Electrified by God’s Word
Truly, I have been electrified. When I was just 11 months old, I was crawling on the floor and exploring my world, when I came upon an intruging wire, which was connected to an electric fan. In the days of my childhood, electrical cords were wrapped in a loosely-woven fabric which tended to fray if it was worn or cut. My parents, being attentive to such things, had reparied this fray with black electrical tape. Unfortunately, when electrical tape gets warm, it also becomes gooey and “floppy” so the bare wire was becoming exposed once again. This made an intriguing little tag for me to explore. How do babies explore things? By putting them in their mouths, of course. As soon as that wire touched the saliva on my lips, 1500 volts fried my whole mouth. Receiving third degree burns, my whole upper lip was cooked (the other white meat,) my lower lip had a deep burn all the way through the middle, and the left corner of my mouth would never be the same. It’s a wonder that I lived. There was very little that anyone could do. Plastic surgery was attempted in my teen years, but the scars only formed in different ways. I have been marked for life, but fortunately the scars lighten with age.
As a result, I always looked slightly different from my friends, and beauty was never something that came to people’s minds when they saw me. Cute, maybe, but not beautiful. Yet I was able to go on with normal life, and I knew early on that God had saved me for a special reason.
I have a special love for God’s Word, and have been a serious student of the Bible since my days at Biola University. Years of study in various Women’s Minstries groups have also contributed to a deeper way of applying God’s Word to practical, everyday living.
As time passed and I received more opportunities to teach Bible studies, I became especially interested in the End Times. The seed was planted by my mother when I was growing up and she would talk about her interest in the end times, but then when I started really studying about Heaven, I found that I couldn’t wait to get there! When I think about death, I don’t think so much about fear, but about excitement and joy and beauty! We must all go through our own end times before we can reach heaven, so this is what my blog is really about.
If I can be of interest to you or your group, here are a few blurbs that describe me:
Christian Speaker and Teacher
- Empowering your group to learn the depths of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God.
- Teaching the Scriptures in a serious but dynamic way.
- Helping you remember what you have learned.
- Charging you up to do something about it.
- Available for your events and retreats.
Professional Software Trainer
- I’m passionate about equipping people for their technology challenges.
- Comfortable with large corporations, small businesses, and hundreds of individuals
- Formal classroom, demonstration or lab
- Small groups with laptops
- One-on-one in offices
- On-line training with Skype
- You-tube video instruction
- Computer-based training module development
Well-known, happy clients:
Either independently or through other training companies, I have served the following companies and/or their employees:
- Amazon.com
- Bank of America
- Washington Mutual/Chase Bank
- Episcopal Home Foundation – 5 differently locations in San Francisco
- Boeing
- University of Washington
- Mayflower Moving Company
- Kent School District
- Marin County School District
- Many small businesses in the Bay Area and in Seattle
I have spent my life learning how to incorporate my Christian life with my career life. After all, these are not two separate lives, but one life that encompasses the spiritual, physical, emotional, and psychological aspects of everyday relationships and challenges. You might be interested in my End Time Technology blog.
People tell me constantly that I have the ability to make the complicated sound simple, whether it be in helping people understand technology or helping them understand the Word of God.
After a traumatic beginning in childhood, I knew that God had a special job for me in this lifetime. Please read my About page to learn about my background, my family, my training, and my beliefs. Then check out the topics and videos, and get in touch with me to discuss how I might help your staff or women’s ministry. I have LOTS of creative ideas, and my topics page hasn’t even scratched the surface yet!
I’d love to help you personally, as well, which is why I’ve designed this site to include resources, short videos, impacting podcasts, a blog, and an online community. I’d love for you to join in the fun!
I would love to meet YOU, if I haven’t already, so please contact me and we’ll see how we can connect! Or just send me a note letting me know that you visited the site, and what you think of it. You can also visit my profession facebook page, so I hope you’ll connect with me soon, one way or the other.