Choose To Be Her

The photographer handed me a microphone and sat me on a stool in front of a background full of lens flares and neon. “You’re a star!” He told me. “Why don’t you sing [...]

Some things are hard to forget. It would take me five minutes to remember what I ate for lunch yesterday, but I can picture the vivid details of the day a classmate threw dirt in my face in 4th [...]

Have you ever tried to kick a bad habit? You know, the one that you’ve dealt with as long as you can remember? I began to bite my nails at age 5. Growing up, that was a habit I just could [...]

When I was 19 years old I had a straight up identity crisis. I was a freshman at the University of Alabama, loving college life and the new experiences. I was plucked right out of small town USA [...]

If you would have asked me 7 years ago what my life would look like at 25, the picture I would have painted wouldn’t look much like the one I’m living now. I would have said married, [...]

Fear. Fear of failure. Fear of being made fun of. Fear of doing the wrong thing. Fear of judgment. Fear of not measuring up to expectations. These are all fears that hinder us from becoming who [...]

The becoming journey is all about change. It’s a constant state of progressing, a resolve to be okay with an ever-changing self as we pursue the woman God has called us to be. And so it only [...]

I have a confession to make: 2016 was a hard year for me, one that seemed to include far deeper valleys than peaks. In March, I experienced the difficult end of a three-year relationship and said [...]

As a 24 year old girl, it is hard to fully identify who I am. In church, we are told to put our identity in Christ; but that is easier said than done, right? Often, I identify myself as the [...]

Last December I was preparing to make my second cross country move from the fabulous city of Las Vegas to sunny Florida. As I made my game plan, I knew I didn’t want to make the 2,233-mile [...]