Blog: Personal Reflections, Challenges, and Projects.
30 Days of Photos
Hoping to push my photography skills to the next level, I challenged myself to take a least one photo a day for the entire month of April. Now that I’ve completed my challenge, I realize that it’s changed the very way I look at the world.
What If I’m Too Tall
What marrying a man a couple inches shorter that taught me about loving my height and loving myself.
COVIDaversary
It’s been a year of this pandemic, and as the virus loses is grip on our world, I find myself learning to hope and remember the power of early spring once more.
Lent, the Pandemic, and a Resurrection Hope
With Lent about to started, I’ve realized how life under COVID 19, awaiting the world restored by the vaccine reminds me about how we await a world fully restored in resurrection.
Love & War & Peace
After two years of hearing my husband sing the praises of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, I decided to read it for myself and was blown away. I walked away from the novel understanding and appreciating our love, and my husband himself, all the more.
And Heaven and Nature Sing
There’s no time of year I love so much as Christmas, when no matter where I look, I see all of creation celebrating the birth of a Savior.
8 Months of Thankfulness
8 months in working from home and 9 days away from Thanksgiving, I’ve been thinking about all the things in my life that I’ve been thankful for during this time. Most of all, I’ve been reflecting on letting the good things in life, not the difficult, define this strange time.
Hoping in America the Beautiful
Like many of you, I hoped a little too hard in a Biden landslide to cure this nation, but the more I reflect, the more I realize that it is up to us to finally create a truly beautiful America.
Mutual Joy & Perfect Love
It’s been 50 days of marriage, and over these 50 days I’ve truly come to appreciate how our love and life together is perfected by and through the divine love of Christ.
A Love Letter to American Politics
What the award winning series West Wing, and Michelle Obama, have taught me about politics and the kind of country I want America to be.
From Where Is My Help To Come?
A few thoughts on resurrection, reconciliation, and restoration, in our own personal lives, and in the world.
Confessions of a Pastor’s Kid
Recently I was reminded how deeply my identity as a PK runs, so I thought I share a few thoughts on what growing up in a ministry family really looks like, particularly in the time of COVID.
When the Dust Settles
The last few months have revealed much about my life and the world. It’s shown where things are strong and where things are weak, and it’s made me ask myself who I want to be and how I want to change.
For Better, For Worse
COVID-19 has changed a few things about our wedding. Read more to hear what we’re doing about it and how we feel about it.
Normal Life
I thought I knew what normal meant, until COVID19 hit. Then I realized that while the meaning of ‘normal’ can change, there are somethings that remain constant, no matter the storm.
The Timeless Appeal of Jane Austen
Jane Austen’s works have captivated readers for generations, and remind me that no matter how much the world changes, the most important elements of life remain.
Song For My Mother
Happy Mothers’ Day, Mom. Thank you for all you’ve given me and all your love.