While she flitted from room to room as a child, Elise dreamed of dancing with her own children someday.

Surrounded by her wonderful family of four brothers and three sisters, she knew her greatest desire was to raise children of her own, teaching them at home and raising them in the path of the Lord.

When she married Kevin, nearly ten years ago, she had no idea their path would take them down the road of ministry! Kevin became a youth minister six months after they were married, and she navigated the changes this brought with typical nineteen-year-old maturity: she kept her feelings to herself. Ministry was not the path she had envisioned for her life!

But as the years passed, and Elise watched her husband grow into his calling, they were blessed with three children, and she finally realized that her calling was at home. Together, she and Kevin, who is now a pulpit minister, homeschool their children, and Elise finds great joy and fulfillment in the daily “grind”, said with a laugh and a smile, for the grind is refining, and she yearns for it. She desires above all else to be a path made straight, daily inspired by the words,

“So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees. Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong.” Hebrews 12:12-13

Elise tends to find messages from God in the many activities a mama engages in; whether it’s changing a stinky diaper, dancing with the baby, or laughing with her sons and husband, God reveals his guidance and wisdom. This keeps Elise always learning, always growing, always humbled.

She rejoices in her life, and seeks to share what she is learning with other women through her writing. It’s the everyday, seemingly mundane, that flavors her words, and so she invites you to read and laugh along, at her little place called “A Path Made Straight”.