Dear Daughters

Be aware of where your time is going. Decide what's going to be important to you. If you don't, everybody else is going to decide it for you. ~ Will Davis III Do you have goals and dreams but for whatever reason aren't able to achieve them? Well, then I hope you get some big encouragement and direction from today's podcast with Will Davis III. Will is a realtor, trail runner, mountain climber, hus...

The Enneagram is a tool that awakens our compassion for people just as they are, not the people we wish they would become so our lives would become easier. ~  The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery As we continue diving into these questions surrounding vocation, identity and God's plans for our lives, it just seemed right to explore the Enneagram so I called in an expert. Suz...

What am I supposed to do with my life? That's what we'll be looking into over the next few weeks on the podcast. The questions surrounding vocation, identify and then what to do with those two things in developing a strategy to accomplish God's plans for our lives. Today, I'm so excited to have my husband Will Davis Jr. join me for another episode of the podcast. Besides being a church founder and...

Alexandra Kuykendall lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and four daughters, where she writes about relishing life, hosts  The Open Door Sisterhood Podcast  with our mutual friend  Krista , and speaks about expectations, contentment, and purpose. She worked for  MOPS International  for ten years and still regularly contributes to their blog. In this episode of The Dear Daughters podcast, we...

Will Davis Jr.  is a pastor, writer, mountain-climber, intense human, father, and my own sweet husband. Together we started  Austin Christian Fellowship  in 1993. He's passionate about surprising unbelievers with the credibility and relevance of Jesus' message, and teaching about the power of prayer. He's written  ten books , writes online at  willdavisjr.com Even more important, he's been an incr...

Kris Camealy is a fellow table person and writer living in a cozy rural community outside of Columbus, Ohio with her husband and four kids. In addition to homeschooling their kids and trying to figure out the trick to the prettiest pie crust, she also  writes online , is the founder & editor-in-chief of the beautiful hospitality site  Grace Table . I loved getting to talk hospitality with her toda...

Natalie Coulter is the Founder and Creative Director of  Mint and Maple  where she works to equip people for the creative life. She is an old soul with a youthful spirit, a personality test junkie, a professional dreamer, and wife to Josh. She's also an enneagram type 7, and an absolute delight. In this episode we talked about creativity and owning a small business and a whole lot of whimsy. She r...

Amy Nelson Hannon lives in Springdale, Arkansas in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. She is married to her college sweetheart, who she believes, is still the funniest boy in the world. Her three greatest gifts came packaged as Grace, Luke, and Isaac. In May 2014, after almost 13 years as a wedding stationer, Amy pursued her dream of opening a kitchen boutique in her grandmother's name. Because lik...

Bri McKoy is a writer, air force wife, dog mama, food blogger, and table person living with her husband, Jeremy, in Hermosa, California. She believes in following in Jesus' footsteps as He broke bread around the table with his disciples, and making the table a place to welcome others into our stories. Bri also works with  Compassion International  and writes online at  Our Savory Life . She just r...

Oh y'all, it's so hard to list everything Jess Connolly does in one little paragraph. Jess is a teacher, writer, entrepreneur, wife, mother of four, and church planter. One of her greatest joys is gathering with women and being as honest as possible with them about how good God is and how much He loves them. She writes online at  jessconnolly.com , is the founder of the  All Good Things Collective...

Karen Wright Marsh is a fellow table person, storyteller, writer, and theologian. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband where she runs the non-profit, Theological Horizons . She also created The Bonhoeffer House out of their own home because she wanted a space for "meals and interactions and meetings about faith, thought and life." Don't you just want to go to her house for pie r...

Sharon Hodde Miller is a writer, speaker, Bible teacher, pastor's wife, and mother, who loves writing about Jesus for the women in his church. She regularly contributes to sites like: Her.meneutics, Relevant, (in)courage, and Propel. Sharon lives in North Carolina with her husband and two sons. She is releasing her first book baby,  Free Of Me: Why Life is Better When It's Not About You   today ,...

Lindsey Nobles  is a gatherer of people, an "architect of affiliation" and one of the builders of IF: Gathering. She has lived all over the country but loves the South (and as you will hear ... the Central Time Zone ;). She writes on the internet at www.lindseynobles.com and currently consults for non-profits. She is one of my favorite people to talk with about ministry, God and food.  I think you...

