by Vella Karman | Jan 14, 2026 | Filling your life with LIGHT
Everyone talks about BEING the light. But here’s the thing: that job is already taken. Jesus is already the light. It’s not our job to create some phosphorus substance so that we can glow. It’s not like we’re glow sticks and we have to rush...
by Vella Karman | Jan 7, 2026 | Belonging, Filling your life with LIGHT, Soli Deo Gloria
I remember standing in the Sunday school room. It was loud. For the fifteen minutes between parent drop-off and the start of the service, rules ceased to exist. It was like no one cared that we were elementary school kids now. It was a full-out, snot-flying frenzy....
by Vella Karman | Dec 17, 2025 | Bonfires & Stars, Filling your life with LIGHT
Candles flickered as I straightened my back, the picture of poise on my friend’s couch. I’d just been spilling out all my wedding planning woes, but now I needed to say something else, to share this vivid picture in my mind. “It’s like a...
by Vella Karman | Dec 4, 2025 | Book Reviews, Light over darkness
A year ago, a publishing company asked me to work on a special project. Shannon Dunn-Downing, the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in snowboarding, had written her memoir. And they wanted me to edit it. I was floored. Why it touched me… I write these...
by Vella Karman | Nov 19, 2025 | Author News
I accidentally started a no-makeup club. 2.1K people saw this short video I made about not wearing makeup. And their comments inspired me to actually go to my author photo session last Saturday without any on. I think they turned out well…but let’s see...
