About Erin

The Bible says that [King] David was a man about whom God said, ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will do everything I want him to do’ (Acts 13:22; 1Sam 13:14). I was always riveted by that statement. I always wanted to be a girl after God’s heart – someone that God called friend, daughter, someone set apart for His work, called, chosen – someone that would do whatever God asked.

I have journals (formerly called diaries, as a child) that reveal years and years of me, seemingly endlessly searching for more of a relationship with God. Something deeper, something richer, something stronger, something…more. Just more. I have always had a heart after God’s but I haven’t always been willing to do whatever He asked. Although I didn’t see it like that until I got older and I finally did become more and more willing to turn my life over to God in a complete, unrestricted sort-of-way.

Someone asked me the other day (in a round-about way) how old I was. For the first time in my life I was so relieved by my answer. Sure, I’m not as young as I once was, nor am I as young as I hoped to be at this stage in my life – but I was so happy that I am where I am because it’s been a long road getting here and I wouldn’t buy back any of my former years. Not a single day – I just simply wouldn’t go back. God and I have worked too hard to get me here!

My age (and increasingly emerging ‘laugh-lines’, yeah right) remind me of my journey – the painful life-lessons and endless reminders of the mass doses of grace I have desperately required and received from God each and every day. And even though it seems as though I’m just starting my life right now… I feel that life is exactly what I have and I am soaking up every moment of it.

I am a girl after God’s heart because my desire for God is what wakes me up every morning and it’s what fills my heart each day and it’s what I dream about at night. I love God with every fiber of my being and my deepest passion in life is to know Him more and connect others to this amazing God who has rescued (saved, delivered and freed) me from the darkest places, from the deepest secrets and from the most dysfunctional relationships and environments that I allowed to work their way into my life and sights, replacing God in the strangest and most-subtle ways.

[King] David said it perfectly:

I waited patiently for the LORD;
He turned to me and heard my cry.

He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
He set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.

He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the LORD. [Psalm 40:1-3]

A few years ago a girl-friend encouraged me to write a mission-statement for my life – after several weeks, I came up with one that seemed to fit me best. As I write today it has come back to my memory as if I wrote it yesterday – it’s simple but I believe it’s exactly what my life is about:

“To know and reveal the heart of God and lead others to do the same.”

God – this is for You. It’s all for You. I love You.

This is the love-of-my-life, Cliff (and me). We have been married for 16 years. We live in Canada with our two absolutely perfect kids.