Choosing faith over fear in the everyday...
I know what you're thinking, "Wow, hate is a strong word for something meant to be so helpful." Yeah, it is. But when you've looked for healing somewhere only to find out you were being duped, you'd hate it too. For most of my adult life, I've been drawn with an unexplainable magnetism to the "self-help" section of the ... read more
How can I be a Christian and still struggle with... (*Fill in the blank.) When I first began writing this post it was meant to be all about the struggle with fear and being a Christian. But after I thought about it, I realized that even if you don't struggle with fear, you still struggle with something and more than ... read more
Recently my family and I went on a hike where part of the trail was an old railroad track. We walked along, board by board where the sunlight and shadows trickled through the trees, falling upon our shoulders and then spilling down onto the tracks. About halfway through our journey, we turned a corner only to meet up ... read more
Making peace with your enemy The slate-colored sky surrounded the endless meadows on either side of the road as my Toyota sliced through the frigid afternoon air—ask anyone who lives in the Pacific Northwest, it's all gray and green until sometime in June. I was headed North after an entire day away at a ... read more
There are days where God's grace is enormous and I feel it all around me. And then there are the days where it's nowhere to be found—well, at least I can't feel it. The former are the days I desperately want to hoard grace for the latter. Oh, never heard of grace hoarding, you say? Maybe it's not a ... read more
I was floating amongst laughing children while the sun glistened off of the rippling waves of chlorinated bliss. Shrieks and shrills fell like raindrops around me as I bobbed up and down with the movement of the water. The pool cooled my hot skin and for the moment, I felt weightless, even with an eight-month pregnancy ... read more
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