So much of our perspective is shaped by our own story. What we embrace, what we reject, what we believe are a response to the good or a reaction to the bad that we ourselves have experienced in life. One of the great shaping influences in my own life is being the middle-big sister to two brothers--my brother Matt, 14 months younger--and my brother Steve, who joined our family in 1983, when I was seven and he was a toddler. He was adopted into our military family, the beloved caboose in our...

Welcome new friends from recent speaking engagements at Camp Berea, Victory Life and Lake Forest! So glad you have you here! I send a little encouragement monthly(ish)--hope it's helpful to you! Real Talk with Nicole. Let's be real together in this wonderful, beautiful, difficult thing we call life. Lots of time on my feet to prep for the upcoming Marathon with Revelation Wellness Walking can be a spiritual discipline of its own. I would love to say that I'm a person who does well with "quiet...

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -St. Francis of Assisi A life unedited is a cluttered life. We pick up all kinds of things: relationships, priorities, obligations, joys, sorrows. We layer and layer until we feel overwhelmed, overburdened and underwater. This is not reason for alarm; but it is reason for attention. Over the decades, I've often found myself yearning for spaces of rest and reset, while knowing full well that the idea of a perfectly...