you remember when your toddler was learning to build with blocks? They would take those 2 or 3 blocks with those little mitten hands and try over and over again to stack them up successfully. During the process they would undoubtedly get frustrated when the blocks...