Entries by Jenna

New Life? It calls me.

Plus, God’s mission to share it as observed through Moana   “If the voice starts to whisper to follow the farthest star, that voice inside is who you are.” – Moana’s Grandma   What’s your calling from God? Ever looked down the path in the direction to which God is nudging you onward, and you can […]

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The One New Year’s Resolution Everyone Needs

The ball dropped. Auld Lang Syne was sung. Now the buzz of everyone making New Year’s resolutions is all you hear about in ads and on social media. I know, cliché. It’s just a number. I will be scribbling out 19 and rewriting 20 every time I write the date for at least a month. […]

A Prayer at Christmastime

FOR ALL THE WOMEN IN MY LIFE If anyone were able to relate to Christmastime stress, it was Mary. Though the weight of the world wasn’t actually on her shoulders, the one who holds the world in His hands dwelt in her belly! I venture to say the list of things that could have had […]

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When Jesus Comes

“To Seek and To Save” Advent 2019   As one of the fullest and most complete encounters of Jesus’s life, my good friend Jenni challenged me to read the entire Book of Luke this Advent season. This particular Gospel also includes the most commonly recited version of Jesus’s birth story. I thought, why not and […]

The World is Rooting for Queen Elsa

Why? Because she’s just like you and me   Ok, so my anger doesn’t literally crystallize into an icy blast, and I can’t turn a fjord into a giant ice skating rink with the force of my finger, but this I know is true:   “For what I do is not the good I want […]

Love Changes Everything

A FROZEN DEVOTIONAL FOR ADULT DISNEY LOVERS   “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear.” -1 John 4:18   On this earth, there is no perfect love. No matter how great our earthly relationships, whether family or friends that God has placed in our lives, we have not experienced a […]

The Day I Stopped Talking

I imposed a 24-hour no talking rule on myself, and this is what happened   Hey Readers! Fair warning: stuff’s about to get REAL. I’ve got some vulnerability to share, and I’ll start by owning that at least a strong part of me is an 8 on the enneagram (“the challenger”). As such, the emotion […]

Be Still? I don’t know how to be still

  It’s one of the most called upon Bible verses. Simple and short, it makes for easy remembering. Plus, it looks beautiful in a modern calligraphy typeface.   But beneath the subject matter of all those Hobby Lobby/Etsy/Pinterest lettering projects, in our world of hustle and bust-your-buns bustle, the two words of advice “Be Still” […]

Hollywood’s Most Worthy Girl Power Moment of 2019:

Princess Jasmine is Modern-Day Esther   One of Disney’s most noteworthy business objectives of this decade is modernizing their classics through live-action remakes. It makes perfect sense: Disney reeled out box office successes in record-breaking proportions every year from the time I went to kindergarten until the year I learned to drive. I’m the generation […]