by Ally Golden | Mar 23, 2021 | Life Advice, Wisdom |
“If only I had what she had, then I would be happier.”
“I wish I was that loved, it looks like everyone loves her so much.”
“It looks like that is working out for her really well, why does nothing ever work out like that for me?”
“They always like, comment on, and re-share her photos, they must like her more than me.”
“Wow, she has got it all together all the time and I just feel like a mess all the time.”
These thoughts above are thoughts that I have struggled with in my life. I am not proud of these thoughts in any way. But at a point in my life, I have thought them, they consumed my mind and took away my joy. They say, “comparison is the thief of joy,” and I have come to realize that it is Satan who is the thief of Joy and he does all that he can to try and make us believe that what we have isn’t enough.
Satan who makes us fall into comparison is the true thief of joy.
So how do we do it? How do we escape from comparison? How do we be women who encourage and uplift other women no matter what our circumstances may be?
We fall before the feet of Jesus Every. Single. Day.
We ask Him to show us the areas in which we have made ourselves the center. We repent of those things and we ask him to invade our hearts and be at the center of all that we do.
Comparison cannot be overcome without the One who has overcome it all.
It is so much easier said than done though, right? One minute we are reading the word of God and feel seen and known by Him. The next minute we are scrolling on social media consuming our minds with content that makes us feel like we are less than. It is a vicious cycle and one that we will always need to be ready to go to battle with. Our battle with comparison belongs to God.
Let’s equip ourselves with scripture to ground and strengthen us when we catch ourselves falling into moments of comparison:
“Love is large and incredibly patient. Love is gentle and consistently kind to all. It refuses to be jealous when blessing comes to someone else. Love does not brag about one’s achievements nor inflate its own importance.” (1 Corinthians 13:4 TPT)
When they get what you wanted. When she gets the job instead of you. When they get what you feel like you’ve been waiting for your whole life. When it seems like the stars are aligning perfectly for them and all you want is for two stars to align for you. Love refuses to be jealous when blessing comes to someone else. On our own, we can not fully love in such a way as this. But with the strength of Christ, reading and reminding ourselves of this scripture, and making Him the center of our hearts, He begins to transform us.
“We have become his poetry, a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it!” (Ephesians 2:10 TPT)
Friend, God has His perfect plan for you that is going to be different than His perfect plan for them. We live in a time where our minds are bombarded with what everyone else is up to and doing. Our selfish flesh begins to desire what the world defines as “making it.” But what our flesh desires usually doesn’t line up with what God desires for our life. In the moment, it is hard to see when someone gets something we are desiring. But know and trust that before you were even born, God planned in advance your destiny and the good works you would do to fulfill that. Ask Him to align His desires for your life to also be the desires of your heart.
“Be devoted to tenderly loving your fellow believers as members of one family. Try to outdo yourselves in respect and honor of one another.” (Romans 12:10 TPT)
We are to celebrate one another! When we know fully that God is doing wondrous work in the life of a friend it deserves celebration. Satan is likely going to try and trick us into thinking that God must not love us or care about us as much as them. But actually, God withholds things from us for our good and because He knows our every need. So when God blesses another may we encourage, support, and celebrate knowing full and well that God is at work in that person’s life! May we be people who choose celebration over comparison.
“So I’m asking you, my friends, that you be joined together in perfect unity—with one heart, one passion, and united in one love. Walk together with one harmonious purpose and you will fill my heart with unbounded joy. Be free from pride-filled opinions, for they will only harm your cherished unity. Don’t allow self-promotion to hide in your hearts, but in authentic humility put others first and view others as more important than yourselves.” (Philippians 2:2-3 TPT)
The sin in which comparison stems from is pride. And when we become prideful, unity is harmed and in danger. Pride loves to hide. It is sneaky. It is like a killing weed and if it takes root and grows, it damages what is around it. So we must check in with ourselves and do a heart-check to make sure pride is not taking root. Here are some questions to ask yourself:
- Are there any opinions or thoughts in my heart today in which I am in the center of?
- Am I putting the needs of myself first or the needs of others?
- In recent conversations have I been making myself the center?
These 4 passages from the bible above are what we can use in our battle against comparison. Write them down. Memorize them. Let them become your lifestyle.
I see you, the one who has been struggling with comparison, and I am with you. It truly is something that we will always have to fight against, and sometimes it may get the best of us. Know that it doesn’t make you any less of a person. It doesn’t mean you are weak. It doesn’t mean you aren’t good enough.
