About

Hello!

Maybe you’re here because you’re feeling confused.

Maybe you’re here because you’re feeling lonely.

Maybe you’re here because you aren’t quite sure where else to go.

Whatever reason brings you here, I am honored to share in it.

I am based out of Atlanta, GA in the northern suburb of Roswell. Vocationally, I am an IT Project Manager. I love organization, getting things done, and enjoying the people around me as we do it. After the action items have been addressed and the laptop has closed, I love spending time with my friends, eating cuisines from around the world, going on long drives in the mountains, and – why you’re likely here – studying Christian Contemplation and Mysticism.

How does that work?

I grew up in an evangelical environment as an evangelical darling. I lead Bible studies, I was active in my youth group, I picked up my first book on Christian apologetics at the age of 10 (not kidding), and made nearly every attempt to be a ‘Good Christian Girl’. I had figured it out.

Until I didn’t.

Until it all came crashing down.

Until all that I had held dear and that made me feel important was taken away.

Until all that was left was me and the steaming ashes of my presuppositions, my self-importance, and my certainty.

I floated from spiritual place to place for a time. Is my issue that I am not conservative enough? Am I not liberal enough? Is any of it true? Had I been lying to myself for all of my life?

For many years I wrestled with these questions.

Today, I hold them near and walk with them. Every so often, one falls away and another question takes its place.

Through this practice of walking alongside of my questions, I have gone many places. I have gone to Monasteries and Mountaintops. I have sat in silence and studied furiously. I have shed tears of all sorts – grief, peace, frustration, thankfulness, joy, and sadness.

Somewhere in the middle of it, I began to learn what it really meant to walk the ancient Christian path, as the Desert Mothers and Fathers did.

I know I will never learn it all, but today I commit to faithfulness in being present and learning from whatever I can.

Please feel free to join me.