From everyday striving to creative communion…
Building a life that reflects God’s glory At home, In the marketplace, and beyond.
We Were Made to Create With God
What you create has a voice, and when you do it for His glory it becomes an avenue, a portal, through which He can move.
When God Starts Decluttering You
Sometimes you feel like you're taking 20 steps backwards, when spiritually, emotionally, and mentally God says you're actually moving forward by leaps and bounds.
How to Overcome Creative Block as a Christian Creative
I want to encourage you to resist the temptation to believe that something is broken in you or that you're deficient in some way. Creativity is at the very core of who you are because you were made in God's image. Even if you aren’t artistic like me, that is not the only definition/marker of being creative. You ARE creative, and the Lord will continue to lead you in everything that you do if you continue to surrender to Him.
Receiving God’s Love
For many, receiving God's love feels difficult for many reasons, like guilt, shame, or a "performance-based" upbringing. But God doesn't just love freely; He makes His love easy to receive. It is a strategy of the enemy to convince us that God’s love actually does have conditions and prerequisites when it doesn’t.
Behind the Art: New Creation/Living Waters
This painting represents the process that we go through both when we first give our lives to Christ, and even in cycles throughout the rest of our lives. When we make the decision to surrender our lives to the Lord, it initiates a spiritual and supernatural transformation within us.
Trust God in the Process
I used to believe that ‘trusting the process’ in life meant that you needed to react and handle everything perfectly—otherwise you weren’t really doing it right...Now, I realize that trusting the process has a lot more to do with surrender to God than with anything else."
God Can Do ‘Much’ With Your ‘Little’
We talk about rejecting hustle culture, yet find ourselves jumping right back on the hamster wheel. If we do everything in our own strength, what room is there to trust God?
Progress Over Perfection
You (and I) have permission to keep trying, keep progressing forward, and keep celebrating the milestones along the way, until finally one day it becomes so second nature and you look back with joy at the journey that got your there.
2026 Goal Setting Guide: A Plan for the Overwhelmed Dreamer
Looking at a full 365 days is too much for my brain to handle all at once... It feels so much more manageable to ask, 'What can I do in the next 12 weeks?' rather than 'What do I need to finish by next December?
I Didn't Accomplish Most of My 2025 Goals
I nearly fell into the trap—focusing so much on the 'tangible' things that didn't happen that I almost missed the opportunity to celebrate the necessary growth and foundation that was laid.
cre·a·tive com·mu·nion
/krē-ˈā-tiv kə-ˈmyü-nyən/
noun
Creating from intimacy and vulnerability with God—with ease, rest, and security in His presence, which then naturally results in the manifestation of His glory.
