I get it! Instagram often makes me feel ill. Whether it’s from the onslaught of bad news, over-edited and perfect photos, or just false self-love doctrine, Instagram is becoming harder and harder to stay on. (You’re not the only one feeling this!) Here’s two things to do: 1. Ask yourself: What is the QUANTITY of …
*not sponsored I’m an ABSOLUTE fall nerd. I didn’t used to be this way. I used to be a sweet summer child haha. But something happened when I went to college. Suddenly, the idea of coziness was EXACTLY what I needed. The leaves, the sweatshirts, the drinks . . . THE KING IS COMING Oh …
Two stories have always made me nervous: the story of Daniel in the lions’ den, and the story of his friends and the fiery furnace. As a kid, I just couldn’t understand how ANYONE could choose lions or fire. Yes, I wanted desperately to have that level of faith, but it just seemed unattainable. 1 …
(This essay was originally written for my personal Life in LA mailing list, and adapted for you guys! I have more on my heart since I wrote this.) Innocence is an often overlooked value. And, in modern-day America, it is a quickly fading value. The world laughs at it. The world sees it as something …
Yup. Things are . . . crazy. And, as a Christian, I always want to make sure I have a good testimony and I’m being a light. So what does it look like to be a light in our current political climate? While meditating on the topic, God immediately brought Micah 6:8 to my mind. …
Reposting this from August 2020 since it’s timely! Ack: THIS. If a pandemic wasn’t enough to knock my socks off, know we have stacked on top of it social unrest and various political movements. What we have, my friends, is a scary-high pancake stack of hatred, violence, and illogical beliefs, all drenched in a sticky …
I can tell you in a second what is “in” right now. Everyone wants to go to greenhouses and farmer markets and coffee houses and waffle houses. Everyone wears baggy sweaters and Sperrys in the winter, scrunchies and floral in the spring. It’s “in” to be conscious about what you’re eating, to go to the …
Whenever I see posts like this, I get a little wobbly. It’s mostly because there is a very delicate balance between observation and obsession when it comes to the end times. Lots of people are SCARED of Revelation, while others can’t get enough of it and dig down into the nitty gritty and try to …
Hey there, beloved! How’s your quarantine going? I wanted to chat about loneliness today. I’m an introvert, yet—yes—quarantine still gets me in a funk sometimes. I don’t go as stir crazy, perhaps, as an extrovert, but no one wants to be 100% alone! (P.S. I’m not ignoring you extroverts! I’ll be focusing on you next …
2 Corinthians 12:9 I was shocked. Actually, I was disgusted. There, in my Instagram feed, were the words “You are enough” with the reference 2 Corinthians 12:9. (I love seeing my peers sometimes with signs like this and then looking up what the verse actually says.) But this time? The paraphrase was straight-up blasphemous. Let’s …
