I had a conversation with another mom a few years back. We were sitting at her kitchen table, both of us nursing cold coffee, talking about grace and faith. She said, “I keep trying to have more faith. Like if I could just generate enough of it, things would feel more settled.” I knew exactly […]
Eight years ago, a relationship that mattered deeply to me got fractured and couldn’t be repaired quickly. I had done everything I knew to do. Apologized, given space, prayed, waited, tried again. But nothing moved. The silence on the other end stayed silence, week after week. I had run completely out of next steps. That […]
I have a friend who knows me well enough to tell me hard things. The relationship we’ve built over years of showing up for each other has created a kind of trust where we feel safe with honesty and not threatened in any way. There’s a gentle encouragement that leads to action when either of […]
I had a picture in my mind of what God’s abundance would look like when it arrived. Margin in my schedule. Breathing room in the budget. A season where the demands slowed down enough that I could finally feel like I was getting ahead rather than just keeping up. I waited for that season for […]
I grew up hearing the word obedience in contexts that made it feel heavy. Do this. Don’t do that. Follow the rules or face the consequences. But that’s not obedient faith. And for a long time, even after I came to faith, that don’t-question-obedience followed me into my relationship with God. I obeyed because I […]
I had this idea for a long time that living free would just happen. Like one day I’d wake up and the doubt would be gone, the fear would be quiet, the anxious thoughts would have packed their bags and moved out permanently. Life would feel open and light and certain. That day hasn’t come […]
There was a morning not too long ago when I started to understand what walking in freedom actually requires. I had sat down to write and instead spent forty-five minutes staring at a blank document, replaying a conversation from three days earlier. Nothing terrible had been said. My brain had just decided that particular exchange […]
I remember the first time I realized I was making a major life decision based almost entirely on fear. I had dressed it up quite nicely too, giving it all sorts of different looks and disguising the truth. I called it caution, called it wisdom, called it waiting for more clarity. But when I got […]
There was a stretch of time when anxiety was just my baseline. I didn’t even recognize it as anxiety anymore. It had become so woven into my daily rhythm that I thought it was just how life felt. Alert, braced, waiting for the next thing to go sideways. Maybe you know that feeling. The low […]
I spent a long time looking for fullness in the wrong places. These places didn’t seem wrong when you first looked at them. Think respectable. Productive. Places that made sense on paper and looked reasonable from the outside. Filled with achievement. The next goal, the next season, the next version of things that would finally […]
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