I just want to start off by saying that I am so grateful for your good intentions. I’m grateful for people who think to pray for me at all. I’m grateful that you care enough about me to want good things for me. But I also want you to know – because I care about… Continue reading Different Kinds of Prayers for the Single Person
I realized recently that because I’ve written so much about the challenges and struggles of being single that some people might have a certain perception of me. A perception that might not be entirely accurate. A perception that I am sad and miserable all the time – if not on the outside, then on the… Continue reading Is It Possible to Be Happy in My Single Years?
As many of you may know, I’m in the process of writing a book on the struggle & purpose of single seasons of life. Every so often, I share an excerpt from what I’ve been working on. This month, the excerpt comes from a section called “Our Counterfeit Solutions to Single Seasons of Life.” I… Continue reading The Lurking Lies of Lust
In a week, I turn 30 years old. It sounds strange even to me – the one who has felt “eternally in her mid-twenties” for so long. And yet, like the milestones of my past, I feel ready for the new chapter about to unfold – and excited for all that God will bring my… Continue reading The Thirty Manifesto {Purposeful Dreaming for the Best Decade Yet}
Western civilization has betrayed me. Disney love stories and Hollywood rom-coms have disillusioned me. American Christianity has disappointed me. They all promised me a husband – they all told me to put my hope in a filmy dream, a starry-eyed wish, a traditional ring on bended knee montage. And if that weren’t enough, the church… Continue reading When Hope Has Disappointed You
You are my deepest fear and my greatest longing. You are the ache in my bones that I can’t explain. You are the hope of cherished affection and sweet embraces. I am afraid to love you because every love in the past has failed me. Yet I am afraid to not know love because… Continue reading You Are My Greatest Fear
Hannah, mother of Samuel, who almost wasn’t a mother. Hannah, who has two chapters of the Bible dedicated to her story – yet two books named after her son, due to her faithfulness in dedicating him to God. Hannah, whose soul was deeply troubled by unfulfilled longings. I understand your pain, oh sister of old.… Continue reading The Bitterness of Hannah’s Tears
