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January 3, 2026
I used to scroll my phone for twenty minutes before getting out of bed. Then one Monday I accidentally opened my Bible app first. That small accident changed my entire year.
Read more →January 7, 2026
My therapist told me to rest more. My pastor told me to rest more. I ignored both of them for two years. Then I burned out so completely that I had no choice but to stop — and what I found in the stillness shocked me.
Read more →January 11, 2026
The elder who I most respected said something cruel about my family at a leadership meeting. I found out through a mutual friend. That was three years ago. Here's what happened next.
Read more →January 15, 2026
Our first year with a newborn nearly wrecked us. We had three conversations a day: Have you eaten? Did he nap? Where is the Tylenol? Then our pastor said something at a conference that stopped us cold.
Read more →January 19, 2026
I started tithing at thirty-two, mostly out of obligation. I kept expecting to feel broke. Instead, I felt free. It took me years to understand why.
Read more →January 23, 2026
My husband came to faith seven years after I did. Those seven years were the most spiritually stretching of my life — and not in ways I expected.
Read more →January 27, 2026
For years I thought my anxiety was a faith problem. If I just prayed more, trusted more, memorized more Scripture, it would lift. It didn't. And the shame of that silence nearly cost me everything.
Read more →January 31, 2026
I hit a wall around year three of daily Bible reading. The words felt familiar but flat. Like re-reading a novel you've memorized — technically present but no longer surprising. Then a seminary professor told me one thing that changed everything.
Read more →February 4, 2026
My friend hosts dinner parties in a 600-square-foot apartment with mismatched dishes and one working burner. They are the best dinner parties I've ever attended. I finally asked her secret.
Read more →February 8, 2026
My mother died eleven days before Easter. That year, the resurrection wasn't a doctrine to me — it was a rope I was holding with both hands over a very long drop.
Read more →February 12, 2026
My ten-year-old came home from school and announced that his friend said Christians are dumb. I wanted to fix it immediately. Then I realized fixing it wasn't my job — equipping him was.
Read more →February 16, 2026
I tracked my screen time for one week before trying to change it. The number was seven hours and twenty-two minutes per day. I thought I used my phone a lot. I had no idea.
Read more →February 20, 2026
I spent three years waiting for a burning-bush moment to tell me what to do with my life. It never came. What came instead was slower and more reliable.
Read more →February 24, 2026
There is a kind of guilt that beats you down and a kind of sorrow that actually changes you. I confused the two for years, which is part of why I kept repeating the same mistakes.
Read more →February 28, 2026
I have a lot of acquaintances at church. Friends — the kind who know the real stuff and show up anyway — those have been harder to find than I expected.
Read more →March 4, 2026
I am a terrible waiter. In every sense of the word. I hate waiting in lines, I hate waiting for results, and I am not skilled at the spiritual practice of waiting on God. Advent ruined me, in the best way.
Read more →March 8, 2026
I prayed 'your will be done' for years without meaning it. I meant 'your will, as long as it aligns with my plan.' Then I faced a situation where my plan was completely unavailable, and I had to find out what I actually believed.
Read more →March 12, 2026
I upgraded my car the same week I told my daughter we couldn't afford her school trip. That contradiction sat in my chest like a stone for months. It was the beginning of a reckoning.
Read more →March 16, 2026
There was a six-month stretch where prayer felt completely one-directional. I talked. Nothing came back. Not silence exactly — more like static. I kept going anyway, and I want to tell you why.
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