12/09/2025
Today my heart feels both heavy and full at the same time ❤️💔
I baked 45 loaves of sourdough bread for Young Life Ministry consisting of our very own Oxford High School youth this past weekend. I felt such a deep gratitude for the strength, time, and opportunity God gave me to serve. With every loaf I shaped, I whispered a prayer — for the hands that will receive it, for the hearts that will be fed, and for God’s presence to be felt in ways only He can orchestrate.
Quite literally, simultaneously, as I was baking to bless others, my heart was aching and grieving for my neighbors who I witnessed lose everything in a house fire on Saturday afternoon. As I do quite often while baking, I listened and sang worship music while glancing out my kitchen windows to pure chaos and tragedy. I found myself struggling to keep my mindset focused on the family’s I’m blessing at the same time I’m literally watching another family be torn away from their entire life they worked so hard to build. It felt like time was not moving Saturday, it is a feeling I cannot explain. You don’t know what to say, don’t know what to do, other than offer myself, my home, my hands and feet, just tell me what you need and how I can lessen the burden for you.
Even in the middle of sorrow, God still finds ways to let us be His hands and feet. I’m thankful He allowed me to pour love and prayer into each loaf I baked for Young Life Ministry. I pray He continues to use even the small things for His glory.
Lord, let my hands stay faithful, my heart stay soft, and my life stay surrendered. 🙌 Please lift my neighbors up in your prayers — for peace, comfort, and provision in this unimaginable moment.
