Dawn of Valor

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I catch you up on the last 3 months since I recorded.  What is it really like moving cross country and trusting God with the outcome? Nine months in- Have I been saved from trials, suffering, or depression?  Maturing in the Christian faith continues to open my eyes to how immature I actually am and how little I know.  God has evolved our original business and inves...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I share what God has been showing me about holiness and how my view of it is changing. More and more, holiness is not feeling dull, lifeless, or restrictive to me. It is starting to feel beautiful. To be holy is to be set apart for God. To belong to Him. To reflect His character more clearly in every area of life. And I’m realizing that holiness is not God calling...

Send us Fan Mail Two weeks after my last recording, I sat down on 3/27 to share this episode. That date holds deep meaning for me, and this episode became a marker of God’s mercy in the middle of intense spiritual warfare. I share about the frightening events our family walked through on 3/22, the mental and emotional crash that followed, and how the Lord used truth, prayer, and the renewing of my...

Send us Fan Mail For the first time, I’m playing the audio from the day Justice and I were baptized at church. You’ll hear my testimony and baptism first, and then Justice shares his testimony in his own words. Justice has never really had a platform. This is the first time his story has been shared publicly. It felt like such a gift to be able to include it here. This episode also marks the begin...

Send us Fan Mail It has been one month and twelve days into the new year.  And five months since we left home. In this episode, I share what the Lord has been doing in this season of life in a furnished rental, unfamiliar rhythms, and spiritual reorientation. This has not been a season of arrival. It has been a season of placement. A season of radical amputation. A season of integration into the B...

Send us Fan Mail Recorded on New Year’s Eve. 2025 behind. 2026 ahead. A quiet closing of one year and an unsteady step into another. Simply a look back at what God has done and an honest look forward into what we still do not know yet. I read last year’s New Year’s Eve journal entry and compare it to today. The ways God has faithfully met us in both joy and ache. It is strange and sacred to hear m...

Send us Fan Mail Recorded on December 10th, my 33rd birthday, after nearly two months of silence. This episode is anything but polished. It is not triumphant. Its just honest. I share what these last months have truly felt like beneath the surface: the homesickness, the continual pruning that does not pause, and the slow, unseen work of becoming a woman of valor in ways that look nothing like the...

Send us Fan Mail In this short and unfiltered episode, I talk about being thankful that God never changes—even when I do. Lately, I’ve felt jaded and foggy. I finally submitted my book proposal, but my heart has felt weak. My faith feels small, and I miss the girl I used to be—confident, funny, fully alive—yet back then, I was spiritually dead. Now I’m alive, but some days I feel dead. Justice men...

Send us Fan Mail Two weeks after my last recording, I sit down to share an update. It has been a mix of depression, anxiety about financial security, and wrestling with the unknown future. In this episode I talk about: The ways I have struggled with fear, sadness, and feeling fragile. How the church here has shown up for us, tangibly being the body of Christ. An update on the kids schooling option...

Send us Fan Mail Recorded 9/22. I walk through the last few weeks: closing on our house, the trip to Pennsylvania, and arriving while the world felt shaken. I share how I learned about Charlie Kirk’s assassination on the drive in, why I stepped back into silence, and how sickness and an emergency MRI left me physically crippled and emotionally raw. This episode is honest and quiet. I read from Hin...

Send us Fan Mail Yesterday, we sold basically everything we own. The long-prepared “surrender sale” finally happened, and today I am sitting here exhausted, tender, and raw—recording this episode in real time. I share stories from the sale, including Reverie’s crib, a woman who bought Valor's rocker and the piano for $1000 out of pure generosity. I open up about the grief and lament that foll...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s shorter and messy vulnerable episode I wanted to delete, I share what my husband’s recent trip to film the Leadville 100 in Colorado stirred in me about the Christian life.  This week held so much weight for our family. Emma turned sixteen—the same age I was when I had her—and on the very day I recorded this, Justice officially adopted her. A moment of redemption an...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s real-time “audio vlog,” I share the big and small moments marking our final weeks in Texas before uprooting our family and moving to Pennsylvania. It’s not pre-planned or polished — I jotted a few bullet points, but otherwise, consider it a coffee date with me… only I’m the one doing all the talking. In this episode, you’ll hear: How I got to meet the new owner of o...

Send us Fan Mail This is the episode that makes sense of everything to come. We just sold our home in Texas. We’re about to sell everything we own and move to Pennsylvania without a clue what we’re doing. But this? This is the story behind the story. Inside this foundational episode, I share:  — The loss of our son, Valor  — The journey through grief, pruning, and surrender  — The real-time steps...