- Family, Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Recovering Perfectionist, Redemption Stories, Travel
Healed Wounds {Grandma’s Funeral & My Trip to My Ohio Hometown}
This is the moment everything up til this moment formed into this realization of healing. Because not once during the last few days had I been triggered. Not one hymn. Not one shudder…
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Compost piles, faith deconstruction, and Joshua Harris
Maybe you have looked up to people like Rachel Held Evans and Joshua Harris. I know that I did. Maybe their deconstruction stories have shaken your faith. Maybe you wonder if faith deconstruction is for…
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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…
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Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
A few weeks ago a fellow faith blogger asked me to write a guest blog for her some time about my faith journey. “I’m particularly interested in your journey to finding Jesus…how grace has…
- Ezra, Messy Faith, Motherhood, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Redemption Stories, Special Needs Parenting
Easter Grace: how God shows up in jelly beans and covers my mistakes
But that's where God's grace steps in. Because God doesn't need us to bring our A game. He just needs us to show up. Sometimes, He shows up in jelly beans. Sometimes, that…
- Beauty in the Mess, Ezra, Family, Fatherhood, Independence Day, Little Brother, Military and Veteran Life, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Redemption Stories, Special Needs Parenting, Travel
What America Means to this Veteran’s Family
As I write this, I am in the backseat of our minivan on the way home from our family’s 4th of July Summer vacation. For now, everyone is behaving. My heart is full,…
- Hope: One Word for 2015, Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Pregnancy & Birth, Redemption Stories
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…
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Redemption Stories: A Time of Need and the Friendship I Gained
Christmastime last year was a very difficult one for me. My husband was working a low-end temporary job making $15 an hour – with no time off for the holidays (not even Thanksgiving…
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Redemption Stories {A New Blog Series}
I think that there's still a way to keep telling my story. To keep sharing openly and vulnerably. To shift focus more onto the beauty and still honor others in the telling.
