Grace for the Good Girl {Part 3}

When I was little, my big brother and I would play hide and seek with our neighbors every summer evening. Base was always their front porch.  They had 100 places to hide in their yard because they had massive pine trees that lined their property.  I remember the...

Grace for the Good Girl {Part 2}

Good Girls do. Good Girls work hard. Good Girls like verses in the Bible about doing and working hard. Do you want to know, my Good Girl verse? My life verse?  The one that I have found my Word for the Year for the past 3 years running? Let the Word of Christ richly...

Grace For The Good Girl {Part 1}

I love John … I hate John – Emma Woodhouse by Jane Austen I love this book. I hate this book. Let me clarify. I love this book because it will not let me alone for 10 minutes with my own version of the Good Girl.  I love that Emily’s words are...

How Grace Found Me :: {Part 2}

How Grace Found Me :: {Part 1} You don’t always get to pick where Grace will lead you. I found myself transplanted in a foreign land, surrounded by people I did not know, far away from my Good Girl life plan with only this promise to cling to: Do not call to...

How Grace Found Me :: {Part 1}

When Emily called all the Good Girls together to preview her new book, I was thrilled.  I imagined myself, book in hand, making happy little highlights and sending her my best one line quotes.  Good girls do just what they are asked to do. My plan was to blitz through...

Grace for the Good Girl

Are you a Good Girl? Well, you might be if you: Use the word should, like a lot. Identify with the dinosaur in Toys Story and guilt drives you. You are always, fine. You have a hard time asking for help. No one really knows the conversation going on in your head. Fear...