Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Christian Life, Life Rhythms, Theology
At the end of December and throughout the month of January, people tend to think about the goals they have for the next year. For a lot of people that might mean making a goal list, deciding on a New Year’s Resolution, or starting a new habit or hobby. It’s good for us to think ahead and to think of …
Christmas/Advent
Christmas is here! I got to start my Advent devotional yesterday and I am so excited for the Christmas season. It’s easily my favorite time of the year. However, as I talked about in last week’s blog post, it can be hard during the Christmas season to slow down and actually remember why we’re celebrating. To help keep me on …
Christian Life, Christmas/Advent, Theology
One of the hardest parts about Christmas as a kid was waiting for it to come. The month of December seemed to drag on forever. One of the longest seeming Decembers was when I was six. That year, I asked Santa for an American Girl doll (the epitome of greatness for little girls at the time). I even saved …
Single Life
One of my least favorite sayings in the world is “follow your heart.” Let’s be real, your heart can send you in some very stupid directions. While there are few experiences quite as overwhelming, awesome, and irrational as falling in love, this experience can also blind us to some big problems. I know this from experience, people! This is a …
Okay, I’m not going to lie. There is no way that I would ever say (based on my own experience) that being single is better than being married. I realize that both are a gift from God and God gives different gifts to different people. I’m not here to bash singleness (I was single for quite some time, thank you …
Christian Life, Single Life
How Two Little Words Show Our Actions Do Not Determine God’s Gifts In the earlier years of my life, I was on a quest to be perfect. Like many Christian girls in the late nineties, early 2000s, I had completely bought into the purity culture movement. I had kissed dating goodbye at age 11 and totally believed that my true …