Deep in the archives of the Werle family home videos live the tales of Christmas past. The early ‘80s were filled with plastic toys, matching Christmas pajamas and the miniature stockings filled with Chocolate gold coins that Grandma and Grandpa would fill while we slept. The night before what was our probably favorite holiday at … More Surprise me!

It’s the greatest story ever told. God creates. People mess it up. God redeems. The Bible. It’s filled with more characters than names I could remember, more questions than I could dream of asking and more love and hope and truth than anything we could ever imagine. We’re looking at the whole story – beginning … More He just doesn’t quit

I want to write better stories. I want to write stories of snowshoeing under the stars, eight girls in my Corolla laughing hysterically as we drive to church, exploring the State Fair, jumping off of cliffs into pools of cool water, driving across state lines for concerts worthy of such distances, reaching the tops of … More Better Stories

It’s been a while. My last freelance project wrapped up eight months ago, and it’s been even longer since I’ve written a blog post that had any substance to it. I deactivated my Facebook account and just sort of stopped blogging. The Facebook decision was intentional, but the blogging sort of faded away slowly, actually … More I forgot how to write.