Taylor

Sower of words. Keeper of Home. Student of Christ.

Writer / Speaker / Teacher

Hey friend.

Lover of Jesus, people, truth, and the local church. Central to my heart is the belief that women have more influence in one another’s lives than we often realize, for better or for worse. Who we surround ourselves with matters deeply to our walk with Christ. In a world that idolizes self-sufficiency and pushes isolation, becoming godly women and running towards a truly holy community couldn’t be more important.

At home, I am a wife and mom of five, learning to follow Christ within the beautifully ordinary rhythms of family life. My husband AJ and I get to call Georgia home, and much of what I share is shaped in real time by the joys and challenges of everyday faithfulness to the One who gave me more than I will ever deserve.

I'm so honored you are here!

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

- Acts 20:24

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He died for them too.

And if He is capable of changing your heart, beautifully wrecking it, transforming your entire life from ashes, and you too somehow now have a seat at His table, then He can do it for them too.

We can’t be so covetous of healing and of heaven that we stop wanting it for those we don’t feel deserve it. Our fair and righteous Judge will handle that part. Until then, you pray.

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#healing #prayerispowerful #redemption #relationship #christianquotes

Sometimes we struggle to understand Scripture, but more often we resist allowing it to challenge and change us.

When the hard parts come, our response can no longer be to run. It has to be resilience and humility so that we press in, choosing God over comfort and truth over convenience.

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#scripture #godsword #surrender #spiritualgrowth #christianquotes

He is so much more.

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#jesus #spiritualgrowth #faith #bible #christianquotes

I only wish I had sought Jesus first, instead of accepting the versions of Him played out by others.

He is in the business of changing hearts, restoring what’s been broken, and bringing dead things back to life. But I only found out when I surrendered in spite of what I assumed.

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#surrender #spiritualgrowth #churchhurt #christianquotes #jesus

The path ahead is full of questions I can’t answer and turns I can’t see. Yet I will choose to walk it anyway, because the One who holds every step is faithful beyond my understanding every single time.

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#faith #surrender #obedience #jesus #christianquotes

We love inviting God into the plans we’ve already decided on, putting Jesus stickers neatly on top of them. But we struggle when His plans interrupt the story we are insistent on telling.

Still, His purpose is to transform our whole hearts, and He does this from a place of such radical love. If only we were quicker to trust that love, be open to changed plans, refinement by fire, even a holy “no.” How much more clearly would the world see Jesus in us?

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#surrender #spiritualgrowth #refinement #faith #christianquotes

The enemy can sow as much division as he pleases, and it will never mean that isolation and separation become the better alternative.

Get yourself a community that will pray the gates of heaven down on your behalf, lower you through a roof for a chance at healing, tell you when you’ve gone astray and point you past yourself. It exists, and it’s worth everything.

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#friendship #jesus #christianwomen #together #christianquotes

If something stirs resistance in me, I’m learning to ask why before I dismiss it.

God has a way of hiding growth inside discomfort, and one of the greatest lies we’re fed is that comfort and ease are the markers of being on the right path.

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#spiritualgrowth #conviction #comfort #jesus #christianquotes

I think of my kids when I think about this. How deeply I want to spare them frustration, pain, and sadness.

Loving them more than the moment means knowing that I can’t, and shouldn’t, rescue them from every hard thing. But I can sit with them in it.

They need time under tension to build patience, train endurance, and deepen strength for things neither of us can see ahead.

And I need this reminder often: that God loves me enough to do the same.

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#spiritualgrowth #jesus #faith #christianquotes

The proof of a healthy apple tree is its fruit. Every season of planting, watering, and deepening its roots is working toward this one outcome: fruit in its time.

In the same way, faith may grow a tree, but saving faith bears fruit for a hurting and watching world to see. We have so much at stake when we refuse to reflect on this because a fruitless faith doesn’t just fail to feed the world, it confuses it.