Like I said above, it takes falling at the feet of Jesus Every. Single. Day. Rely solely on Him. Pray these verses over yourself. Be confident in where He is leading you, knowing and trusting that it is perfect for you. And as you are led, cheer on others as they too are being led.
As your Father in heaven cheers you on, go and cheer on His people.
Ally is a pediatric nurse in San Diego, and on her off days she is writing and creating encouraging content for her Instagram page @wordsaregolden. She is a big fan of Jesus, lover of all things pink, drinks iced coffee every day, and loves to cook for and host people in her home.
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by Destiny Bonner | Mar 18, 2021 | Life Advice |
Have you ever felt like the future is just full of questions marks? Maybe you’re waiting to hear back if you got that job, maybe you have to move out in a couple months but have no idea where you’re going yet, or maybe you’re waiting for that college to accept your application. The waiting and the unknown can feel stressful and scary but there is a way to find rest even when it all feels so uncertain. I’m in that season right now actually! My husband and I are in the process of buying a house since our lease on our apartment is ending in a couple months! We’ve put in offer after offer on houses we loved and none of the offers got accepted. It’s so easy for me to get caught up in the feelings of doubt when there is uncertainty.
But Jesus reminded of the story of Moses, the Israelites and Pharaoh. In Exodus we read how God had seen the oppression of His people, the Israelites in Egypt…
“And the LORD said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.” (Exodus 3:7-8)
God made a beautiful promise that He would deliver the Israelites from their oppression in Egypt and take them to the promise land!! But here’s the really cool part, this is actually the same promise that God made to Abraham way back in Genesis that is about to be fulfilled!! Here is the promise God made to Abraham:
“Now the LORD had said to Abram: ‘Get out of your country, From your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'” (Genesis 12:1-3)
God was about to use Moses to take the Israelites to the promise land and fulfill the promise God had made YEARS ago! The beautiful thing about God is when He makes a promise He will fulfill it in His PERFECT timing.
But there were certainly some bumps along the way, like when Moses went to Pharaoh and told him to let Gods people go and Pharaoh said no. After that first encounter, Pharaoh actually increased the labor on the Israelites. Moses was even confused why Pharaoh didn’t let Gods people go like God said he would.
“So Moses returned to the LORD and said, ‘Lord, why have You brought trouble on this people? Why is it You have sent me? For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done evil to this people; neither have You delivered Your people at all.'” (Exodus 5:22-23)
And God replied, “Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.'” (Exodus 6:1)
God responded to Moses with the reassurance of the promise He had made, even though it may have seemed nearly impossible for the Israelites and Moses at the time! I think it’s so cool how Moses RETURNED to the Lord after seeing the denied result of Moses’s first attempt to let the Israelites go, and in that time spent, God reminded Him of the promise saying, “he WILL drive them out of his land.”
Sometimes when God tells me a promise I almost expect it to be fulfilled immediately or pretty soon after God tells me, but that’s not always the case! It can be frustrating when things around me haven’t changed or maybe the circumstances even worsen! I find myself complaining or worrying, but this specific passage of Moses returning to God after he was denied, encouraged me to turn to God and His word and be reminded of the promise He’s made.
In the end after all the 10 plagues, the parting of the Red Sea (which seemed like the end for the Israelites as the Egyptians were closing in on them and they were staring at an open sea of water!) Gods mighty promise stood true and the sea was parted!!!
“Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.” (Exodus 14:21-23)
Wow!! What a crazy story! The Israelites were finally free and on their way to the promise land just like God had said He would do! This reminds me of just how powerful God is, He can literally do anything! Nothing is too big or impossible for Him!
If you’re in a season of uncertainty and waiting, I want to encourage you in 5 of my favorite promises in the Bible:
1. God will fight for you.
“The LORD will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” (Exodus 14:14)
2. There is nothing that can separate you from His love for you.
“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:37-39)
3. God gives us the gift of peace.
“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (John 14:27)
4. The peace of God will guard your heart.
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:6-7)
5. God is with you wherever you go.
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:9)
Wow and to think this is just 5 promises God has made to us! The secret to finding rest in the midst of the unknown is resting in the promises of God. Even though life seems uncertain, scary, at times impossible, be encouraged that the same God who loved, fought for and delivered the Israelites is the same God who loves and is fighting for you. He is for you!
Destiny is a wife to her amazing husband, Jake! She’s a pop artist, makeup artist and co-owner, with her husband, of Original You Beauty a skincare and makeup line in Nashville, TN! She’s passionate about Jesus, music and encouraging others in their walk with God. She’s obsessed with lattes and matcha so you can usually find her at a coffee shop!
