Over twenty years ago I held my first book, Treasures of Encouragement, in my hands and realized that God was bringing beauty from the ashes of my life. Paul Tripp said, “God makes His invisible grace visible by sending people of grace to give grace to people who need grace.” After the fatal car accident of our son Mark and his friend Kelly, God sent people of grace to give grace to our family who desperately needed grace. Each person became a physical demonstration of God’s invisible grace.

I wrote Treasures of Encouragement as an equipping tool to help women offer that same grace to the people in their “villages”. Though I include lots of practical encouragement ideas, the core theme of the book is to understand that biblical encouragement flows from intimacy with Jesus and a growing understanding of our identity as His daughters.