Ultimate Blog Party 2011

As I'm starting my post for the Ultimate Blog Party 2011 with 5 Minutes for Mom, I'm wrestling with ... shouldn't I use this time iron or watch another rerun with the fam or put the pizza box in the trash or clip the dog's nails? After all, it's Friday night ... Nah. Jumping into the Party is such fun and a great way to wrap up the week.

I started blogging in January of 2009, in part because I love to write, I love getting to know other women, I love finding how God's truth applies to real life, and mostly because I knew God wanted me to. Highlights on my blog are my weekly Marriage Mondays (There's a Linky, if you like) now in their 2nd year, and then recipes on Tasty Tuesday. I enjoy writing about special themes related to the challenges of being a woman who seeks God in today's world. 


Blogging has been a great extension of opportunities I have to write for magazines like P31 Woman and online venues like Scripture Dig (I write there with our team of 6 writers who love digging into God's Word). I'm also a mom of two teenagers (can't believe THAT), and I love being a partner to my husband of 21 years who happens to be a "Pastor of Mobilization." :) That means we have the joy of spending our time and energy with international partners and missionaries, caring for them, and passing on the vision in our home country. Our own experience as missionaries in Asia planted that love deeply in our hearts. We also get to help mobilize our church family here in our own city in places like the women's shelter. I also have the pleasure of being our Women's Ministry Director. I love teaching Bible studies and sharing with women's groups. Jeff and I work together with a newly married couples group (we love that), and we have a passion for building up marriages. In my "past" I was a teacher and have since had the fun of schooling our own kids at home for two different periods in between christian and public school; currently it's a combo. Next year I'll have 2 teenagers in high school, and I'm holding hope I may actually have more than just "5 Minutes for Mom."  :) The teen years have been very sweet.


In my "off" time,  I love growing herbs, cooking, soaking up history, reading amazing books, writing poems, and camping with my fam. I also love to draw, but I don't get much time to do that, and when I do ... I do things like post for the Ultimate Blog Party. :)


I love getting to know my readers and having the joy of praying with and for them. I'm hoping to get to know some new blog friends on the UBP this year. I want Come Have a Peace to be a place where women are encouraged by God's truth applied to life in practical ways that produce the peace we're meant to know.


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Blessings to you as you read,