Yesterday was World Mental Health Day, and I took some time to reflect on my own journey with mental health and illness. On February 6 of this year, I finally surrendered to the fact that my mental health needed to be addressed in a different way. For years, I have managed my anxiety and bouts…
I saw this today on the Facebook page for the Unfundementalist. It brings up a devastating point I think is missed by many well-meaning individuals on my friends list, and I’m sure maybe your own: The public admonishment of Dr Christine Blasey Ford in an attempt to support Judge Brett Kavanaugh all over your (I…
I was 12. I didn’t even know what was happening to me. He was my boyfriend, and popular and experienced. I didn’t know how to say no, or that it was inappropriate or wrong, even though I didn’t like it and was embarrassed. It was four years before I even knew the words to describe…
Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. For this reason it says,…
Guys, it happened again. I woke up in the middle of the night to a notification from WordPress that my blog stats were booming out of no where. 62 hits on more than a dozen posts in an hour. Each one references cheating and divorce. Coincidentally, it follows, again, an announcement about teaching yoga at…
As Christians, we’re here to serve others, right? We live servant lives, we lead with servant leadership, and our love for others, when modeled after Christ’s, is sacrificial, yes? He said He didn’t come to be served, but to serve (Mark 10:45) and it was because of God’s love for us that the Son was…
I’ve been trying this last week to really fill my life with voices of truth and encouragement, over things that seek only to entertain or inform. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve still indulged in some entertaining things – some favorite shows and podcasts, etc – but I’ve gotten lazy (re: lukewarm) about my more influential…
I’m shared this publicly on my personal Facebook because I have nothing to hide, and no shame in Christ, but so far, it either hasn’t reached its intended recipient,!94 they’ve opted to not take me up on my offer. In the event it’s just that it hasn’t been seen, I know my blogs been read…
The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard: For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. About nine in the morning he went out and…
Today I received a call that made the random spike in my blog stats yesterday make sense. I was going to be doing ministry at a local church, that was revoking my permission to do so, because I’ve openly talked about my affair – confessing it – and how God has worked through even the…
It’s taken me a long time to say this, and to address this. It hurts me so much to bring myself back through my personal experience with the damage that was inflicted on me using the complimentarian views on men’s and women’s roles. But as I’ve worked though that pain, moving through the stages of…
To preface, I’d like to state that only some of these are my personal experiences, and that inspiration was drawn from not just my life, but the lives of women around me that I love and admire. Also, I acknowledge that many are my own opinion, and not everyone will agree. That’s fine (but keep…
