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 […]
I wrote my way through one of the most depleting seasons of my life on sheer momentum and very little else. Fullness wasn’t even remotely on my radar. The deadlines didn’t move because my energy did. The responsibilities didn’t pause because my reserves were low. The people who needed me kept needing me, as people […]
I am not a private processor by nature. When something breaks in me, in a relationship, or in a season of life, my first instinct is to talk it out with others. But after years of facing betrayal from several in a community I thought I could trust and being judged for who I naturally […]
Some wounds are clean. A loss that was no one’s fault. A disappointment that came from circumstances rather than choices. A hard season that arrived without a person attached to it. Those wounds still hurt, and they still require real healing. But there’s a certain straightforwardness to them. You know what happened. You know what […]
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