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 […]
For a long time, I believed that God’s favor was something you earned. Not theologically, of course. I knew better than that. But the way I approached my work and my days held an undercurrent that said if I just did enough, showed up enough, produced enough, then maybe things would go smoothly. Maybe doors […]
I’ll be honest. When I first heard the word abundance, my brain went straight to more. More margin, more resources, more time, more of whatever felt scarce in that particular season. And I spent a fair amount of energy quietly wishing life looked a little fuller than it did. Then one ordinary afternoon I was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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