By the grace of God, I have been his wife for a decade today. I remember the first time I saw him, surrounded by boxes of t-shirts and a clipboard with my name among twenty other transfer students’ names. He was given the title of Welcome Week Leader. I joke that I must have felt […]
Dear Fifteen: A Letter to Teen Girls on International Women’s Day
Lean in, sweet girl in the trenches of the teen years. This is for you. You: the one beginning to relate to your mom as a friend, the one beginning to wear makeup, the one navigating womanhood, the one striving to discern between friendships and extracurricular activities. I know. It feels so complicated. I was […]
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Join Me at the Feathers Podcast: Season 3, Episode 11
Hello friends! Join me on Season 3, Episode 11 of the Feathers Podcast! Listen here! Amy and I talk about my decision to go on short-term mission trips to Haiti, the guilt I wrestled with as a mom of three small children, the ways God affirmed my heart, and the friendships formed over […]
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A Desperate Prayer: “Jesus, Please Give Me the Words to Say.”
This desperate prayer? It is probably the one that frequents my heart and my lips the most. I’m a woman of many words, but there are times. There are so many times that I know the most edifying words? The words that will encourage and soothe hurting souls? Those words aren’t by my strength. […]
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Does My Response to Sin Look Anything Like My Jesus?
His loving kindness draws me to repentance. The Bible tells me this. Do you really think—anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same—that you will escape God’s judgment? Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing[a] that God’s kindness is intended […]
