Vacation and Quiet Times

We’re on vacation.  We’ve got our feet in the sand and enjoying some much-needed time away {and mostly unplugged}.  It’s what we need … though I imagine come Monday I’ll be needing a vacation to recover from doing all our vacation laundry! 🙂 This month at Do Not Depart, the […]

Learning to Listen

In March I was saying, “If we can just get through April, then we will have some space to breathe.”  But May brought with it the chaos of end-of-school and final exams and one more show choir production and cheerleading fittings and graduation and parties … and then it was […]

On Dreams and Seasons of Life

In January I started writing about chasing the God-sized dream in my heart. Of course, it all started with me realizing I wasn’t even sure what that dream was and learning to listen so He could show me.  It hasn’t been an easy journey for me, this God-size dream chasing. […]

In Times Like This

I’m sitting here watching the news about the devastation in Oklahoma—both yesterday and today.  I spent most of my childhood in Oklahoma.  Both my brothers and many of my friends live in the Oklahoma City metro area. I also have friends and family in Shawnee.  When the footage rolls across […]

Women like this …

Women like this … unashamed of their realness, willing to bare all and to come alongside others. confident not in themselves but in Christ who is their strength. honest, transparent, funny, creative, beautiful. mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, friends—so many hats, all worn with grace. bloggers, writers, designers, teachers. Women like […]

What Does Sacrifice Really Look Like?

  I really have no idea what sacrifice looks like. My life is filled with first-world problems and sometimes when I think about the very real tragedies in our world like human trafficking and orphans, I find myself completely overwhelmed. I wonder what sacrifice really means in my day-to-day, average American […]