I love God, people, and stories. I’m a 19 year old apprentice at The Company, where I write about being human and finding a way to belong.

It’s hard to feel like you’re always on the outside looking in. For a long time, I felt like an outsider. I didn’t even feel like I belonged with my family. But God is the great restorer! He’s gently turned my defeat and pain into something beautiful.

He’s also teaching me to live like his words are true. I used to wrestle with verses like “perfect love casts out all fear” (1 John 4:8), because I didn’t feel it. I didn’t see it. God is love (1 John 4:16), and he’s perfect, and he promises he’s with his followers. Perfect love was with me, so why did I still felt terror gripping every fiber of my being?

God’s shown me over and over again that his words are true. In the dewdrops, in the sunsets, in the quiet whispers to my soul as I sit amongst blades of grass…he’s true.

Every single human experiences raw life, but God has REAL power in that. 

My writing has been read in more than 30 countries so far and I aspire to write raw, impactful stories that spread light and belonging across the world. My first story published in print form is part of the Fantastical Summer Anthology, which The Pearl will release in May 2025.

(I’m also a Sonlight alumni, homeschooled from first grade to graduation.)