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I recently heard a sermon about indications of spiritual decay. And I was hitting every indication. (Ya girl has been on E.) The most interesting thing shared was that it’s often the people who have been serving God the longest that are more prone to this decay. The comfort and familiarity and cushiness of our…

I was encouraged to write this, so here I am. I’ve been in a relationship for almost 3 years, and I am engaged (‼️🤸🏿‍♀️🤗). If you know me well, you’d know that a long-term relationship has been a deep, deep longing of my heart for many years. And now I have it. So much of…

I’ve experienced my own version of Red Sea parting type miracles. Things that weren’t became. Things that shouldn’t be were. Circumstances and events that were seemingly impossible occurred. You don’t miss those miracles. But I’ve been training my heart to see elegant miracles. The ones that are a result of the slow, deliberate often painful…

My present is as important or even more important as my past and future. What has happened is done. And over. What will happen is yet to be known. Rest. It’s the pliability and liability of the present that make it critically important. I will shape my future past by what I do with my…

What has love been for me? It has been still. A stillness and quietness of heart and mind. It has silenced doubts and long-held myths. The fables of failure and can’t and won’t were all ravaged by love. It revealed that goodness is not all good. At least not the good that I’ve come to…

I finally admit how much I love the color orange. I wanted to move in the direction of adulthood….have black as my favorite color. But I began to realize how much orange is my hue. My life is beginning to feel more sunny & radiant. It’s been a few months of deep rest and sabbath.…

People can be so weird. People crave the attention of those who never see them. And shirk the affection of those who do. They deeply desire to be accepted by those who look down upon them, treat them like trash, and all around just can’t stand them. You will see people bending over backwards, tap…

I’ve never wanted to jinx it. Put my mouth on the goodness of life and cause it to stop. I’ve mostly had a certain level of optimism towards life….until I didn’t. And once I stopped that unrestrained, relentless optimism, a new strain of pessimism settled in. And here’s that strain: It’s not that good things…

For my 27th birthday, I considered getting a tattoo. I planned to get the word hesed tattooed on the side of Natalie (the name of my stubborn belly fat). I punked out and decided against it. But there’s still a searing quality to that word.  It’s a word I came across listening to a sermon…

 I think maturity is beginning to look like this for me. Well wishes and sure footed goodbyes. It’s an understanding of value…yours and the departing party’s. People leave. Things don’t work out.  And in the process of understanding the aftermath, we tend to negatize (new word) that person. “He was lame anyhow.” “But remember when…