Life is all about choices. And perhaps one of the biggest choices I make every single day is how I spend my time and what I invest my heart, soul, and life into each day. The reality is we all have the same 24 hours a day, but how we spend those hours truly varies […]

Everyone longs to have a perfect story. You know, the one that begins with “Once upon a time” and ends with “happily ever after.” But those stories are aptly called “fairy tales,” and they are not the stories of our lives. Our stories are stories of real people wrestling through the joys and struggles of […]

“Mommy, when I become someone’s friend, I am their friend forever,” my daughter imploringly told me with a catch in her voice and tears clouding her bright blue eyes. My heart hurt for her as I listened to her share about one of her close friends not wanting to play with her anymore. And the […]

Never in a million years would I have imagined going to a Christian movie in a theater and being SO profoundly impacted. Let’s be honest, Christian movies have sometimes gotten a bad rap for cheesy acting, poorly written scripts, or even worse, story lines that deviate from or water down the truth.  So, I sheepishly […]