This is a repost from the archives. It was originally published in December of 2015, but every word rings true today. Write your prayers down. In a journal, on a piece of computer paper, in the margins of your Bible, on a sticky note, across a chalkboard, in your notes app. Write down what’s making your [Continue Reading…]
Why My Approach To Food Is So Relaxed
This is a repost from the archives; it was originally posted in May of 2016. I have literally spent hours writing this blog post, revising it, rereading it, rewording it, etc. My goal here is to help people who are like me find freedom from obsessing over food in an unhealthy way, not to cast [Continue Reading…]
14 Natural and Effective Ways to Combat Anxiety
This is a repost from the archives; it was originally published in March of 2015 and is updated. This post contains affiliate links. If you’re going through a time where you’re experiencing anxiety, here are some natural and effective ways to manage it, according to me. Clearly, I’m not a doctor. If your anxiety is seriously [Continue Reading…]
When the Dailies are Wearing You Out
This is a repost from the archives. It was originally posted in January of 2016. Sometimes, the dailies wear me right out. You know, the laundry and the cooking and the cleaning and the dog and the dishes and the bed-making and the I-just-washed-the-floor-yesterday-how-is-it-already-dirty-again? All the little things that are never, ever done. Because you can [Continue Reading…]
Deeply Wounded and Deeply Effective
This is a repost from the archives. This post was originally published in March of 2016; it is one of my favorite posts of the past four years of blogging. We’re all wounded. We can hide behind staged photos and plastered smiles, but we all live with real hurt. We all have aches and bruises [Continue Reading…]
Practical Ways To Practice Valuing Others
Assuming you haven’t been living under a rock, you know that our world is really hurting right now. Scary, heart-breaking news has been coming out with a frequency that makes me shudder. All this pain has continually shattered my heart–it’s an awful realization that there are many people who truly don’t value human life or see [Continue Reading…]
Keep Your Friends Who Don’t Tell You What You Want To Hear
If there’s one thing I know for certain, it’s that friendship is a precious gift. I don’t collect friends; I maintain just a few close, intimate friendships. I prefer quality and depth to quantity with regards to my close friends. I always have. So much is important in a real friendship: authenticity, humor, vulnerability, kindness, generosity, love, [Continue Reading…]
The Everyday Miraculous
Because everything is so airbrushed and sparkly and “perfect” in the world and media today, I think we’ve lost sight of the everyday miracles. It seems like everything except grand, expensive gestures, and picture-perfect moments, and Pinterest-worthy backgrounds are lost and forgotten. But lately, I’ve been trying to notice and appreciate the everyday miraculous. Falling asleep in Riley’s [Continue Reading…]
6 Ways To “Create Sunshine” When You’re Having a Bad Day
It’s been intensely thunderstorming around the clock for the past four days. Being someone who loves the rain, I was thrilled when I first heard the weather forecast. But now that I’ve reset all of our clocks over and over after power surges, dried off a muddy, wet dog dozens of times, and spent at least a [Continue Reading…]
There Isn’t a One-Size-Fits-All Calling
I have the privilege of speaking at a Christian college women’s retreat this weekend, and as I’ve prepared, I’ve been thinking a lot about how different my actual reality turned out in comparison to the future I had planned for myself as a college student. I thought I’d graduate (check), find a job (check), move [Continue Reading…]
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