A few years ago I said yes to something that terrified me. It wasn’t skydiving or anything outwardly dramatic, although I did go bungee jumping…once. No, this was agreeing to step into a role I felt completely unqualified for, in a space where I was certain people would eventually figure out I didn’t belong there. […]
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 […]
Freedom in Christ looks a whole lot different than what the world would have you believe. Our culture constantly sells a false version of freedom. It looks like no rules, no accountability, no one telling you what to do. The “freedom” to do whatever you want, whenever you want. It might look appealing on the […]
I moved nine times before I turned fourteen. New schools, new neighborhoods, new everything. Over and over again. For a long time after we stopped moving, I tried hard to find freedom from the past and the struggles of figuring out who I was. I thought those constant fresh starts were just disruptions. But they […]
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 have a confession. For a long time, I read Romans 12:2 like it was a motivational poster. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Nice thought. A renewed mind. Moving on. It wasn’t until I hit a season where my thinking was genuinely working against me, that this verse came back to mind. […]
I used to think freedom would feel a certain way. Lighter, maybe. Quieter. Like the moment you finally put down a heavy bag you’d been carrying too long. But when I started asking God what it actually meant to walk in freedom, His answer surprised me. It wasn’t about feeling less afraid. It was about […]
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 am a natural prioritizer. I often act first and deal with seeking answers later. Give me a list and I will rank it. Give me competing demands and I’ll build a framework for navigating them. Give me a complicated season with too many moving parts and I’ll find some sort of a system for […]
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