I am a wife and a mother but most importantly I am a daughter of the King. Redeemed by His Grace and so very grateful for it.  Through the past 30 years we have walked some hard roads. Many of them difficult by our own doing.  But despite our choices and at times lack of faith – God loved us anyways.  We have seen and continue to experience the riches of His love.

Years ago one of my first blogs was called just that “The Riches of His Love”.  The name came when I was listening to a worship song from a Women of Faith CD called “Forever Reign”.  The song spoke right to my heart…all of the words just resonated with who I am, and who God is to me.  One of the ways that I feel closest to God is through singing.  He has given me a voice – but more importantly, He has given me a reason to worship Him.  While life isn’t always as I thought I had hoped it would be….we are finding that by trusting in His perfect plan – we experience His riches in our lives time and time again.

In 2019 our family walked through the terrible tragedy of losing our oldest son Isaac to depression and suicide. When that happened I didn’t know any other way to process but through sharing my grief out loud. So I wrote about it. I started a second blog called “Remembering Isaac”. That became a place that I could share stories about my boy and all the ways I was experiencing the world without him in it.

But then a global pandemic happened, Our kids grew up. One went to college and others became teenagers and writing at any blog just got put on the back burner. When my hosting company contacted me recently to tell me they were going to drop me I knew that even if I never wrote another post I wanted a place to save the memories, all my writings for my kids to read some day. So I merged them into one space here.

Somehow I came up with the name “Breath of Grace”. I know it isn’t unique, but when I asked Google what that meant I got this definiton and I really liked it. “Breath of grace” refers to a spiritual practice and mindset of continuously receiving God’s unmerited favor (inhaling) and extending that same grace, compassion and forgiveness to others (exhaling).” Oh if that isn’t something to seek to do every day, I don’t know what is.

God’s grace has saved this broken, sin-filled woman. He has walked me through the darkest valleys of my life and graciously allowed me to share my story, and given me a hope that he will redeem the hardest, hurt-filled places. What a Breath of Grace that is.