Common-sense grace for the try-hard girl
If we’ve ever met for coffee in real life, you’ve heard me say, “I heard on a podcast once…” Podcasts just might be my love language. I’ve wanted to start my own for years, but the timing never felt quite right. It wasn’t fear or lack of technical knowledge that stopped me from launching a […]
As a new wife, I wanted to make an edible dinner for two. So like any normal person, I started honing my cooking skills with a French onion soup recipe. How hard could soup be– don’t you just pour things from cans into a pot? The recipe wasn’t complicated, but I didn’t have the ingredients […]
You’ve got a vision for this next year: you want to look more and more like Christ. So if you’re ready to shed all that entangles you so you can run the race God has set before you, these picked-just-for-you podcast episodes will be immensely helpful. The Lazy Genius: Episode: #87 The Lazy Genius Guide […]
When I first read Melissa’s book Eat Cake. Be Brave*, I knew — just knew — that you would cherish her wisdom and sense of humor. Melissa is a former session singer in Nashville, and is now a wife, mom, speaker, writer, vlogger, and all-around hilarious woman back in Texas. She’s struggled with infertility, body […]
Sweet reader friends, I don’t allow just anyone the keys to the blog, but in my friend Lea Turner, you’ll find someone kind, trustworthy, and wired just like you. Lea and her husband are raising five children in Mississippi so if she knows what it’s like to have a house that’s more loud than quiet […]
My body isn’t what it used to be. It doesn’t look or behave like it did when I was 20 because — not shockingly — people change as they age. But when it’s your body, these changes are shocking and totally unwelcome. When I see age spots and cellulite, when I hear my knees crunch, […]
Back-to-school meant back-to-stress for me. In elementary school, I stressed about what teacher I’d get. In junior high, I worried about whether I’d have friends in my classes, who I’d eat lunch with, and how my Aqua-Netted hair could possibly stay in place despite the Houston humidity… and gravity itself. In high school, I stressed […]
For the past two years, you’ve heard about him, seen pictures of him on Instagram, and felt his behind-the-scenes influence on the blog. Well, today, I interview my husband Ryan about three ways spouses can connect on a deeper level, what every husband of a try-hard girl should know, how he makes time for our […]
This letter is for any mama who’s been on bed rest or has a medical diagnosis that keeps her from doing what she thinks she should be doing. However, it’s also for any mom who struggles with finding her identity in what she does for her children. If you’re struggling as a mama, I’ve created […]
When our oldest was in kindergarten, I was one busy woman doing for God. I was on staff at our church as the children’s pastor and the room mom for our older daughter. I attended one Bible study group while leading another. It was a season of doing All The Things. Today, I do less. […]
