A friend in the same pew.

I am not a pastor and I am not pretending to be one. I am a woman who has been walking with Jesus long enough to know that the hardest days are not the ones where I forget what is true. They are the ones where I know what is true and still cannot feel it.

I learned to code in the early 1990s. In 1995 I co-founded what became adoption.com — one of the first sites online to help families find each other. I am a medical technologist by training (Cytogenetics, UTHSC Houston, class of 1989), three years of biochemistry at Texas A&M before that. The science is part of how I am wired. I read carefully. I check sources. I do not love a sloppy claim about the Bible any more than I love a sloppy claim about a lab result.

I am also an adoptive mom of seven kids from three countries. Most of what I know about how the gospel actually feels in a body, I learned at our kitchen table. Some of those years were beautiful. Some of them broke me into smaller pieces than I knew I had. The line that kept coming back was not do more. It was remember whose you are.

That is the line behind this study. Seven days. Seven things that were already true about you the moment you trusted Jesus. Plain Scripture. Plain English. No fancy vocabulary, no insider code, no shame for not knowing the words yet.

What you can expect from me

I will treat you like a believing adult who already loves Scripture and wants help applying it. I will not assume you went to seminary. I will not assume you did not. I will name where I land doctrinally so nothing is hidden, and then I will mostly stay out of the way and let the text do its work.

If you would like a quieter version of the same truth, the Identity Songs catalog takes the same seven anchors and turns them into short worship loops you can put on a playlist. Same words. Different doorway.