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by Maggie Castonguay | Mar 16, 2021 | College, Life Advice |
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1. Do not compare yourself to others – you are who God made you to be!
In high school, one of my biggest struggles was comparison. I would think, “she is much prettier than I am, I wish I had her style, her Instagram looks so much better than mine, why can’t my hair be as gorgeous as hers?” The truth is, we have all struggled with comparison at some point. Maybe even subconsciously. The dangerous part about this is we are not seeing ourselves, or others, through God’s eyes. We are tearing ourselves down by thinking we are less than others, and we are tearing others down to make ourselves feel that we are more. However, God sees the beauty in all of us. He has given us all different gifts. One passage that changed my whole viewpoint was 1 Corinthians 12:12-31. I encourage you all to read it now, but I will provide a brief summary. It talks about how our bodies have so many different parts, but they all serve an important purpose. If our foot wished to be a hand, how would we walk? If our ear wished to be an eye, how would we hear? The same goes for the gifts that God has given us. If we were all teachers, who would respond to fires or accidents? If we were all doctors, who would build houses? God has given each of us a unique gift and has created us in His image. This makes us beautiful in His eyes. That in itself should be enough to tell us that we are perfect just the way God made us.
2. Work as hard as you can – not for your own glory but for God’s glory!
School is a lot of work. Whether you are in middle school, high school, or college, there is always a lot of work to be done. We have to work hard for good grades, to earn a spot on the sports team, to have our article published in the school newspaper, or to create good content for the yearbook. There are so many things to work hard for. However, sometimes I would forget to work hard for God’s glory. I would be so quick to take all the credit when I would do something well, but so quick to blame God when something didn’t go the way I wanted. I would say, “But God, I prayed and prayed for you to help me achieve this goal. And you didn’t.” But friends, what I have come to realize is that our agenda may not align with God’s agenda. God will always answer our prayers, but sometimes it is not the answer that we had expected. We also cannot pray to get an A on the test, but then study as if we were going to get a C. Colossians 3:23 says, “Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.”(NLT) Whatever we are doing, we need to work hard for God’s glory and not our own.
3. Be patient and loving towards those who frustrate you!
You will encounter a lot of people in your life that you may not agree with. Sometimes it is so hard to see them through God’s eyes. However, they are a child of God, just like you and me. They are just as deserving of our love as our best friend is. Gossiping is a HUGE problem during our teenage years. It can really get people down. Gossiping can spread lies and private information about people. When we find ourselves feeling negative towards others, it is so easy to end up talking bad about them. However, this is not what God wants us to do. The bible says to “bless those who persecute you. Do not curse them; pray that God will bless them.” (Romans 12:14 NLT) This is hard! But friends, we need to pray that God would help us see through His eyes and be patient and loving towards that person.
4. Do not live for the world’s approval – be bold in your faith! Way too often, I found myself trying to receive the approval of my peers. It is so easy to get caught up in what is “cool” and “trendy” that it causes you to drift away from God’s word. Unfortunately, going to church and being bold about your faith is not considered to be cool or trendy. So I kept quiet about my faith for a long time, scared that my peers would look at me differently. But friends! Your faith is nothing to be ashamed of! I have been able to grasp that the more I read my bible and really strive to live my life for God. It is SO exciting to see someone else’s eyes light up when you introduce the love of God into their lives. You guys, we are not living to please or to be approved by this world. We are living to please and to be approved by God. Our mission as Christians is to spread the good news about Jesus and make heaven crowded! If all Christians were silent about their faith, fearing that they will not be liked by this world, how would anyone else come to know and love God? Instead, imagine what would happen if every Christian was bold in their faith – heaven would be full!
5. Don’t get so distracted by everyday life that you forget to LIVE your life!
High school was probably the busiest time of my life so far. I had extracurricular activities, athletics, academics, and other personal life events that made my everyday life fly by. I would leave for school at 7:15 AM, and I would usually get home around 7 PM, sometimes later. I got so caught up in the stressfulness of my everyday life; that I sometimes forgot to stop and take it all in. To appreciate what God had given me. I noticed this when my senior year suddenly stopped because of COVID. No graduation, no prom, no senior track season, no more walking through the halls of my high school. At that moment, I wished that I hadn’t taken advantage of the everyday life that I was so blessed with. Every day God wakes us up and blesses us with a new day. We need to live each day as if we aren’t going to get another one. (I learned this from Sadie’s book LIVE, by the way)
Now, I wish I could say that I have conquered these 5 struggles, but the truth is I haven’t. I still fall and mess up each day of my life. But the biggest piece of advice that I want to give you is this – don’t be afraid to make mistakes! Go after that big dream of yours and conquer it head-on. Because girl, you can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens you!
