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Sustaining Peace in a World of Chaos

The world is loud. News cycles are filled with violence, outrage, and division. Social media amplifies the noise until it feels like it’s pressing in on every side. And for many of us, the chaos outside echoes an old, familiar sound—the chaos we grew up in. When your childhood was marked by instability, abuse, or […]

Out Now!

Season of Awakening is the first series in Seasons of the Huntress guided journals. These journals are for survivors of childhood sexual trauma. With gentle prompts, affirmations, and blank space to write or pray, it offers a place to release silence and lean into the presence of God. More than a book of answers, it […]

Never Stand in the Place of God

My life has been one of exploring great tradegy with God. Before I turned four, my world was invaded with atrocities few witness in life. Those scars leave roads. The good news is final judgment is not mine. It belongs to God. I wouldn’t know how to make the right judgments against the people who […]

A Prayer for the Innocent Witness

Father God I praise you for who you are. I praise you for how you love. I lift up to you today the innocent person who watched a video and became a witness to the death of another human being.I pray that you would cleanse their mind from the images they took in.I pray that […]

Destruction is Upon Us

I grew up in destruction so I am a witness to its deeds. Yesterday there was a murder of an innocent man exposing the heart of Satan. I slept miserably last night in rememberance of being a child witness to murder and now being a witness as a grandmother to another innocent victim being slain. […]

The Quiet Work of Survival

Survival doesn’t often look like the movies. It isn’t a dramatic rescue, a single victory march, or a tidy ending. More often, survival is invisible. It is the quiet work no one applauds: getting out of bed when your body feels like a battlefield, feeding a child when you yourself have no appetite, remembering to […]

Have Rhythm with God’s Earth

My husband recently had some issues with atrial fibrillation (AFib). AFib is an irregular and often rapid heart rhythm that occurs when the upper chambers of the heart (atria) beat out of coordination with the lower chambers (ventricles). It can lead to poor blood flow and increase the risk of complications. If left untreated, AFib […]

Relearning Innocence: Can Joy Be Planted Again?

For so long, my very own body felt like a ruined place. Desecrated. Not a temple but a tomb. I lived inside skin that felt haunted — a house where sickness pooled in the corners, where blackness spread across every wall. I did not trust it, did not belong to it, did not believe it […]

UCU | Season of Awakening

Season of Awakening is the first series in Seasons of the Huntress guided journals. These journals are for survivors of childhood sexual trauma. With gentle prompts, affirmations, and blank space to write or pray, it offers a place to release silence and lean into the presence of God. More than a book of answers, it […]

UCU | Forgiveness

Introspection — what better way to start a week. What if forgiveness meant letting go? What if the act of forgiveness separated you from the person who harmed you? The very nature of forgiving to me means that I am now separate from the person who hurt me. I don’t see the world according to […]