For as long as I can remember I have struggled with the fear of not measuring up. I remember being a little girl and often feeling like there was something about me that was lacking. Deep down I felt like I wasn’t good enough. This feeling of not being enough produced a lot of insecurity, […]
I despise it when everyone keeps telling me – time heals. It’s been months and it certainly isn’t the case and as a result, I feel like a fraud, a ticking time bomb of brokenness. I’ve realised that working through my pain is a journey that leads me to mountain tops and deep valleys. Moments […]
When you read God’s word, you will notice that God refers to us as His bride on several occasions. From the beginning of time, God has set out for us to be in a covenant with Him, where we are pursued by Him as our Bridegroom, and we pursue Him as His Bride. He says […]
Growing up a Christian, I learned to believe one thing about marriage: A good wife submits to keep her husband happy, and if the marriage falls apart it is due to a failure on the woman’s part. It’s not that anyone ever blatantly said it in those words, but it was easy to pick up […]
I always worship before I write. It’s just a thing that I do to align my heart with God’s heart and to really sit down and listen to what He has to say. As I was praying this morning I asked God to show me what to write and how to articulate my words. I […]
To a certain degree my faith story is a fairly common one: I was raised going to church multiple times a week, walked away from my faith during high school and college, and eventually returned as an adult. I stopped identifying as a Christian in my youth largely because of negative life events that I […]
“Can you believe she had a baby three months ago?” The first time I heard this “compliment,” I didn’t know how to take it. I wasn’t back at my pre-pregnancy weight. I hadn’t really figured out when to squeeze in workouts with a full-time job and an infant. Besides, when I got off work at […]
I spent the last moments of my 34th birthday lying on the floor of my youngest daughter’s nursery. Over the last hour, I’d pat my 15-month-old’s back as she dozed off to sleep, attempted to sneak off only to hear her cry, no scream, for me to come back and repeat the process. So at […]
Sometimes, we face seasons that make us feel miserable and discouraged. We experience seasons where we don’t know if God is in the process of grooming us, or whether He has left us. Seasons where the challenges seem impossible and unreal. It is in these difficult seasons in which God grooms, stretches and molds us. […]
“Monsters are real and ghosts are too. They live inside us. And sometimes…they win.” -Stephen King You’re driving down the highway headed home after work. Music is playing in the background but you can barely hear it—sounds fade to distant noise, as you slowly get lost in thought. Suddenly you look over, and before you […]