About the Picket Fence Image

**In 2009, I started Life Beyond the Picket Fence.** I was in my second year of grad school studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I left the teaching profession, of which I loved, because I needed a change. I was struggling with life, faith, and parenting. I wondered if anyone else struggled, too.

So I began to write.

My life was far from the storybook image. For the complete story of Life Beyond the Picket Fence, click on the

"[Interview About Life Beyond The Picket Fence"](https://soundcloud.com/athenamoberg/15minradio-episode-13) on the sidebar to find about how God took the mess of my life and transformed it to something beautiful.

Life isn't a storybook image.

That's my message here. **No matter your struggle, how ugly, dirty, or messed up it is, there is hope.** His name is Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, and He grows good things from our mess.

A friend told me recently being vulnerable is a gift for those with whom you share. If that is true, then the space here is my gift to you.

**A gift of Hope, and a gift of praise for His Honor and Glory.**