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How do you pursue a relationship with God when you’re exhausted?

Over the last few posts in my series, Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith, I feel that I’ve done the best I can do to present theologically-sound, Scripturally-based truth about pursuing a relationship with God. My posts have been purposed and thought-out over months of planning, mulling, and meditating. What I have presented … [Read more…]
Face to Face: A Messy Tribute to the Place I First Met God

If you have ever been on my blog before, you probably know that I feel like I have a complicated “faith story.” (If you are new to my blog, you might want to start here.) After walking away from “fundamentalism” in my mid-twenties, I’m now in the process of letting God reconstruct my faith as … [Read more…]
Grow – my #oneword365 for 2016 {#growingrace2016}

The cursor blinks on this white blank space. My mind and heart know exactly what I want to write – in idea. But what words to start with? 2015 marked 10 years since 2005. Which may not be a big deal to you, but it is to me. In 2005 I turned 18. I graduated … [Read more…]
No Matter What, I Believe: On Broken Faith and Healing Birth

August 25, 2015 – 39 weeks, 6 days I had originally planned to title this post “Strong enough? Finding the balance between female empowerment and dependence on God.” And I’m going to talk about that, I promise. But I realize, at 1 day shy of 40 weeks up at 5:30AM having contractions, that I can’t … [Read more…]
Hopeless no longer
And now this hangs above the very spot where I prayed a prayer out of complete hopelessness.
Fearfully and wonderfully made?
Head on over to Wonderfully Made today read this post where I grapple with acceptance of myself and our family dynamic in this post, When you have a hard time believing that you’re wonderfully made.
“It’s Just Like His Great Love!”
I probably couldn’t write appropriately enough to express how grateful I am to our heavenly Father. He is more amazing than we give Him credit for, and I feel ashamed for every time we have ever doubted Him.
God
I feel the need to blog this morning, and I have no idea why. Right now I find myself entirely frustrated with life. I am in no mood to encourage anyone, but I guess God wants me to write this anyway. I was awoken shortly before seven this morning (after being up until after midnight … [Read more…]