I’m Grateful for Instability
By Kirsten Nicole February 2, 2026 Two years seven months and fourteen days ago, I wrote a blog post about an identity crisis. My identity crisis to be exact, which happened to be the moment the Lord asked me to lay the idol of my writing down at his feet so that He could pick it up and redeem it into something wholly devoted to Him. At the time, I was reluctant to release the gift He’d given me in the first place, afraid that giving it to him would mean I’d resent the uppity
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Letter of Love
By Kirsten Nicole December 31, 2025 I always thought home videos would be the most precious remnants of my long-passed birthmom. But I was wrong. As I sat in my bedroom, a few lamps lighting the darkened room, everyone else having gone to bed hours prior, I pulled out a couple sheets of unassuming stationary. A green strip with tiny, yellow polka dots and waxy red apples bordered the handwritten script—a letter. Addressed to me. From her. It was dated the seventh of May, 1998
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The Spiritual Lesson at Devil’s Lake
Devil’s Lake, Wisconsin By Kirsten Nicole October 15, 2025 My sister held out her hand to me, one foot propped against a jagged, steepled boulder and one on a flatter one, sandwiched between two more jutting rocks. I carefully nestled one foot in the small indentation on the edge of the rock before her and grabbed her hand with my left. I used my body weight to swing my right leg and land my right foot swiftly, half bent, in the crevice of two other rocks. She steadied me, an
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Seven Ways to Please the Lord
By Kirsten Nicole July 3, 2024 Unsplash image by Ben White Growing up in a Christian home and environment, it is easy to hear all of the...
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