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Unflustered wholeness. Joys ample. Haven ensured. God’s presence. Eden had it all. With just two bites, a severance of cosmic proportions came between God and us because we chose to go our own way. Eden was lost, but the memory has stayed with us, and we continue to pursue Edenic peace. God’s extravagant love was…

400 years of God silence between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament. Israel was occupied by Roman outsiders. Resistance unsuccessful. Hope seemingly deferred. This is the moment God chose for Jesus to enter the world as a baby, born into poverty and completely powerless. Light in the darkness…

Sometimes the dark is very dark. Sometimes the night is very long. As the year comes to a close and we begin to prepare for Advent, we can get stuck by what we see with our human eyes. The hunger, the injustice, the wars, all very real things, and we haven’t even necessarily got to…

I opened my simple prayer folder and took my time looking over each name. I’m currently leading a MomCo table at a local church, and I had written the names of each woman, her partner, and her children with their ages on sticky notes and then placed them on a sheet of paper. Folding it…

As the school year was coming to a close, I was eagerly awaiting the walk down the aisle to my fiancé and the walk across a stage to earn a Master of Divinity. Time was filled with joy, anticipation, and larger-than-life dreams as I attempted to balance these big changes with my full-time ministry job….

Leading up to the holiday season, I share three things I do every year to help me celebrate intentionally and linger with God: communicate, cultivate, and connect. You can find the first post on communication (and how to avoid potential disagreements) here and the second post on cultivating a Christmas plan here. What makes Christmas…

Leading up to the marathon called the holiday season, I’ll be sharing three things I do every year to help me enjoy the season, celebrate intentionally, and linger with God. Last week I shared about communication, so be sure to look for the previous post. As a new mom, everything was overwhelming. Every simple task—from…

Leading up to a marathon called the holiday season, I’ll be sharing three things I do every year to help me enjoy the season, celebrate intentionally, and find moments to savor the generosity of God.   “Not again,” I reflected disappointedly, “Didn’t we have the exact same fight last Christmas?” Christmas is a time of…

A familiar panic rose in me as my heart began to beat faster. As a “six-year-old” mom, this had become routine—reading about some new threat to children and families and then spinning in overwhelm as I contemplated how to navigate it. With flips that could rival an Olympic gymnast, my mind moved quickly from the…