My Story

I was a woman with a plan.

Had the degrees. Had the man. And thought I had life all figured out.

That is, until the life I planned started falling apart.

At the time, it was my love life that completely wrecked me. But looking back, God was doing something much deeper than teaching me how to have a better relationship. He was showing me how much of my life I had tried to figure out without Him.

I knew God. I loved God. But trusting Him enough to actually let Him lead my life? That was another story.

And that’s where everything began to change.

I knew God. But I still wanted to do things my way.

Coming from a divorced family, I vowed that I would never become like my parents. I was determined to find love and keep it.

Even though I had known God my entire life, I never fully included Him in that part of my life. Rather than “submit” to all those “strict rules” I thought God had about love and relationships, I went off to college and did my own thing.

I looked to friends, movies, and shows like Sex and the City to teach me about love.

And whew… I learned some things the hard way.

I never stopped to consider how much baggage I was bringing into my relationships, let alone how much more baggage I was creating along the way.

With every breakup, I felt like a failure.

And because God wasn’t answering my prayers the way I thought He should, I became more frustrated with Him. More disappointed. More distant.

With each new relationship, I settled a little more. I told myself love was simply whatever you decided to make it.

But deep down, the life I was trying so hard to create wasn’t working.

Then the plan completely fell apart.

As I was heading into my third year with a guy I was certain would become my husband, he dumped me.

I was devastated.

Utterly crushed and lost.

I didn’t just lose a relationship. I lost the future I had imagined. The plans I had made. And, if I’m being completely real, a huge part of the identity I had built around them.

For the first time, I had to face a much bigger question:

Did I actually trust God, or did I only trust Him when His plans looked like mine?

That question changed my life.

I turned back to God, and slowly but surely, He pulled me closer.

He healed things in me I didn’t even realize needed healing. He challenged what I believed. He taught me how to surrender my plans, trust His wisdom, hear His voice through His Word, and obey Him even when I couldn’t see what He was doing.

My faith stopped being something I simply believed and started becoming something I actually had to live.

And yes, God eventually rewrote my love story too.

In time, God brought the man who would become my husband into my life.

Only…

I had no idea what to do with him. 😂

I had spent years learning relationships one way, and now God was teaching me another.

Day by day, God showed us how to honor Him through our fears, our pasts, our imperfections, and everything in between. After dating for a year and being engaged for another, we got married in 2013 and shared our first kiss at the altar.

Today, we’re raising three kids and building a life together that younger me could never have planned for herself.

But somewhere along the way, I realized something important:

The greatest thing God gave me wasn’t my husband.

It was a deeper relationship with Him.

That’s the message I carry today.

For years, much of my work centered around helping women navigate love, dating, singleness, and relationships. And that will always be part of my story.

But the lesson underneath all of it has always been bigger.

Trust God. Follow Him. And have the courage to obey Him with your whole life.

Because I’ve learned that faith isn’t just something we talk about on Sundays.

It shows up in the relationships we choose. The things we walk away from. The opportunities we say yes to. The boundaries we set. The dreams we surrender. The way we raise our families. The work we put our hands to. And those uncomfortable moments when God says, “Trust Me,” and we have absolutely no idea what He’s doing.

That’s the woman I want to encourage today.

The woman who loves God but knows He’s calling her deeper.

The woman who’s tired of merely knowing what Scripture says and is ready to actually live it.

The woman standing between what God has shown her and having the faith to move.

Whether I’m teaching on YouTube, speaking, writing, mentoring single women through the Single By Faith Society, or sharing what God is teaching me in my own everyday life, my heart is the same:

I want to help women grow in faith, walk in obedience, and become women who wholeheartedly trust God with their lives.

Because more than a decade after my own plans fell apart, I’m still learning the same beautiful lesson:

God can be trusted.

And a life surrendered to Him may look nothing like the one you planned.

It might just become so much more.

Helping women grow in faith and walk in obedience.

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