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…
Dear Friends, Update on the last post: both skin biopsies came back clear so that’s super exciting and the countdown to donate blood continues. Less than a year left! Today I was reading John and ran across the first miracle Jesus performs. I so love this first miracle for many reasons but today the line…
Dear Friends, Easter has me all emotional this year. Granted it could be from the lack of sleep or the weird week I had, but it also has something to do with this being a weekend that annually is such a great reminder for me to pause, to reflect and to feel the emotions of…
Dear Sweet Girls, Tonight I get to hang with some of you at a girls’ event. I’m just so excited. There’s nothing quite like a room full of hyper teenage girls trying to figure out life together. Girly events like tonight are always a great mix of learning, laughing, feeling super awkward, and eating way…
My dear girls, You’ll always have a piece of my heart. I may not be in youth ministry anymore, and you were technically never “mine” but a piece of my heart will forever be occupied with believing in you, loving you and cheering you on to be the world changers you all have the power…
