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Rising By Faith Choosing faith over fear. Following Jesus into the unknown. ✝️
Sharing the real-life journey of surrender, growth & becoming.

Sometimes the hardest part of surrendering is watching things unfold in ways that feel deeply unfair.The anger. The rese...
09/30/2026

Sometimes the hardest part of surrendering is watching things unfold in ways that feel deeply unfair.

The anger. The resentment. The frustration of feeling like you’re carrying the weight of something while life keeps asking you to be patient.

And sometimes, it’s not even just what happened. It’s what you see happening now. The things that stir up old wounds, make you question people’s intentions, and leave you feeling like you’re the only one still hurting.

I’ve realized how easy it is to let those feelings take over. To replay things in my head, search for meaning in someone else’s actions, and give away another piece of my peace trying to make sense of something I may never understand.

But I’m learning that not everything that feels personal needs to become my burden to carry.

I can acknowledge that something hurts without letting it harden my heart.

I can feel anger without letting it turn into bitterness.

I can recognize what feels unfair without allowing it to consume the life God is still asking me to live.

And I can surrender the need to understand someone else’s heart when God is asking me to tend to my own.

This is where faith gets real for me.

Not in pretending I’m unbothered. Not in forcing myself to be gracious before I’m ready. But in bringing the parts of me that are angry, hurt, and exhausted to God—and asking Him to help me respond from a place of truth instead of reaction.

I don’t need to control what someone else does to remain grounded in who God is calling me to be.

09/25/2026

Maybe life doesn’t have to look the way you thought it would.

Maybe it gets to surprise you. 🤍

I’ve had plenty of moments throughout this process where I’ve thought, I don’t know how much longer I can do this.Just w...
09/22/2026

I’ve had plenty of moments throughout this process where I’ve thought, I don’t know how much longer I can do this.

Just when I think I can’t possibly feel any more worn out, come more delays.

So the choice is always give up and give in or release and surrender.

Waiting is exhausting.
Especially when you’re waiting for something that feels like it will finally allow you to move forward with your life.

And maybe that’s where the real battle is—not whether I trust God, but whether I’ll let the waiting wear me down.

So I keep reminding myself:

I don’t need to see movement to believe God is moving.

I don’t need to know when the breakthrough is coming to know that He hasn’t forgotten me.

This season may be taking longer than I ever imagined, but it will not break me.

I’m still here. I’m still moving forward. And I’m still trusting God.

If you’re in a space where Spiritual warfare is trying to defeat you, just take a moment to pause.

Go for a walk, take a bath, breathe.

Don’t let your thoughts overpower you - that’s where the enemy fights your the strongest.

Remember who you are and who is fighting by your side ✝️

I saw a post on Facebook earlier today that really spoke to my soulIt was about why women often stay in unhappy marriage...
09/18/2026

I saw a post on Facebook earlier today that really spoke to my soul

It was about why women often stay in unhappy marriages and “choose” not to leave

Going through this process for almost a year now, I totally understand why so many women stay vs dealing with this fight

For those of us who are brave enough to take the leap, we fight again a patriarchal money driven legal system that moves at a snail’s pace

Some days I want to throw my hands up in the air and give in, but then God reminds me why and who I’m fighting for and gives me the strength I never knew I had

And every day I start my morning with prayer and counting my blessings, continuing to put my faith ahead of everything that may be going against me

“God is within her, she will not fall”
Psalm 46:5

When you ask God for patience, He will give you things to be patient about.Maybe I should stop praying for that 😉 But se...
09/16/2026

When you ask God for patience, He will give you things to be patient about.

Maybe I should stop praying for that 😉

But seriously…

I’m learning that patience isn’t always about sitting around and waiting for something to happen. Sometimes it’s about learning how to be at peace while you’re waiting.

And that’s a little harder when you’re waiting on something that affects so many parts of your life.

There are days when I feel like, “Okay, God, I think I’ve learned the lesson. We can move this along now.” 😂

Honestly I’ve felt like that every day for at least a month now.
But I also know that I don’t want to rush something just because I’m tired of waiting.

So, in the meantime, I’m trying to remind myself that God is not absent in the waiting. He’s still working, even when I can’t see anything happening.

And maybe that’s the real lesson in patience.

Not just learning how to wait, but learning how to trust while I do, and not allow my mind to be my worst enemy in the process.

Something I’ve been thinking about lately is how little we actually know about the ways God is working in our lives.Ther...
09/13/2026

Something I’ve been thinking about lately is how little we actually know about the ways God is working in our lives.

There are people He placed in my life years ago who I connected with for one reason.
And at the time, I had no idea those relationships would become what they are today.

Some of those same people are now playing completely different roles in my life. People I once connected with through one part of my life are now part of my journey, my growth, and the new season I’m stepping into.

And when I look back, I can see how God was putting pieces in place long before I understood what He was doing.

I think we do this a lot as humans.
We look at what’s happening right now and try to figure out what it means, where it’s going, and why it’s happening.

But I love when I can look back, and realize the story was being written long before I knew the reason for it, a perfect example of living by faith 😇

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.” — Proverbs 3:5

If you’ve ever been in a liminal space, you know it can feel utterly helpless some days.And if you are the type of perso...
09/10/2026

If you’ve ever been in a liminal space, you know it can feel utterly helpless some days.

And if you are the type of person who thrives on having everything solved and figured out, this in-between space can feel even more challenging.

Because there’s nothing you can do to fix or force things. No clear answer to chase.
You’re simply in it.

I’ve been learning that maybe the purpose of a liminal season isn’t to figure out how to get out of it.

Maybe it’s to learn how to be present in the middle of it.

On a long hike this week, somewhere between the miles, the mountains, the waterfalls, the quiet conversations and the moments of simply walking, I realized how different it feels when I stop trying to solve my life.

I didn’t need to know exactly where everything was going or to have the next chapter mapped out.

I just needed to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

And for those hours, I felt peace without having all the answers.

Maybe that’s what surrender really looks like.
Not pretending uncertainty doesn’t scare you.

But trusting that you don’t have to see the whole path to take the next step.

It’s wild to be in the woods a day after a bad storm, but also kind of amazing to see before things get cleaned upAdds t...
09/06/2026

It’s wild to be in the woods a day after a bad storm, but also kind of amazing to see before things get cleaned up

Adds to the challenge of finding your way around all these unexpected obstacles- kinda like in life 😉

It’s ok to wrestle with your faith, to have bad weeks, to feel angry with God, to feel like He isn’t listening to you It...
09/04/2026

It’s ok to wrestle with your faith, to have bad weeks, to feel angry with God, to feel like He isn’t listening to you

It’s how I felt all week long! I walked into the woods earlier feeling so much anger and frustration

Almost every conversation this week, felt like it was adding fuel to the fire

All week long I’ve been praying for peace, feeling like my prayers weren’t being answered, feeling like He wasn’t listening to me

You guys! I am not an emotional person

But He taught me this week that I can’t fully appreciate peace without feeling the turmoil

And I realized that every one of those frustrating conversations, where I wanted to scream “God is literally speaking to you, open your ears”, was mirroring back to me my own ignorance to His voice

When literally the first thing I saw when I stepped into the woods was this little pocket hug

He is ALWAYS speaking to us, we just choose not to listen most of the time

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