Everyone keeps telling me I need an “about me” page and in my head, I think, UGH!  I don’t want to write a page about me.  In fact, I’ve put if off for weeks…months.

Why is this so hard?  Mostly, because I don’t want anything I write to be about me.  It is true I want to record the stories in my life that God gives me, but really it’s all about HIM.  About the God of the Universe who came and continues to come to rescue me, daily. 

I do think that most people believe God exists, but I don’t think they believe He is present, active and alive in our everyday lives.  He is teaching me this and much more; all He wants is a relationship, a friendship with me…with us.

A couple of years ago in the middle of my divorce, my aunt, Michelle gave me an incredible photograph of my grandma and her five siblings.  The baby, Henry, is wailing and nine year old, Katherine is smacking herself in the forehead.   At age thirty-five, my Great Grandma was faced with the seemingly impossible task of raising her six children and running a 130 acre farm in rural Indiana after the sudden death of her husband.

This picture made me want to know “how” my great grandma did it.  Was she afraid, like me?  Did she fall to her knees and beg God for help, and wonder if He could even hear her?  Were there times when she wanted to give up, give in, run away?  How did God show up for her?  How did He fight for her?

So the stories I have been given to share, I write for my daughters, for those I love to remember and honor and for future generations.  My inheritance is a gift bestowed by a very long line of faithful, strong, God loving people.

Carrying on this legacy will be my life’s greatest work.

Writing down these stories He is building my faith.   Providing me with reminders I need that no matter the storms that life may bring, He is for us!   They are my Ebenezer stones, stones of remembrance, just like in the Bible. (1 Samuel 7:12)

I am not a writer but people continue to tell me I can no longer say that.  I have been a Corporate Banker for over twenty years and I have three beautiful daughters.   Mountain climbing has never been on my bucket list, but now I am climbing Kilimanjaro.  Just one of the ways I want to live out abundant love and faith in this crazy world of ours.

All I really desire in life is to pass on my legacy of faith.  I need my girls to know and remember “how” we did it.  How we grabbed ahold and lived this life of faith, together.  God shows up big every day!  And thus, the desire to write down Our Story….

….everything I want to teach my girls, but more everything God and they are teaching me.

Living out impossible dreams with you,

Kristen