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You’ll Never Throw THIS Book Across the Room (here’s why)
I love comfort reads. For most of my life, I've been an escape reader. Whenever I've felt too anxious or stressed or overwhelmed, I've lost myself in a book. And we're talking LOSING myself in a book. I'd pick up a book, planning to read for fifteen minutes to settle...
Cut Out For This
"I'm not cut out for this," a voice screams in the back of my mind. "I'm not good at this. I'm making a mistake." My heart beats hard, like a bird frantically flapping its wings to avoid a fall. Air catches in my lungs. "I can't breathe. I need to quit." I'm sure a...
Why Christians NEED Whimsy
I’m reading this book called Strange Fire, and it’s about how important supernatural stuff is to the Christian walk. I’m really glad I’m reading it, but the book has one idea that I don’t agree with: it implies that God isn’t whimsical. What is whimsy? I don’t know...
The Cure for Self-Hatred
When there's a parade of stupid stuff I’ve said and done, ways I've hurt people, and rampant memories of sin dancing across my mental landscape…it’s easy to hate myself. Or even just a few things about myself. But as I've wrestled with this lately, I realized there's...
My Miraculous Journey to College
I didn’t expect to go from a homeschooled wannabe writer to an author whose writing has been read in almost fifty countries before I’ve even graduated college. I didn’t plan to go straight from my high school graduation to two years of a rigorous college-level writing...
Burn your fear of FAILURE
When you’re afraid of failure, it makes sense to not even try. I used to do this all the time. When I was eleven, I wanted to be Clara in the Nutcracker. I'd just finished playing a “cavalry soldier” in the Ballet Arkansas presentation of Nutcracker and I knew I had...
Burn Your Fear of ABANDONMENT
I grew up with an intense fear of abandonment. I was one of those kids who clung to my mom when she wanted to walk out the door, especially if it involved a weekend away. And that was because when I was little, I was in some unsafe situations that weren't great for...