A year ago, I was in Romania, full of chocolatey pastries and anxiety. I expected big things: from God, from myself, from Europe. But my anxiety only threatened to stop me, and there were days I let it. One morning…

  My heart is racing as I write this. It is absolutely NO fun to expose yourself for all you are. But what’s worse is allowing the fear to keep you hidden. Hi. My name is Sarah, and I am…

On the night of December 24th–post-church service and pre-cookie binging–I opened a fortune cookie at the Mongolian grill restaurant, expectant of good news. “A loved one will soon call you from a distance.” Naturally, my imagination carried the words away…

“Can we just talk for a minute about how messy I actually am?” I scribbled across the lined pages, waiting for the wrath of God to pour down on me and to hear the words, “Yep, you’re right. You are…

Truth is, I woke up on January 1st–really late, mind you–and immediately the negativity poured into my brain. I shouldn’t have been surprised; it had happened the day before, though now the year before, but still: it was just a…

“Do you hear it, Sarah? Do you hear it? Listen to the words of love that are breathed and spun into the air. Let it sink into your bones.” How often do we take the time to just really listen?…

I’ve been “home” from my world travels for six months now, and the withdrawals only seem to get worse. I don’t know about you, but if you’ve ever traveled, and if you’ve ever understood the term wanderlust, maybe some of this…

You are going to be ok. Kid, you’re gonna get through this. Regardless of what your heart tells you—your ever racing, changing heart—stand firm on the truths that you know. Let’s back up. What are the truths that you know?…

Words have been swirling in my head for a while now, but my heart has stopped. There’s been a strange disconnect I’ve not experienced before, where words fail me. They’re not enough. That scares me. That scares me because I…