The prevailing worldview mistakenly equates gentleness with weakness, consistently promoting loud, bold, and aggressively assertive behavior as the means to achieve visibility or express oneself effectively. While there are moments that call us to walk boldly in authority, may we never lose sight of the power of gentleness. True authority in Christ is not expressed through fo...

Many of us don’t look like what we’ve been through, or we may not look like what we’re possibly going through at the time. It’s not likely that you’ll find someone wearing a T-shirt listing everything they’ve been through in challenges beginning at their first fall when they begin learning how to walk. Many of us have adopted as a survivor’s tactic to be a master of disguise ...

I recently took a social media sabbatical from my personal accounts; I was able to log back into every account except my personal Facebook account, which I had maintained for 15 years. Initially, I was somewhat dismayed that I lost many of my private photo albums, and I also reflected on the people I befriended on the platform with whom I may have severed a connect...

There are days where I admittedly take off my superhero cape, acknowledging that I, with my humanity, can’t do it all. It’s often easier said than done to rely on my personal strength to tackle my ever-growing to-do list and guilty pleasure of overcommitting at times, which involves overextending myself on top of my strained energy as a mother and teacher. As strong, resilien...