JESUS – WRITING – PHOTOGRAPHY
I originally wrote this as a verbally-delivered devotional piece, but I really wanted to share it here. There is something amazing to me about our absence of trust. Although, it is often reasoned, from personal experiences and generalized ideas from those moments of breached security. Valid reasoning, nonetheless, because people tend to run in similar…
“At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved.” - Daniel 9:23 (ESV) - I have been thinking about the words “greatly loved” for the past two days utterly stunned by how loaded the term is. C.S. Lewis…
I would really love if someone could explain, in an incredibly simple way, why it is so hard to trust God when I have seen His faithfulness over and over again. He is Healer. He is Father. He is Love. He is Peace. He is Good. He is Trust. I always find it funny when…
I have spent a lot of time recently wondering what the source of my discontentment and lack of motivation is. My mind wanders too quickly for me to narrowly focus on anything, especially that which seems to be most important, that which requires my most narrow of focuses. I wander to the plotlines of television…
I have always been head-over-heels IN LOVE with Christmas. There is this incomparable wonder that encompasses this time of the year—but, it’s really hard when that isn’t captured. This season is really rough for a lot of people—depression is real, loss is real, anxiety, dissociation, horrible family situations, they are all super real and super…
Body image issues are like this giant, unspoken (sometimes spoken), looming presence of insecurity that towers over nearly (if not all of) everyone. We are plagued in thought and appearance. Suffering the task of painting on faces and imminent self-disapproval that engages our minds to walk in insecurity without any relief… like, ever, it seems.…
You are valuable. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. You are broken, beautiful, perfectly messy, and absolutely astonishing in every little thing because you have been crafted in the Creator’s flawless hands. A fabulous arrangement of every colorful burst of personality quirks. You are the most lovely collection of everything you once believed yourself to…
I have read a thousand verses and sung a thousand songs; prayed a thousand prayers and heard a thousand words… Yet here I sit, constantly wondering about God and His goodness—I’ve realized my greatest points of question have come at times when I am not being consistent or intentional in pursuing Him with my time.…
I love acting. In fact, it’s one of my favorite things. I’m very good at it. I love writing façades for people to take on, and I love taking them on myself. It’s really quite fun. But you know where it becomes not fun? I’m sure you see where this is going—in my actual life.…
Our lives are configured around story. There’s this perfect part of us that desires greater glory – wrapped in the DNA Heaven printed on our souls, longing for this Greater Place and story to unfold. Yes, this is the tension our minds have found – a place of belonging but not yet there because this…
