Purely Speaking

I am a mother of four of the most amazing and beautiful women you'll ever meet! I'm not saying this because I am biased. I am saying this because it is totally true! My daughter's are Godly women who desire to serve God and live their lives to His glory.

I am also the wife to the most understanding, supportive, and loving man a woman can be blessed with. He has supported me through all my crazy notions and startups (i.e. Plugged Into Jesus, the LIGHT youth group, the R.O.C. praise team, the Misfits Drama Team and the most amazing undertaking, Sanctify Ministries) with everything he has. His technical prowess has enabled me to be successful in achieving a great deal in a short amount of time. Those same gifts and talents have been passed on to his daughters who have also supported me through thick and thin.

About two years ago, the Lord allowed me to be "struck down" with some major debilitating health issues. I struggled to maintain my crazy life of working a full-time job, running a full-time ministry and still placing my family and most especially my God first. It took thousands of dollars of tests and no conclusive answers and hours of couch time forced upon me by what doctors chose to diagnose as Fibromyalgia, that prepared me for where I am today. Currently living with my husband and three of my daughters on the largest Indian reservation in North Dakota in a thousand square foot, two bedroom, one bath house. I'm back to work full-time for an oil company in the remote obscure parts of North Dakota and refocusing my life on the things that are important. Namely my God and my family.

However, in the midst of all of this I cannot seem to shake the sense that I am supposed to write. About what? I believe I am supposed to sit down and share all that I have learned the past fifteen years in ministry to young people. How they wish their parents would have talked to them the way my husband and I talked to them. How they struggle with living a pure lifestyle because nobody has ever explained in greater detail the "HOW" aside from don't do it, or the "WHY."

That's what this blog is about. Teaching parents and young people what it means to live a "sanctified" (aka "set apart") devoted life and how important it is to start it out by PURELY SPEAKING with each other.

I hope you find these past experiences, stories, book reviews, quotes, devotionals, etc. an encouragement as we walk this journey of Sanctified Devotion together!