Summer Camp Stories {31 Days}

God used a summer camp called Sooner Bible Camp so much in my life. That’s where you could find me every summer at the beginning of June from fourth through twelfth grade. As we’d drive down to the camp in Oklahoma, we’d be bouncing up and down in the van watching through the trees for […]

Living Faith in the Face of Death {31 Days}

Before I turned 14 death wasn’t very real to me. But that changed. I loved playing basketball on a homeschool team. I built so many friendships. There weren’t many Kansas teams, so we traveled far to play each other often. Many families involved followed Christ, so we became a close-knit community. My freshman year our […]

A Turning Point {31 Days}

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy. One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet. Proverbs 27:5-7 Have you ever been jarred awake by the confrontation of a friend? It’s shocking, but if […]

Gods of Idolatry {31 Days}

In my last post I referred to people pleasing as an idol I worship. Today I’m writing about when God showed me the truth of idolatry in my life. I was 14. Instant messaging was popular but my dad didn’t feel like it was safe (because of online ambiguity). But mentally I justified chatting with […]

The Root of Untruths {31 Days}

It doesn’t take much to hurt a preteen girl in a way that sticks for a long time. At that age you just want to please people and to fit in. Recently God showed me that some fears I wrestle with come from wounds I received as a girl. As I’ve been digging deep I’ve […]

Strength in God’s Comfort {31 Days}

When I was 11, my mom had twin boys. She had prayed for them, and God answered, “Yes.” Those twins are number 6 and 7 in our family of 9 kids where I’m the oldest. They just moved away from home this year for school. Of all my siblings, these two are the first to […]

Moments of Surrender {31 Days}

Have you ever heard of Isobel Kuhn? She served as a missionary in China for 26 years in the early 20th century. But she didn’t start out on fire for God. Her parents followed Christ but she rejected their faith in college until God revealed himself to her and she surrendered to him. She wrote […]

Writing from the Heart {31 Days}

One night when I was about 9 I got to dress my curly-red-headed little sister for bed. I felt so grown up. She was a mischievous stinker who could get away with murder because we adored her. That evening, my mom handed me a fat pink book with a lock and key. “What’s this?” I […]

Books…They’re Good for the Soul {31 Days}

Sometimes a book sticks with you your whole life. By the time I was a teenager I had read nearly all of Janette Oke’s Christian fiction novels. Over and over again. And my mom got me into it with one book. Once Upon a Summer. It’s about a boy named Josh who is incredibly ordinary. […]

God’s Living Word {31 Days}

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when […]