by Vella Karman | Feb 11, 2026 | Filling your life with LIGHT, Soli Deo Gloria
I listened to a sermon by Francis Chan this week. He talked about this verse in 1 Thessalonians that I hadn’t really thought about before. “aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you. In this...
by Vella Karman | Feb 4, 2026 | Fear, Filling your life with LIGHT
I try not to give advice anymore. I know that I don’t know what I’m doing. So, before you start reading, know that I’m not here to give you advice. I’m here to help YOU fill your life with LIGHT. And you know where that light comes from? Jesus....
by Alli Prince | Jan 28, 2026 | Filling your life with LIGHT, Guest Post
Grief is a funny thing, in the fact that it’s not really funny at all. No matter who you are, there’s at least one thing I know about you. You’ve experienced pain. You’ve been hurt. I know this because we live in a broken, fallen world. Because of...
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...
