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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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What My Grandma Teaches Me
A value of serving and helping others, no matter the cost to yourself, runs deep in my family.
Do you want to be my friend? How to find and maintain friendships in my 30s
Four questions I’m using to gauge which people to invest in.
The weight of words in relationship conflict and repair
Moving towards others in love to repair after there’s been a rupture.
Laying down my outrage
Can I love even those who seem impossible to love?
Learning how to pull back
There’s a time to speak and a time to keep silent.
Happy Birthday to my guy
Birthday tributes for B.
How to choose long term friends
Letting go and choosing wisely.
The hard and holy work of marital unity
“Oneness” comes at a cost to myself.
B + E | We are newlyweds
Anecdotes of newlywed life.
Lessons in cross cultural dating
There are unique challenges and also joys in being intimately known by someone very different from you.
Weddings humble me
It’s a weird thing to think and say, I know. But they do.
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.
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!
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.
Returning to the mountains: I am new.
Thankful for her || S. Alexandra
Why Unmet Desires are Good
Unmet desires (and the associated pain) force us into a place of deep surrender and humility before God. They remind us that our true hope is in Jesus and how he supplies all our needs in every moment. The growth and likeness of Christ that come when we learn how to surrender and to humble ourselves before God and others. That's growth God desires in us every day to make us more like him.
The perfect fall getaway to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary.