Helping you connect your faith with your real life
Learn to love yourself the way God loves you with these simple tips. I heard all about self-care, but taking a bath or getting a manicure wasn’t really doing the trick. I needed to feel LOVED. And not loved by other people, but to truly feel loved by me. It was so much easier to
In honor of my 22nd anniversary this month here are a few of the practical, mushy, and deep things I love about being married, in no particular order. 1. Events. Knowing who my wedding/work event/party date is. (Bonus: we get to go home together, every single time!) 2. All the feels. Having someone who sees me and all my
Now more than ever, the world needs us to let go of our ideas of going to church on Sundays and instead be the Church. When we look at our diverse experiences with church we’re often left wondering what to do. We can look at what to do in the hard places or what works
It’s easy to love people when life is all rainbows and unicorns and relationships are flowers and x’s and o’s. But what about when real life hits? What about when you have disagreements or arguments or even fights? Is it even possible to love someone when they’ve hurt you and the chasm feels too wide to
Sometimes love isn’t easy. I know, that’s probably not what you want to talk about, especially with Valentine’s Day making us think about hearts and roses and chocolate. It could be February 14 or July 27, and the truth is the same: sometimes love is hard. But there are some simple things you can do
I’m wondering if we got the New Year off to a rocky start? Sometimes I think it should be all glitzy and shiny, but that’s not how we roll here, now is it? Because here’s the truth of it all: it’s just another page on the calendar. Yes, yes. I know. Clean slate. Fresh start.
I had held back the tears as long as I could. I never meant to cry about this. I never meant to get worked up. But emotion found me just the same and finally like pulling the plug on a tub of water, I let it out. It was nothing big. We had been talking
Redeeming Love is one of the most impactful books I’ve ever read. And it goes deeper than just the great story. It strengthened my faith. I don’t like to read books multiple times. It might have something to do with how I like to check things off and move on. But there was something about this
It’s easy to feel stuck in real life, even as your mind wanders to big callings. The more we whittle down the simplicity of what God calls us to, the easier it is to walk it out. As I sit here writing, there is a table full of clutter in front of me, kids playing
Ok, I know the other day when I wrote about your calling I said, the end. But the truth is it just doesn’t always seem that easy, does it? Four words made it sound so simple, but here we are, everyday, struggling to understand what it means. I get it. So what do we do? I’m going
