MIKESCHAIR is live on the Central Coast, come check them out! CITIZEN, the winning band of BAND TOGETHER, will open for them. June 1st at 7pm at the Vertex, the student center at New Life Community Church in Pismo Beach. Concert is FREE, but donations are being taken for Brighten a Corner to cover the [...]
“I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. And I will cause showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of blessing.” Ezekiel 34:26 Every Tuesday night I lead Bible Study at my church. Sometimes I share what I am learning, sometimes we do a video led series. [...]
Sometime I forget. I forget that if it weren’t for this I wouldn’t have had this… Or this… With them… I forget that if it were not for Brighten A Corner I would never have gotten the privilege of friendship with the Tippitt family. We have shared laughs and tears; triumphs and tragedies. I did [...]
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” -John Milton That is the experience of Brighten A Corner Ministry. Watching God weave lives together, and beliefs into action is humbling. Each project is a celebration of what God has [...]
The end of one year and the beginning of another is a momentous time. It always feels like the perfect time to gain…momentum. Brighten A Corner Ministry and my life are so entwined that what affects one affects the other; lessons learned in one are almost always equally applicable in the other. As I enter [...]
Sometimes I think we are crazy. The Brighten A Corner leadership team, that is. Balancing life, businesses (we are all business owners), kids and planning projects is…let’s say, interesting. How do we figure out the best way to seek excellence in the work we do AND meet needs that are sometimes extremely intense? Trusting God’s timing [...]
Do you know what I mean when I say this felt like a very different Thanksgiving? Family members gone, marriages that didn’t make it, kids somewhere else, aging parents… I know many who felt that somewhere the spirit of Thanksgiving had been lost. In my family, it feels like we are grieving the living. My [...]
This is where it all began. It was one of our happier stories. We were reorganizing and redecorating a home for a family with triplet baby girls. We had a custom made, queen size crib to put in the largest bedroom that we (of course) painted pink. When Mary showed up to work we asked her [...]
It was nearly midnight. We had been in the car for a few hours, and yet no one was tired. Our hearts were full; he was coming home. Ten and a half months of praying; the longing of time and space between us and the ever-present truth that he was at war was almost over. [...]
2011 has been a reading year for me. Struggle and angst drove me to reignite the flames of being a book lover, and it has brought me tremendous information, quiet and peace. I have read biographies and novels; devotionals and Bible Studies; secular and nonsecular how to’s that have fed my desire to learn. I [...]
