TRIGGER WARNING: This blog post will discuss weight and body image. It has zero intention of triggering, but may not be suitable for all readers. If you are highly sensitive to triggers around this topic, please skip this post. Over the past several years, this question has been one that has been tough for me …
Are you longing for more? Hungering for purpose? Dissatisfied with a life without meaning? Believe it or not, we are actually called to be in anguish for this world. If you are longing… feeling discontented and like there has to be MORE… feeling anguished for the state of the world… even feeling lost and searching… …
Creation begins with Heaven. Not Earth. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 This is, in fact, the first verse of the Bible. So, the Bible begins with the creation of Heaven… and it ends with the creation of Heaven: I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down …
My best friend Maddie and I have often cried together about a certain little fear that likes to get us: the fear of not being married when we’re in heaven. Marriage is forever…right? That vow that I took so seriously…take so seriously every single day…it’s forever, right? All these people were still living by faith …
My thumb actually just goes there. No, really, I can’t control it. This is what I learned about myself a few days ago, when I took my cell phone into the bathroom with me (okay, I know you all do it). I opened it, and my thumb went to the app. I’ve logged out of …
My husband and I are 6 months into marriage. We’re 24 and 22 years old with no kids and work-from-home jobs after long distance. We certainly can’t speak to married life with kids – although I do know that that will, God willing, change our schedules, the amount of time we have for one-on-one dates …
June 4th… Say what?!!?! My blog friends… it’s been a while! To my subscribers – thank you for sticking around and bearing with me in a busy season of navigating screen burnout, working from home, and newly married life! I must say that it has all been wonderful over here. Johnny and I can’t put …
“Telling a person with an eating disorder that they can’t leave their apartment for two weeks is like saying, ‘You have two weeks to indulge in all the behavior you haven’t exhibited since you were in recovery,’” said Ruthie Friedlander, Founder of the Chain. I feel inexpressibly blessed to say that I strongly believe that I …
This blog post originally appeared on the Leaders Blog at C3KW. Head over there for more encouragement and Truth in this time of COVID-19! Hey, Friend. We’re aaaalllll in this together… Anyone else get High School Musical vibes? For real, though. We are. Each one of us is enduring the same trying time. I wouldn’t be surprised if …
“Don’t Australia it.” This is where my beautiful friend, Kristann, and I ended our hour-long, and about 5-hours-too-short, conversation in a Starbucks on my lunch break today. This girl, who is literally a straight up RAY of golden sunshine and beams Jesus Christ in her smile and her kindness, met me giddily today, jumping up …