blessing in the battle
I stood there at the airport. LAX terminal 3. It’s the one for international travel. And this time it was me saying goodbye to my new husband for the very first time since our...
Category: faith + life
the struggle is real
Do you ever feel like you’re living an endless struggle between your selfish desires and your desire to live for Christ. Let’s just say I feel it daily. It’s like an ongoing boxing match between...
hard but good.
Clay’s trip definitely tested me in many ways. There were a few hard moments and a particularly difficult 24 hour period. I received some pretty significant health news after having thirteen vials of blood...
married to “the missions guy”
Today Clay returns home after twelve days in India and Uganda. And I couldn’t be more excited. Let’s just say last night felt like Christmas Eve. This was his first trip as Director of...
a hope for today
I’ve never been one to speak out about politics. But something about today has gotten me inspired. You’d have to live under a rock to not know that Donald Trump was elected as our...
send me
{Will Reagan: Nothing I Hold On To} I recently made a difficult decision. I decided to postpone pursuing acting. This is something I have poured myself into for eight and a half years. For nearly...
carry you
“…He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart…” – Isaiah 40:11 This snapshot. An image from our first full day in Embo. I can’t begin to describe the...
this is Embo.
Post #1. South Africa adventures. A recounting of my first mission trip: I hear a rustling. The lights flick on. “Good morning, girls.” I hear sweet Suzy say. I lazily stir and stretch on the...
pick a number.
As I wrote in my previous post, I will go on my very first mission trip exactly three weeks from tomorrow – to “the ends of the earth”… to South Africa! In Acts 1:8...
pine cones and promises
I found this pine cone on a morning walk down to the beach. At first glance it looked perfect. It seemed to have fallen from the tree above, unaffected, undamaged. But when I walked...
