Thanks for wanting to know more about me! I am a stay-at-home mom to two lovely girls and a happy wife to one dear husband. I left my job as an office manager for my husband's Christian bookstore two months before my first child was born. I love computers and the internet, so I naturally gravitated toward this new "world" I could visit any time of the day or night (as a baby's schedule demands!).

A friend told me about eBay and I began to SHOP from home. Then I began to sell stuff from home and really got the eBaying bug! I started out just selling outgrown children's clothing from our own closets. I hope you will visit our boutique and graphics links to see the great stuff we have to offer.

About me, really...I am a born again, devoted, believer in Jesus Christ. If that offends you, I am sorry. I hope that you will stay just a moment longer to read more. I know, it's a fact that there is nothing more offensive than all that "Jesus" stuff if you have been thumped over the head with it in the past. Like anyone being attacked, you may feel like just running the other way! I am not on the attack. I am so thankful for my salvation and I would hate to think that someone may miss out on knowing God simply because I failed to share my faith. It would be selfish of me to keep this good news all to myself. I mean that with all of my heart.

I have gone through some tough times in my life. My husband has recently been diagnosed with a terminal disease and desperately needs a lifesaving liver transplant. My sweet baby boy died suddenly from a misdiagnosed illness just a week before Christmas in 2006. My two little girls have had to learn the reality of death at the tender ages of 2 and 5 (now 4 and 7 as I type). My heart could have been easily crushed by pain and suffering, but God gives me mercy and peace to keep going. God's love is greater than anything you've been through in the past, His love can sustain you through anything you will face in the future and He is worth seeking and knowing. If you would like to know more about a personal relationship with God, please read the special message from Anne Graham Lotz (Billy Graham's daughter).

Words of Testimony for Seekers:

(Quoted from my favorite gospel tract from Billy Graham's daughter Anne Graham Lotz)

Why does God let bad things happen to good people?
to innocent people?
to helpless people?
to defenseless people?
to children?
to me?

Sometimes His ways seem so hard to understand!

In our world today, God’s children need to be reminded to trust Him when we don’t
understand and nothing seems to make sense. Nowhere is this principle taught more
poignantly or powerfully than in the book of John, chapter 11. In this passage, Martha
and Mary experienced great suffering as their prayers went seemingly unanswered.

When Jesus didn’t quickly intervene to save the life of their beloved brother, Lazarus,
Mary’s faith seemed to collapse, while Martha’s grew until she saw the glory of God in
her brother’s life. In the end their faith was gloriously rewarded, teaching us just to
trust Him when we don’t understand.

What bad thing, what storm of suffering has swept into your life, rendering you
helpless? The storm of death? Divorce? Disease? Debt? Instead of being delivered, did
your loved one die from cancer?

Has a feud erupted in your family?
a betrayal occurred in your marriage?
a rebellion challenged your parenting?
an untimely end come to your pregnancy?
a severance taken you from your job?
a military deployment deprived you of your loved one?

Besides feeling totally helpless, what has been your reaction to the storm? Are you
defiantly standing in the midst of the swirling circumstances, yelling in your spirit,
Why did You let this happen? Or maybe you’re with-drawing into a shell of denial and
depression, hoping the storm won’t get any worse.

I understand that a turkey and an eagle react differently to the threat of a storm. A
turkey reacts by running under the barn, hoping the storm won’t come near. An eagle, on
the other hand, leaves the security of its nest and spreads its wings to ride the air
currents of the approaching storm, knowing they will carry it higher than it could soar
on its own. Based on your reaction to the storms of life, which are you? A turkey or an
eagle?

It’s natural for me to be a turkey in my emotions, but I have chosen to be an eagle in
my spirit. And as I have spread my wings of faith to embrace “the wind,” placing my
trust in Jesus and Jesus alone, I have discovered just how faithful He can be.

Soaring is an adventure of discovering by experience His answer to my pain. I begin to
understand the reasons why God has allowed these bad things to happen. Soaring is so
exhilarating I find increasingly that I am no longer content to live in the barnyard of
familiar comfort just for the relative security that seems to be there. I want to live
by faith!

Looking back over some of the most pain-filled periods in my life, my thoughtful,
confident conclusion is that God allowed the storms of suffering to increase and
intensify in my life because He wanted me to soar higher in my relationship with Him—to
fall deeper in love with Him,
to grow stronger in my faith in Him,
to be more consistent in my walk with Him,
to bear more fruit in service to Him,
to draw closer to His heart,
to keep my focus on His face, to live for His glory alone!

Faith that triumphantly soars is possible only when the winds of life are contrary to
personal comfort. That kind of faith is His ultimate purpose in allowing us to encounter
storms of suffering. He wants you to trust Him, even in the face of death!

He wants you to trust Him.

In the beginning, we were never intended to die. Death was not a part of God’s original
plan. He created you and me to live with Him and enjoy Him forever in an uninterrupted,
permanent, personal, love relationship. But sin came into our lives and broke that
relationship. All of us are affected by this broken relationship because all of us are
infected with sin.

"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God...."” (Romans 3:23)

The consequence of this sin is death—not only physical death—but eternal death in hell, the
ultimate separation from God.

"The wages of sin is death." (Romans 6:23)

Would you open your heart and show it to Jesus? Because Jesus does understand. He loves
you! He loves you so much that He died on the cross and rose from the grave to pay the
penalty for your sin.

"God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for
us." (Romans 5:8)

He entered into our suffering, and He asks us to enter into His at the cross when we repent
of our sin, die to ourselves and receive Him by faith.

"God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16)

How to receive Christ: Admit your need (I am a sinner).

Be willing to turn from your sins (repent).
Believe that Jesus Christ died for you on the cross and rose from the grave.
Through prayer, invite Jesus Christ to come in and control your life through the Holy Spirit
(receive Him as your Savior).

What to Pray:

Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am sinful and I need Your forgiveness. I believe that You died
to pay the penalty for my sin. I want to turn from my sin nature and follow You instead. I invite You
to come into my heart and life. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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