Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Christian Life, Theology
My last blog post was all about things that unmarried people shouldn’t do, mainly because they’re acting like they’re married when they aren’t. I tried to point out that the things in themselves weren’t sinful (though they could lead to sin), but instead they were unwise. I’d like to elaborate on that a little bit more because I think we …
Christian Life, Single Life, Spiritual Disciplines
This week for my Six Week Spiritual Growth Journey that I’m doing on Facebook, I talked about Sabbath. In thinking about the benefits of Sabbath, I realized that Sabbath teaches us the very thing that I struggled with most when I was single. It’s something we all often struggle with when we have unmet desires: there’s only so much we …
Christian Life, Spiritual Disciplines
How My Vacation Reminded Me that How We Spend Our Time Shows Our Priorities I’m just going to really honest here. I wish I was still on vacation. Last week, my husband and I went on our two year anniversary trip. We rented the cutest little cabin and spent our days hiking and exploring all kinds of natural wonders (pictures …
Christian Life, Spiritual Disciplines
I remember feeling a little bit disappointed after I got baptized at age 13. For one, it was like a birthday. I didn’t feel any different afterwards, even though I had expected too. Secondly, I didn’t feel like I knew what I was supposed to do next. I had felt very strongly that God wanted me to be baptized. I …
Christian Life
I’d like to clear something up here: contentment is overrated in the church. I remember back in the day reading Christian dating books and feeling this pressure to feel content. If only I could be content with my life, then God would bring me a husband. After all, it’s often after you stop really seeking after something that you get …
Christian Life, Married Life, Sex, Single Life, Theology
A Theology of Sex, Part 1 As Christians, we often have a stigma attached to us: we’re too uptight about sex. The world has moved on to a place where the old constraints no longer matter, with few exceptions (people generally are still against bestiality, incest, and pedophilia).Yet Christians, or at least the conservative, old school ones, still argue against …
Christian Life, Spiritual Disciplines
I was born a talker. Okay, that’s not literally true, but my parents have a video of me at my second birthday party and I am just talking up a storm, full sentences and everything. It’s actually quite amusing to see full sentences come out of a tiny child with a ridiculously high pitched voice. Not much changed as I …
Christian Life
Having grown up in the church, I have a love/hate relationship with it. One thing that I realized that I hated in college (though I also realize it has benefits) is age based or stage of life based church groups. I had always loved being in a youth group as a teen, but once I was in college, I found …
Christian Life
The summer after my Sophomore year of college, I had a ton of time on my hands. I had acquired, by luck really, a rather cushy job. I was a caregiver for an elderly woman who had dementia. I would stay with her while her husband ran errands or played a round of golf. There were a few difficult days …
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 …