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#faithondisplay #witness #rooted #fruitoffaith #christianquotes

Discerning God’s will may defy our desires and disrupt our timing, but it will never deny us His prosperity, because He sees ahead where we cannot.

Some of the greatest things I have or hold today came because “not like this” was unimaginably better than the plans I had in store for myself. Don’t hesitate to let go ♥︎

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#surrender #godsplan #jesus #godspurpose #christianquotes

Programs and performances don’t make disciples, they create spectators. And our enemy will gladly let us linger inside this “halfway holy”, which may prove to be the most dangerous ground we face today.

Because here it’s so easy to live and build entire lives rooted in its shallow soil.

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#surrender #jesus #church #livebyfaith #christianquotes

And our oldest is 12.

You are a deeply loyal friend, brilliant beyond measure, and you lead with humility wherever you go. When I became your momma at 19, I remember wondering who you’d be today, and you’ve surpassed every hope I ever had. We are so proud of the young man you’re becoming and gosh.. getting to watch you grow has been one of life’s greatest gifts to us.

Happy birthday, Carter man. We love you endlessly!

Do not leave your season before it has finished speaking. Temporary things can still shape our lives but they were never meant to consume them.

Get to your next season. Because we serve a God of order in a world pushing chaos and He will make all things, even this, right and clear and full of so much purpose.

Crawl if you must, but get there. Hope is reason enough.

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#seasons #madeformore #spiritualgrowth #christianquotes #promise

Show the world we are a praying people. Stop waiting for “later” or privacy to speak to the God you want others to know and openly contend for those you love.

If we believe prayer has power, then we can’t just risk forgetting to do it for those we promise it to.

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#prayer #spiritualgrowth #jesus #christianquotes #christianwomen

Sometimes your yes to God’s unfolding plan demands a thousand quiet no’s. Even to things that aren’t sinful, but may distract you from your walk.

We treat “no” like a lack of love, yet sometimes it’s the purest form of obedience.

No to the habits that once owned you.
No to the subtle pull of the world back toward comfort.
No to the voices that miss the old you, the one you laid down at the altar.

Mary said yes to sitting and Martha said yes to servivg. But only one chose the better portion.

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#spiritualgrowth #obedience #jesus #womenoffaith #christianquotes

The twelve were the most unlikely companions, and that was the point.

Jesus wanted to teach us that our instinct for sameness was not His standard, and that our love is never meant to be limited to only those we prefer.

“If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.” - James‬ ‭2‬:‭8‬-‭13‬ ‭

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#godlyrelationships #jesus #christianwomen #community #christianquotesdaily

We don’t endure because we enjoy the pain, we endure because we believe that He wastes nothing. Even when it would be easier to walk away, we trust that God is doing something we can’t yet see.

Hard seasons are where shallow faith begins to wither and the roots that will withstand life’s storms grow. One day, we will recognize that this season, right now, is the place God built the good things we prayed so hard for.

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#endurance #waiting #hupomoné #jesus #christianquotes

In a world chasing comfort, seek what’s refining over what’s familiar.

Because it’s the circles that balance both that are the sweetest gifts to the soul ♥︎

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#friendship #jesus #affirmation #christianwomen #christianquotes

One of my most persistent reminders. That being busy, even when it feels holy, is never a sufficient enough substitute for time alone with my Savior.

And more often than not, when life feels most pressing, it’s because I’ve quietly forgotten that again.

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#busyness #daysofsimpleandslow #jesus #christianquotes

God leaves no room for margins here, because He knew we would try to create them.

The fruit of a life led by the Spirit was never meant to be ambiguous, or negotiable. So we must ask, with sobriety rather than sentiment: those who we allow to hold influence in our lives, what do they produce?

And if it is not love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, then they are not merely lacking fruit, we are willfully submitting to a different vine.

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#counterculture #jesus #christianquotes #submission

There is pain in the pruning, but we serve a God who knows it.

