Aug 11, 2025 | Encouragement, Faith, Faithful Living, God, God's Faithfulness, Love, Marriage, Purpose, Writing
See this guy? I don’t talk about him a lot, but you should know that I’m not sure I would have ever started writing if it weren’t for him. He was (and is) my biggest encourager. It’s been almost ten years ago now that I first looked at him and said, “I want to write....
Mar 17, 2023 | Childhood, Gratitude, Hope, Joy, Kids, Life Lessons, Motherhood, Parenting, Perfectionism, Purpose, Purposeful Living, Simple Things, Take Time, Thankfulness, Time
I watched the kids chase fireflies tonight. The house is a mess. We’ve had a few very full, very hectic weeks and our home reflects it. There are clean clothes piled on the chair in our room. Dirty clothes are spilling over the sides of the laundry baskets. The...
Mar 14, 2023 | Faith, God, Kids, Life Lessons, Motherhood, Parenting, Perfectionism, Prayer, Purpose
“If one more person calls my name, I think I might scream,” I thought to myself earlier this evening. And immediately I felt guilty. As a mom, I’m needed often. As a mom with a kiddo who was sick last week and another kiddo sick this week, amidst a myriad of other...
Dec 2, 2022 | Church, Failure, Faith, God, Kids, Motherhood, Parenting, Purpose
It’s Sunday. And Sunday mornings can be hard. I won’t lie—rather than days of rest and worship, it often feels that Sundays are filled with labor and frustration instead as I “work” to get my family to church on time. Some Sundays we arrive at a time when I can no...
Jan 29, 2021 | Friendship, God, Gratitude, Joy, Purpose, Simple Things, Take Time, Thankfulness
I cried yesterday. Sometimes it’s lonely living away from family. You get used to it over time, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still impact you. Not only can it be lonely to live away from your family, but this year has been especially lonely and isolating for...
Apr 16, 2019 | Anxiety, Faith, Fear, God, Life Lessons, Prayer, Purpose
Hair pin turn after hair pin turn, I sucked air through my nose, holding it for several seconds before releasing it along with either a prayer or a plea for him to “please slow down.” In his defense, he wasn’t speeding. But still, I was afraid. We were on our way...