“He will use you for His purpose until you’re all used up. Jesus’ done will cover you until God is done with you.”

I am not Brené Brown. I am not an expert on shame. What I have is life, lessons, and ears that have listened long enough.

Honor came home with 99th percentile math scores and I wanted to jump across the table and dap him up.

She came to the well at noon — when the sun was hottest and the crowds were thinnest. Intentionally.

I said those dreaded words: 'OMG I haven't seen you since you were little.' I prefaced the cringe with how much I used to hate when people said that to me.

I clicked through Instagram stories to land on Northeastern's graduation content. About seven mentions of '2025' in, it dawned on me.

There's been a lot of noise lately about Sinners — a film many “critics” haven't even seen.

I was raised Pentecostal, but educated Catholic from Pre-K through 12th grade.

I think about why more people don't rush toward Christianity. My answer usually comes down to the same reason I'm not running toward any other religion.

'Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?' So... poetry from Psalms, right? Nope. This is Job.

On the ride home a few weeks ago, Tre told me there were scary things at his school. There was an alligator, he said.

I was not rushing to read the book of Numbers. It's hard to read — and this is from someone who doesn't love to read anyway.

I really don't like to be misunderstood. As an introvert and an adult who hasn't mastered the art of talking, to be best understood I write.

I can't swim. Water can kill me. And yet I started a business about hope called 'water' — OMI.

Writers don't only write because it's the only way they feel heard. Sometimes writers write because it's the only way they feel anything.

To know love like friendship is what inspired my break from a relationship where there was no love.

I envy writers who can react instantly. I needed a few days with this one. Not because I didn't know what to say — because what Kendrick did on that stage deserved more than a hot take. It deserved this."

"The planes crashed. The fires burned. The inauguration happened. And I sat with the very human urge to believe that God had looked away. He hadn't. Here's the poem that came out of that."

"Tobe Nwigwe said the thing the church has been tiptoeing around for years — out loud, on a record, with his whole chest. The response told me everything I needed to know about who's actually ready for the gospel and who just likes the idea of it."

My mother walked into a room of 300 people who came specifically for her — and still managed to make every single one of them feel like the guest of honor. That's Andrea Wilder.