Whose grace runs so deep that He prunes anyway, loving us enough to shape what we cannot yet see, trusting that the coming season will reveal what He saw in us all along.

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#pruning #surrender #obedience #jesus #christianquotes

The greatest threat to the Church may not be opposition from without, but apathy from within.

When the world watches our lives contradict our confession, how much credibility does our good news carry?

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#spiritualgrowth #jesus #church #goodnews #christianquotes

Mercy opens the door exactly where you are. It’s love then that calls you to walk through it.

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” - Ezekiel‬ ‭36‬:‭26‬ ‭

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#transformation #jesus #affirmation #surrender #christianquotes

Spoil the ending.

More than ever, the weary and the waiting need to be reminded that hope remains because the story was written. And the ending is worth holding onto.

“Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.” - C.S. Lewis

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#hope #jesus #cslewis #christianquotes

Jesus will find us whether we are thriving or barely holding on. And then He calls us to release what no longer belongs to us.

Our things, our ways, our priorities, identities, or our false sense of safety.

This isn’t cruelty, it’s a love like we’ve never known before. One that refuses to let the world be our keeper any longer.

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#surrender #letgoandletgod #jesus #christianquotes

“Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of Him who is the head, that is, Christ.” Eph 4:15

Sameness and agreement are loud right now, but they cannot carry the weight we ask of them for long.

So deeply thankful for the hearts God gave me to turn me back to Him, and call on me to do the same. In all of our (plentiful) imperfection, may we do this one thing well.

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#jesus #friendship #christianwomen #christianquotes

Something in my heart will never get over the fact that of all the weapons the Creator of the universe could have chosen, force, fear, or domination…

He chose ink, a pen, and the trembling, imperfect heart of someone willing.

A radical love we’re prone to overlook.

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#godsword #jesus #redemption #christianquotes

I don’t find Jesus at my peak, I found him in the release.

There�’s a holy kind of undoing when you let go and striving gives way to surrender. Not the kind of undoing that breaks you, but the kind that returns you.

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#lettinggo #surrender #jesus #walkingbyfaith #christianquotes

The smallest shift you could make •right now• that could reshape your faith: talk to Jesus before your feet touch the floor.

It might feel forced at first, like words searching for meaning. But one morning you’ll notice you’re breathing easier, because need suddenly replaced the noise.

And overnight, Jesus stops feeling distant and starts feeling necessary.

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#prayer #jesus #spiritualgrowth #christianquotes

Don’t forget to let Him hold you too.

What we build for protection can quietly become isolation, keeping us dependent on our own strength when the healing your heart yearns for is only found in surrender.

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#surrender #jesus #healing #christianquotes

God’s words, shaped to our bias, cease to be His. And then they no longer heal, they wound.

And when we do this, we forget that we are wearing His name to a watching world, who yearns so deeply for The Truth.

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#godsword #jesus #churchhurt #christianquotes

There isn’t a season that passes without being asked to choose this again, and again, and again.

Even when it presses on tender places, and when pruning presents itself as pain, it has never failed to reveal itself as purpose.

And somehow, every season that follows becomes richer than the last.

But only if you surrender here.
Only if you follow faithfully.
Only if you take the next step.

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#Surrender #spiritualgrowth #followjesus #christianwomen #christianquotes

God doesn’t only form us in sacred moments, but through the dedication and endurance of sacred friendships.

How often do we push away faithful voices because we mistake love for opposition?

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#friendship #jesus #christianwomen #christianquotes

Grace doesn’t lower the standard, it lifts the burden.

It’s not permission to live unchanged, because God doesn’t minimize our sin. He heals what it’s doing to us.

Grace isn’t dismissal, it’s deliverance.

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#grace #sin #overcoming #christianquotes

Something about parenthood brings the gospel within reach. Between the warning and the mistake, God shows us His heart so clearly.

I don’t think we realize how safe His love was always meant to feel until our child runs toward us, certain our arms haven’t closed.

