(UN)ASHAMED: Fact or Fiction?

A perfect and shameless world is not a fairy tale. We were designed for it.

(UN)ASHAMED to Burn

We get the privilege of walking like this. Living torches, burning beyond anything we are naturally capable of...

(UN)ASHAMED: Helped

My daughter, like many 5-year-olds, frequently rotates her preferred, future occupation.  Sometimes, she wants to be a teacher. Other times, a Mommy. Still other times, an artist.  But this past week, she’s been announcing to our family and friends, “When I grow up, I want to be a Helper and a Giver.”...

(UN)ASHAMED: Combating Shame

It’s happened before. It happened again last night. I reacted in a way that was shockingly inconsistent with how I normally behave... Forty-five minutes later I was still making apologies.

(UN)ASHAMED: Living Outside of Fear

I’ve used many words to describe my thought processes. I have an “overactive imagination”. I’m “excessively analytical”. My mental wheels just “won’t stop spinning”. But at the the heart lies a very real and dangerously large emotion: fear.

(UN)ASHAMED: The Pride of Life

I’ve been stuck in a vicious cycle of wondering when I’m finally going to have it all together.  Why does it seem I’m so incapable of staying on top of...

(UN)ASHAMED: Come Back to the Table

Do you ever feel guilty when you haven’t spent time reading the Bible? Have you ever started a reading plan and in a few short days or weeks got so far behind you quit?

(UN)ASHAMED: Healing a Soul of Shame

It was late one evening, several months ago that I shared with my husband that I believed that shame was ruining my life.

(UN)ASHAMED: People Pleasing Dethroned

My face that once hurt from “plastic” smiling sometimes still hurts— but now it’s from an overflow of joy that can’t be artificially manufactured...

(UN)ASHAMED: Depression & Anxiety

This is where Jesus meets me.  In my shame. In my utter helplessness.  And he reminds me that I CAN DO NOTHING.