Christmas is all about me. For so many years, that’s how i approached the most sacred season of the year. I’d have in my mind a certain way i expected things to be and how I expected people to act. I expected to feel a certain way. i expected that my family dynamics — often messy and chaotic the rest… View Post
What little girl doesn’t dream of being a princess? i certainly did. A bit of a nerd growing up (who endured her fair share of the ridicule that went with it), i fantasized about being transformed into the beautiful Cinderella. In 2017, God began to show this wannabe princess that she was royalty all along. (Even when the bad hair, braces… View Post
It’s been a tough few months. Traumatic. That’s how i’d describe it. One traumatic event after another. Last week, i lost my sweet father. i’d like to share with you the words i spoke at his “Celebration of Life” service yesterday: My father was a simple man. That word “simple” can often be interpreted as unremarkable or ordinary. However, i… View Post
After years of flavorless, restrictive eating, my tastebuds had finally been set free. But this amazing liberation didn’t begin in my mouth. It began in my mind. God had pulled me away from so many of the things that had been cluttering my brain and heart. Social media, non-stop news cycles, busyness … even ministry. As the chaos in my mind… View Post
Eating was a chore. It had been for as long as i could remember. Any pleasure that food brought me had drained away years ago. Autoimmune disease had turned food into the enemy. Even harmless substances and healthy, nourishing foods can be increasingly targeted by the body as foreign invaders. This puts the body in a hyper-reactive, fight-or-flight mode all the time,… View Post