Tonight as I sat on my bed, beginning my nightly prayer and Psalm reading, I just started talking to Jesus. I confessed that the past few days I haven't been praying as much as I would like to, and asked Him if there was anything in my heart that I hadn't surrendered. I didn't really feel Him put anything specific on my heart after being quiet for a little bit, so I went ahead, opened my Bible, and read the Psalm I was on for the day. This post, like many, is me processing with the Lord what...

When I first moved to college and had my first taste of college classes, I was incredibly overwhelmed. I felt defeated already by not quickly making friends, and my high achieving self set unrealistic expectations for my class perfomance. Within the first month of classes, I felt like all I did was homework - when I wasn't in class, working, or in a Bible study. I spent hours taking the most thorough, comprehensive notes you've ever seen, convinced that was what I needed to do well and...

As we're a little less than a week out from Easter, I'd love to take this week's post as an opportunity to slow down and truly reflect on why Easter matters. Growing up as a "church kid," I always knew that Easter was about Jesus dying on the cross for our sins, and then resurrecting from the grave, defeating death. And that's absolutely true, but sometimes, when you hear it for so long, it's easy for that message to lose it's power - which it never should. Year round, we need to fix our eyes...