"Think of the most beautiful sunset you've ever seen: The God of the universe wouldn't create a sunset like that if He didn't want...

"I'll believe it when I see it." - Thomas, Jesus's disciple  The Bible doesn't tell us much about Thomas. He was one of Jesus's twelve...

"There is something to be said about creating space to grieve and process traumatic events and circumstances, but when we allow for it to...

I'm a dreamer but the weirdest kind. I dream about the mundane pieces of life. For instance (and this drives my fiancé crazy), I have my...

"You can't fireproof your house after it's burned down. It's physically and metaphorically impossible. But, you can rebuild and install...

"Do anything and everything you can do to let the light in this season. It works." I'm a Christmas fanatic. And when I say, "fanatic,"...

"When I was at my lowest, my spirit was at its strongest because God was holding me upright." On October 13, my chemo port was removed....

"I'm all about breast cancer awareness, but I'm not about exploiting survivors." When I visibly had cancer and was going through...

I have a confession: I don't read my Bible nearly as much as I should. I made a goal of reading through the whole Bible by the end of...

"To me—and this is the Sadie Lackey Translation—shiva is a time to shed the pain, sadness and baggage of who or what you have lost."...

It's our natural reaction to go to God for strength, but when that is our only prayer, we are missing out on experiencing the creativity...

"You're the luckiest unlucky person on the planet," she said. Last Friday, I took the entire day off for yearly check-ups. Ya know, the...

"We're doing life big now." When I was in the trenches of my cancer treatment, I daydreamed about the parties and celebrations we would...

"Faith doesn't create an absence of reality; It creates an absence of fear." Let's state the obvious: Cancer is scary. It's a...

I needed a chance to think about nothing before I had to think about everything. My pastor often says, "Change of pace plus change of...

"Everyone's world doesn't stop turning just because yours does." My cancer center is located on Georgetown University's campus, so as if...

The Maker of this day is on my side, and I will not let devastating circumstances overcome me. I've done a really good job of surrounding...

I'm slowly starting to understand that taking breaks and finding time for rest is very much okay, regardless of my to do list. I love a...

I'm sitting at a coffee shop this morning, and the CUTEST baby girl and her mom sat down at the table in front of me. This baby is the...

"No one—and certainly not God—will be mad at you for taking a moment to breathe." I'd like to preface this post by saying that I don't...