I am an ordained Chaplain, who is convinced people need to grieve fully, so they can fully live. The International Fellowship of Chaplains I am ordained through, is based in Texas, and I have been actively listed with them since 2007.
In 2023 I left a prayer-based ministry, that I had been a staff member of since 2002. I left due to the shocking exposure of scandals among the leaders. I know there are many who have been hurt by those in the church, by people who claim to know Him yet do not live like lovers of truth, or love people as He does. Jesus is described in Isaiah as the Man of Sorrows, acquainted with grief. He does understand about every type of sorrow and grief we experience. Often there seems to be no way to express how grief is affecting us. The reality that we all grieve differently can sometimes put barriers between those we once were closest to.
I do care and understand. When the physical death of those we love happens, by any means, and the ones we care about are suffering from long-term illnesses or handicaps, we are touched by grief. The disappointments in various relationships and careers and the wounds that occur from unexpected life events can impact everyone. The loss of pets and homes and jobs can be devastating. Life events occur we are not prepared for, and sometimes even when we think we have prepared ourselves, the results can be overwhelming.
Since completing David Kessler’s course as a peer-to-peer Certified Grief Educator, I visit and pray with those in any season of new or ongoing grief with much more compassion and understanding. My personal passion is to provide a means for those affected by grief to come to a place of abiding in living hope. I want everyone to know they are not alone in what they are facing.
Hope is an act defiance against the facts of true-life events and loss, escorting us into a place of experiencing life once again.
Because of the support and encouragement of my personal sponsors that have remained a part of my team, I currently have an office set up in my home where I minister to those who want to meet. I also video chat with people in other places as needed.
I am seeing those who come, awake and embrace life anew, while acknowledging and validating how they have been impacted by their personal life losses, both current and also from the past, that were never addressed.
Feel free to share my information with those you care about who might like to contact me. I have helped individuals, couples, children and small groups. I also put together a 6-week course and can come to an office or other settings as needed.
Currently all my services are peer-to-peer. I have no medical or psychological licensing or degree. I listen, not to give advice, but to assist those who come to hear and discover and recognize and connect, to their own stories…still being written!
I do pray with a joyful faith to the One I believe does answer!
Today if your heart is moved to sponsor me, this is your opportunity to click on the link below and join my team. I am very thankful for the surprise one-time gifts that come in. Also, if you are able to give today and you are willing to be one of my regular ongoing supporters, that would really help so much. Even if your heart is not moved to give, I am grateful you took the time to read through here and see my heart, and I do pray God will bless each of you, and all of yours, in His love.
I am a Missionary Chaplain who prays,
and a Peer-to-Peer Certified Grief Educator, who listens and cares!
Romans 15:13 “May the God of HOPE fill you with all JOY and all PEACE
in believing so that you will abound in HOPE by the power of the Holy Spirit”
As a praying Chaplain, I have published a book and created art to speak to and comfort and encourage those my life can touch. Love can expressed in many ways.
A closer view of my heart before the Lord:
David called You his Shepherd because he could relate. I call You, my Intercessor. Because I know this is true, I am safe and provided for and loved, every moment, of every day. There is no reason for me to fear or worry about anything. There is substantial peace and a growing, joyful expectancy, to see and to receive all that is in Your heart for me. Angels are awaiting instructions about what is being discussed over my life in heaven right now! The conversation You and our Father are having over me is full of promise and grants a Living Hope. You are LORD of all, the God who exists, and will bring to fulfillment all You have caused me to believe and pray for myself, and all those I care about. You are always thinking about me. You have eyes that see and ears that hear and a heart that beats true for my welfare. All of my needs are taken care of, and You do this with joy. You really love me and want me to know how much. You are the God who sees ahead and makes provision. You don’t just grant what is needed, but YOU provide me with my preferences and bless me with what I like. You open doors of wonder and fulfillment. You arrange every needed cancellation as well! You love to surprise me with more than I have asked or imagined. You are so generous and extravagant. All those entrusted to my prayers, are impacted by Your heartbeat within me. Thank You for teaching me how to pray. I have a growing courage and confidence in bearing Your heart, because I know You pray for me. You insist on what is best for me and carve out times of rest so I can be refreshed in Your petitions over me and then partner with You rightly. You calm and quiet my heart when I do not understand and silence all accusations that come. You even assign angelic intervention and activity to assure the circumstances and relationships and conversations of my life are working together for my good. I finally do believe this! Your prayers have taken me beyond restoration. Beyond even resurrection and all the way to transformation. This is Your joy! I am not a bother or burden. Your prayers are impacting and changing everything that touches my life. Not just getting things back to the beginning for a fresh start, or to the way things were, once upon a time that I thought was so good, but to how they should have been all along. I am becoming who You have always known me to be. Every moment is another closer to arriving and standing by Your side forever. Your prayers have cleansed my spirit and soul and body from all unrighteousness and every defilement. I am a new creation, still becoming who You created me to be. I know now, my life is Your prayer. Your love, and Your life in me is being poured out through me with every breath granted in this age. Nothing evil can harm me, not really. I am never alone. I am protected and comforted by You personally. You fight for me. The reality of Your goodness and mercy are the deposit everywhere I go. It is the memory of every event and the expression in each conversation. My life really matters. It always has and always will. I joyfully insist upon Your will. Mine is a wonderful life. I say yes and amen in full agreement with You. Thank You.