Chastity Dawn

Healing and Sharing Our Stories As I continue to share this journey, I am reflecting on my original intent. I wanted to skate the surface, use fun metaphors and analogies, and tell everyone about the goodness of God. I wanted to keep a safe distance from people, and I absolutely did not want to be […]

As I begin, I understand the next few posts will be my most personal series of posts yet. I say yet, not ever because I have accepted that I will go as deep as God wants me to go. When I started this journey of sharing my writing publicly, I never intended to share deeply

Lately, I have been thinking about how as a child, I would sometimes hear older people say, “We’re living in the end times,” whenever some extreme and devastating news story was reported. I did not understand what it meant, but it sounded scary. As an adult, I now understand. I do not watch the news,

I was first inclined to title this post, “But I Digress, Part Two,” but felt the Holy Spirit’s correction because this is not a digression or even a rant. It is a simple plea to pastors. A conversation I had with a young woman about her church experience left me feeling sad at what is

Have you ever heard someone say, “Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater?” When I have conversations with people who are not followers of Christ, this idiom seems to always come to mind. Typically, there is a story involved about how they used to go to church and were really into it but at

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Variations of this quote have been around for a long time. Until I read it in a devotional recently, I had not thought much of it and would have even agreed. As I continue to learn, grow, and question everything we have been conditioned to believe or agree with, this statement is one I feel

One of my favorite things about the upcoming fall season is the beauty of nature. As soon as September arrives, I get excited about it and know that soon the time will come when the color of the leaves will change, and the air will be cooler. On September 5th, I looked out my bedroom

September has always been my favorite month. Growing up in the Midwest, it seemed although it was technically still summer, something in the air felt different when September arrived. It made me look forward to the cooler temperatures soon to come, and the beautiful colors in nature that make you wonder how anyone can see

The last few months have been crazy but in a really wonderful way. On March 24th, I woke up at 3:45 am and could not go back to sleep. When that happens, I typically feel inclined to spend time talking with and listening to God. This particular morning, He led me to start writing. It