Three Lessons from 2020

“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of

Be Here Now

"A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord determines his steps." - Proverbs 16:9 Our adventure in Albuquerque turned out to be shorter than expected. I won't be sharing the details of what went down that caused us to leave, but I do feel compelled to kick off my new decade sharing this: We

2019 Posts on Albuquerque Moms Blog

My last few months in Albuquerque, I had the honor of participating as a contributor for Albuquerque Moms Blog. It was a joy to be able to serve on a team filled with women empowering women, and flex my writing skills while at it! Hope you enjoy my contributions, linked below. My Introduction How To:

The Secret to Contentment

Life has a way of getting at you, doesn't it? You dream of your life to turn out a certain way but it doesn't pan out accordingly. Your children get sick when you had a busy week scheduled so you have to cancel all your plans. People fail you and vice versa; relationships are hard

A Season of Stillness

2018. Post 48/100. I don't think I'm going to make it to 100 this year. Lol. And I'm okay with that. Word vomiting Blogging took a bit of a back burner in this last quarter for reasons I don't regret: the decision to move, the actual move, and finishing well at Living Water Church & Pure

PDX -> ABQ November 2018

2018. Post 47/100. You can see Chad's point of view (and more general context) here. Albuquerque, New Mexico. That's a city that wasn't on my radar, let alone on my list of top 10 places to move our family to for the long haul. It's funny, though, when I hear myself saying out loud, "That was

Time with Jesus with #3under3

2018. Post 46/100. I remember life before kids. Vaguely. It's more of a distant, foggy dream, but I do remember it. I also remember having friends with young kids and thinking, "No excuses!" when they would give me reasons for why they're not at church on time, not in the word of God, not in

Teaching My Toddler About Jesus

2018. Post 45/100. Toddlers are little sponges. Toddlers also don't understand logic or reasoning. So talking to my toddler (M) about Jesus gets interesting. A mom in my virtual mama community (thank you, Facebook) posted about tips/tricks/resources/recommendations for talking to her toddler about all things relating to faith. After typing up a lengthy response, I

Thirty

2018. Post 44/100. Today I turned 30 years old. Chad took the day off so that I could spend the day doing whatever I wanted. He surprised me with the most thoughtful booklet filled with sweet, encouraging, and funny things and a sweet gift to edit photos of our kids. He got me coffee, cleaned

Adoption Series: Costs

2018. Post 43/100.   People don't like talking about finances surrounding adoption because it's highly personal and varies pretty significantly from case to case. If you're hoping for a dollar-by-dollar breakdown of how much working capital you'll need to fund your potential adoption, you don't have to read further... because I just don't know. What