About Julie

My hope for this blog is to post uplifting, encouraging, thought-provoking, and sometimes just plain fun pieces Monday and Friday (sometimes more often) of each week. Click here to learn more about the inspiration for this site.

Mission Statement: To use my experiences and skills to glorify the Lord, to inspire and encourage others in their lives’ journeys, and to declare the value of all God’s children even the “least of these.”

Bio: Julie praises God for molding her from a young lady “in control” to a more seasoned woman learning to rely on His guidance. She grew up living a carefree life on her parent’s  farm and roaming the hills of northeastern Iowa.

Channeling her love for the outdoors and feeling certain that she knew what her career should be, she earned a Fisheries and Wildlife Biology degree from Iowa State University, only to realize that a high school teaching degree would be a better complement to her husband’s career with the state park system. She obtained her teaching degree in biology and mathematics  and  taught for a short while before staying home to be a mother.

Julie’s dance through life was interrupted as a young wife when she and her husband  experienced the first of five miscarriages. Life became a roller coaster of high peaks of thankfulness with the birth of each of their four children and low valleys  of despair and bitterness with the loss of each unborn child. Julie’s faith was sorely tested during this time and even more so when their third child and only daughter was diagnosed with lifelong disabilities.

However, the Lord has been faithful to see the Sunne family through the years of confusion and heartache, doing a work in Julie’s heart. She now trusts the Almighty to lead the dance in her life and to be the source of her joy. She knows there is a purpose , however hidden, to the difficulties we all experience, and she firmly believes that there is inherent value and worth in every human being no matter the extent of their earthly capabilities.

Following years of working as a freelance editor and writer while being a full-time mom and homemaker, Julie has recently felt God’s leading to write and speak about her experiences of loss and raising her precious daughter; to reach out to others who are having difficulty finding acceptance and joy in their current life situation.

Julie and husband Dave have been married for nearly 22 years. They are raising their three sons (Daniel, Zachary, and Joseph) and one daughter (Rachel) in a state park in northeast Iowa.