Because God is not Finished With Your Story
Welcome. I am so glad you found your way here.
Maybe you found this place in the middle of something hard. A loss you are still trying to make sense of. A marriage that is carrying more weight than you expected. A teenager who is breaking your heart. A faith that feels shakier than it used to. A season of waiting that has gone on longer than you prayed.
Or maybe you are not in a hard season right now — but you love someone who is. And you showed up today because you wanted to find something true and helpful to offer them.
Whatever brought you here —
You are welcome. You are not alone. And you are in the right place.
My Story Starts With Two Little Girls
I am a wife to Jonathon — a pastor and the steadiest person I know. A mama. A writer. And the founder of Old to New Creations — a space rooted in the stubborn, hope-filled conviction that God is constantly at work making something new out of the broken places.
I know that conviction not just as a theology but as a lived reality.
My sister lost her daughter, my niece Madison Joy, at thirty-five days old. She was born Christmas morning — and her name Joy is her story. Thirty-five days later she was gone. Her heart literally went on to save another little boy’s life.
Three years later I delivered my own stillborn daughter. In a hospital room in the middle of the night I prayed boldly for a miracle — and then I prayed the harder prayer. When our midwife placed her on my chest the next morning, we knew immediately:
She was Lucy Grace — gift of light.
These two little girls are the reason this space exists. Their names are woven into everything here.
But this space is bigger than their stories.
Because grief is not the only thing that breaks us open.
I have walked through grief that came with a death certificate — and grief that did not come with anything at all. Seasons of waiting when the future would not come clear. A marriage that had to learn how to survive loss together. Parenting through hard conversations I was not prepared for. A faith that got quieter and more honest and more real the harder things got.
I have spent years learning what it looks like to trust God in the hard middle — not with easy answers or performative faith, but with the kind of honesty that says I do not understand this and still chooses to stay.
Old to New Creations is what I have found on the other side of that.
The Story Behind the Name
Old to New Creations began as a creative outlet and grew into something I could never have planned.
Through seasons of joy and loss and grief and healing — through a Fuller Theological Seminary spiritual formation cohort that gave me a whole new language for faith — through the slow, nonlinear work of allowing God into the broken places — the name that had started with fabric and thread began to mean something much larger.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” — 2 Corinthians 5:17
That is not just a verse I believe.
It is the story of my life.
What You Will Find Here
- The Hard Middle — honest writing about grief, loss, and the unnamed seasons that cost something but do not come with sympathy cards
- Faith That Holds — Scripture, prayer, and the spiritual practices that have kept me tethered to God when I could not feel Him
- Marriage & Family — what loss does to a marriage, parenting through the hard conversations, the teenager who is walking a road that breaks your heart
- Becoming — the slow, sacred work of figuring out who God made you to be — on the other side of everything that tried to undo you
I write — honestly and personally about grief, faith, spiritual formation, and the ongoing journey of trusting God through the hard middle of things. If you are ready to start at the beginning, I’d recommend starting here, When God Makes Something New Out of the Hardest Thing You’ve Ever Lived.
I create — the Old to New journals are a series of spiritual formation journals designed to help men and women document God’s faithfulness, practice intentional faith disciplines, and move from a hurried life to a holy one. You can find them here.
I am writing — Mommy, Is Madison Sleeping? is a faith-based children’s picture book for families navigating grief conversations with young children. It is on its journey toward publication and I will be the first to let you know when it is ready. (book is in process)
I speak — if you are interested in having me speak at your church, women’s ministry event, grief support group, or conference, I would love to connect. For more information about speaking engagements click here.
What This Space Is For
Old to New Creations exists for anyone who has ever held something broken and wondered if it could ever be made new.
For the grieving mother who cannot see past the loss.
For the father who is carrying it quietly.
For the woman who has been a Christian her whole life and suspects there is a depth of faith she has not yet found.
For the parent who needs honest, loving words for a hard conversation with their child.
For anyone in the hard middle of something who needs to be reminded that God is not finished with their story.
This is not a space where everything gets wrapped up neatly.
This is a space where we tell the truth.
Where we hold onto hope even when it costs something.
Where we trust — together — that the God who makes all things new is still very much at work.
Even here. Even now. Even in whatever you are carrying today.
Let’s Stay Connected
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“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” — Isaiah 43:19