Reclaiming Simplicity: A New Year’s Resolution
I’ve heard and seen many people salute themselves to a New Year’s Resolution throughout the years: the organic section is sold out at local grocery stores, gym membership spots are filled quickly, and household items are gone through and given away. The more I reflect on this idea of a “resolution” I often contemplate our […]
Kill them with kindness
“Kill them with kindness,” they said. “Kill them with kindness,” I thought? “Kindness kills me.” Kindness.is.hard. I don’t like being kind. Maybe it’s just me, but it’s hard for me to have compassion, to be patient, and to be loving to people and mean it. My heart is sad. I have tried writing this blog over […]
The Unfiltered Selfie — The Fight For Surrender
*WARNING* The image below will not contain a typical picture of food, cutesy bible + journal + coffee picture, a selfie of me and my dog, a picture of a tidy home, just-did-my-makeup-perfect-filter selfie, cool scripted font of song lyrics. In fact, it’ll contain none of the above. — RATHER — Here’s my few hours of […]
B+ Shimmies & Smiles: Learning to dance in your imperfections
It’s safe to say that the past few months of my life have been pretty chaotic. The pressures to be the perfect wife, perfect teacher, have the perfect house, and maintain a positive, approachable attitude has had me crumbling. I’ve felt the weight of being a constant disappointment not only to myself, but also to […]
Community, Church, and Close Friends
Here is the church, here is the steeple, open the door, and … WHERE’S ALL THE PEOPLE? I have been to quite a few churches in my lifetime, heck I grew up as a pastor’s kid. I feel like I got this whole church thing down (kidding). It wasn’t until college that I realized the importance of […]
3 Ways I’ve Learned to Dance with Fear
Fear is a funny thing. It sneaks up on us. If we let it, fear can captivate us. Fear can strangle us from being who we are made to be. It can strip us of the joy found in life’s everyday pleasures. But if we press into it, and we seek to find the root […]
Love Doesn’t Hold Its Tongue
As the school year is coming to a close, I have done a lot of reflecting. Being a teacher you always want to believe that you made a difference. I have learned much about myself working with kids for 9 straight months, some things I am proud of, others I would be embarrassed to put […]
That Daunting Question: Engagement
I have been engaged for exactly five months today. I would say over the last five months I have gotten A LOT of questions. Questions such as, “Do you have your dress? What does it look like? When is your wedding? Are you stressed? How are you doing?” Above all, I would say the question […]
Love Sees
I look around and see many nameless faces. Each person with a different story, unique interests, tragic heartache, mountain of success, weird hobby and yet… God so loved. I’ve been thinking about the word love a lot lately. How loosely it’s used, but the weight it carries. What would it actually look like to love? […]
Fighting Fear: Refocusing Your Gaze
They say you get stronger in the broken places when you lean into the crisis that your facing In your weakness you’re made strong They say when you’ve fallen off a horse, the first thing you gotta do of course is climb right back on And suddenly… I lost all control. Literally. I lost all control. Those were […]