About

Hello! My name is Heather Sweetman and this is a little bit about me…

My home is the city of Chicago. I live there with my amazing husband and our four spicy and hilarious children. We moved to Chicago in 2009 to start a church and have been there ever since. 

I am fully devoted to Jesus, I adore and deeply respect my husband, I am crazy about our four kiddos, I have a knack for decorating, I love to be active, I relish cake with white icing and as many sprinkles you can pile on, and I unexpectedly became a full time caregiver to our youngest child, Finley, who has severe special needs. 

The special needs journey has been a rough one, an exhausting one, a journey with bottomless valleys, countless sleepless nights and little progress. So in this space of hopelessness I have gone back to my roots of writing and processing honestly before God. 

I invite you to journey with me, whatever your pain. I have found that the stories that have lifted my heart the most have not been ones that mirror my life, but are other types of struggles. Grief, no matter the specifics, is fraught with isolation, fear, anger, and hopelessness.  But what if it doesn’t have to be? Or what if it still is but we find something more in the grief while we learn to connect with God and others through the pain? 

I don’t have the answers. I know that God is good despite my pain. I know that what was “intended for evil, God intended for good…” (Gen 50: 20) 

Let’s journey together.