2024

Remember This

We’re off to a fantastic start. Much speedier than it’s ever happened before. God said Certainty, so we’re doing Certainty. The backstory… I have moved every two years since moving to Hawaii. Moved here in 2016. Moved to the house in 2018. Moved to faculty housing in 2020. Moved to my place in 2022. And each of these moves have […]

2023

Chosen

God and I have this funny thing. Some outsider looking in would probably call it faith- a strong faith even. But I just call it friendship. What a friend I have in Jesus. And what God told me for 2023 was Chosen. I didn’t want this one. I hated it from the minute I heard it. I wanted to return […]

Advent

Eve

I get it. I understand why Eve did what she did. “And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.” Genesis 2:16-17 A command […]

Advent

Light

I haven’t done this in a while. I have file after file after file of unfinished, unsaved, and not ready to publish reflections on life. That’s what these are. In the past, I’ve set aside time to write for advent. To stop and pause and intentionally reflect during the season where the world prepares for the best present we never […]

2023

I’m Sorry Meg

There’s this thing in therapy that I do where I talk to myself. I talk to my child self. The little girl with the brightest smile and the cutest dimples- the one all the teachers loved. I talk to my teenage self who was very, very lost and confused; she lived with a gray cloud over her life. And sometimes […]