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  Sometimes the greatest ideas are born out of the sheer simplicity of living in the moment. I come from a rather large family. I have three brothers, three sisters, and I’m somewhere in the middle of the mix. As you can imagine, there are moments when things in my family have been excruciatingly difficult, […]

  I left the gym the other day after a hard workout class and stepped out into the mid-December air that bit straight through my jacket. I immediately thought, “I can’t wait to get home.” I knew that after a few errands and a stop by the grocery store I was going to be able […]

  Eat. Sleep. Swim. Twelve years of my life were spent in a pool. It was grueling and difficult, but in the water I found the strength to endure. For only through the application of resistance was I able to grow stronger, move faster and achieve greater goals. But, training can be a tiring and […]

  Jan. 1992 As I walked down the long, second-floor hall of my high school, she stuck her leg out and tripped me. The other girl, with her cute Keds, laughing at me, as I looked up to view the crowd around; my heart slowly closed off to the world around me. I made the […]

  “Father I thank you and praise you for who you are…” This is how one of my friends always begins her prayers. She lets these words roll off her tongue as easily as if she was having a simple conversation. Her prayers are then saturated in thankfulness, to the point where thirty minutes later […]

  What happens when there is an empty little block of time? That moment when you don’t know what to do with your hands, or you need to “escape,” or for no other reason than it is just what you do …you pick up the phone and scroll. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok (do you scroll […]

  What do you do when you want to get to know someone? Do you take them out for lunch? Maybe share a cup of coffee? Most likely, you ask them some questions, and then what? You listen. So now, let’s shift that focus—rather than talking about a friend. Let’s talk about the Friend and […]

  “I want to be broken over the sins of my heart. I wish I grieved over them more—even the little sins.” A friend said this to me recently and I have been pondering her words ever since. She was concerned about the casualness of her heart toward those sins we deem “small.” Her reasoning? […]

How many times have people assumed things about you that are so far from the truth? It alienates, discriminates, and propagates ideas that are damaging to connection and compassion. The truth is, we are all walking a God designed path in a world that makes it hard to do so. Our past experiences aren’t written […]

  I have this necklace that clinks. It jangles and rattles with my every movement—the faux-gold circle clacking against a wooden piece. The colliding makes a cacophony.  At times it catches my attention, so much that while walking I will grasp it to silence the sound. Other times, I remove it completely in annoyance—and all […]