Your Story Is Far From Over
There’s this game I like to play and it never fails to catch people by surprise. Here’s how it works: I invite someone to grab coffee and once we’ve found a comfortable seat, our hands wrapped around a cup of something delicious, I look into their eyes and say these...
When Your Prayers Go (Seemingly) Unanswered
Isabella Morganthal, author and founder of a magazine for young girls, has a lot of wisdom for her twenty years. If you’ve read Chapter 1 (Questions & Answers) of Even If Not, you’ll understand why I smiled real big when reading her words below, the...
We’re All Just Walking Each Other Home
It was late afternoon on a Sunday afternoon when I made the mistake of looking up. The coffee shop was silent, all eyes were on me, and I’m pretty sure you could have heard a pin drop if one actually did, you know, drop. I held a crisp, white and silver book in my...
If Your Life Is as Silent as Saturday
Good Friday: The very worst, terrible, horrific and dark day in history. Saturday: The in between of silence and confusion. Sunday: The resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fulfillment of promises-kept, the most joyful day known to man. The more I sit and think about...
Small Is a Present, Not a Punishment
I struggle with the idea of being small. Without realizing it, somewhere along the way being small began to mean being invisible, unseen, and unknown. As someone who longs to be fully known and yet still fully loved, smallness seemed like a punishment and something to...
A book for the broken hopefuls… Even If Not: Living, Loving, and Learning in the in Between
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