Published Works

It is such a gift to partner with She Reads Truth, (in)courage, Family Christian, The Joyful Life Magazine and so many more wonderful publications. Here are some of those writings.

What Back-to-School Season Offers Our Souls

Published at Family Christian. I sit down to read a few emails when involuntary tears spill over—the kind where I didn’t even think a sad...

Finding God’s Peace When Your Mind Won’t Stop Racing

Published at Family Christian. Sometime during the hour between grabbing my coffee and checking my email, my morning was hijacked by a...

5 Ways to Find Jesus When We’re Drowning in May

Published at Family Christian. The month of May feels like it arrives holding a venti blonde roast with an extra shot of espresso. Just...

The Lord Rises Up (Isaiah 33:1-24)

Published at She Reads Truth. These are hard and sobering verses, aren’t they? Today’s chapters round out the sixth of Isaiah’s woes,...

All is Gift: A Reluctant Examination of Holding Joy in Hard Places

Published at Family Christian. “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of...

4 Ways to Lead Our Hearts Instead of Following Them

Published at Family Christian. We pulled into the parking lot at our nature center, and my three not-competitive-at-all sons scrambled...

Joy Through Humility (Luke 1:26-56)

Published at She Reads Truth. We love a good “rags to riches” story, don’t we? Especially when God tells it in His upside-down kind of...

How to See Holy Moments in Your Check-Off-the-Christmas-List Days

Published at Family Christian. I was pushing my cart through the grocery store, deleting items from the list on my phone as I went....

Final Greetings (Colossians 4:7-15)

Published at She Reads Truth. I remember that eighth grade summer. I’d show up at the park on those warm evenings with my gaggle of...

How Finding Our Breath Comes in the Deep

Published at Family Christian. The wind gusts cleared thousands of orange pine needles from our row of trees and deposited most of them...

For the Mom Who is Longing For a Rhythm to Receive the Ministry of Summer

Published at Family Christian. I finish my spicy pickles, the juice now running unobstructed across my empty paper plate. I feel the...

Where True Heart Connection With Others Begins (as Told by a Recovering Love-Earner)

Published at Family Christian. It wasn’t wrong. A hard thing happened to someone I cared for, and I jumped at the opportunity to help...

Jesus’s Parable About the Kingdom of God

Published at She Reads Truth. I’m sipping my coffee and reading this chapter, and something inside me feels uncomfortable. Jesus didn’t...

How to See What’s New in Seasons We Think We Know

Published at Family Christian. In my house, Easter does not mean new dresses — it means the replenishment of khakis, as every year finds...

How the Lie of Perfection Stunts Spiritual Growth

Published at Family Christian. I first tasted the lure of perfection in first grade at my tiny Christian school. At the end of the school...

How to Move Forward When You Feel Stuck

Published at Family Christian. I’m blow-drying my hair, venting to Jesus (again) about the hurt that’s been haunting my heart for years...

4 Simple Ways to Make Room for Jesus this Christmas

Published at Family Christian. I light the green balsam-scented candle on my kitchen island, settle onto the stool at the counter with my...

Give Thanks in Plenty and in Want

Published at She Reads Truth, Giving Thanks Reading Plan. I admit, I’m a sucker for any reel or caption that starts with “learn the...

Deborah Judges Israel

Published at She Reads Truth, Judges Reading Plan. In my soccer-loving family, one of our post-game rituals on the ride home is the...

God Has Not Rejected His People

Published at She Reads Truth, Romans Reading Plan. Back in my big hair days, one of the challenges of going to church camp was that we...

Opposition to Amos’s Prophecy

Published at She Reads Truth, Amos Reading Plan. There’s a quiet battle going on in my house. As my middle son inches toward standing at...

How Seeing Less with Our Eyes Invites Us to See More with Our Souls

Published at (in)courage. It’s morning, so I unfold from my blankets and walk my still-pajama’d self down the stairs for coffee. On the...

How to Find Rest When Wounds Surface Uninvited

Published at (in)courage. It was the oversized canvas beach bag with the red straps that finally forced me to admit it. My husband went...

Our Wounds, Our Offering

Published by Rachael Adams in The Love Offering Series. It was on an out-and-about kind of day, filled with errands and meetings and...

How to Be Grateful Even for the Broken Things

Published by Twyla Dawn Franz in the Begin Within: A Gratitude Series. It’s been fifteen years since I learned that God doesn’t throw...

Finding Belonging Even When We're Not Chosen

Published by Sarah K. Butterfield in the Out of Place series. Just weeks before high school started, we left a bustle-y, colorful South...

Holy Conformity Won't Do

Published in the Anticipation issue of Fathom Mag. It stuck out, an anomaly. In the collection of toothpick-thin pine trees, one tree...

Five Ways to Combat Christian Complacency

Published by Sarah Koontz for Living By Design. As winter drags its feet and the fluff on my slippers wears thin, I’m often tempted to...

Hi, I'm the Preacher's Daughter: How I Exploited that Label

Published in the Language issue of Fathom Mag. I was eight or nine, maybe ten. I remember the day, because a playdate outside the...

The Brave Fight to Hear God Louder

Published by Becky Beresford for the Brave Women Series. When I was in grade school, I counted the days in between visits to the roller...

When Rejection Crowds Out the Rest of the Story

Published at (in)courage. I was eleven when we moved from a rural town nestled in Amish Country, Pennsylvania with its roadside stands...

Will You Run the Race Set Before You?

Published by Revelation Wellness. There was a pit of unsettledness in my stomach, a sort of vague uneasiness that bubbled up uninvited,...