In my household, it’s rare for bananas to get overripe. The brown banana you see above had to be set aside for the purpose of this picture. My husband’s favourite FOOD (not just fruit) is bananas. On the rare occurrences that a bunch of bananas become overripened, they either go

To kick off the Love Encompassing blog for 2025, this is the beginning of a year-long series about the fruit of the Spirit. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong

It’s the end of the year and the beginning of the next, a time of goals and reflection. I recently had an epiphany of sorts that I wanted to share that can be summarized by something my husband frequently says to me. Altered from Bruce Lee’s original quote, my husband

Recently, my best friends and I watched The Lorax, and a quote stuck out to us that I have thought about nearly every day since: “a tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.” Because it has been on my mind so much, I took that

Eleven years ago, I attended an Acquire The Fire youth conference. Recently, I came across my notebook from that event. It was interesting to see what my struggles were back then and what I was learning. I would have been 15 years old, and I was in my poetry writing

I turned 26 this month and I’m still waiting for that moment where it really hits me that I’m a grown up… it didn’t happen when I had the freedom a driver’s license offers, or when I graduated university, or even when I got married. As a kid, I always