Category Stuff About Me

I read…a lot. Some say I read too much but I refuse to let that kind of negativity into my life. The books I read vary in genre, everything from fiction to spiritual and all things in between. My love…

God never ceases to amaze me, filling me with wonder and awe every time I interact with Him. From surprising me with His love when I expect His wrath, to answering the questions I yell at Him using the words…

In a moment, everything changed. With one message from a friend, I became deeply and utterly disturbed, burdened, and broken as I learned that a woman I had briefly met in the bars of Thailand had been brutally murdered. I…

What happens when protecting yourself doesn’t work out the way you thought it would? What happens when what you thought was a safe haven becomes your prison? There are hurts that cause a winter to the soul, a coating of…

I’m going to be really honest right now. I don’t want to hear about Jesus anymore. I am really tired of hearing about what this God who lives inside me is like. We talk about Jesus like He’s up in…

I’m looking at him like he is crazy. Honestly, I hardly know him so he might be crazy, but I am in a foreign country with him, and several others, and I have to believe that he isn’t crazy. I…

I didn’t mean to scare it, really. I was walking into the kitchen and, as is my custom, I turned on the light (you never know what creatures you might find when that light comes on, so best to do…

Serving God is painful. I know, we shy away from saying stuff like that, people don’t like to hear it but guess what! Jesus said it Himself so really, I’m just repeating what He said. It is painful but not…

Recently, I was listening to a class online taught by Sion Alford of Gateway Church. He was talking about our journeys as Christians, about the promises of God vs. the will of God. He said something that shocked me, really.…