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TRAVEL
RELATIONSHIPS
A value of serving and helping others, no matter the cost to yourself, runs deep in my family.
There are unique challenges and also joys in being intimately known by someone very different from you.
LIFESTYLE
Considering how to thoughtfully engage with the world in a way that honours my own spiritual and emotional health.
Helping me navigate this season of fall-winter. Sharing my list to hopefully inspire you to consider yours.
Embracing the joys summer has to offer, while balancing making plans and entrusting it all to God.
FAMILY
Seeing how the Holy Spirit can fill the gap between my reality and God’s promise of peace.
We are trying to re-normalize what was once normal: A play-based childhood free of screens.
Giving space for the hard moments in pregnancy, while also thankful for the ways God provided and protected us.
FAITH
The Bible offers principles of work and rest to help us manage ourselves and thrive. God's presence, promises, and provision can transform how we understand true deep soul rest.
I needed a simple way to sit in the presence of God so that I could bring before him whatever I was facing and hopefully experience the peace of God.
Even our spiritual heroes get sidelined by sin. When they have seemingly failed to live up to the standard of the Christian life that God has called them to, what do we do?
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27 Life Lessons Learned in 27 Years
If you splash someone, be prepared to get splashed back.
Weddings humble me
It’s a weird thing to think and say, I know. But they do.
3 Major Health Changes This Past Year
These are the three biggest health changes that I begun 1 year ago and why I love them.
Faithfulness as a brand new mom
“But moment by moment I found myself uttering a prayer as desperate as the cries coming from our newborn: “I can’t do this Lord, I need your strength!” - Steph
Faithfulness in depression
“I was experiencing a death... Now any residual strength was gone - this was a place of pure surrender.” - Jen
Faithfulness in single parenting
“With my children, especially as a single parent, I feel to be faithful to God is my highest calling.” - Suzanne
Faithfulness in the teen years
Hannah shares how she faithfully follows Jesus as a teenager.
Faithfulness In Seasons - new series!
A new series on how to faithfully follow Jesus in the different seasons of life.
Why does rest feel so hard?
Feeling relationally drained is painful because as an extrovert I long to being with others. So being home alone and ‘resting’ when I feel at my lowest hurts. It’s hard. It’s lonely. I’m then forced to face the questions of, “why do I feel empty?”
Notable advice on marriage and mission
When someone is able to share from their own experience, a place of vulnerability - it creates a sacred space. As if time stood still in that coffee shop, Kathi impressed in me the importance of marrying a man who loved God and someone that I could serve alongside in ministry with in some way.
2 reminders I need to live my life offline
A device is needed to help us connect but shouldn't be replaced with real in-person interactions to do ALL our connecting. These are 2 reminders that I need in order to live my true and best life offline and in-person.
Doing Denmark one year later
A year ago I walked the streets of Denmark and my life was in a very different place. I walked those same streets a week ago and I was reminded of how much can change in a year. If the theme of last year was stress and re-direction, the theme of this year was growth and settling.
There is a cost & joy to a public life
I love writing and sharing my journey of healing and comfort by God with others. But it's hard and there's a very real cost to sharing your private life in the public sphere.
My top 5 articles of 2017
Some people often ask, "Erin I want to read what you've written!" Well, here are my top 5 articles that I wrote in 2017, based upon engagement and views with some behind-the-scenes info!
4 reasons why my love for winter is deeply spiritual
The way I respond to God changes my perception of that gift and my experience, though it doesn't change the gift itself, or the gift-giver. Embracing tough circumstances and heart pain with a tiny amount of thankfulness helps me remember that God is good and that he is in control.
When God clings onto me
I thought I was clinging to God in the world of dating, trusting him and seeking his path for my life. But I wasn't. In all honesty, it was God who was clinging to me.
The perfect fall getaway to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary.