Nine years ago today I embarked on a journey that would completely change my life. I was a scared, excited, nervous 20 year old heading across the Atlantic toward Italy, a place…

I never expected this part of motherhood. In the months it took leading up to my sweet daughter’s birth, I imagined so many scenarios. I imagined what she would look like, how…

As I mentioned in my previous post, 2015 had some pretty rough moments. I am prayerful that 2016 will be a hard year, too, so that I can continue to grow in…

This morning, I didn’t want my husband to go to work. I didn’t want him leaving the house, really, since there was still a murderer on the loose after a shooting spree…

Nine years ago today, I was walking across a stage in full graduation regalia, unsure of what life had in store for me. There were a lot of dramatic things happening in…

Job is one of those books of the Bible that I haven’t given the attention that it deserves. Last week, when wintry weather of doom was invading the majority of the southern…

These days, I’m really trying to keep track of the things that tempt me. Unless I know what kinds of things tend to creep toward the recesses of my heart, how can…

I don’t know what your 2014 was like. For some, it was the hardest year of their life, with trials and sickness and loss and temptation. For others, it was the best…

If you’re anything like me, then sometimes you’re guilty of not liking people or not getting along with people because of something they did to you or the way they came across to…

I love the Titus 2 principle! the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—that they admonish the young women…