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Okay, so it’s time to look back and look ahead. The holidays are in full swing, I’m five days into my first-ever sabbatical, all the magic of December is on the horizon and I’ve been having a lot of conversations about expectations lately. Mainly, the expectations we put on ourselves. Specifically, the expectations I put […]

If you were to ask me how I feel about being single, nine times out of ten, I would tell you I feel pretty content. Not perfectly content, but surprisingly content, considering my plan was always to get married at 22- just like Annie Banks-MacKenzie. I feel settled in singleness most days – sure, steady, […]

Okay, so faith is the conviction of things not seen. Last week after turning in my final paper of the summer, I flew to California with some of my dearest friends. Between the seven of us, there are nine children and one on the way, several full and part-time jobs, two in-process seminary degrees, and […]

Okay, so pretend for a second that the Bible was an Instagram feed. A bright, shiny highlight reel of each person’s triumphs. It is the Bible after all, so the moments of triumph would be displays of faithfulness, obedience, courage, and conviction. People delighting in God and their circumstances, overflowing with gratitude. Can you see […]

Learning to love moving my body. I have never been one to enjoy working out. For most of my life, it’s been a painful, shameful, fruitless activity. In the seventh grade, a doctor informed me I had to stop playing sports and avoid high-impact activity due to pain in my feet that was causing me […]

Okay, so sanctification is slow. I have never been one to enjoy working out. For most of my life, it’s been a painful, shameful, fruitless activity. In the seventh grade, a doctor informed me I had to stop playing sports and avoid high-impact activity due to pain in my feet that was causing me to […]