Category "Sin"

It’s 7:00pm and the varsity guys basketball team is running onto the court. I have a front row seat in the bleachers when I set eyes on him. Tall, blue eyes, good-looking, extremely athletic – how was a girl supposed to resist crushing on this guy?? Our eyes met during the game while he was […]

Where it all began. I was in sixth grade and knew exactly how to work it. Every girl at church camp liked the same guy and I was determined to get his attention. He was cute, popular and I wanted nothing less than for him to like me. I wasn’t interested in a relationship or […]

The lights were off and we could hear our dad making his way to bed. Bethany and I pretended like we were asleep as he poked his head into our bedroom. After several minutes of lying there, I leaned over to Bethany and whispered, “the coast is clear.” We slowly opened our bedroom door and […]

Three years ago I sat in a doughnut shop with some friends and had a conversation that  I will never forget. I ended up in a heated debate over the topic of marriage and motherhood. My responses during that debate would mostly likely have been a shock to you considering what this Girl Defined: Getting […]

From the time they were born their families despised them. Their parents hated them and hoped they would die. These two feeble sisters were born into a poverty stricken home with barely enough food to survive. Not only were they starving, but they lived in a world of scary darkness. Both sisters were born completely blind. […]

Have you ever been naughty? Have you ever purposely done something that was sneaky when you knew you shouldn’t have? I remember one specific time during my teen years when I did something that was really sneaky and bad. Some of my basketball teammates were talking about a certain movie and it sounded so cool. […]