It was over 4 years ago that God gave Jon and I a specific mission to plant a church in a little neighborhood called Southwest Waterfront D.C. At first we didn't want to go. How on earth was a newly married couple right out of Seminary supposed to plant a church in a place we … Continue reading The Church Planting Wife: When God’s Plans are Different
2 years! It's been 2 years since we moved to Washington D.C. with a hope and prayer of being able to plant Mercy Hill Church! Ya'll we moved here knowing no one (which I wouldn't suggest to anybody) and had no idea how to get a church off the ground. But God, He did! Despite … Continue reading Thoughts from a church planting wife: Year 2
It's been a year, a year since moving to this crazy wonderful city I now get to call home. Moving to the city was certainly a culture shock. Things like carrying your groceries home (aka only buying what you can carry with a kid in toe), to rarely using your car and thinking a 1 … Continue reading Thoughts from a Church Planting Wife: A Year In
You know the feeling when you left the hospital with your baby for the first time. So much wonder and fear as reality set in and you realized that this child is now looking to you to know how to care and provide for them. I remember my husband and I coming home that first … Continue reading A year into that mom life: 6 lessons I’ve learned this past year
Its been a little over two months since we made the move to D.C., and this morning I wanted to spend some time (in between saving my toilet paper roles from being completely unrolled and keeping my son from licking the toilet…why did the bathroom become such a cool place for my 10 month old … Continue reading Welcome to Washington D.C. : How I ended up in a place I never imagined calling home
Little did I know that the day I became a mom everything would change, and I mean EVERYTHING! I now have a little human that depends on me and it is wonderful and hard all at the same time. I found myself exhausted in those first few months. To be honest, I was barely functioning. … Continue reading How Motherhood has Changed my Relationship with God
Today I’m writing from my living room, where you will find my seven month old bouncing in his jungle themed bouncer, and you’ll find me on the couch with my laptop sipping a much needed cup of coffee (We started sleep training, aka I NEED MORE COFFEE) and holding onto a newly signed lease with … Continue reading Thoughts from a Church Planting wife
I can’t tell you how many countless nights in those first two months after our baby boy arrived, that I turned to my husband with the hopes of relaying to him how I felt about our marriage. With every attempt to put my feelings into words, all I could come up with was, “Our marriage … Continue reading How a baby changed my marriage
Love in my marriage doesn’t look like what my teenage self imagined… You always hear that love grows with age, and it does, it just looks completely different then what the movies and books portray. My younger self anticipated love to look like romantic dances in the kitchen to “our song,” sunset walks hand in … Continue reading So this is Love…
As Christmas time approaches, things seem to get uncontrollably busy. There are parties to go to, people to buy for, and family to visit. Sometimes the week of Christmas can become a whirlwind of events in which our focus turns off of Christ and onto either a list of to-dos, our wants, or our complaints. I … Continue reading A Christmas Tradition Worth Keeping
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