Hoping Forward - God Stories in Everyday

I recorded this episode while my daughter, Sarah, was away at a respite house and it reminded me of respites/breaks I used to get when my roommate, Natasha would watch Sarah while I went and stayed in a hotel for a weekend. During one of those stays, I wrote Sarah a letter detailing her early life and all the amazing, miraculous things God had done to make us a family. After listen

Have you ever found yourself in a deep darkness? A time when you felt defeated, lost, hopeless? This episode discusses the value of the darkness in the way it helps us notice and appreciate the goodness of God when we see it. I hope you will listen and think about what God has been doing in your life. Want to tell me your God story? I'd love to hear it and share it on the podc

Sometimes God gives little gifts along the way and I've been fortunate enough to receive many of them! Have you noticed any of these in your life? They might come in the form of a text from a friend when you needed some encouragement, or maybe it's a miraculous healing of some kind, or a bill that gets paid unexpectedly. This episode tells about two God hugs I've experi

Cara Lewis is from Mobile, Alabama and is married to Jarvis, a firefighter. Cara and Jarvis have one son, Asher, who is 4 and such a little charmer! In 2020, after some devastating medical crises with Asher, Cara went from working as a medical assistant in a hospital and doctor's office to becoming Asher’s full-time caregiver. God has now shifted her career plans to focus on

Hope Heals Camp is part of the ministry of Jay and Katherine Wolf. It is a sacred space of "belonging and belovedness" where our good, hard stories come together to blur the lines between heaven and earth and hardship and hope. I have never felt closer to God than at that camp. I encourage all of you to check out the ministries of Hope Heals, including their newest ventur

Why do I always immediately go to worry and "figure things out on my own" instead of giving the situation to God? You would think with all the podcasts I have done, talking about the big and small things I have seen God do in my life, I would learn to trust Him to take care of what I need! In this episode, I am going to tell you about some more instances when God came thr

In this episode, I revisit my divorce and the ways that God works through our "messes" to draw us through to His plan. For the full episode about my divorce, see episode 3 God Shows up in Divorce. About 18 or 19 years after my divorce, my ex-husband reached out to ask me to call him. I did and after the call I realized just how much God had redeemed/blessed my life after

Sometimes when we are looking for what God is doing in our lives and the world around us, we are so focused on looking for the big things -healings, monetary provision, etc- that we miss the small things along the way. I like to call those God-hugs. The little provisions; maybe an answer to prayer or maybe you hadn't even thought to ask. That was my situation in this episode. I

Sometimes God gives you a calling/promise and you don't even realize when He brings it to fruition. At least that happened to me and in this episode I tell you about it. When God let me know He was going to start the blessings flowing after I received "an offer of space", I couldn't have imagined that would have resulted in all the wonderful things going on in my life now. He truly

In this first episode of 2023, I tell a friend's God story. The reason for telling it and not interviewing my friend is that it revolves around foster care and I wanted to protect the children from any kind of unwanted attention as much as possible. My friend heard God in a dream tell her to say yes to a foster placement that was out of her comfort zone. He also promised to give he