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January 2024

January 02, 2024

Is It Really So Simple?

Simplify. My word for 2024. Already doing it's work on me and it's only day...

December 2023

December 30, 2023

Knowing When To Hold On

Should I hold on or let go? When do I hold on? Who/what tells me...

May 2023

May 23, 2023

Perfectly Imperfect

Does anyone else have some messed up views? Being taught one thing. And now realizing......

April 2023

April 12, 2023

These Days Are The Vulnerable Ones

Less than a week out from my book release. All.The.Feels. One minute I am excited....

March 2023

March 09, 2023

Living in Fear is Exhausting

Living in fear is exhausting. I've spent too much of my life being afraid. Driven...

January 2023

January 11, 2023

All I Thought I Knew

Looking back through journals. All the prayers. All the crying out to God. Years. And...

December 2022

December 30, 2022

I Changed My Mind About Spanking

"Choose your weapon." A mentor of mine told me she used to say it to...

November 2022

November 17, 2022

Is This A Race?

Is he running hard after God? Are you running hard after God? Would you like...

October 2022

October 19, 2022

Are We All Just Sitting Ducks?

We attended a college conference in 2006, where John Piper said if we listen to...

October 13, 2022

An Apology (from a true love waits leader)

I’m sorry. I see now the damage that was done. Standing in front of you...

September 2022

September 22, 2022

I Wore Yellow

Bright, sunny, yellow. To a hipster church. What was I thinking? I guess… Maybe, I...

August 2022

August 21, 2022

Winning At All Costs

I couldn’t play the game anymore. Honestly, I didn’t even know what game I...

August 08, 2022

Is My Faith Being Destroyed?

Destroyed or Deconstructed. I just noticed these are two different words… Although I would say...

August 01, 2022

Compared to What?

Let’s talk about ants. Two stories. Two different perspectives. Both of them inspiring. Story...

July 2022

July 28, 2022

All of These Years and He Never Told Me?

Kev just schooled me on the topic of “grace”. I was sitting out here on...

July 26, 2022

Here’s The Dilemma

Somewhere along the line, I learned to beat myself up. Put myself down. The more...

July 25, 2022

When You Just Don’t Fit In

Everyone longs to belong. I’ve spent my life longing to belong. To fit in. The...

July 22, 2022

What Are We Spreading Around?

It’s a beautiful day. The sun is shinning. Kids are playing across the street. There...

July 20, 2022

So, Why Isn’t All of This God Stuff Working for You?

I sat across from my friend. We had met at the studio where our daughters...

July 19, 2022

When Nothing Makes Sense

Lots of tears last therapy session. Ugly crying, in fact. “I just don’t get it”....

July 12, 2022

Are We Doing This Here?

“Oh, so we’re not doing that here?”. I heard this quote by Glennon Doyle...

July 11, 2022

It’s So Much Simpler Than We Make It Out to Be

I’ve always been known for hearing a teaching and being able to spew it all...

July 07, 2022

When The Lines Begin To Blur

I’m a performer. Always have been. The baby of our family. Always being told what...

May 2022

May 10, 2022

Please Be Pleased With Me God

Striving This is how I used to spend my mornings with God My “quiet times”...

April 2022

April 30, 2022

I Kept My Baby

If someone says just the right word? It can send me into a spiral. Yes....

April 25, 2022

Fitting In

Misfit. Imposter. Too much. Not enough. Too old. Too young. Always there. Never belonging. Walking...

March 2022

March 27, 2022

There’s No Turning Back (and no reason why I would ever want to)

I can't un-know all I know. I can’t un-see all I’ve seen. There’s no turning...

March 01, 2022

Don’t Even Think About It

Purity. Pure. White as snow. Holy. Clean. Fresh. Beautiful. Clear. Unblemished. A culture of purity....

February 2022

February 27, 2022

When The Depression Hits

When depression hits Everything seems bigger The dark gets darker The night gets longer The...

January 2022

January 20, 2022

Is Anyone Seeing Me?

How did I do it? How did we do it? Just sat there. Week after...