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#jesus #parenthood #motherhood #christianquotes

Grace isn’t intimidated by the mess, and God doesn’t withdraw when the story gets complex, even when people do.

He writes redemption into layered love stories, and purpose into the margins of every page.

Nothing about your past makes Him flinch.
And you need to know that your story didn’t scare Him away, it brought you to Him.

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#redemption #story #testimony #jesus #christianquotes

I had the opportunity to teach on this last night and wanted to reshare this powerful connection in Scripture between nurturing and discipline.

Hebrews tells us that discipline is not rejection, but love. It is the mark of belonging, the careful shaping of a Father who refuses to leave us unchanged. How often do we run from the very seasons meant to grow us, assuming that discomfort means distance, when it may be evidence that we are deeply held?

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#refining #discipleship #jesus #christianquotes

All those moments where I reached the other side and finally saw the bigger picture, it almost never looked the way I imagined, or the way I wanted it to.

And yet, every time, it somehow looked infinitely better.

I learned to yield to God’s will because the truth is this: if my life had gone my way, I’d still be standing where I started.

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#godsplan #clarity #jesus #christianquotes

One of my favorite quotes of all time, and a reminder that still holds its weight.

Remembering a life and legacy marked by conviction, courage, and costly obedience.

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#mlk #drmartinlutherkingjr #christianquotes

This path is shaped by grace, even when it feels steep.

And even here, especially here, you are not walking alone.

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#grace #faithwalk #jesus #christianquotes

The moment faith stops being something theoretical, resistance follows. That is often your confirmation.

Even in opposition, it is worth everything to stay the course.

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#obedience #jesus #prayer #christianquotes

How faithfully He answers this prayer. He replaces loss with love, leads you to deeply rooted friendships, and establishes a life-giving community running this race together, when you finally pause long enough to admit your need for them.

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#friendship #faithfulness #jesus #christianquotes

Just us, adjusting to the meteorological mood swings, somewhere between false spring and second winter 𓇢𓆸

This month, Georgia becomes the place we’ve lived the longest as a family, somehow crossing us over the five year mark. We’ll always miss pieces of the places that shaped us, but there’s something tender about knowing when you’re home.

The temptation of gossip doesn’t disappear in Christian spaces, it adapts to it.

It slips into “prayer requests,” community circles that mention Jesus but linger on people, and grows in the soils of comparison.

The enemy thrives on division, so love demands we name it.

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#gossip #jesus #prayer #christianquotes

When correction feels like attack, our resistance drowns out God’s voice.

He hasn’t come to wound us. His love comes to refine us, so what remains bears His image, not our own.

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#faithful #jesus #conviction #surrender #christianquotes

God isn’t after performance, but after faith that bears fruit long after the noise fades.

A faith that is still felt in the days between gatherings, and that shows Jesus as Lord of our lives, not just a label.

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#surrender #jesus #christianquotes

And somehow, my baby girl is 6.

The sweetest, most adventurous girl there ever was. There isn’t a day that passes me by where the honor of being your momma doesn’t overwhelm me. It’s hard to believe how much you’ve grown, but all at the same time it’s been such a joy to see you in all of your seasons. You have a heart unlike any other, and I cannot wait to see the incredible plans God has in store for your life.

Happy birthday Eryn, I love you more ♥︎

Trees with deep roots don’t depend on shallow rain. They draw from living water, and in turn they bear the most fruit.

If God seems silent in this season, don’t retreat. Dig. This season isn’t breaking you, it here to establish you.

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#seasons #jesus #madeformore #christianquotes

It’s easier to fill rooms than it is to form disciples.

Attendance is easy. Being known is costly. And community carries a cost our culture no longer wants to pay.

We’ve traded sacrificial love for convenience. Presence for preference. Covenant for comfort.

Programs and performances don’t make disciples.
They create spectators, and the enemy is content to leave it there.

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#church #community #discipleship #christianquotes #jesus

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