Authenticity
We spend so much energy trying to become someone people will accept. But the more I grow, the more I wonder if the real courage is simply letting ourselves be fully known.
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Being Right
I have a long history of wanting to be right. But the older I get, the more I’m realizing certainty isn’t the same thing as wisdom—and maybe humility is a better guide than confidence.
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Communication
Relationships rarely fall apart because of one conversation. More often, they’re built—or quietly broken—through the thousands of small moments in between.
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A Charming Storyline
A broken air conditioner, a power outage, and one very hot Saturday turned me into someone I barely recognized. Sometimes discomfort has a way of introducing us to ourselves.
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The Prayer I Forgot I Prayed
Sometimes I wonder if the hardest season of my life wasn’t an interruption to my prayers—but an answer to them. I just didn’t recognize it at the time.
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Our minds hate unanswered questions. So we fill the empty spaces with stories. The problem isn’t that we create narratives. It’s that we usually make ourselves the hero and someone else the villain.
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Maybe They Wanted To
“If they wanted to, they would.” I understand why people say it. But I’ve wanted to do many things that fear, timing, wisdom, or healing kept me from doing. Humans are rarely as simple as one sentence.
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Maybe They Wanted To
“If they wanted to, they would.” I understand why people say it. But I’ve wanted to do many things that fear, timing, wisdom, or healing kept me from doing. Humans are rarely as simple as one sentence.
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Between the Verses
I used to wish the Bible gave us more detail. More emotion. More character development. Now I wonder if the spaces between the verses are where we’re meant to place our own stories.
