Don't Miss It

In 2021, when Steve was hospitalized with COVID pneumonia, Ashley believed they were facing a difficult illness. Instead, she spent the weeks that followed living between fear and faith as his condition grew more impossible: a ventilator, collapsed lungs, heart and kidney failure, sepsis, transfusions, and finally the news that he had been declared brain-dead.

While Steve fought for his life inside the hospital, Ashley carried everything outside it. She learned to take life five minutes at a time. She watched friends become family and strangers become intercessors, gathered with others for prayer in a hospital parking garage, and found an unlikely reminder of God's nearness in a little sparrow sheltering from a storm.

And in the moment she finally surrendered the person she loved most, she discovered a peace she couldn't explain.

Then the impossible began to happen.

Steve's recovery stretched across four and a half months in the hospital and a year of rebuilding at home, and Ashley walked every step of it beside him.

That journey became Believe For It, Ashley's account of faith, fear, surrender, and what God can do in us while we're waiting for the miracle we're asking Him to do around us.

Ashley doesn't write as someone who had all the answers. She writes as someone who had to decide, again and again, whether she would believe God was still working when every report said otherwise.

Since Steve's recovery, Ashley has shared their story with many people and has prayed with countless others walking through similar struggles, often reminding them that God is still at work in the waiting.

Today, Ashley is the COO | Managing Broker of CHORD Real Estate in Nashville, Tennessee, which she leads alongside Steve, business partner Van Hohe, and their team. Before real estate, she served as assistant director of a private preschool. Her background is in international studies, and she speaks fluent Japanese after living in Japan for nearly four years during college.

Ashley and Steve have been married since 2012 and share a blended family with their three sons, Jacob, Tylar, and Ken. They live in Gallatin, Tennessee, just outside Nashville, and attend NorthField Church. Steve tells his side of the story in Reasons to Praise, his forty-day devotional on rediscovering God's goodness in every season.

Her hope for every reader is simple: that you'll start looking for God in your own life, and find that He has been there all along.

God is present. God is working. Don't miss it.

In 2021, Steve entered the hospital with COVID pneumonia. What followed became a months-long fight for his life that included respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation, heart and kidney failure, sepsis, multiple blood transfusions, and a devastating prognosis. Thirty-six days after entering the hospital, Steve was declared brain-dead at the stem level. Four days later, on day forty, he began showing signs of recovery.

His journey back was only beginning.

After months in the hospital and an extensive recovery that required him to rebuild his strength, mobility, and ability to breathe normally, Steve returned to the life he had once feared he might never experience again. But he didn't return to it quite the same.

During the darkest moments of his illness, when the outcome was completely beyond his control, Steve found peace through prayer, praise, gratitude, and ultimately surrendering his life to God's will. The experience awakened in him a deeper awareness of something that had always been true but was too easy to overlook in the busyness of everyday life:

God's goodness is everywhere when we take the time to notice it.

That realization became the foundation for Reasons to Praise: 40 Days to Rediscover God's Goodness in Every Season.

Steve doesn't write as a pastor or theologian. He writes as someone who knows what it feels like to be afraid, to wrestle with questions, to get distracted by things that seem important, to fall short, and to need the same reminders he shares throughout these pages. He also writes as someone who was given an unexpected opportunity to see life again with fresh eyes.

Today, Steve is the Principal | Chief Strategist & Advisor of CHORD Real Estate in Nashville, Tennessee, a company he leads alongside his wife, Ashley, business partner Van Hohe, and their team. Before entering real estate, he spent a decade in corporate information technology, and throughout his career he has remained an entrepreneur at heart.

But the titles that matter most to him are much simpler:

Husband. Dad. Child of God.

Steve and Ashley have been married since 2012 and share a blended family with their three sons, Jacob, Tylar, and Ken. They live in Gallatin, Tennessee, just outside Nashville, and attend NorthField Church. Their family's experience during Steve's illness is also told from Ashley's perspective in Believe For It, her account of faith, fear, surrender, and what happened outside the hospital walls while Steve fought for his life inside them.

Since his recovery, Steve has shared his story with countless people, always returning to the same message: miracles aren't confined to hospital rooms or dramatic moments. They are happening around us every day. Sometimes we're simply moving too quickly to recognize them.

Reasons to Praise is Steve's invitation to slow down. To notice. To remember. To give thanks. And to discover that no matter what season you're walking through, there is always a reason to praise.