by Sarah Tucker | Mar 11, 2021 | Life Advice, Love |
I woke up with this feeling deep down inside of me that I couldn’t ignore or simply shake off. I couldn’t sit here and try to come up with something better to write about or different to share. It feels elementary and so simple and extraordinarily obvious, but here we are. Reasons why I love You. Jesus Jesus Jesus.
Here’s how this is going to work — I’m going to share ten things I love about Jesus and pray that they encourage your heart, open your eyes, and you see Him as this in your own life, and I’m going to ask you to do the same. Grab a pen and paper, say it out loud, make a note on your phone, text it to a friend, add it to your story. Do whatever you need to do to get it from your insides to your outsides. Make agreements with truth, thank God for who He is to you, set your heart, and fix your gaze. It’s March now. So many things are so different, I’m sure, and yet seemingly the same. New years don’t erase the old and time doesn’t always heal the wounds and sickness and heartache and school and work and business and (you name it here!!) still exists. But so does Jesus. The One who makes everything “different”. Everything new. Everything lovely. Jesus. Who, seamlessly, stays the same. Perfect and worthy, loving and kind.
- I love that Jesus is SO real and near and with me. I LOVE His presence.
- That in who He is and how He loves us, He blows every expectation we could ever set out of the water. I’m amazed by Jesus.
- I love that who He is makes me whole. Everything I lack (which is everything without him haha!) I find in Him. I find me as he intended me to be, when I’m with him.
- I love that where He is, there is always more – more peace, more joy, more love, more freedom, more laughter, more hope.
- He is WAY cooler than we think – I mean come on y’all!
- That he knows me (really knows me, every thought I’ve ever had and thing I’ve ever done) and loves me, all of me, FULLY, even still.
- I love his personality – I love thinking about people I love. My friends and family — how FUNNY they are, how there are specific things about each of them that I treasure, and then to think that we get our personality from Him… what a GREAT personality he must have. If only we really knew!!
- That He’s always there – the best friend I could ever ask for. My comforter, my love, my companion, my defender, the champion of my cause. Hand to hold and heart to rest in.
- That he is so into every detail. The past few months I’ve gotten to know him as my intimate redeemer. Things that people may or may not ever know about me, He knows. He redeems and restores back to better than ever before in ways I never could have imagined. If you’re waiting on a redemption story, it’s already here. His name is Jesus.
- He is who He is. Constant and steadfast. Faithful and true. We never have to wonder what version we’ll get that day or if he’ll feel differently about us tomorrow. No matter what room we walk into, how we feel, or any other circumstance that may change. He is who He is.
I just love Him and he just loves us.
He IS in the purest form.
My every good thing.
What do you love about Jesus? Tell him. Tell him how much. Pour out your heart to Him and let His love restore your soul.
Thank you Jesus.
Sarah Tucker is the owner of Imago Dei in Franklin and Nashville, TN, where the heart behind the shop is to point people back to Jesus and serve as a reminder to everyone who visits that they are made in the image of God. She loves drinking coffee, long country drives, and spending time with her friends and family! Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahatucker
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by Gracie Tucker | Mar 9, 2021 | Life Advice
Matthew 6:25-29 ESV
“Therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you, by being anxious, can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.…”
Wow! Do we ever really take the time out of our day to look at something anymore? And I mean actually, look at it for more than 45 seconds…What about time to consider something? Really sit in awe and think? Oftentimes I DON’T ever take that time, frankly, because somehow I think I don’t have the time. I’m so busy rushing to work, to dinner, to do this, finish that… but do I miss it?
Do I miss this kind instruction from my God that loves me more than I could ever begin to understand…like a Dad showing his baby girl beautiful new things in a garden that He just knows she will especially love…Look, Gracie, look at this, come consider this over here, come closer!
We see the beauty in the birds of the air, in the lilies of the field; we see they have all that they need. God’s creation takes our breath away almost daily and to think… it’s nothing compared to how He loves us!
Now I can’t help you physically look at any of these things, but I can help you consider, so just for a moment, let’s try to really think about these things…
1- There are two million million galaxies in the universe. Yes, TWO MILLION MILLION.
2- There are 400,000 different types of flowers.
