Category: Faith
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Thank You for the Waiting
There are some seasons in life that I would gladly skip. The waiting seasons. The seasons where prayers feel unanswered. The seasons where the promises You gave feel impossibly far away. The seasons where I wonder if I heard You correctly. The seasons where I’m exhausted from hoping, tired of believing, and weary from trying…
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Learning to See Myself How God Sees Me
I have to remind myself of something often. You don’t undo twenty-nine years of lies overnight. You don’t spend nearly three decades believing you are broken, unworthy, unwanted, shameful, and beyond redemption and then suddenly wake up one morning fully convinced of God’s truth. It doesn’t usually work that way. I often get frustrated with…
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Why Don’t I Believe It Yet?
I know the verses. I can quote them. I can tell you what God says about me. I know that I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I know that I am chosen, redeemed, forgiven, and loved. I know that my worth is not found in my accomplishments, my appearance, my productivity, or other people’s opinions…
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I Don’t Know How to Be a Good Christian
I have a confession to make. I don’t know how to be a good Christian. That probably isn’t something most people expect to hear from someone who writes about faith. It isn’t something I want to admit. But if I’m being honest, it is the truth I keep coming back to. The longer I follow…
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What If I’m Missing the Boat?
Lately, I have been wrestling with a lot of questions that I don’t know how to answer. How do I know the difference between trusting God and simply being stubborn? Am I doing enough? How do you move forward after finding out news that will impact the lens in which you see the world? I…
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From Desperation to “The Lord is My Shepherd”
There is something I have always found deeply comforting about Psalm 23. I memorized it as a child. I’ve heard it at funerals, in hospital rooms, during hard seasons, and whispered it through tears when I didn’t know what else to pray. “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” — Psalm 23:1 It…
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When Love Breaks You So God Can Show You What Love Really Is
There is a kind of heartbreak that changes you. Not the dramatic kind people post about online. Not the temporary ache of disappointment that fades after a few days. I mean the kind that settles into your bones. The kind that leaves you staring at the ceiling at 2 AM wondering how the people who…
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Slow Revelation, Steady Grace
There is a part of walking with God that can feel both beautiful and unbelievably frustrating at the same time: realizing that sometimes He reveals truth in pieces. Not because He is withholding from us. Not because He is trying to confuse us. But because He loves us enough to know what our hearts, minds,…
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The God Who Protects What We Cannot Carry
There are seasons in life where I have begged God to protect me, sometimes from strangers, other times danger, and many times from my own mind. From the memories that replay at 2AM. From the conversations I cannot stop dissecting. From the fear that creeps in when life feels uncertain. From the weight of trying…