Blog: Personal Reflections, Challenges, and Projects.
A Little Beauty Everyday
Over the last several months, I’ve spruced up the kitchen with bouquets of fresh flowers. When my husband asked me just what I love so much about flowers, I had to stop and think what it is about beauty that captures me so.
Create the Fairytale
Last winter I stumbled down the Instagram rabbit hole of cottagecore, and I haven’t looked back since. In the desire to romanticize life, with an appreciation for the natural world, sustainable fashion, and fresh bread, I found an affirmation of exactly who I am, and have always been.
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.
For the Love of Books
In honor of World Book Day, I reflected on the role our shared love of literature has played in my husband’s and my relationship, and how reading the same books and seeing the same story differently through the other’s eyes has brought us closer to the stories, and each other.
What If I’m Too Tall
What marrying a man a couple inches shorter that taught me about loving my height and loving myself.
How Can I Keep From Singing?
I’ve been singing for most of my life, but recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the power of music and the woman who trained me. I’ve come to truly appreciate the beauty and power of music to both transcend the hardships of life, while simultaneously speaking into them.
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.
In Defense of Social Media
Social media feels like a near constant presence in modern life. The urge to scroll through updates and aesthetically pleasing photos is hard to resist. At the same time, social also provides windows into worlds far beyond those of our daily lives. It keeps us connected to the people we love but cannot see in person, at least for a while. For all it’s negatives, it might just be what we need right now.
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.
My Top 10 Reads of 2020
With the year at it’s end, I wanted to share the 10 best books I read this year. Its a smattering of fiction and nonfiction, and each one is fantastic.
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.
Believe the Fairytale
Fairytales might look like children’s stories, but they are so much more than that; they point to certain, deep truths about the world, least of which is the very real existence of true love.
Running into Tomorrow
Like most runners, I’ve had some pretty spectacular falls. As painful as these falls have been, they’ve been powerful reminders of just why running is such an important part of my life.
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.