Getting Stared...Again

I have wanted to start this blog called
Up is Better for a while now, 

a place to share all that the Lord 
shares with me everyday. 

I have kept journals since the mid-80s and when 
I read some of those old journal entires, 

I sometimes forget that I was the one writing. 

The way He has encouraged me through all 
life's ups and downs never ceases to amaze me. 

I love the Lord with all my heart 

and am grateful for His mercy in my life. 

I pray these pages become buckets of water 

to all who read them, myself included.

I am a fellow sojourner with everyone 

who is out to find the fullness 
of a life worth living all for Him. 

I am: a lover of Jesus,

wife to my awesome husband, Dave, of almost 25 years,

mother of five amazing kids, 24 through 16 years old--

Morgan, Davidson, Tyson, Evan and Hunter. 

Morgan

 Davidson

 Tyson

Evan

 Hunter

me

Back in the day, 

I got a BA in Communications from Rider University, 

an MA in Rhetoric from Colorado State University 

and did a year of doctoral work in Rhetoric 

at the University of Washington. 

It was all about getting me to where I am now. 

I have been teaching junior high and 
high school for almost 20 years. 

Because it is a classical Christian school, 

I teach wild subjects like logic, Latin and rhetoric. 

I love teaching and

I love my students like crazy.

Every day is a testimony of God's grace, 

a life filled with "sun shining" days 

and "desert place" days like everyone else. 

This blog will inevitably link to those days 

because they are what God has used 

to teach me more about Himself and

to call me to become more like Him.

Lord, I give you my heart. 

All I ask is that You help me to share Yours.