Fighting Lust with the Power of Gratitude
When I was a teen girl, I remember having moments where I viewed God’s boundaries for sexual purity as a bit…well — annoying. Striving for purity in my heart and mind wasn’t easy, and I struggled to keep my thoughts pure. I would find myself grumbling in my heart about how tough the single life […]
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Why Confessing Your Sin Leads to Freedom and Joy
Last weekend, Zack and I had the opportunity to teach at our church’s high school retreat which proved to be a fruitful and sanctifying experience. After weeks of preparation, praying, and pouring our hearts into the sessions, we were so excited to finally teach them together. The retreat weekend arrived and we found ourselves rushing […]
Turning Overwhelmed into Peaceful
I ran into the woods knowing exactly where I was headed. My sisters and I have a huge tree fort with a swing and it made the perfect quiet spot. I had been trying to make things happen in my own power, forgetting to seek God. I needed to think. I needed to pray. The […]
How I Overcame Anxiety and Worry in My Life
When I was single, I spent a lot of time wondering if I would ever get married. I thought about the future a lot. Sometimes my thoughts were filled with anxiety and worry, and other times they were resting peacefully in God’s sovereignty. My questions about marriage were eventually answered in 2011 when I walked […]
A Peek Inside Dāv & Bethy’s Journals
Instead of just telling you about my love story with Dāv, I want to take you inside my journal and inside Dāv’s journal. Over the past few years, the two of us have been recording our thoughts, hopes, prayers, and desires for life. We’ve poured out our heart’s to God and surrendered our desires to […]
4 Easy-to-Miss Signs that You Struggle with Gossip
As soon as I saw her text message, I instantly felt the twinge of guilt. This friend was following up with me about a conversation the two of us had shared earlier that day. We had been innocently chatting about a recent challenge in her life regarding a certain relationship. Without even realizing it, our […]
How to Pray Every Single Day
I’ve only met a handful of Christians in my entire life who’ve said that their prayer life is a daily, consistent, ongoing, and passionate habit in their life. Most Christians I talk to seem to fall more in line with my struggle of desiring to pray more faithfully but finding it hard to stay consistent. […]
4 Strategies for Living at Home as an Adult Daughter
My younger sisters (Ellissa, Rebekah, and Suzanna) and I sat in our kitchen nook late into the night. We chatted about our weeks and then landed on this topic: How to be an adult daughter who chooses to live at home. Rebekah is nineteen, Ellissa is twenty-six, and I am thirty (I lived at home […]
