We want it now. Western culture promotes as universal law the unproven notion that “faster is better.” We either learned this as children or failed to unlearn it. Either way, in almost every area of life, we dive headlong into speeding up anything we can: shopping, getting fit, paying bills, falling asleep, getting where we’re going, finding love. But human beings simply cannot live at lightening...
Fear Versus Love: A Reflection on Community
This is the fifth and last post in our series “Discovering God, Discovering Womanhood, Discovering Me,” written to help women learn more their relationship with God as they delve into what it means to be a woman of faith. To read the fourth post, click here. “Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . ...
Behind the Filter: I Let Social Media Consume Me, Now I’m Fighting Back
This is the fourth post in our series “Discovering God, Discovering Womanhood, Discovering Me,” written to help women learn more their relationship with God as they delve into what it means to be a woman of faith. To read the third post, click here. Looking back, I can honestly say there was a time where my phone could have been called my “best friend.” Think about it. It came with me...
Simple Gospel
This is the third post in our series “Discovering God, Discovering Womanhood, Discovering Me,” written to help women learn more their relationship with God as they delve into what it means to be a woman of faith. To read the second post, click here. “You are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). In that moment, there was a...
From the Shallow Waters of Perfectionism To a Deeper Love
This is the second post in our series “Discovering God, Discovering Womanhood, Discovering Me,” written to help women learn more their relationship with God as they delve into what it means to be a woman of faith. To read the first post, click here. I recently realized that even from very early on, I’ve had a desire to be perfect. Whether I was aware of it or not, I’ve...
Listening and Learning: Discovering the Truth About My Identity
This is the first post in our series “Discovering God, Discovering Womanhood, Discovering Me,” written to help women learn more about themselves and their relationship with God as they delve into what it means to be a woman of faith. Meaning. Identity. Purpose. What do these mean for women today? I used to let other people tell me who I was, and who I was supposed to be. Not always...