Your chains are not your story. What you have done in the past, what has been done to you – those things don’t define you.

Tomorrow I get to see two people I really love get married. My brother and his fiancé are going to have a beautiful wedding in Maine and I can’t wait to dance my pants off (figuratively speaking, of course). Their story is, well, intricate; the way the Lord brought them together is no accident and […]

I almost named this post “Know Your Devil” but for some weird reason it just made me think of the Kenny Rogers song “The Gambler” and the line: “You gotta know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em…” and dear GOODNESS I hope I didn’t just get that song stuck in your head. […]

Confession: I’ve been very judgmental towards a certain people group. And for this I need to repent. These people I will affectionately call,“C.S. Lewians.” If you went to a Christian college or seminary you may know of whom I am speaking. I define C.S. Lewians as: People who quote or bring up C.S. Lewis in […]

I sat in one of my favorite coffee shops in the whole world, located in Salem, Massachusetts. I spent the week at Gordon College, the school at which I completed my undergraduate degree. I spent time at that coffee shop learning – from books and people. But I am not a  college student anymore, and […]

I love that the world started in a garden. There is no better place to call paradise. Imagine Adam walking in the cool of the day with his best friend: GOD. Adam says, “Hey Tiger!” and Tiger comes and nuzzles up next to him as he pets his head. Adam continues along admiring the plants, […]

A few days ago, I received a text message from across the world. My roommate is in Uganda – but found the time to send me a text saying just what I needed to hear: “You’re such a good friend!” It wasn’t out of the blue; we had been talking about how I got the […]

Dear Grad, Oh my gosh, you did it! Congratulations! You finished school! What now?! *Crickets* Oh right, it can kind of feel like you walk off that graduation stage and fall one thousand feet, not knowing where you will land. This season of life is best characterized by the word weird. It isn’t bad, and […]