3- There are 8.7 million species of animals on earth.
4- There are more than 12,000 species of ants all over the world. AND an ant can lift 20 times its own body weight.
5- Oh yeah, the light just so happens to casually travel at 670,616,629 miles per hour. WHAT.
My mind is blown over 5 facts… And to think these are just 5 things I pulled to share that we have been able to discover, there is so much more and so much more that no one has ever discovered!
My point in all this is that God is SO good, and God is SO creative, and God really really loves us!
We don’t have to worry! Look and consider…We can literally see it! He cares! And He cares for us beyond measure!
Gracie Tucker is the owner of Gracie’s Milkshake Bar in Nashville, TN! She loves spending time outdoors, traveling, hanging out with her friends and family, and is also known to make a mean milkshake.
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by Jenessa Wait | Mar 4, 2021 | Life Advice, Perspective, Wisdom |
Have you ever been in a season where you were contending for something in an area of you life and then all of the sudden it seems as though everyone around you seemed to be getting breakthrough in that very area? I know I have!
I have GOOD news for your sister. When you feel the weight of comparison begin to overshadow you, you don’t have to stay there. In fact, because of God’s God’s mercy and kindness, He always gives us a way out. In that moment you will face two options. Either you can choose defeat and believe that your chance for a blessing has passed you by, or you can stand beside your sister in Christ and celebrate their victory and then choose to believe that their testimony is prophesying that God can do it again in your life!
This is what I know about God. He is no respecter of people. He doesn’t choose to bless someone more because that person loves Him more, reads their bible more, does good things for others more. It’s never been about how good we are- it’s always just been about how good HE is. God is good. Period. And that HAS to be the foundation on which we stand. External circumstances should never be the meter on which you determine how loved and seen by God you are. The truth is, you are God’s favorite! His chosen one, His beloved! So when you see Him bless someone else, it’s not because of anything you’ve done wrong, it’s actually because of how Good He is and what a beautiful invitation we get in that moment to step into someone’s testimony and celebrate WITH them!
God has a specific plan and process for your life. He has a route only you can go on and thrive in. YOU have a God lane that has been prepared for only you!
Jeremiah 29:11 says “I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.”
What a promise! That even when it “feels” like everyone around us is prospering, we also have the same promise, it will just look different!
So how do we overcome comparison? Here are some practical tools below that have helped me in my walk in this area!
1) Choose to celebrate! Comparison will always lead to introspection and make it about us, but when we celebrate someone else it makes it about how GOOD God is! It always points us back to God and realigns our perspective. The more you choose to celebrate someone, the easier it will become.
“Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep” (Romans 12:15).
2) Choose humility. The truth is, none of us really deserve anything. BUT because of Jesus and what He paid for, we are beneficiaries of His inheritance! Humility keeps our heart in check.
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.” (Philippians 2:3-4).
3) Remain thankful for what you do have. Comparison is the byproduct of a lack mentality. It believes that there isn’t enough for everyone to go around. But our God is the God of more than enough and the God of abundance. There is no lack in heaven! When comparison tries to have you focus on what you don’t have, use thankfulness as a tool to remind yourself what you do have! Some practical ways to do this are writing things down on a piece of paper or verbally saying what you’re thankful for out loud!
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18).
4) Renew your mind with your truth! Romans 12:12 says “…that we transformed by the renewing of our mind.” Dive into scriptures and start reading and meditating on these types of verses that will help you remember that God has a plan for your life and desires for you to flourish!
5) Take a social media break! Maybe you need to detox from the gram and Facebook. Ask the Lord if this is something He’s calling you to do for some time!
6) Pray. Pray and ask the Lord to help you in this area. Pray that He would refine and prune your heart so that you can look more and more like Jesus (and bear more fruit!). “Ask you shall receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.” (John 15, Matthew 7:7).
God has you on the path you are on for a purpose. Your process is beautiful! Be content with where you are while celebrating where others are going. Your security is in Christ! I pray that God would fill your heart with strength to overcome comparison and faith to believe that you are where you need to be and you have everything you need to thrive in the season God has placed you in!
Jenessa is a wife, mother, hand-letterer and speaker who believes that encouragement and truth of God has the power to change the way we live! She started her hand lettering journey in 2015 as a hobby and it quickly turned into a business as well a way to bring encouragement into people’s lives and homes. She has a strong passion to impact the way people think about who they are and what they’re destined for. When she’s not creating, her and her husband pastor a young adults group at a local church in Austin, TX where they reside.
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