Shame over our past, shame over our failures, shame over our status in society, shame over the lack of fruit in our lives: all of this shame can drive us farther away from God if we let it hide who we were or are. We cannot allow lies about ourselves to plant seeds of doubt…
Category: Kayla Anderson
Lies, Slander, and Trying to Be Like Christ
Tears fell from my eyes as I tried to grasp the reality that my name and my family members’ names were being spoken of in a hurtful way, our reputations and character muddied with gross untruths. How could someone I know and love say that about me? How could my family be trampled on in…
Honoring Time
If you are like me and half of the population and have an iPhone, you may have noticed your “Weekly Screen Time” occasionally popping on your screen, with the most painfully annoying little breakdown of what apps you are spending your precious time on each week. It’s a little softer than a gut punch but…
The Pruning Work of Perseverance
I feel like I’m failing at all the things my hands have touched or my feet have walked into. Being stretched thin, working dawn to dusk on two businesses, raising and homeschooling four young children, managing my home, and the feeling the weight of strained or broken relationships: it all has just left me physically…
How to Share, Give, and Live Abundantly
Seasons of abundant life by the world’s definition will ebb and flow. You may be prosperous with a cushion in your bank account. Maybe a bounty of food overflows from your cupboards and refrigerator. It may be time to declutter the personal items and belongings that you are stepping over in your home. Abundance. A…
A Simple, Bold Welcome
There’s got to be a term for it – for that constant state of feeling like the newbie at church (despite regular attendance there for a few years). The feeling that says, “I don’t know half of these people here! I wonder why they haven’t come and introduced themselves to me yet?!” The feeling that…
Remembering to Make Room
Standing at the beginning of December, I’m already seeing very full days when I look at my calendar. The joy and excitement of the Christmas season can often be matched equally with busyness, and busyness quickly leaves little room for anything else. We find packed calendars instead of leaving room for quieting ourselves. We…
The Beauty of Gathering Imperfectly
Much thanks to Joanna Gaines and the Magnolia team, I’m guessing about half the population might now have a decorative sign that reads “gather” hanging on a wall somewhere in their house. You can’t see it but I’m over here raising my hand. Yep, I know I’ve got one. (In fact, mine even came from…
I Doubted the Power of My Story
When I was in high school I was constantly surrounded by one youth group speaker after another, each with a powerful testimony of how they came to know Christ after some dark and troublesome time in their life. Each person had a heavy story – a life of drug dependency, a life of running from…
The Curriculum of Character
I found myself heavily contemplating less formal curriculum questions as I spent the last month of summer preparing for the start of our fourth year of home education with our four children. Many questions I had centered around the core concept of “Who are we in this home?” Also, “Who and what do we serve…
Anchored Voices 