Who Am I?


Greetings on this sunny day! (Well, it is here today anyway!)

The other day I was thinking, praying and wondering how to proceed on this new adventure of mine . . blogging . . and it occurred to me that maybe, just maybe, I should tell you all some things about myself. So today is “Get-to-know-this-simple-sheep” blog day.  The rest of the month I will blog on various snippets of me ~ today will be a bit of my life story. Then come February (my birthday month!) we will dive more into God, His Word and how it can and does transform a sheep’s life!

I was born and raised in the Chicago-land area to first generation Christians. My parents came to know Jesus in their late teens and raised my sister and I in the faith. I am the youngest . . 2 years younger than my sister. I would have to say that I had a pretty good childhood.  I grew up going to public schools . . but back then they weren’t so bad.  I grew up in a very conservative suburb ~ there was a church on almost every corner, there was not a liquor store in our town (but they were in the very close neighboring towns) and nothing was open on Sunday. Didn’t bother me to much because as you know suburbs boarder suburbs and it was quite easy to get to some place that was open if you needed something.

I was raised in the Evangelical Free Church denomination and it was my 4th grade Sunday School teacher who came to my home and walked me through how to begin a relationship with Christ. The minute I finished praying with her, I literally remember feeling different. Thus began my life-long process of looking more like Christ and bringing glory to God.

My parents were faithful servants in our church . . .and so was I.  I loved attending youth group, youth conferences, youth camps, singing, working with kids in Children’s church and summer backyard programs . . . I loved (and still love) serving Christ with my life and the gifts and talents He’s given me. In my high school I was known as the ‘goody-goody’ girl.  Didn’t really bother me . . . I didn’t like going to parties and I honored God by committing to dating Christian guys and staying pure until marriage.

I went from public high school to Christian college ~ 8 hours away from home! Not my mother’s first choice.  I attended Bethel College (now Bethel University) in St. Paul, Minnesota.  I majored in Psychology and minored in Business and Computers.  I was never going to counsel but loved the organizational behavior side of Psychology. I didn’t attend college with super high hopes of finding a husband and getting married (though I am sure somewhere deep down I did hope this), I was attending so that I could always take care of myself.

The second semester of my Sophomore year I took on a Teaching Assistant job for one of the Psychology professors never thinking that, in God’s great plan for my life, I would begin dating the man I would marry.  I was actually a bit oblivious to his ‘checking-me-out’ technique . . which he did for about 3 months.  My roommate and sister had to convince me over spring break that he was in fact interested in me.

After spring break he asked me out . . and well, the rest is history as they would say.

Actually there is much more history to me . . to us . . than just that. But I will save that for the next post.

Why, you ask? Well, because much of the rest of my life story has to do with what I am doing with my life now. And this post is getting much too long . . .and probably boring for some of you . . so it is time to close. (Plus, I’m not a big fan of long blog posts . . . I would like to keep my short, sweet and to the point. Much easier for you all to read also!)

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