I was in the first or second grade, and it was a Friday afternoon ice cream sale at our elementary school. I don’t know how, but little me managed my way through the line without any big cousins by my side. I got up the front counter, looked at all my options, and I declared in that moment that a […]

Someone once asked my dad what I was like as a child, and his response was ‘fragile.’ As much as I wanted to argue this and prove my bravery, the truth was I was fragile. I was the little girl who was afraid of falling off the monkey bars. I was the little girl that would cry when the Chinese […]

Why did I do it? Why did I come back so many times? Prior to coming here I had no idea what full-time vocational ministry meant. Of course I had heard it in classes and we talked about it, but it was just a word to me. Then I came and I lived it out and I loved it. I […]

I wholeheartedly believe that everything happens for a reason and not just a reason but in God’s will. That every piece fits together to fulfill what God has already set forth and already knows to be true. But what happens when it doesn’t? What happens when something that feels like God’s will doesn’t happen the way you thought it would? […]

I called my mom to brag that I was at the beach on a sunny day, and she asked me who I was with… So I told her no one- I was alone. That’s been the story lately… There’s something completely frightening about being alone. Yet in the greatest season of loneliness in my life, I feel overwhelmingly fulfilled. I […]