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 missed a deadline last spring. By four days. I had committed to the piece months earlier, for an editor I respected deeply. Unfortunately, I had let the chaos of a brutal homeschool project and three overlapping writing projects convince me I had more time than I did. And I thought I’d blown it. No […]
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 […]
At the beginning of this month about God’s favor, I asked myself two questions that I wasn’t entirely sure I knew how to answer. How do I steward what God entrusts? And what does obedience in relationship look like? I’ve been sitting with both of those questions for the past several weeks. Through the writing, […]
There are times when you say, “Yes” and pay an immediate price before you ever see what it produces. I said one of those yeses a few years back. It meant setting aside a project I loved, one into which I had invested significant time and energy. But by walking in obedience, I sensed clearly […]
A few years ago someone told me I was a good encourager. Not a writer, not a speaker. An encourager. Honestly, my first reaction was to brush it off. It didn’t feel like a gift in the way I understood gifts. And it certainly didn’t feel like something that would fall under my stewardship of […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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