Learning Freedom: Building Emotional Boundaries

September 6, 2023.Reading time 12 minutes.

We need relational connection. But how we connect matters. A major way I’ve grown in freedom this past year is in building better emotional boundaries.

Spiritual Abuse: My Healing Journey

January 27, 2023.Reading time 19 minutes.

My journey of healing from spiritual abuse is still ongoing. It has been long, slow, and winding. Understanding what happened in my mind has only been part of the journey.

Failing at Love and Being Overwhelmed by Greater Love

November 24, 2017.Reading time 9 minutes.

I’ve been thinking a lot about love lately. Not romance, but the kind of love we are all supposed to have for one another. Sacrificial love. Neighborly love. Compassionate love. Strangely, at the very same time I’ve been pondering the importance of love, I have simultaneously been dismissing my own need for it. What I […]

Rediscovering the Joy of Serving: Overcoming my Disillusionment

November 9, 2017.Reading time 12 minutes.

Several months ago, I shared about my struggles with obligation as a good Christian girl. I wrote, “Obligation killed my joy.” In the same post, I shared that God had promised to take me deeper into the JOY of serving. He has. Here is some of my journey and what I’ve learned. Disillusionment I loved […]

Overly Cautious: How I’m Convincing Myself to Take More Risks

February 9, 2017.Reading time 9 minutes.

I am a fairly cautious person. For good reason––the world is an unpredictable place. You never know what could happen. (Someone could not return your hello…! Or the new menu item you order could turn out to be terrible! Or much, much worse things could happen that I’d rather not even think about.) But despite […]

Teacher Life: The Girl Who Doesn’t Talk

February 4, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

I’m sure every teacher runs into their fair share of shy students over the years. Students who are hesitant to raise their hand. Kids who speak softly no matter how enthusiastically you encourage them to be emotive. I was one of those students way back when. But I currently have one student who never talks. Ever. And I’m […]

Why I’m Thankful for My Mistakes

August 10, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

I used to be deathly afraid of making mistakes. Not only as a straight-A student, not only as a classical pianist, but also as a person. I had this ideal of who I was supposed to be and found the idea of slipping outside of those imagined lines unbearable. It has taken a lot to learn to accept the hot […]

Enjoying the last bits of sunshine together

June 23, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

I enjoyed the last rays of the summer solstice in the company of my Kentucky-born grandfather. He was in America sitting outside by my grandmother’s grave, while I was in Korea sitting inside at my desk, but through the amazing technology of FaceTime, we were together.