The heart behind Poetic Devotions
I’m a writer, an operations and culture leader, and someone who has always been drawn to the stories people carry beneath the surface.
I have been writing since I was a young girl. It became a way for me to understand my own emotions and make sense of the emotions I often found myself carrying for others.
I tend to feel things deeply and often carry the emotions of the people around me. Writing gave those feelings somewhere to go. It helped me slow down, listen, and put words around experiences that can be difficult to explain—whether they belonged to me, someone I loved, or someone whose story stayed with me.
As my relationship with God grew closer, Scripture changed the way I understood those emotions and seasons of loneliness. I began to see that people throughout the Bible also questioned, grieved, waited, wandered, struggled, and searched for God in their own wilderness.
Poetic Devotions is where my love of words, faith, and people comes together. My hope is that no one feels alone while walking through their journey or wilderness, because too many times I have felt that way myself. We may not share the same story, but we can remind one another that God is present in every part of the path.
Why I wrote the book
Through the Wilderness is not only the story of my journey. It is a collection of stories—mine, those of people I have loved, moments I have witnessed, and lessons God has taught me through all of them. Some poems are deeply personal. Others step into experiences that are not mine alone so the person who has lived them can feel seen and the person who has not can understand with greater compassion.
The journey begins with childlike faith: the trust, purity, curiosity, and wonder we knew before life became complicated. From there, it moves through the wilderness of family, identity, grief, relationships, addiction, healing, and the questions we carry when we cannot see the whole path.
Throughout that journey, Scripture reminds us that people in the Bible wrestled with many of the same emotions we experience today. They questioned, waited, grieved, wandered, failed, trusted, and began again. Their stories remind us that feeling uncertain does not make us faithless—and being human does not disqualify us from being met by God.
I wrote the book so readers could recognize their own hearts within its pages. Here on Poetic Devotions, its poems are paired with Scripture and thoughtful reflections that help us explore those moments together. We are not meant to have every answer or become perfect before taking the next step. We are invited to keep walking and trust that God is already there.
Where the journey takes us next
Through the Wilderness is the beginning. The next books continue the conversation into the relationships that shape us and the foundations we choose to build.
Poetic reflections on faith, healing, and becoming. This opening journey moves through childhood, identity, family, love, loss, struggle, grace, and the ongoing work of becoming.
Available nowRead the Poems Behind the Journey →A journey through relationships, longing, emotional mismatch, and boundaries. It explores what happens when love and chaos become tangled—and how we begin choosing God’s love, healthy connection, and a truer identity.
In developmentA reflection on building a life and legacy rooted in God’s truth. This final movement looks toward faith, purpose, family, and the lasting things we hope to plant for those who come after us.
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