HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY CANVAS CHURCH!! It has been an honor to serve our community together. Looking forward to all God has planned for our future.
Archive for the ‘My Story’ Category
So, let’s be honest. We have all struggled with an addiction of some sort. cigarettes, drugs, alcohol or maybe even video games.. whatever it is, its destructive I want to talk about something that hits very close to home for me… pornography. A recent study done said that there are roughly 40 million Christians in [...]
Many of you knew our Grandma Joanne… and in fact… some of you even adopted her as your own. For that reason, I wanted to share a special part of her memorial with you. Her wish was to be cremated, and her ashes spread over the Ocean. Our Grandma loved to visit the Oregon Coast, [...]
Here we are at the beginning of a new year; new opportunities, hopes and goals. Ready for the clean slate that comes with new beginnings. Or maybe you are at the end, celebrating the end of 2011, glad to see it over and ready to close the door. Life seems to hand us constant beginnings: [...]
In my own life, there have been many things happen that have caused me to pause and take a look at my faith. James and I lost our first pregnancy on our 5 year anniversary and my family was told that my mamaw’s cancer hadn’t responded to the radiation and chemotherapy resulting in the unlikelihood [...]
Leaving A Legacy
Posted: November 16, 2011 by canvasrhapsody in James, marriage, My Story, responsibility, testimonyA couple of weekends ago Callie and I were able to attend Family Life’s “A Weekend to Remember” marriage conference. It was a wonderful experience for us, and it was a chance to get away from our busy schedules and truly focus on God and each other. There were ten [...]
Bumps, Bruises, Scars and Testimonies
Posted: October 24, 2011 by canvasrhapsody in Healing, Leesa, My Story, testimony11 years ago I had a stint in the hospital that lasted 16 days. Afterwards because of this stint I acquired a nasty scar on my stomach that was attached to the muscle so it was deeply inverted as if someone were pulling a rubber band in toward my spine and looked like a large [...]
Praise You In This Storm
Posted: September 21, 2011 by canvasrhapsody in belief, challenge, church, faith, God, hope, James, My Story, PrayerThe last month has been a very difficult month for Callie and me. As most of you know by now and as I wrote in my blog last month, we were expecting. Unfortunately, the pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. I can’t tell you that I understand why it happened. I can’t tell you that [...]
Have you ever heard the song, “He’s an on time God”? Jill told me about a house she saw for sale. She said it was in a nice neighborhood but was probably out of our price range. We had been talking about buying or building a house but agreed it would be better after [...]
What Luke Skywalker Should Have Done
Posted: October 11, 2010 by canvasrhapsody in communication, forgiveness, identity, image, love, My StoryTags: dad, family, forgiveness, healing, heritage, identity, legacy, mom
Between Sunday service and Wednesday nights’ growth track, Nick has covered couple of things that I’ve been dealing with personally in my own life; remembering what God has done for us and our heritage. Having a broken relationship with my parents has been something that has taken up space in my life that is useless [...]
