She called me her mentor tonight. Fear immediately seized me as I sat frozen while replaying the word in my head. Mentor, mentor, mentor. The moments where I failed to model the character of Christ flickered in my mind over and over again as…

A little over a mile off the coast of the San Fransisco bay stands the Alcatraz Prison on a small, singular island. The prison was notorious for being the penitentiary for the worst of the worst criminals during its hay day between the late…

In 1994 my mom bought a 6 disc CD player with three-foot speakers on each side. This historical piece of quality musical artistry defined my childhood in many ways. The following year, the American romance movie Waiting to Exhale directed by Forest Whitaker made…

I remember being a little girl on the top bunk in a bedroom shared with my sister thinking, I wonder if I’ll ever be a mom. I couldn’t have been more than eight or nine. I had the same thought a few years later…

 “What is the blessing of a battle?” “Why don’t I feel particularly blessed in this battle?” Maybe these are some questions running through your head when you saw this title. We may not always know the purpose in our pain at the time- and…

There is nothing more disorienting for an extrovert and enneagram 9 than having to be quarantined during a pandemic with limited contact with other humans. Add the fact that I am also a classroom teacher, and you can kind of feel the weight of…

Everyone I know is looking for hope right now. Yearning for a deeper meaning behind this pandemic, isolation, sickness, and these unprecedented moments. Some are reaching for the refrigerator door hoping food will calm them. Others are reaching for the counterfeit community through social…

I recently received a text from a close friend who is single. She told me how she is dreaming of the hugs she will be able to give and receive once this whole quarantine is over. My heart sank into my stomach. Then I…

It had been years since she even looked at me. I miss the days when she would depend on me, and put me first in her life. I was just collecting dust like all the other books on her shelf, but the difference is…

I began the journey of motherhood through primarily spiritually mothering college students. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was being a Paul-type figure. Paul, the spiritual father to so many in the first-century church, taught and admonished men and women to…