It’s the night before what would have been grandmother’s 88th birthday. I have a whole day planned for tomorrow to celebrate her– April 9th will now always be a day that I eat chinese food and go see a movie…

This past week was the hardest I have ever had to walk through in my 32 short years of life. I am not unfamiliar with loss and grief. I feel as though I have been to a lot of hospitals…

Back on the blog because it’s been awhile!  I moved to Colorado, as you probably know. It has been an interesting few months of learning to live in the tension of grief and joy. Giving up a good thing to…

“He has told you, O Man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?” Micah 6:8  Hot topics.  These aren’t the days to…

Luke 8.  The disciples get in a boat with Jesus to go to the other side of the lake. A storm comes. They freak out. Jesus asks “where is your faith?” He calms it and they end up on the…

I am a runner.  Always have been.  I love to push myself more than I think I can go.  I love to put in headphones, turn my music up loud enough to where I can’t hear my breathing and run…

This past week hasn’t gone how any of us have expected but most of the time God does things that are out of our league. His thoughts are higher than ours. His ways are higher than ours. We’ve got over…

Choices.  One of the things that I have learned over the last few years is that we all have them. That yes, we follow Jesus and sometimes the Lord tells us exactly where to go but that most times He…

Grief.  Celebration.  They feel like two very opposite things.  Yet I am learning that I can hold them both at the same time.  I turn 30 this week and I have been fine, even excited about it until this morning.…