The Blog
A space where I grapple with my own lessons, struggles, and faith. Sometimes I have reflection questions or freebies linked in posts. Sometimes I leave the post as unresolved as I am.
Do You need A Spiritual Practice Refresh?
It wasn’t until I hit my 30s that the lightbulb went off for me as I opened my Bible one morning and faced the wall of guilt that greeted me—I don’t think God wants our relationship to feel like this.
When I left my church job in 2021, I gave myself full permission to stop all of my spiritual practices cold turkey. I decided that if I started to pray, read my Bible, or prep for a church service and felt that familiar wave of guilt hit, I wasn’t ready to reengage yet.
It was the best choice I’ve made for my spiritual formation.
In God We Trust…Or Do We?
I’ve been thinking and writing about how political power corrupts the message of Jesus since at least 2019.
In 2025, I’m thinking about it a lot more.
Since 2016, I’ve been mourning how quickly the tradition that raised me has seemed to throw out the words of Christ in defense of a man who embodies the opposite of Jesus most of the time.
“Means justify the ends. He’s helping us become a Christian nation again. Christians will no longer be persecuted under Trump. He may be rough around the edges, but he’s looking out for us!”
These are the refrains I hear from the very people who told me to trust God above all else. Suddenly it’s felt like the message morphed to “Trust God and Trump.” And I have type a lot of words onto the internet about not trusting the government to do God’s work as a result.
But here’s a disturbing realization I have noticed in myself…
What I’m Proud of in 2022
2022 was a good year for me. It also held a new kind of difficult. The "ands" of 2022 feel very strong, really.
In 2022, I got to spend a whole year living into my values in a new way. I got to step into a full year of doing this new thing and establishing the rhythm of life for my family I spent so long craving.
This new working pace destroyed my expectations of what good productivity should look like. In fact, this year I got the wild wake up call that productivity has been quite the idol in my life and so I spent a lot of time dethroning it. And the work of dethroning productivity, and de-commodifying my very self has resulted in a wildly different list of things I'm proud of this year than I would have anticipated or imagined in January 2022…