Some of my team recently attended a talk by Chris Stefanick called “Living Joy” where Stefanick laid out some practical ways to habitually choose to be joyful in one’s everyday life. It served as the perfect capstone to my recent musings about where true joy comes from and how anyone can attain it right now. […]

It has been two months of being on the road with NET Team 11 and living in Jasper, Indiana has been new for all of us. Jasper is a small town but it has a warm comforting environment like a warm chocolate chip cookie after it’s fresh out of the oven. The sense of welcoming […]

Before NET, I struggled with not having a healthy concept of work and routine. I manipulated my senior year schedule so I wouldn’t have classes until 9:40, and yet I still had a hard time making it to school on time. After-school activities left me drained and I required a nap the second I got […]

Transitioning to life on the road has been an adventure, but we have grown so much as a team and as individuals and experienced the Lord working in amazing ways! So far we’ve traveled around Minnesota and Wisconsin, where we have conducted over a dozen retreats and stayed with many host families. If this is […]

“Ally Elizabeth!” That’s what I frequently heard called down the stairs by my mother if I was urgently needed. Names are Powerful Ally Elizabeth. I’ve heard it hundreds of times, but names are powerful. Psalm 54:3 says, “O God, by your name save me.” The footnotes of my NA bible translation say that, “one is […]