Heidi loves to be in community with other women, mutually encouraging each other to health and wholeness of mind, body and spirit. She tries to balance a full plate (and sometimes fails)—mothering four young kids, being married, working part time in healthcare, organizing concerts to help infuse art into faith, and too many other interests. Her work can be found a variety of places throughout the internet, and.she's a regular contributor to the MKE Moms Blog, the content coordinator for her town's local magazine, and blogs about faith and family at www.theblessednest.com

Hospitality: Entertaining or Healing?

As faculty for a local university’s nursing program, I guide student nurses into the role of professional nurse. One of my greatest challenges is that today’s students are afraid to be seen as anything less than perfect—by their patients, their professors, ...
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We Were Made for This

Written by Heidi Wheeler June 1, 2017 awe creation Heidi Wheeler

I’m a girl of the wilderness, wild at heart. There’s nowhere I feel more alive, more of who I was created to be, than outdoors in creation—and I don’t think I’m alone.

We were made for this stuff. Beauty. Enormity. ...
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Pruning the Fairy Tree

Written by Heidi Wheeler October 1, 2016 God's love God's purposes Heidi Wheeler

Trees. Really, life would not be quite the same without them. A tree is a source-of-life poster child, season banner waver, emblematic proclaimer of his handiwork. And a great source of entertainment for children given the chance to use their imaginations. Remember ...
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