Studies on happiness are all the rage right now: why are some people happier than others? How do we increase our happiness? What basic components lead to a happy life?

On this day, James and I have been married for 8 years and together for almost 12 years. I shared in one of my most popular posts, Two Marriage Hacks That Can Make All the Difference, our relationship has never been easy.

We had just moved to California after three years in graduate school in Connecticut, my husband (then, fiancé) and I. I left behind a house full of women I lived with. Lived with, laughed with, talked at all hours of the day with, cried with, studied with.

This past Sunday, I preached about learning how to discern the voice of God in our lives. You can hear the sermon here but I wanted to distill it for you in this post as well. This is a tricky subject as many people have used and still use God to promote their own agendas.

I began journaling, or rather, I should say, writing in my diary, when I was in elementary school. My dad was the one who encouraged me to start doing this. He suggested writing down my thoughts in a book at the end of each day to remember significant moments. So I started to do it. My first diary was pink with a lock on it. 

Hello friends, I’m SO excited to announce that Volume II of the Simple Workbook series, “Discover Your Calling and Career” is now released for sale. This is decades worth of research and experience in one book.

I’ve been struggling with reconciling two ideas in regards to pursuing our dreams and I recently had a breakthrough. There’s two opposing schools of thought when it comes to this topic. For simplicity’s sake, I’ll refer to them as the western spiritual school of thought and the eastern spiritual school of thought.