Surviving summer

I loved summer as a kid. Having a long break from school, swimming at my grandparents house, eating copious amounts of popsicles, popping fireworks on the fourth of July, going on family vacations, having sleepovers with my friends and going to church camp all made my childhood summers pretty magical. I don’t love summer anymore […]

New Life

Pregnancy is wild. Childbirth is even wilder. Babies are the wildest. My husband and I decided to start a family a little over a year ago and we now have a beautiful 6 month old baby boy named Morgan. I spent a good number of years fully convinced that I did not want to have […]

the steadfast love (continued)

Since I wrote and shared my testimony over a year ago I’ve grown in my faith tremendously. A huge weight has been lifted and is now being carried by Christ. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how people interpret the bible and how we trust preachers and teachers that bring their interpretations to us […]

the steadfast love

I started attending church as a newborn in the early 90s. I grew up there. My church was small, family oriented and tightly knit. My church family felt like actual family, and not only because my actual family made up nearly half of the congregation. I remember going to Sunday school, hearing all of the […]

for the anxious bride

I got married five months ago and it has taken that long to fully recover from eight months of stress and planning. It was a nearly perfect day that I wish I could relive a hundred times, because it truly was magical, but all of my concerns about the day being perfect and the hypothetical […]

Health is not hard

This is a small dose of uncomfortable truth that I’m going to type as loud as I can because I want to share what I know and inspire some healthy lifestyle changes for anyone who might be able to use them, and because many of us live in denial of our deteriorating health under the […]

do not conform

Humanity is out of control, obviously. What has really been distressing me lately though is how deeply self-proclaimed Christians have fallen into modern western culture. From burying ourselves in debt, believing in and working for the American dream of wealth and success that has been spoon fed to us since birth, to pride, greed, idolatry […]

stand for both

Today I am thankful for the ability to see both sides of an issue. I’m fortunate to have people in my life that can agree or disagree with me and love me regardless of our personal opinions and convictions. I’m glad that I posses the ability to look and think beyond news headlines and raging […]

decisions based on altruism

In person conversations and online rants both do a good job of demonstrating how passionate people are when it comes to their personal beliefs, moral values and political stances. That passion and involvement can be a good thing, but only when it comes from a good place. People can sometimes become radical about things they […]

confessions of a college dropout

I would never dream of discouraging anyone from attending a university to further their education in preparation for a career, but I would advise anyone considering going to school before they know what they are going for and without the funds to pay for it to stop and think about that for a while. I […]