Walking into marriage has felt a lot like walking onto the mission field. Suddenly life is different. I have different priorities, new responsibilities, and whether I want them to or not my relationships are changing. But marriage isn’t the only time of transition in this life. We all go through transitions from our earliest stages: […]
Single and Celebrating Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day was always a day full of potential for me- potential for happiness or for disappointment. It all started with those boxes of Valentine’s cards you’d buy to hand out at school every year. Each box included to ‘big’ Valentine’s cards for the most special people in you life and enough smaller ones to […]
Home
The more I live the more I learn what a funny thing home is. Some say it’s the place you were born, the place you now reside, or perhaps it’s the place your heart most longs to be. I think home is a little bit of all three, with each piece of home pulling at […]
Hope for the Downcast Soul
“Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.” ~Psalm 42:11 Today has been a hard day. I have been tempted to speak. Have written, erased, and rewritten responses to posts on social media. […]
What Great Love
“See the kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.” ~1 John 3:1 “Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see the glory that you have given me because you […]