Category: Blog posts
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The Gift of Momentary Community: Seeking Intentional Faith-Friendship When It’s Not Forever
This post is for the wanderers, the expats, and those who find themselves in the in-between. You are welcomed here. Do you often feel tempted to skip out on community when it is temporary? I have found myself here especially when it comes to faith based community. For the past six years, I have been…
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The Gift of Christian Community to a Tired Mom
Motherhood shouldn’t be done alone. My eighteen-month-old son is bright, silly, playful, and has a cheerful personality. He is a snuggler, he actually enjoys putting toys away, helping me clean, and (to the joy of his Mama’s bibliophile heart) loves it when his father and I read to him. He is a sweet blessing for which…
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The Need for Christian Community for a Tired Mom
Motherhood is both the easiest and hardest thing I have ever done. It is beautiful and messy. It is sanctifying, humbling, and revealing of my selfishness, pride, and stubbornness. It has stretched me, in these eighteen months, far thinner than I thought possible. Yet, through God’s grace, nearness, provision, and faithfulness, it has pointed me towards…
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My Community or God’s Community?
What images does the term ‘community’ conjure up? I immediately think of my besties, my tribe, my sisters! The people that I love doing life with. But what if my concept of community isn’t in sync with God’s? Several years ago I was asked to lead a follow-up Bible study after a weekend women’s retreat. Four…
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Courageous Vulnerability
How do you interact with people? Do your habits tend to cultivate a safe community? I’ve been in the church community throughout my life, and I’ve usually found it easy to talk with people. Well, I’m somewhat shy, but if I feel like I can help someone then I tend to reach out a little…
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Masks Off
Have you ever answered the question “How are you?” with “Fine” or “Good” just to move past it, even though it seems like you are having the worst day of your life? I’ve shown up to a lot of prayer times with God and a bunch more church or small group times saying “I’m fine”…
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Replacing Lies With Truth
Have you ever tried to reconcile the events of your life with what you expected, and come up short? You are working hard and doing your best to live well but you keep running into dead ends. You lean on all the things you think you know for sure but even those things seem shaky. These…
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The difficult journey of repentance
The word repentance can invoke feelings of rebellion, frustration, despair, or conviction. What feelings does this word bring up in you? The definition of repentance according to the dictionary is “deep sorrow or contrition for a past sin.” It is no wonder that no one wants to dwell on repentance for any length of time!…
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Embracing our current battles
I was fighting a battle of the mind. It was very intense, and I felt like I would never win. Anxiety can feel like a voice screaming every accusation, negative outcome, and possible failure with such consistency that it is hard to hear anything else. I had done everything to silence that voice. I had prayed,…
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Faith filled obedience when life doesn’t make sense
I was recently pondering the mind-boggling account of God’s command to Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac (Genesis 22:2). Since Abraham had left his people, God had promised to make him (and his descendants) into a large nation (Genesis 15:5-6). The only problem was his wife Sarah was barren, and well into her nineties when…
Her Faith Thrives 