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Guest Post: At The Well

Hello, you beautiful creature you! You’ll find the newest ‘Hide It In Your Heart’ post here, At The Well

Designs, Faith, Guest Post, Quotes and Scriptures

52 Little Lines with Big Benefits

52 Little Lines with Big Benefits

The weight of our words carry the very power of life and death in their grasp. We have the ability to make or break the little lives that have been entrusted to us. But sadly, and too often, hurtful, thoughtless, harsh words tumble from my lips.  And sure enough, it is my precious children who see and hear the worst… Read More

Daily Life, Faith, Family

Guest Post: Inner Fulfillment

{click here to read it} It’s the first post I ever wrote on this blog, in February of 2011. It’s about his grace and goodness, in the midst of my mess. And it’s even truer today than it was then.

Faith, Guest Post

A New Thing: At The Well

I’m guest posting over in At The Well today… {Get your bible memorization on!}

Designs, Faith, Quotes and Scriptures

The Lessons Wii Learn

She stands.  10 little toes perched sweetly atop my new cutting board. Sure, it was intended for chopping veggies on, but it is fast becoming the cutest balance board on the block. She’s ready and rearing to go.  It’s time for our weekly Wii date, and it’s quite possible I’ve grown to enjoy this date even more than she.  It’s… Read More

Faith

Revisit: Discombobulated

You’ll find a previous post of mine over at Inner Fulfillment today…

Faith, Guest Post

Messy.

The vacation bag sits.  Unpacked. Totes still sit, in this corner and that, filled with papers, cords and frames without a home.  Sitting, since our move last May. Dust collects.  Colonies of bunnies abound. Handprints multiply on unwashed windows, giving an almost 3D appearance to the greasy forms. Dirty laundry piles grow outside of laundry baskets.  Clean laundry usurping their… Read More

Faith

At The Well, Guest Post

God has a {massive} crush on you.  Did you know that? It’s the wildest, most outrageously sacrificial love you could ever imagine…   {click here to read more on At The Well}

Designs, Faith, Guest Post, Quotes and Scriptures

Audience of One

I love discovering things I’m good at. Like eating…in private {in the wee hours of the morning}.  Speaking…in public.  Baking…oatmeal.  Designing things with polka dots and swirls.  Dancing to Owl City in my pajamas.  Kissing boo boos.  Writing deep thoughts about venison.  You know, the important stuff. And as it turns out, I’m not too fond of not being good… Read More

Faith, Grace

Re-Post: When You Can’t…

…see God’s hand, trust His heart. Over at Inner Fulfillment.

Faith, Grace, Guest Post, Keepin' it Real

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Real friendships bring out the best in you.  And, if they’re truly authentic connections with quality human beings, they will undoubtedly bring out the worst. I’ll never forget the time my best friend and I sat, puffy-eyed and frustrated, on opposite ends of my loveseat, allowing our emotions to bubble over and our disappointment in each other to surface.  We… Read More

Faith, Grace, Keepin' it Real

Hiding It In My Heart

I stink at reading my bible. There, I said it. Oh, and memorizing scripture?  Ha.  I have grandiose plans to…to type up my favorites scriptures, post them around my house {on the bathroom mirror, by the kitchen sink, etc.}, and “chew” on them throughout the day… But, as I mentioned, I stink at consistently getting into The Word, and that… Read More

Designs, Faith, Guest Post, Quotes and Scriptures

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May you remember that God is not only the God of d May you remember that God is not only
the God of destinations, but of detours.

When life takes you somewhere you never intended to go,
may you recognize that you have not been forgotten.

May you have eyes to see the people in front of you,
hands willing to gather the sticks,
courage to shake off the snakes,
a heart willing to welcome and be welcomed,
and faith to believe that even here,
especially here, God is at work.
What if the place you keep calling a detour is act What if the place you keep calling a detour is actually part of the story?

