ABOUT

Hi, I’m Amanda! My greatest joys have come from being a mother, daughter, wife, sister and friend. Perhaps like you, these have also been the source to some of my greatest heartaches. I have been married to my husband Jesse for 26 years and together we have had the pleasure of raising five children who are now teens and adults and some of them beginning families of their own. Some of the things that make me smile are flowers, sunshine on my face, good coffee, and meals shared around a table with loved ones. I enjoy the journey of life and the people that I get to collect along the way that add to the bouquet of it.

Like you, I have journeyed though both both the valleys and the mountains of life, often simultaneously. One of the reasons that I enjoy writing is to be able to share some of those experiences with you in hopes to give you encouragement and someone to identify with wherever you happen to find yourself in your journey. No matter how similar or different we may find ourselves to be, one thing that we all have in common is that we will experience challenges in life to navigate. Having someone to share in that, along with the joys of life, helps shed hope and make those seasons more bearable.

I am passionate about imparting hope and helping people learn who they are in Christ so that they can walk in freedom and become who they are created to be. This has been a personal journey for me that has profoundly affected me and those around me. It changes the way that we live when we don’t feel the need to carve a space for ourselves in the world, because we recognize that there is already a unique place and purpose for us. We can then learn to stop looking at others to measure our worth and significance and learn to be comfortable with who we are and to genuinely cheer on those around us.

Please will you consider joining me as we navigate through life together?