Hi, my name is Courtney, but you can call me Coco. Like my friends and family do. 🙂

I started this blog back in 2018- to encourage and share with others. Share what, exactly? Whatever God has given me. As a borderline introvert, extrovert, I have always danced in the struggle to show up in the world the way God has intended for me, without being “self” promoting. God has given each of us ideas and talents that He fully intends for us to us. So this space is one way that I am trying to show up and live my life accordingly.

Whether that’s words that I share (and I have a lot of those, just ask my family!) or ideas, wisdom, experience, inspiration or scriptures, I think that God does not want us to be stingy. EVERYONE needs some encouragement from time to time, so that’s why I’m here.

My goal is never “Here, look at my life! Isn’t it extraordinary!”   My goal is to share joy and hope with anyone who comes this way. Because that’s the whole point of life, anyway, isn’t it?! If I can share something that helps another person, then it’s worth the whole thing. It’s worth showing up. For if you happen along this space and can then look upon your life with more love and consideration, then that’s pretty amazing. For even when life can be difficult, it’s worth it.

In the last year I started designing and creating products that can help infuse a day with more joy and hope, too. If we can take some of these thoughts off the pages and carry them into our daily lives, then it’s a double win!

 This journey in life and faith, and parenthood especially, is complicated and transformative. It’s a marathon and we all need food for the journey. That’s why I’m here.

While I always wanted to be a journalist, I took a hard right before graduating high school and went to bible college instead.  I wanted to pursue ministry, and a life of service within faith. Now years later, I see how the paths were all leading toward this. Not only my own family but also creating a space that (hopefully!) blesses other families and children. This was a path set for me, even as the particulars change. And I’m passionate about YOU finding that purpose in your own life, too.

If there’s one hope I could wish to convey, it’s the truth that our whole life is ministry.  Everything we do, say, think, create, dream and desire- it all has purpose. God is right there guiding and helping us. I want you to remember that when you’re here on this site.  I want to help others see the EXTRAORDINARY. To know, love, and walk with God, more fully in the freedom of their calling with God.

Above all of it, each of us are called to love and to be loved by our amazing Creator. To receive it and to give it away.

Love’s story’s still being written, and I’m just taking notes… 

Xo