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

When the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt, God chose the prophet Moses to speak to His people and to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. I encourage you to read this scripture for yourself, it’s found in Exodus, but I will quickly paraphrase some of it.  Moses is immediately worried about how