Counterfeit Culture

“The culture that sells a counterfeit version of love also has to sell the numbing agents to keep us from recognizing the pain we’re in.” Christopher West’s quote from a recent podcast hits us in the heart. The reason is we have all grown more and more aware of our restless heart. We have all…

Guys don’t want a pure girl

Hearing that hurts, because it means that if guys don’t want a pure girl, we somehow have less worth. Because we have made a choice to uphold our dignity, see people and ourselves through a lens that seeks to love and not use another person, that we aren’t wanted, or worth being in a relationship…

Did I just see that?

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.” – Shakespeare I recently heard yet another story of an innocent Google search turning into an abyss of porn. One mistyped word in the search bar launched my friend into another world. With an estimated 370 million pornographic websites targeting millions of people, pornography is now…

I’ll Change Him

No, you won’t. You’re not that powerful. Sorry to burst your bubble. If you are anything like me, we can see the potential in people. I love seeing the IDEAL. I love seeing the good and beauty in their hearts! And I want them to reach their full potential. This is a good quality and…

We Have A Women Problem

How can women raise the standard for the way men treat women? There are few things as powerful as a woman who knows who she is and the beautiful love she was made for! Fulton Sheen says that: “To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a…

Why Our Present Matters

People today are more lonely than ever before. It’s safe to say, that at various points in our life, we have experienced loneliness. Imagine how many of our brothers and sisters experience loneliness as well! Loneliness is described as a state where one feels alone and nobody seems to care about who they are. It…

You Didn’t Deserve to be Abused

When I was a child, my mother always told me “If anybody ever touches you inappropriately, you need to tell me”. From that conversation, I at least understood my body was something I needed to safeguard and that it was possible for someone to cross a boundary. I never thought this someone would actually be…

Let’s be Friends; Navigating love in friendships

Let me begin by saying, I love love. I am a hopeless romantic who has always wanted to find that one person who makes me want to drop everything and climb Mt. Everest to profess my love for them from the highest peak on the planet. Desires like this are stamped on our hearts. Not…