Writing Through The Mess

  • When You’re Considering Running From Your Destiny

    As I’m writing this, I’m hoping I’m not the only one who has cried faithless tears this week. That I’m not the only one so afraid of what God is asking me to do, that for a moment I entertained the thought of what it might be like to run from my destiny. But that’s not how my

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  • I Want to Love People the Way She Loves the Sunrise

    In the last couple months I’ve told you all about the miracles I’m believing for this year, but this week God asked that those miracles not be just limited to me  — He’s asking that I believe for the miracle it would be for some of the most hopelessly broken and difficult people I know to be transformed

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  • Do you need God to do the impossible?

    We held each other one last time before heading to the airport. And between tickles and giggles under the covers, we felt the weight of one thought: we need God to do the impossible. Our life, quite literally, hangs in the balance if He doesn’t. By the time this posts, my husband will have officially

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  • When God tells you it’s time to shut up about it

    This isn’t the blog post I was expecting to write this week, and there are three other drafts floating around my desktop as proof. Originally, I was planning on telling you that in spite of how God blessed us last month, there are still so many questions we still don’t have answers to, so many

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  • On the day my baby (would have) been born

    Today would’ve been the due date of my second child. And while I could dwell on the could-have-beens or the should-have-beens, I’ve cried enough tears over that these last 9 months. Today, on the day my baby would’ve been born, I’ve chosen instead to reflect on the promise God made me. (It’s the same promise God

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  • Miracles & Moving Boxes (God did it!!!!!)

    ( I CANNOT WAIT to tell you how God blew our minds this week! But first, if you haven’t had the chance to read last week’s post that’s probably a good place to start, or this might not make very much sense. Now, a little ‘story time’ if you will. Gather around, friends… God is the coolest.

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  • What would God say the morning before the $#*% hit the fan?

      Last summer, my life was the picture of stability — we had just bought a house, and every picture frame and throw pillow was in its place. Our schedules were filled with the usual business trips and dentist appointments, and we were expecting another child. …And then within a month, everything went from steady

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  • You’re not asking enough from God

      30 days ago, I was on the other side of the world traveling with my family through five different countries for five weeks. In France, we ate our body weight in meat and cheese. In Belgium, we did the same with beer and chocolate, and in England we ate the traditional Sunday roast dinner,

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  • I pray your heart breaks like THIS in 2017

    My heart has broken a handful of different ways in the last five years, each one rocking my world and transforming my heart in its own uniquely difficult way. But this year, my heart broke in a way unlike any other. It all started when God asked me to have another child.

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  • I’m giving in to God… (An announcement to my readers)

    This isn’t the first time God has asked me to do something a little crazy. There was the time He asked me to give up my idyllic life in suburbia to move to NYC… Twice. There was the time my marriage imploded and God asked me to stay with husband, and another time, when God prompted

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