The mellow evening sun sinking toward the horizon, like a drop of blazing gold. The swish of long green wheat blades in the front hayfield. The red-chestnut glow off my horse's sorrel coat, the delicious scent of clean dirt and new leaves, the shrill of red-winged blackbirds in the marsh. All of this - this is home.
Read MoreI spent a week in May on my first roadtrip ever. Well, my first real one - the kind where you drive hours every day, covering thousands of miles in just a week, bunking in hotels in random towns while seeing the sights along the way. My dear sister-in-law Emily was kind enough to let me join a leg of her huge loop around the United States, and it was amazing.
Read MoreTo many nonbelievers and former churchgoers, the best way to describe the church is that it's full of "self righteous" and "hypocritical" people who preach a better game than they practice, and then expect far more of those around them. Maybe they're right, in some cases - although as a lifelong Christian and churchgoer I have yet to find nearly as many holier-than-thou people in the church as they'd like you to believe. What I have found more of, unfortunately, is the kind of people I might describe as "holier than God."
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a Pacific Northwest-native writer, photographer, and Bible nerd with a lot of big ideas and a never-ending sense of homesick. Here, in words and in images, I process my inmost thoughts and invite you along on my lifelong pursuit of truth + beauty - ever inspired and sustained by the changeless nature of my beautiful God, and by the hope He offers in His Story.