Paul was headed to Rome. Instead, he ended up shipwrecked on Malta.
It wasn't the destination. But it mattered.

A reminder for all of us: don't waste the waiting,
the detour, or the place you didn't choose.

🎙️ 042 | Make Malta Matter | Finding Purpose in Divine Detours
  The latest Oh, Good Grief Podcast episode is out now.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #MakeMaltaMatter #SimplyBloomCo
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What if the years you thought were wasted… weren't What if the years you thought were wasted…
weren't wasted at all?

In Part 2 of my conversation with Leah Harvey,
we go deeper into what it means to trust
God when the outcome is still unknown.

Leah has spent years carrying the ache of infertility,
and she doesn't offer a tidy answer or a spiritual shortcut.

Instead, she talks about restoration.
About eternity.
About choosing Jesus over her preference.
About looking for treasure in the middle of the story.

And about the surprising realization that there
may not have been wasted years after all,
because God was present in every one of them.

He is.
Even here.
Even now.

🎧 Part Two with Leah Harvey is live now.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #StruggleWell #StayRooted #SojournTogether
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What if trusting that God is good doesn't mean bel What if trusting that God is good doesn't mean
believing He will give us everything we ask for?

That's one of the questions my friend Leah Harvey
and I wrestle with in this week's episode.

Leah and her hubby, Jake, have walked through years
of infertility and the kind of unanswered prayer that
doesn't just hurt once—it asks you to keep
trusting God over and over again.

We talk about grief, surrender, the questions we sometimes feel afraid to ask, and what happens when we stop trying to put tidy answers over messy pain.

This is a tender conversation about choosing Jesus over our preferences, embracing the mystery of God, and learning to believe that His goodness doesn't depend on whether He gives us the thing we're asking for.

Part One of my conversation with Leah Harvey is live now
🎧  040 | The Goodness of God in the Waiting

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #StruggleWell #StayRooted #SojournTogether
Before the world told you who you needed to become Before the world told you who you needed to become...
Before fear taught you how to survive...
Before shame convinced you to hide...
God looked at you and called you His own.

Not because you had healed.
Not because you had figured yourself out.
Not because you had become your best self.
Simply because you were His.

You are still becoming.
And you are already loved.

Keep coming home.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #SimplyBloomCo
What if the goal isn't to become a different type, What if the goal isn't to become a different type,
but to become more fully yourself?

We've spent the last several weeks exploring the Enneagram:
our gifts, wounds, coping strategies, and the stories we
learned to believe in order to survive.

Now it's time to come home.

Episode 039 closes this Summer Series by asking
what happens when self-awareness becomes surrender.

The Enneagram can help us understand our patterns.
But it was never meant to become our identity.

You are not your number.
You are not your trauma.
You are not your coping strategy.

You are a beloved child of God.

🎧 Oh, Good Grief — Episode 039 is available now.
Sitting on the front porch with a cup of coffee, m Sitting on the front porch with a cup of coffee, my Bible and a book of maps in my lap, and the sun on my face, has me thinking about how strange and beautiful life can be.

It’s no small honor to be given the opportunity to preach at our church from time to time. Had you told the broken, shoplifting, lying, giving-her-body-away-for-free teenage girl I once was that one day she’d stand in a pulpit and talk to people about God’s goodness and grace, I would have laughed at you.

But maybe that’s exactly why God delights in using the messy, the unlikely, the misfits. Because these are the stories that make His redemption impossible to miss.

One of my favorite lines from The Chosen, spoken by Mary Magdalene, sums it up perfectly: “I was one way, and now I am completely different. And the thing that happened in between was Him.”

That’s my story, too.
And if I were to hazard a guess, it's yours as well.

It’s one of my greatest joys to dig into God’s Word, share what He’s laid on my heart, offer some encouragement and conviction, confess the uncomfortable things, and ultimately point people back to Jesus.

Because there’s no denying the extraordinary power of redemption when you’ve lived it yourself.
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