Dear Anger, For a long time, I thought you were the problem. I thought you were the thing holding me back. The thing making me bitter. The thing keeping me stuck. But the truth is more complicated than that. You showed up when other things didn't. When comfort didn't come. When justice didn't come. When answers didn't come. You arrived and said, "If nobody is going to protect us, I will." And for that, I understand you. Because beneath every ounce of anger was hur

Rising Through The Fire Blog Series — Final Chapter There was a time I thought the fire was proof of failure. Proof that I wasn’t praying right. Proof that I wasn’t strong enough. Proof that I deserved what was happening. I used to look at my life and see trauma stacked so high it felt like identity. Depression. Grief. Spiritual confusion. Abandonment. Self-doubt. Faith that felt fractured. And somewhere in all of it, I started believing those things were me. Not experiences.

Breaking Through the Walls We Build Around Ourselves We’ve all been there. Standing at the base of a mountain that seems too steep to...