"What does it look like to love God for the next ten minutes? What does it look like to love the person in front of me for the next ten minutes? That's the Great Commandment." ~ Jan Johnson Jan Johnson is  a spiritual director, speaker, instructor at Richmont Graduate University, and writer of 22 books (!!). She says that everything she writes or speaks on flows out of these three areas: spiritual...

"He never leaves your side. He's always right there holding your hand. And you know what? You're gonna be awesome." ~ Tara Royer Steele Tara Royer Steele lives in Brenham, Texas with her husband Rick and their two boys, where they make pies, cater for Royer's Roundtop Cafe, run the Pie Haven and lead camps on soul restoration through their newly launched Brave Gathering . Tara and her family just...

"This is how change works. It's stealthy. It delicately changes you and your perspective while you're in it, and it is not until you are fully out of it that you look in the mirror and notice a difference." ~ Andrea Lucado Andrea Lucado is a full time freelance writer, coffee drinker, and author of English Lessons: The Crooked Path of Growing Towards Faith . Andrea has had her own crooked path mea...

"You have a hardwiring from God, and it's a beautiful hardwiring. And if you can discover what that is, that points to the reason you're here." ~ Bill Hendricks Bill Hendricks is a native Texan, Executive Director for Christian Leadership at the Hendricks Center, and President of the Giftedness Center, where he helps people understand their unique giftedness. He lives in Dallas with his wife, Lynn...

I believe that each best choice that I make will add up to the best life that I can live. ~ Esther Emery Esther is an off-grid homestead wife, mama, and author. She lives with her husband and three children in a yurt (!!) in the forest (!!!) where they maintain a blog and You Tube channel about the simple life. They raise goats, and bake bread, among many other amazing things. She just released he...

"As we're trying to find a better self, it's not a construction project, it's an excavation project. We're learning to let  go of those things which are not us." ~ Kelly Flanagan  Kelly is a licensed clinical psychologist and writer whose words have appeared in The Huffington Post , Reader's Digest , Babble (Disney's parenting website), and The Today Show . He blogs regularly at UnTangled about ma...

"This world is huge. It is majestic. It is worth exploring just for the sake of knowing it." ~ Tsh Oxenreider Tsh Oxenreider is a podcaster and blogger at The Art of Simple , and has published several books including Notes from a Blue Bike and her newest, At Home in the World. Her writing has also been featured in the Washington Post, CNN, Real Simple magazine, and more. Tsh currently lives in Geo...

"Instead of trying to parent the way that God parents us, we get mad that God doesn't parent like we do. God allows negative things into our lives. He disciplines those that He loves. He doesn't parent like us because He knows that's an emotionally crippling way to raise a child." ~ Dr. Jimmy Myers As a licensed professional counselor and Owner/Executive Director of The Timothy Center , Dr. Jimmy...

"Curiosity is a life raft." ~ Casey Tygrett Have you ever thought of curiosity as a spiritual discipline? I never did until I met Casey Tygrett. Casey is a pastor, spiritual director, and author of Becoming Curious : A Spiritual Practice of Asking Questions (coming May 2 ~ yay!). Casey lives in Rockford, Illinois with his wife and daughter where he serves as the teaching pastor at Heartland Commun...

"Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is waste time." ~ Shelly Miller Meet Shelly, your Sabbath mentor. At least that's what Myquillyn Smith calls her. Shelly is married to H (yes, his name is one letter!), an Anglican minister who resources church planting in the UK and they are the proud parents of two children, Murielle and Harrison. When Shelly isn't at St. Barnabas Church in Kensing...

"God is not looking for perfect mothers to raise perfect daughters. He's looking for imperfect mothers who are raising imperfect daughters in an imperfect world … and desperately dependent on a perfect God for the results." ~ Vicki Courtney Vicki Courtney is a wife, mother and grandmother. She is an author and ministry leader. She is also my friend. She is the kind of friend I can call to untangle...

The world may tell us we're too much and never enough. But we can walk wildly in who God created us to be and rest freely in the work Jesus did for us. We do not have to be confined or conformed by cultural expectations. We are unchained from our past and unafraid of our future. ~ Jess Connolly   If you want to know what it looks like to run after God, meet Jess Connolly. Aside from starting a chu...