When It Costs Everything You Have: Faith, Sacrifice, and New Beginnings

September 29, 2019.Reading time 10 minutes.

Tonight is the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Tomorrow also happens to be the day I start seminary. It’s a new season for me, a very significant one. And tonight, I realized this season needs to start with surrender. Everything is shifting around me. I just moved across the country to a […]

Learning to Be Weak

August 20, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

I have been learning the same lesson over and over the past several months, actually more like the past two years. The lesson is this: I am weak. At times I’ve felt intensely frustrated, stuck, even hopeless, wondering if this season will ever end. But what can I say? God is a thorough teacher. Not Okay […]

The Boldness to be Me

September 22, 2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

I used to think of my life purpose as a job. It was my job to be Christ to the world. It was my job to support, encourage, comfort, and edify those around me. But God didn’t just create me to do a job, God created me to be a person––a unique individual that no […]

Purpose & Potential: Living in Freedom

June 23, 2017.Reading time 12 minutes.

It is easy to think of destiny or calling as something that either limits us or puts unbearable pressure on us. But Christ paid a high price to set us free––free from sin, fear, shame, and death. He didn’t free us to make us slaves all over again. But so often we live just that way. As if we are still slaves.

Purpose & Potential: The In-Between

June 16, 2017.Reading time 11 minutes.

One my biggest struggles in regard to life purpose is the tension between what could be and what is. Dreams and desires God seemed to put on my heart remain out of reach. Potential I see in myself stays dormant, for years.

Purpose & Potential: Discerning Your Calling

June 8, 2017.Reading time 11 minutes.

When I was young, I avoided the term “calling.” I wasn’t sure I had one, and I wasn’t confident I would be able to correctly discern it if I did. I couldn’t relate to people who had a clear, concrete vision for their lives, who felt “called” to do something. To me, life was simply an open book waiting to be lived. The possibilities were endless.

Purpose & Potential: Caught up in the Millennial Race to Relevance

June 2, 2017.Reading time 13 minutes.

At the beginning of the year, I turned 30. While the actual day wasn’t super traumatic, the process of approaching 30, rounding the curve, then finding myself in a new decade was a bit of a slow-motion slap in the face.

Those Experiences that Change You: Trip to Indonesia

January 25, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

I came back from a short missions trip to Indonesia over a week ago, and I’m still realizing all the ways the trip changed me. I recognized some changes as they were happening: I could literally feel my heart shifting. But other changes I’m only recognizing now. The absence of weights that used to be present. The […]