You found this place for a reason. I am glad you are here.

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Maybe you found your way here in the middle of something hard.

A loss you are still trying to make sense of. A grief that keeps coming back in new forms. A faith that feels shakier than it used to. A season of waiting that has gone on longer than you expected.

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.

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Who I Am

I am a wife, a mama, a writer, and the founder of Old to New Creations — a ministry and brand 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 niece Madison Joy was born on Christmas morning and lived thirty-five days before dying unexpectedly. Three years later I delivered my own stillborn daughter, Lucy Grace — gift of light. I have sat in hospital rooms in the middle of the night and prayed the harder prayer. I have hit grief bottom six months after a loss when the world had moved on and I had not. I have walked the slow, nonlinear road of healing that takes longer than anyone tells you it will.

And I have watched God — faithfully, persistently, supernaturally — make something new out of every broken piece of it.

That is what Old to New is about.

Not a polished, finished version of a life that has it all figured out. But an honest, ongoing journey — shared openly — pointing to the God who has been present in every hard middle of it.

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What You Will Find Here

If you are grieving — You will find honest, faith-rooted content that does not rush past the hard parts or wrap grief up too neatly. You will find permission to not be okay. You will find the truth that grief is not something to overcome — it is love, doing exactly what love does.

Start here:

• The Night Before: What No One Tells You About Delivering a Stillborn Baby — Week 2
• A Nurse Taught Me This and I Have Never Forgotten It — Week 7
• Six Months After Loss: What Nobody Talks About and What Finally Helped — Week 9

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If you are walking alongside someone who is grieving — You will find practical, honest guidance for showing up well — even without the right words. You will find permission to be imperfect and present at the same time.

Start here:

• Thirty-Five Days: The Loss That Started It All — Week 4
• To the Fathers Who Grieve Quietly: You Are Not Alone — Week 6
• A Nurse Taught Me This and I Have Never Forgotten It — Week 7

If you are a parent navigating grief conversations with a young child — You will find honest, faith-based language for the hardest conversation you will ever have. And you will find a book that was written specifically for this moment.

Start here:

• Mommy, Is Madison Sleeping? How One Little Boy’s Question Became a Children’s Book — Week 5
• Mommy, Is Madison Sleeping? — the book (I’m in the process of finding a publisher)!

If you are looking to deepen your faith and spiritual formation — You will find practical tools, honest reflection, and the journals that were designed to help you move from a hurried life to a holy one — one intentional page at a time.

Start here:

• When God Makes Something New Out of the Hardest Thing You’ve Ever Lived – Week 1
• I Didn’t Know What Spiritual Formation Was Until It Changed Everything — Week 11
• Why I Named It Old to New: The Verse That Changed Everything — Week 12
• The Old to New Journals

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If you are just starting and want to read the whole story from the beginning — Start here and read in order. Each post builds on the one before it — and together they tell the full story of how Old to New Creations came to be.

• Week 1 — When God Makes Something New Out of the Hardest Thing You’ve Ever Lived
• Week 2 — The Night Before
• Week 3 — Lucy Grace — Gift of Light
• Week 4 — Thirty-Five Days
• Week 5 — Mommy, Is Madison Sleeping?
• Week 6 — To the Fathers Who Grieve Quietly
• Week 7 — A Nurse Taught Me This
• Week 8 — I Prayed for a Miracle and God Said No
• Week 9 — Six Months After Loss
• Week 10 — Why We Take the Day Off Every Year
• Week 11 — I Didn’t Know What Spiritual Formation Was
• Week 12 — Why I Named It Old to New

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Before You Go

If something here has resonated with you — I would love to stay connected.

Subscribe below to receive new posts directly in your inbox. I write about grief, faith, spiritual formation, and the ongoing journey of allowing God to make something new out of the broken places.

You will also be the first to know when Mommy, Is Madison Sleeping? — a faith-based children’s book for families navigating grief — is ready to be in your hands.

And if you have a question, a story, or just need someone to know you are here —

My door is open.

“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” — Isaiah 43:19