Today as I drove home from lunch with my husband and daughter I received a text message that Kobe Bryant had tragically died. As I relayed the information to my husband he stated, "No he didn't. I saw him yesterday" and after verifying for himself he said, "I think I'm going to throw up". I [...]
When the Pastors Wife is Depressed
Yesterday while scrolling through social media I was met with the sudden and heartbreaking news that Jarrid Wilson, a pastor, husband, father, and brother in Christ, ended his life. I have followed him on social media for a few years and I have seen all that he has done to be an advocate for mental [...]
But My Eyes Are On You
This past week I decided I would take a break from social media in order to refocus my heart. Over the past two years my heart has been on a roller coaster ride that I often just wanted to get off of and call a timeout. However, life does not work that way so I [...]
Walls
I found this poem that I wrote in College during a literature class. I'm obviously not an actual poet, but I was looking back at this and I realized the last time I viewed it was a month before my dad died. In the middle of the night, You hear me. My cry for mercy [...]
When “Merry” Doesn’t Describe Your Christmas.
I'm going to be very transparent with you all. I am 100% dreading Christmas. I used to be very apathetic towards Christmas, and then grew quite fond of this holiday, but when you experience loss it changes everything. As someone that has struggled with depression and anxiety for a good bit of my life, I [...]
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
I never knew that you could live the best year and the worst year all in the same year. 2017 was by far the worst year of my life, but it was also a very good year. My mind has tried to rationalize how that is possible, but it just floods my heart with so [...]
Take the World, but give me Jesus … or take the things I’m not attached to and give me Jesus.
I wish I could put into words exactly what the last two months of my life have been like, but honestly I am not sure that there are words to describe it. Words like, devastated, depressed, forgotten, and overwhelmed, don't seem to be strong enough words. I remind myself regularly that I am not the [...]
Why is the local church important?
Over the next few paragraphs I am going to explain why the local church is important to me. This will not be some theologically deep article where I use words that are big to make me seem more educated on the matter. But this is going to be an honest article about why I believe [...]
I’m not, but He is.
So for the past two weeks I have heard it repeated “you are so strong”. Well I want to clarify something for you all. I am not strong. I wake up some mornings unable to rationalize that I can not call my dad just to chat. Somedays I wake up and I am alright until [...]
Dear teenage girls, I’ve been there, I understand.
I have started to write this blog around five times, but every time I sit down to write something pricks my spirit and I end up not writing about what I had originally intended. So today my heart is aching for my teenage girls. I started leading the girls Summer Bible Study this past Wednesday, [...]
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