Dear Friends, I’m halfway through the spending freeze and it’s been both easier than I thought and harder than I thought. Event week was a daily fight when it came to what was permissible and what was not. Some rules got bent, some got followed. But honestly at the end of it, I just at…
Dear Friends, I’m 10 days into my first month of “7” – if you aren’t sure what it is go google Jen Hatmaker 7 and prepare to feel all the feels and start asking yourself big questions about the way you send your time and resources. This month I’m on a spending freeze. I can…
Dear Friends, Today was day 1 of the 7 ruined my life: Spending Freeze. I woke up, looked at my phone, saw it was the 1st and thought “YES!!! That planner I’ve been dreaming of pre-orders today” to quickly remember that pre-orders require money that I’m not spending this month. Oh well. If it’s there…
Dear Friends, I read this book over vacation called “7” by Jen Hatmaker. And it basically ruined my life…in the best way ever, but still. The chapters of that book made me ask really hard, uncomfortable questions. It made me question the way I approach life, the way I approach my ministry and the way…
Dear friends, I’m fully out of vacation mode after a full day back in the office. I love my job. I love that I come home to projects that are on the board and plates spinning that help people experience hope. I also love that I come back from vacation questioning every part of…
Dear To Do List, You will not hustle me. Nope. Not having it. You may be long, you may be daunting, you may include a whole section labeled “Things I have no clue about” but….you will not hustle me. See, I hustle you. You don’t own me, I own you. I choose to say yes…
Dear Friends, Thank you! So many of you prayed for, supported and cheered our team on as we travelled to Ethiopia! It was just a short 2 weeks ago that we landed back in the US. There are so many stories to tell, pictures to share, lessons to treasures, faces to pray for, but I…
Dear Friends, Lately I’ve been praying the same prayer over and over again “Lord quiet my mind so I can hear you speak.” It’s been a hard prayer for me honestly because… 1. It requires me to be quiet, create quiet and take myself off the throne of my mind 2. What if the answers…
Dear Friends, There will come a time in your life when you feel like you are not enough. There are two things I’m fairly confident of… 1. You are not enough 2. You belong to a God who is We get so offended by this idea that we “are not enough” but here’s the reality.…
Dear College Graduate, “You made it! Congratulations!” Over the next couple of weeks you’re going to receive countless cards of this nature. Telling you, that in some sense of adulthood you have arrived. But it doesn’t always feel like that. Sometimes walking that stage will feel more like being thrown out to wolves than accomplishing…
