It’s Not All Roses

It’s Not All Roses

Everyone experiences struggle in life. It’s a fact. In small and big ways, life isn’t all roses. Tough circumstances happen to us, we let ourselves down, and even God created us with a wide range of emotions some of which are really hard but all...
The Season of Being Real

The Season of Being Real

I’m humbled by how God’s been breaking through all the thoughts that have kept me from fully living my life for decades. It took days, weeks of soul work that will continue to be in process, but it is worth every mindful moment. Through an...
Drop Your Shoulds

Drop Your Shoulds

“Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and embrace who you are” – Brene Brown For probably 5 years I have been attempting to eliminate the word SHOULD from my vocabulary. The first time I realized the problems this word causes was while...
We’re All Creators

We’re All Creators

This writing thing is hard. I come back to a blank page over and over, filling it up for what seems like too long and still find myself scrapping and reworking things. Ideas that I think are going to flow naturally when I think of them can often be...
You Can’t Know Until You Know

You Can’t Know Until You Know

Uncertainty is something that’s always going to be there for us as humans. We can’t know what we’ll know until we walk through the experiences leading up to them. We can only know what we know, and see what we see from today. Sure, God knows the...
Worry to Trust

Worry to Trust

Lately something my cousin said she heard in a sermon has been mulling around in my mind: worry is really pride. The longer I’ve thought on that, the more I see the truth behind it, my worry really is an expression of my pride, of my thinking...