God-Directed Relationships

Life’s greatest happiness is found in healthy relationships, while its deepest hurts come from broken ones. All people share two needs: connection and love. When these needs are met, relationships improve greatly. I help others develop the skills to love others and to be loved by God. It all begins with God.

My passion, vision, and mission are to invite others to accept God's invitation into a relationship with Him. With people, we do this by first being friendly, then talking and sharing, spending time together, becoming close friends, and eventually growing in love. This process also mirrors how people get to know God: introduction, conversation, sharing time together, friendship, and then intimacy (into-me-He-sees).

As I see God’s work in my heart—healing deep hurts caused by myself and others, revealing lies I believed, and giving me His perspective on challenges I’ve created—I see this as God’s art to my heart or Heart Art in me. Others can and should be recipients of this Heart Art, too. Perhaps, through God-given and God-guided creativity and inspiration, you will encounter Him as I have.

When my twin sons are born, I am in uncharted territory. Challenges mount. One morning, a thought lights in my mind—which I later learn is God—to read the dusty Bible. It falls open to Matthew 6:33, the verse about “Seek first the Kingdom of God...” I slam it shut and ask, “Yeah, and how do I search for someone invisible?” I hear no answer, but life begins to change during the child-raising era as I dust off the Bible and listen more carefully for those invisible thought bubbles.

You may say, “I don’t believe God speaks today” or “I can’t hear Him.” Consider Matthew 13:11-16. For those who believe in Him, He says we can hear His voice. Verse 15 says “…we will see, hear, and understand so that we may be healed.” He certainly wants to give us His truth and direction so we avoid stumbling around in life. It’s much better than trial-and-error.