Category Archives: Lighter

I love that when I look back on the day, the things I cherish most are the things I often repeat…the standards.

Wisdom isn’t having the answer but being prepared to answer. We need not know everything, we just have to be willing to show up and let God work out the rest.

I wish to spend one hundred percent of my time outside, in spite of the reality that my face has settled into a permanent pink predicament.
To me, Spring is worth the sneezes.

Jesus doesn’t need us to be the Main Character. He doesn’t want us puffing out our chests, pretending like we’ve got it all figured out. He wants us to turn to him when​ we need conviction, not mask our doubt with self-serving hubris.

I’m slowly starting to recognize that there are plenty of times I hide behind this spectacle: smoke and mirrors are flashy but inauthentic, and there are plenty of times I use my “fearlessness” to mask genuine fear…

What I love most about my walks, though, is that it provides me space to listen. I am but a mere observer, accomplishing nothing other than moving my feet and taking in the flood of senses around me.

I have realized that it’s not conclusions I dread so much…it’s the lack of a new beginning that should take its place.

It’s so interesting how ebbing and flowing our interest ​can be. Not three days ago, I was cranking out devotionals like my life depended on it, yet today, I could hardly find the motivation to begin writing.

It makes you wonder, why do we stay the course? ​

How often do I choose my own good—or rather, my own comfort, my own gluttony, my own ignorance—over others?

n Hamlet. Bestowing advice to his son, Laertes, Polonius tells him the simple, yet poignant phrase: “To thine own self be true.” Modern translation: trust yourself.