• Community,  Faith

    Interrupted and a Giveaway

    Tweet Super exciting news (for the book nerd and blogger in me)!!!   Jen Hatmaker (who I adore) asked for 250 bloggers to read and write about her updated copy of Interrupted. Seven radically challenged me in a million ways so  I thought I would apply and I got chosen!!!! I am oh so excited to dive into Interrupted!   I will be blogging over the next month on the book and how it challenges me which I am sure it will as the tagline is “When Jesus wrecks your comfortable Christianity.”     If you would like to follow along, you can get the book here at a 20% discount.…

  • Community,  Faith

    A Note on Budgets

    Tweet For awhile in my life, I was a Dave Ramsey nay-sayer.  I worked in an industry with a very low opinion of his tactics and methods.  They had valid reasons for their dislike of him.  But I was just a band-wagon jumper.  I did not have any real reason for disliking him, but I did. In preparation for marriage, our pastor told us we could cut out one of week of pre-marital counseling if we went through Financial Peace University (FPU). Seemed like a fair trade–one week of pre-marital counseling for nine weeks of FPU. (I am sure this is what Jordan thought as well..) I figured I might as…

  • Community,  Faith

    My Africa, Imperfect People, and a Whole Lot of Passion

    Tweet Places. People. Passions.   Those are the last three threads weaving together in our study through Restless. I have to admit, while this whole book has been challenging, these three chapters hit me hard. I have struggled a lot around those three threads. And realized I have a whole lot of hurt, anger, and disappointment welled up inside.  Some of it I can see God using to paint my story and some of it I can see Satan using to destroy me and cloud God’s glory.   Places. For a long time, I wanted to move to Africa. Sell everything and live somewhere on a continent I fell in…

  • Community

    Restless and Scared

    Tweet After the wedding, for the first time in two and a half years, I have no deadlines, no papers to turn in, no plans to make, no vendors to book, or photographers to follow-up with.  It is, in some regards, a glorious feeling.   And yet, as someone who thrives on deadlines and plans, I feel a bit restless.   Luckily, in my Bible study, we are reading a book called Restless by Jennie Allen. (Enter God’s perfect timing) The book is about having the freedom to dream and then use our unique gifts and talents (or stories) pursue those dreams.  However, before dreaming big dreams, the author lays out…

  • Community

    A New Start

    Tweet It has been over a month since my last blog.  My new year’s resolution to write once a week has been long forgotten and given we are only three months in, is slightly depressing.  I have, however, been writing. I just have not felt anything was worthy of posting.   I read other people’s blogs and start comparing and wonder why their post gets tweeted and plastered all over social media while my little blog sits..unnoticed..unread.     As life has drastically slowed down in some ways, no more school, the wedding is over, and I am finally living in one place, while all my stuff, I am going…

  • Community,  Social Justice

    Heartbreak, Hope, and an Opportunity

    Tweet In the last month, some really exciting things have started to fall into place.  A good friend and I are working really hard at trying to put together a human trafficking task force and it looks like it might actually happen. Divine appointments have been made, people are getting on board and I am on cloud nine.  This is what I want to do with my life.  This is my Holy Discontent.   However, it is also devastatingly heartbreaking.  The more I read, the more I research, the more I talk about it, the more my heart breaks. All I want to do is stop every person I see…

  • Life Inspiration

    And the Winner Is..

    Tweet Gayla!! Which makes me happy because she happens to own another local business- Gaylacake-which I absolutely love!!   Thanks for participating and hope you stick around to read my blogs and perhaps enter a few more contests!   (I used this website-Random Picker–to choose a winner to ensure it was fair!)

  • Life Inspiration

    Blog Contest

    Tweet Due to some technical difficulties, the winner will be announced tomorrow!!!     You can still sign up for updates to be entered!     🙂

  • Life Inspiration

    Blog Lovin’ and a Giveaway

    Tweet Who doesn’t love free stuff??   In an effort (maybe selfish) to expand my horizon of readers, I am going to do a giveaway. It’s pretty simple.   Step 1: Subscribe to my blog. (on the right hand side of the screen)   Step 2: Check back on February 14th to see if you won.   One of my goals for this year was to blog once a week.  I have been going strong so far and I would love to share my blogs with a few more readers.  I average about one blog a week so no worries about your inbox being bombarded with emails and you can…

  • Community

    Models of Goodness

    Tweet Saturday I sat in a room surrounded by women who have shaped my life. Some of them were family, many of them were simply women who have taken the time to pour into my life.  As we celebrated my upcoming marriage, I looked around at the faces in the room and can tell you each one of them has lived up to the advice given in Titus 2.   Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness. By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children, be virtuous and pure,…