My name is Brandi Hafler.  I have lived most of my life in West Michigan, with a short stint in Arkansas as a child.  I am married to my high school sweetheart and have four amazing sons and two beautiful daughters-in-law.

At the age of 41, God told me (for the third time) to pursue full-time ministry.   Since then, I have earned a college degree and believe that public speaking is in my future.  Typing those words fills this woman who passed out during a middle school speech with fear.  The fear is not crippling, though.  After giving my life to Jesus at 19, He has called me farther and farther onto the water.  Each step takes me closer to Him.  Each step leaves the fear farther behind me, in the boat: that safe, comfortable, boat.  (If you haven’t read Matthew 14 in the Bible, I encourage you to do so.  This analogy will make more sense to you.)

It is funny how removing comfort is the best way to remove fear.  Removing comfort replaces fear with faith, at least that has been the case for me.  That is what this blog is about, many of the things that I have experienced, learned, and found upon the waves.  It also is a step in itself; a step toward the writer/speaker/pastor that I believe God is shaping me into.  Through the stories that I share, I hope that you will find the courage to step out onto the waves of your own faith, and leave your fears behind.