Our Blog
Encouragement for every season of lifeAudacious Love Calls Me to Remember
This year's Thrive Conference is a celebration of God's audacious love: What it looks like, how it overcomes our greatest fears, and how it inspires us. We're thrilled to announce that, in conjunction with the conference, we'll be releasing a NEW devotional! On this...
The Pop-Up Blocker for Daily Living
Living Focused Amidst the Danger of Distractions A distraction is defined as something that makes it difficult to think or pay attention. Wow, anybody? Distractions were robbing me every day of focus, joy, clarity, calling, and the “present” of the present. Every...
Flourishing Through Pain
Sometimes we will experience painful emotions before the blessings of God are enacted in our lives. As an infant and a toddler, I was passed back and forth to various people before my final adoption at around 15 months old. This constant flux lasted until I was...
Audacious Love Inspires Us to Love More
This year's Thrive Conference is a celebration of God's audacious love: What it looks like, how it overcomes our greatest fears, and how it inspires us. We're thrilled to announce that, in conjunction with the conference, we'll be releasing a NEW devotional! On this...
Service Project Playlist
I love doing service projects with my family! Between church, the Boy Scouts, my son’s school, and supporting organizations we love, we find lots of projects to keep us busy. Good, upbeat music keeps us dancing as we work. Here are a few of our favorites! “Do...
Grown-up Birthdays
I just love this idea so I have to share it with you. A few years ago I let my husband, Rory, off the hook for my birthday. I have high expectations for my birthday and was always hoping that maybe he could magically read my mind when my birthday came around. As it...
Give Someone Else the Wheel
I have three grown daughters. Although they are all now amazing women of God, each of them gave me some of the scariest moments of my life during their teenage years while attempting to learn to drive. At some point in learning to drive, each of my daughters came...
Audacious Love Inspires Me to Step Out
This year's Thrive Conference is a celebration of God's audacious love: What it looks like, how it overcomes our greatest fears, and how it inspires us. We're thrilled to announce that, in conjunction with the conference, we'll be releasing a NEW devotional! On this...
Looking to the Problem Solver
I had lunch with a friend last week and, in the course of our discussion, she told me she’d been listening to podcasts by Shauna Niequist. Shauna had been asking each of her guests this question: “What is one spiritual practice you’ve been doing that is helping or...
Spicy Shredded Beef
One of my favorite things to do for a party is have a "Create Your Own" style menu where everyone can build the meal they want. It creates an environment where interaction is fostered between everyone there and leaves everyone satisfied because they made the meal to...
