Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Christian Life
Gratitude and contentment often get confused, particularly with Christians. I thin that’s a problem because I hate the concept of contentment in the Christian/church world. I hate it because I don’t think the way we talk about it is accurate. Generally, contentment is presented like this: you should be okay with your life no matter what happens. If you can …
Christian Life
Let’s be real. Gratitude can be hard. Sometimes you look at your life and there doesn’t seem to be much to be grateful for. I’ve been there. As I mentioned in a prior blog post, when I was single, I had a hard time with gratitude. My Story of Ingratitude The Bad News I always had expected to get married …
Christian Life, Spiritual Disciplines
November is here my friends! That means that Thanksgiving is just around the corner. As a kid, I was always a big fan of Thanksgiving. It meant I got to see my family and my mom and aunt would start asking me about what I wanted for Christmas. It was a family tradition that my mom and aunt would go …
Christian Life, Theology
I’ve received some great gifts over the years. When I turned six, I got a pair of pink roller blades, which I was super excited about. They came complete with a pink helmet and pink knee, elbow, and wrist pads. That was also the year I had my first sleepover birthday party, complete with pizza and ice cream cake, which …
Life Rhythms
On Friday, I turned 30. I am now officially thirty, flirty, and thriving. Well, I’m at least thirty and still flirty with my husband. Sometimes I wonder about the thriving part. Don’t we all? Birthdays are one of those times where you both celebrate, wonder, and sometimes mourn. Let’s Celebrate I’m excited that I have friends to with celebrate this …
Christian Life, Life Rhythms
I’m mad right now. Summer has very clearly turned to fall and, to be honest, I’m not pleased about it one bit. We’ve had a fairly cool summer here in Oregon so I feel like I got cheated out of the season a little. There are still so many summery things I want to do. My husband and I still …
Single Life
This month, I’m turning 30, which is crazy. I don’t feel that old. Also now 30 doesn’t seem to be old to me anymore. It seems very young. In honor my 30 years of wisdom, I’m going to take the month of October to do some reflecting on my life. This includes what I have done well and what I …
Single Life
Our modern world is pretty sweet in some ways. We have the knowledge of the whole world at our fingertips due to smartphones and the internet. We can communicate with people anywhere for free. In many aspects of life, we have unlimited options. In other ways, our modern world creates problems other people have never had to deal with. We …
Single Life
We all have dreams of what we think our life could be like. One of my modern romance dreams was to have a high school sweetheart or a childhood friend that I married. How wonderful to marry a person that you’ve known for most of your life! You would be forever surrounded by people who had known you since you …
Single Life
I’ve always been slightly envious of those who lived during the time of Jane Austen or even during the Victorian era. While I wouldn’t want to trade away things like indoor plumbing and air conditioning, I do envy those time periods because there were clear rules of behavior. There was a code of etiquette. Everyone was aware of how you …