A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the harsh reality of knowing not everyone you minister to or pray for will be saved right away where you can see it or sometimes even at all. I learned this at a pretty young age and shared my story of coming to terms and making peace with that and the hope God provides nevertheless. Near the end of that[...]
I am blown away, quite delighted, and yet mostly unsurprised by an exciting trend on my blog: according to several of my analytics platforms, my most popular post over the last few months has been my post on waiting for your future spouse. I'm excited about this because one of my areas of passion is relationships, specifically romantic r[...]
Hi everyone! Welcome back to a regular post! If you've been following my stories on Facebook or Instagram, you'll know that roughly every week, I've been checking in and asking if you have any questions for me about anything related to my life or blog or whatever it may be or if you have any prayer requests—I seriously do love to know[...]
I have several Christian movies that inspire me, but one that I could watch constantly is Courageous from the Kendrick Brothers. They actually just re-released the movie last fall, calling it Courageous Legacy—it's still the same, but they added some content and it's edited better. My roommate at the time and I went to see it twice in[...]
It's amazing how easy it is to get weighed down in all the wrong things. It's not anything new, either, so I won't harp on it, but I notice that people continually make life harder for themselves than it needs to be. We don't like the outcomes we get, but half the time we're the ones contributing to them. I want to talk about some of[...]
It's fitting to be coming out of my blogging hiatus with a post on distractions since that's exactly what my college transition has felt like: one distraction after another. That hasn't been all bad, but in many ways I feel like I've had to learn how to live all over again. That probably sounds more dramatic than it actually is; all thin[...]
One of the beauties of writing I can't stop thanking God for is remembering and tracking growth, progress, and development in my life. That's why I journal so religiously; I know I will appreciate it down the line. I have been blogging since I was 11 years old, and it's been such a gift for me to go back and see how I thought at earlier[...]
If there's one thing I hope anyone can take away from any part of my blog, it's this. I want it to be obvious that my faith isn't just a part of my life but THE center of my life, what my entire life revolves around. And I hope that I can be seen as someone who makes wise decisions out of that. Since basically everything on my blog t[...]
Almost a year ago, my mom and grandparents and I traveled to Sioux Falls together for an appointment for them. We were tagging along to help them with it all, and it was a gloomy sort of day where we suspected to run into some rain. We hoped to beat a storm that was brewing on the way home but instead got stuck right in the middle of it.[...]