Do You Realize?

You don’t need a man by your side to validate you as a woman. You already are loved and valued. You’re good enough exactly as you are. Do you believe this? Because it’s true. You have limitless worth and value. If you embrace this truth, it will affect every area of your life, especially your [...]

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Looking Myself Straight in the Eye and Being Honest Is Harder Than I Thought

I’ve been having a rough go of it lately when it comes to how I view myself. Anyone who reads this blog has perhaps seen through my thinly veiled musings about self-esteem and the battle I’ve been fighting lately. The spaces inside my head and my heart are battered and bruised with the sharp punches [...]

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Wedding Photography Is Not Good For My Self-Esteem

**I debated whether or not to even post this because I didn’t want to expose my weakness when it comes to the tender and sensitive topic of love and marriage. I like the idea of being the Wonder Woman of the single set. However, I realized what use is my story and my telling it [...]

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How to Translate Being “Just Me”

The time is 2:55 am and it is now that I am realizing that my self-proclaimed “caffeine immunity” is, in fact, fictional. Espresso at 9 pm was Not a Good Idea. Two Americanos in one day was also probably not wise. (But I finally tried Madcap’s coffee…and mmmmm, was it yummy.)
So here I am, after [...]

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The Thing You Aren’t Supposed To Say

I am going to say the thing that you aren’t supposed to say as a single, independent, sassy woman.
I am lonely.
I wouldn’t say I am lonely for company, for I am blessed to be surrounded by an ever-growing pool of amazing friends and family that surprise me every day with how extraordinary they make my [...]

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Searching Out the Depth, the Length, the Width of His Love (And Never Finding the End)

I am uncomfortable with letting God love me because I can’t figure out His love.
And when I don’t understand things, I resist them.
When I think about God loving the world, I tend to think in very “big picture” terms. He loves the world, He loves the widows and orphans, the lilies in the fields, and [...]

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The Lost Art of Love Letters

I haven’t been able to sleep the past few nights and tonight, I find myself dreaming without the aid of closed eyes.
I am thinking of love letters tonight. Not just the “Hey there, you’re swell, luv ya bunches” emails or texts or something equally quick and thoughtless. But a real, honest to goodness, handwritten love [...]

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Words from Mother

I just love this:
“I am a little pencil in the hand of a God who is sending a love letter to the world.”
-Mother Teresa of Calcutta

What a beautiful woman.
What a beautiful world.
What a beautiful God.

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Here In the Love of Christ I Stand

I think God’s love makes people nervous. When we try to wrap our puny human brains around the idea of “for God so loved the world,” we freeze in fear. The world? Like the whole world? Even the terrorists and George W. Bush and my pervy next-door neighbor?

In The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning writes this:
“One [...]

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Why is the Prince so Charming?

I have been wondering the past couple of days what it is about the idea of “Prince Charming” that enthralls girls so much.

I think back to the Prince Charmings throughout the movies and stories that I grew up with — Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid. What was it about those men that made them [...]

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