Let’s imagine together for a moment. Suppose you and I were to suddenly find ourselves in Times Square in New York City. We find a bench, sit side-by-side, and simply observe for a few minutes. What do you think we would see? I have a few suspicions. Business men and
Think about your average day. What words consume your mind? What content fills your heart? In the western world, not many of us place value on words by binding signs on our hands or decorating our foreheads with cloth. But we all set our attention and our affections on something.
Every day I will praise you. I will praise your name continually. The Lᴏʀᴅ is great and certainly worthy of praise. No one can fathom his greatness. –Psalm 145:2–3 I remember one of the hardest times in my life. It felt like I would never hope again and I was
Many of us can still remember the phrases we heard our parents say regularly. As we’ve grown up, we might have even found ourselves saying them too. My kids giggle when they hear me say, “We’re headed out like a herd of turtles.” I can still picture my mom’s face
Every year at Christmastime, I ask for a new planner. I love to organize my days and have everything neatly laid out. This is especially important as my husband and I have had a child this year. It has joyfully added a new layer of appointments, play dates, and family
We don’t like to wait. Not really. We scroll when we’re in line. We refresh tracking pages like they’ll magically speed up the delivery. We microwave. We DoorDash. We Amazon Prime. We want results, answers, change—now. Waiting feels like wasting. I remember when we moved into our first house a
My twin sister left the United States in the fall of 2017 to live a missional life in the Middle East– one of the most spiritually dark places in the world. She had told me a few years prior that she had felt the Lord calling her to be a
College (American) football is a big deal in the South. I grew up in the southern part of the United States, and I went to a very large state school for college. Every Saturday in the fall was dedicated to football. Droves of people would emerge to our sleepy college
I am not married, but I am in a miraculous season of life where I am prayerfully headed in that direction with a man I love. If the Lord has marriage for a woman, there comes a point where she leaves her family, roommates, and cozy 1-bedroom apartment, and she
My church recently walked through the book of Esther. It was such a blessing to me, as I had never before studied this particular part of scripture in-depth. As we read together chapter by chapter and verse by verse, I recognized beautiful aspects of God’s character that deeply encouraged my