Behind the Words

Some books begin with an idea. These began with silence. With mornings where the only honest prayer was showing up. With seasons that lasted longer than faith felt designed to carry. I wrote because I needed words for the places where words run out and I believed others needed them too.

I am a Christian, a wife, and a mother. I came to faith at thirty, not in a dramatic moment, but in a quiet one, when a man named Ed shared the gospel and something in me that had been hungry since childhood finally found bread.

That faith drew me to the places where Jesus walked. I have touched the waters of the Jordan River where He was baptized, prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, stood on the Mount of Transfiguration, sat on the hillside where He gave the Sermon on the Mount, and gazed across the Sea of Galilee where He calmed the storm. Standing alone in the Jezreel Valley — where the last great battle will one day unfold — I felt the weight of God’s prophetic Word in a way that changed my understanding of Scripture forever. My deep love for the Old Testament and biblical prophecy was born in those places and has never left me.

But my life has not been a pilgrimage from one holy site to another. Between those sacred moments, I have buried people I loved too soon. I have been betrayed by people who said they loved Jesus and me in the same breath. I have loved someone I could not save. I have stayed in rooms I wanted to leave and left rooms I wanted to stay in. I have been hurt by the church and held by God at the same time.

I did not write these books because I figured it out. I wrote them because I needed words for the places where my own words ran out, and I believed other women needed them too.

The What I Carry Collection is a series of prayer books for women walking through the hardest seasons of life — silence, illness, addiction, grief, marriage, and every quiet place in between. They do not teach. They do not preach. They sit with you. The Healed and Ready series is a three-book journey through betrayal, healing, and becoming for the woman who has been knocked down and refuses to stay there.

I live in Louisville, Kentucky, with my husband and daughter. I love Jesus, I love prophecy, I love my family, and I laugh more than anyone would guess from reading these books. I speak with a rich Southern Appalachian accent, rooted in the oldest English that ever crossed the Atlantic. It is the voice I was given, and I have never traded it for one that sounds more polished.

And if you have never met Jesus, I want you to know: He already knows your name. And the invitation to know Him is open to every woman, everywhere, right now.