You do not need to stay loyal your suffering like a badge of honor. Let yourself feel your own light, your own progress, your own joy.

No one really talks about how strange it is to outgrow yourself. You work so hard to heal and move forward, and then one day you look back and realize you kind of miss who you were before everything changed. Even if that version of you was lost, scared, or unsure, she was still you.

Or a marathon, or an Ironman, or something of that nature.

The book is a collection of 40 stories about Howard Buffet's experiences, travels, and philanthropy around the globe. If you only had 40 chances to get it right, how would you spend them?

Jesus wasn’t nice. He is love. And not just love in a vague, poetic sense, but a radical, embodied, inconvenient, sacrificial love.

Please enjoy my list of my top 5 artists and their top 5 songs. What makes music great to me is how is can draw on experiences and emotions that we all share.

But here’s a truth I want you to hold close: in God’s eyes you were made to be here. Not by mistake, not because others need you, but because you matter intrinsically.

As summer comes to an end, I wanted to reflect a bit on the things I did, learned, unlearned, and enjoyed this summer.

Here’s my lineup of favorite NFL players — chosen with equal parts heart, bias, and fantasy football chaos.

And here’s the hard truth: fire makes people uncomfortable. Always has. Always will. When we let Christ’s fire take root in us, it will not always be received kindly. Sometimes, living with conviction unsettles others. Jesus even warned us that His fire would cause division.

At its heart, the book is about more than farming. It is about the courage to question the way things have always been done and the persistence to build something better.

And even now, as a grown-up with no school supplies list to follow, August still tugs on those same strings — part closing chapter, part clean slate.

The fair is one of those rare things that still holds a whole community in one place, at one time, with one goal: to show up for each other. It doesn’t get more genuine than that.

It’s not about doing the most. It’s not about having the perfect schedule or the perfect words. It’s just about showing up.

Here’s what’s been keeping my head up and my heart soft lately — no fluff, just the good stuff.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but ranch life was teaching me more than just how to work hard. It was teaching me how to live well. A lot of it comes down to just showing up for those in need.

We are halfway through the year and I am not the person I thought I would be. I am not in the place I had planned on. I have different people in my life than who I thought. But I am here. I am embracing every minute of the sunshine during these long days of summer.

I catch myself doing it all the time — holding a microscope to my flaws, my failures, my “not enoughs.”

Please understand that I’m not here because I have all the answers. I’m here because I believe we should all share what we are thinking and that there’s something sacred in paying attention — to God, to people, to the ordinary