On Being Truly Audacious {Ellen’s Picks Linkup}

My copy of Audacious, this month’s pick, has the spine a bit cracked and has underlining all through it. For real, this book looks used (and I’m pretty careful with my books, as a rule). When I was trying to think through what I was going to write about it, I considered just transcribing […]

Ellen’s Picks Community – Introducing Alana

Late last summer, I met up with a new friend – someone I had known at a distance for a number of years, but had never shared coffee in real life with – and shared a bit about this Ellen’s Picks God-sized dream. I had no idea how encouraged I’d be as I left […]

On Assumptions + Bathsheba {Ellen’s Picks Linkup}

Years ago, I did a study on the life of David. Friends, I was an indignant mess. For whatever reason, studying David made me flat-out angry.

Because, in my struggling towards holiness 20-something heart and mind, honestly? If David, “a man after God’s own heart”, was such a complete mess with continual missteps, there was […]

On Finding Beauty in 2016

Overall, 2015 hasn’t been that bad of a year in our house. In some ways, I felt like I got my groove back. Good things happened at work. Dad survived a surgery that he (apparently) wasn’t supposed to. We became a real family when we bought a van. My beloved started a new job. […]