Category: Spiritual Growth
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I Don’t Want to Be an Influencer
I don’t want to be an influencer. I want to be a beacon. A place where someone can come for guidance, encouragement, clarity, or reflection, then grow and continue on to their next move. I don’t want to be a permanent destination for anyone. Well, maybe my husband. Lol. But even then, I don’t think Read more
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Returning to Me
It has been a while since I have posted here. It is not because I stopped writing. I think I started to feel like everything had to become a product. Like I was selling myself, my story, and my experience. I do not like that feeling. I do not like feeling like I am the Read more
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Life and Reflection
This is not a crisis note. It is a reflection on grief, aging, motherhood, mortality, and the strange ache of being alive. Life is fragile, and no one makes it out. Nothing really matters in the way we sometimes want things to matter. Nothing will be remembered forever. Chaos is always waiting to take over Read more
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December Week 3: End of the Week Reflection
Where We Ended Up This Week As this week comes to a close, honesty feels less like clarity and more like vulnerability. This is the part Brené Brown often names, the moment when truth feels exposed rather than empowering. There has been resistance here. If I am honest, part of me did not want to Read more
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December Week 3: Midweek Reflection Honesty
Mid-Week Reflection is a great time to think about the role of honesty in our lives and how we can incorporate it more into our daily interactions. Midway through the week, I’m honestly starting to wonder what in the world I was thinking choosing honesty as a reflection theme so close to Christmas. This is Read more
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December Week 3 Before: Returning to Center with Honesty
Sunday Start of the Week Here I am stepping into another new week. I wish I could say this comes with a quiet invitation rising up in me, but that is not the case. This feels more like a conscious decision to stop long enough to look at what I usually rush past. December does Read more
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December Week 2: End of Week Reflection
Learning to Hear God Without Interpreting Him Through Myself As this second week of December comes to a close, I can feel the quiet work God has been doing beneath the surface. Listening sounded simple at first, just pay attention, stay open, make room. But real listening has turned out to be more challenging and Read more
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December Week 2: Midweek Reflection
December Week 2: Midweek Reflection Learning to Listen With My Whole Attention As I move through this week’s theme of listening, I am noticing that God often speaks through what is already in front of me. Familiar scriptures. A sermon that lands at just the right time. Resources I have seen before but never truly Read more
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December Week 2 Before: Listening
Strengthening Discernment Through Scripture, Prayer, and Reflection After spending the first week settling into stillness, this new week is inviting me deeper. Stillness quiets my mind. Listening opens my heart. And I am already learning that discernment requires more than slowing down. It requires surrender. The intention for this week is to strengthen my ability Read more
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Week 1: Returning to Stillness
What This Week Taught Me As I close out the first week of December’s theme of stillness, I am noticing quiet but meaningful shifts happening beneath the surface. Nothing dramatic. Nothing explosive. Just a gentle realignment of how I am seeing myself, how I am approaching God, and how I am responding to the places Read more
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Dec Week 1: What Stillness Is Revealing in Me
This week, stillness revealed more than quiet moments. It showed me the patterns I run to when life feels uncertain, and the ways God is calling me to anchor my identity in Him rather than in movement or achievement. Read more
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Dec Week 1: Beginning Stillness
This week I am beginning my December reset with stillness, creating space for God to steady my inner pace and quiet the noise I usually reach for. Through intentional silence and a focus on “The Theology of Quietness,” I am learning what it means to protect stillness as something sacred. Read more
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Returning to Center: My December Reflection
This December, I’m slowing down to rebuild clarity, ground my spirit, and return to center. After a demanding year, I’m moving through gentle weekly rhythms of stillness, listening, honesty, and alignment as I reconnect with God and with myself. Read more
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Pain Made Me Hurry
Sometimes, the thing that finally moves us isn’t clarity—it’s pain. In this final post of the series, I reflect on how discomfort became divine direction, and how God used the ache to pull me out of what I would’ve stayed in too long. Read more
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100%: Why 85% Isn’t Enough
I thought I was doing well—showing up, doing my part, keeping things going. But deep down, I was moving through a fog. This post is about what it looks like to give 85% and call it faithful—and how God gently calls us back to wholeness. Read more