This post about fear is sponsored by Illustrated Faith. All opinions are my own. FEAR. It sneaks up on me sometimes. I'm all, "Yeah, I'm trusting God ... la la la..." and then bam, fear strikes! I find myself scared or nervous or worried. (Or all three!) Perhaps, in those moments, I don't really trust God as that much as I thought I did. Fear is a totally real thing, and it can strike at basically anytime. Whether you saw something on the news, or got a phone call with bad news, or perhaps you just started daydreaming about all that could go wrong. Fear and worry go hand-in-hand, and we all Continue Reading
Katchi Kapshida
I told you in a recent post that my time at the Allume blogging conference was different this year. Last year was all about community, and this year was more about time for me and God. Just the two of us. Except it wasn't just the two of us. There were three of us. Last year at Allume, I met Morgan from Living a Page Turner. I was so excited to meet her because she was first person I had met who was my age and in the same life stage as me. Morgan and I kept up with each other through our blogs, and when Allume rolled around this year she asked me to room with her at the hotel. I jumped at Continue Reading
Overcoming Fears & Living
There are two things I've always wanted to do, but at the age of 25 I still hadn't done them yet. I had even gotten the opportunity to do one of them a few months back, but because of fear I chickened out. I wanted to shoot a gun. Travis took me to a shooting range and I was excited to try it for the first time. But as soon as we got in the room, fear overtook me. I'm embarrassed to say so, but I didn't even touch the gun that day. I waited in the car. At the end of April, I went home to Indiana to spend a few weeks with my family while Travis was out in the field for training. During a Continue Reading