About

I]’m a simple woman who struggles each day to live her best life and serve God’s purposes.  I am a mother who lives each day to inspire and encourage her children to live out their true purposes in life.  I am part of a larger family….those related to me by blood and those connected to me at heart.  I attempt to encourage and inspire them too.  I am the grateful recipient of encouragement and inspiration from those around me who generously offer me their friendship.  I share here a little bit of my beautiful life.  I hope something here encourages you  on your journey through life….beauty is all around.

That is the philosophical….now the practical. I am mom to two amazing teenagers (I guess they are not teenagers anymore…I just barely got out of calling them my “children”…..I am not ready for “young adults”)  Elizabeth is 20 and Andrés is 21.  Elizabeth is a junior at Concordia Univ. and Andres is a music student at Southwestern College and is a very active musician and songwriter busy with his band, Fusse. Andres also is Concordia’s worship music leader as assisting with the youth praise band. He also gives guitar and drum lessons (his youngest student is 7 and his oldest is probably near 70….I am told he is a very patient teacher!) I also help care for my mother and miss helping with my grandfather’s care as he went to Heaven in January at 99 1/2.  I miss him.  My family keeps me grounded and helps me live out my call to love.  They are sweet recipients and givers of love.

I was an attorney before being asked to serve in Mexico as Director of  Cristo Para Todas Las Naciones. You can check out our blog here:   (www.cptlnmexico.wordpress.com ) and yes, I travel across the border to Tijuana every week.

I am also privileged to help people connect with each other and with service opportunities with Concordia Church in Chula Vista, California (www.concordiachurch.com).  I love it there because it is a place for real people and serious faith. Over the last year, my time has been absorbed by being part of a mission planting team with our church serving a new community by launching a preschool which opened on August 3, 2009.  We opened with 125 students and will likely hit capacity in the following  60 days.

Scrapbooking has become another passion of mine, over the last couple of years at least.  Yes, it is a little bit about the art but it is much more about documenting the story of our lives…..what is important to us and that we were here.  However, with all the extra responsibility of launching a new school and church, my scrapbooking has gone by the wayside.  I am looking forward to having an opportunity to return to this favorite hobby.  But I am enjoying what I am doing now more than I am missing my scrapbooking.  I feel privileged to be a part of this great project.