I turn 50 on July 15, 2027. Even typing that feels strange. Not because I’m afraid of turning 50. Actually, I think I’m more curious about this birthday than any birthday that has come before it. Although, ask me again on July 14. Because somewhere along the way, I started thinking about Jubilee. In Leviticus
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I’ve mentioned before how some Scripture has become woven into the very fabric of who I am. Psalm 118:5 is one of those Scriptures. I was 14 or 15, a new Christian, and my mom was battling cancer, which she would eventually lose to. At that age, I didn’t really understand relationships. And if we’re
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Sometimes a no is just a not now in disguise. I’ve learned that lesson more than once. Back in 2013, when we were living in Thomasville, I interviewed for a job. I can’t really explain it other than to say I knew in my spirit that I was going to work there. I felt sure
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For years, Habakkuk 2:3 was my verse. If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently. I found it in Guatemala in 2012 during a season when I desperately wanted to know what God was doing with my life. It became a reminder that even when my future felt uncertain to me, it wasn’t uncertain to
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There are Scriptures I know, and then there are Scriptures that have become woven into the very fabric of who I am. Habakkuk is one of those for me. In June 2012, my son Jake and I were a couple of weeks into an eight-week stay in Guatemala, and we were struggling. We were homesick,
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I think somewhere along the way, a lot of us women learned that everything depends on us. Our families. Our relationships. Our jobs. Our homes. And listen, we matter. We contribute. We are important in those spaces. But we are not the catalyst holding everything together. For me, some of that instinct comes from being
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You know what frustrates me? I keep seeing posts telling women to “find a man who can take care of you.” And listen, I absolutely want a man who takes care of me. I just think being “taken care of” means something different than the way we sometimes talk about it. Somewhere along the way,
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There are a few empty boxes starting to pile up in my apartment. A pile of boxes used to look like panic to me. For my son Jake’s entire childhood, moving was a constant part of life. We grabbed whatever mismatched boxes we could find, packed up our lives and did our best to build
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This hit me while journaling one morning: there’s a difference between scars and scar tissue. And spiritually, I think that difference matters. A scar tells us there was once a wound. Something happened, something hurt, and even after healing, evidence of it remains. But I started thinking about scar tissue as a picture of the
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I’ve chosen a word for the year for the last few years. In 2023, it was Believe. In 2024, Intentional. In 2025, Thrive. And for 2026, my word is Renewed. But to explain why, I have to go back a little. I started therapy in 2021, but it wasn’t until 2023 that something really shifted.
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