God gave my word for 2021, and it’s ABUNDANCE. I am so excited to see how God manifest His abundant goodness in this new year. I am equally excited to see I can serve others first to accomplish the fullness of this word and it’s depth in my life. In regard to this, I’m reminded of how much words impact others and how they impact me. So I’m offering a friendly reminder that words hurt, so offer them intentionally and kindly only as you’d like them to be offered to you.

why do we do New Years resolutions when we have the opportunity to change and be better than we were yesterday.. everyday? Instead of resolutions I now choose a word. A word that God gives me for the year that shapes the way I approach things and people and choices. For 2020 it was Clarity, what will 2021 bring?

Okayyyy, so everyone always asks why bad things happen to good people, or why God allows such hardship. I just got gospel smacked by the truth of this difficult question, so I am now going to do my best to convey it to you as it was just laid out for me. Today - let’s rest in and dive into Matthew 13:24-29.

Church hurt shouldn’t be a thing. But since it is, let’s chat about it. People walk away from the gospel for all kinds of reasons but I think being burned by the church is way too big of one. So let’s have a chat about how humanity occasionally does a real bad job of being like Jesus, and how we are getting in the way of Gods work when we act like idiots trying to be God and think we can do the work better than He can. Oh, and if you’re thinking, but Emily you love Jesus, you’ve never known church hurt. Do I ever have a story for you.

Let’s talk about how I came to Jesus, how good God is and all the things. In light of Christmas coming up, I think it’s only fair to chat about my fav ABBA Father for a bit. The last few episodes were hard to share, harder to live and probably hard to hear. So time for Joy. And the best joy I know is Jesus. Don’t forget you guys, if you’re not dead, Gods not done.

I can’t possibly be the only one that’s had something happen, or in my case, a lot of events happen that drastically change, limit or alter my life in ways I can’t return or rewind. I’ve had so much taken from me without my permission.. so I think it’s time we have a conversation about that stuff, and how the hell you say goodbye to a life you never got to have.

I’m a mess, day in and day out. Sometimes it’s not so bad, sometimes it’s worse and sometimes it’s somewhere in the middle and I just shoot and hope I don’t miss ya know? So if you want to know a little bit of the ins and outs of being me.. here ya go.

I figured I’d give y’all a little background (the very short and condensed version) on me and all the things chronic illnesses. It’s long overdue, but will hopefully help you understand who I am and what I’m dealing with. This is part one, so stick around for part 2 next week.

Just because you can see through something doesn’t make it clear does it? We are all so busy judging and deciding what is true, we forget that our perception isn’t always reality. So let’s all take a step back from playing judge and jury shall we?

Let’s have a conversation about body shaming, body dysmorphia, eating disorders, unsolicited opinions, modeling and all the other things. I’m tired of the shaming and the feelings of loneliness or isolation that comes with all things body. So after being prompted many times this week, we are gonna talk about it.