Dear Twenty-Year-Old Single Me, It’s November 14, 2012. You’re sitting in your dorm room, feeling pretty good about yourself right now. In your journal, you just wrote these words: “It is quite strange to think that if I fell in love now and was on my way to getting married, I would not accomplish the […]
Let me tell you a story: A girl comes home after a long day. She sets her things down, throws her hair up, and changes into comfy clothes in record time. Breathing a deep sigh of relief from taking off that chest cage called bra and changing out of those feet shackles called heels, she grabs her laptop and […]
In 2015 I went to ministry school and ended up living in a discipleship community that forever changed my life. Prior to experiencing Grace Place, my history has been pretty selfish, living off the cuff, not being super invested in friendship, church, and even myself and my relationship with God. I was pretty much flakey […]
Intentionality ɪˈntɛnʃ(ə)nalɪti/Submit noun The fact of being deliberate or purposive. PHILOSOPHY: the quality of mental states (e.g. thoughts, beliefs, desires, hopes) which consists in their being directed towards some object or state of affairs. This is probably one of my favorite core values I aim to live by. Intentionality. There is so very much to […]
“I will never leave you nor will I forsake you” – Hebrews 13:5 This is a scripture that the Lord had given me at a very young age. For years I have treasured this simple truth, and it was this scripture that I woke up to every morning since I was a child. It took […]
For a very long time this subject sent chills down my spine. Intimacy. With God. I have always been so scared to speak about this subject, because it always felt so far away and out of my reach. I mean what does it even look like? Do I have it? Well, I thought I did? […]
Lately I’ve been confronted with the thought of Godly men vs Godly boys. I have never really paid much attention to the difference between the two because they’re exactly the same, right? Wrong. Godly men vs Godly boys. Both of them have the word “Godly”, which means that to some extent they have the character […]
Rejection. The word sounds just as terrible as the experience. When I hear the word rejection my stomach flips upside down. Rejection is everywhere and evident in everything, but it is your mindset that will be the game changer. God took me on a journey of rejection, without me knowing that I will someday write about […]
“Even in the desert. Even in the dry. Even in the wilderness. He is.” This morning I am touching down at my favorite coffee shop in Kalispell, Colter Coffee. This place is almost like a second home to me. I literally visit this place on the daily. The staff are super friendly, they know my […]
“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.” Matthew 10:16 Our home is situated at the base of the hills where wildlife freely roams. In the heat of a Southern California summer it is not uncommon for insects and snakes to […]