Talking about how we buy our food is often a sensitive matter, but it is also one of the most important mundane actions we take, especially in the United States of America. I want to encourage readers how to love themselves, their community, and love God with the...
I’ve been told countless times to guard my own heart, and I have failed. I understood not what guarding entailed, nor why it was needed. I used to think it meant higher walls and greater discernment, but I was wrong. To guard my heart is to surrender it to the One who...
THE MORE I FOLLOW JESUS AND HIS CALLING, THE MORE I THINK I’VE LOST MY MIND. IS THAT WHAT A RENEWED MIND FEELS LIKE? I HAVE UPROOTED MYSELF SO MANY TIMES, LEFT THE TANGIBLE STUFF BEHIND, AND WALKED AWAY FROM WHAT I PERSONALLY WANTED. In the middle, searching out what...
What is Love? This is a question I have been asking myself a lot lately. Webster’s defines love as, noun, “a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person,” or verb, “to feel great affection for (someone), to like or desire (something) very much: to take great...
Love has carried me a long, long way. I noticed one day how far I’d come, because her name was on my lips but I didn’t flinch. Nothing in me felt unworthy at the thought of her. You see, it was easier to forgive him, because I pitied him. It’s easy to forgive someone...
