Book
Choosing REAL: An Invitation to Celebrate When Life Doesn’t Go As Planned is for my fellow planners, those of us who like to be in control and GET ‘ER DONE! I wrote this coming out of a fresh fog of grief after losing my dad to a sudden stroke. I looked around and noticed a shift, a raw awareness and deep desire to accept that I am not in control (even though I did my best to appear that way) and began choosing to peer through circumstances and understand God’s heart in the middle of real life, especially when it didn’t go as hoped.
Suddenly I noticed frantic schedules, loss, transitions, relationships, and those days I didn’t feel beautiful and worthy as invitations to celebrate the unexpected. To push through the challenge and fight to experience an intimate relationship with a personal Creator. It was then I softened to an understanding that He was already pursuing me. Just as I was. Regardless of what I brought to the table, or relationship, or situation. It was through releasing my need to be all things to all people where I tangibly understood authentic peace, freedom, and joy in newfound ways.
And I want that for you.
So put on your comfy’s, make some tea and curl up with Choosing REAL and pretend I’m sitting with you and we’re talking about how to experience authentic faith in these oh-so-real-life-topics: busyness, loss, identity, worthiness, loneliness, social media, communication, gratitude, status quo, serving, and celebrating. We will laugh, cry, and pause to make cookies, all the while enjoying these very moments in front of us.
The ones we’re choosing.
Let’s spread the message of Choosing REAL together.
Devotional
A companion devotional, Choosing Real 7 Day Devotional journeys and invites us into 7 unplanned circumstances—frantic schedules, pain, transition, feelings of unworthiness, distractions, relational tension—and reminding us that it’s in these very moments when God invites us to notice, respond, and even celebrate an authentic relationship with Him despite our own efforts or work. The result? A connection between real life and faith so that they are one and the same.

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