Nanaw, You should’ve been there for my wedding. To help me pick out my wedding dress, the perfect shoes, and to help me get ready on the day of the wedding. You should’ve been there with your three-quarter sleeved dress, making everyone around you laugh and making sure everyone’s hair and makeup looked perfect. YouContinue reading “You Should’ve Been Here”
Author Archives: Leah Callen
If I Could Say One Last Thing
To my beloved grandmother (“Nanaw”) who passed away last week on November 7th: If I could say one last thing to you (or maybe a few)… I would tell you how much joy you brought to my heart just simply by existing. I would tell you how much I loved how deeply you thought andContinue reading “If I Could Say One Last Thing”
Love Without Limits
Sometimes we are afraid to love. Sometimes love intimidates us. Sometimes, we don’t want to love people because they don’t love us in return. Some of us may be in love, some of us may dream of falling in love some day, and some of us be scared out of our minds to fall inContinue reading “Love Without Limits”
God, Help Me See the Good
Hey listen – I know not every situation is good. I know not everything that happens to us is fun, and I know sometimes the pain we feel from difficult circumstances we face in life can feel more physically painful than if we were actually hit by a bus. I know sometimes we feel madContinue reading “God, Help Me See the Good”
But God, I don’t want to forgive them!
I know they hurt you. I know they treated you unfairly. I know they caused you deep pain and emotional turmoil that no one else saw, and that you cannot use words to explain. I know they didn’t show up for you when you thought they would. I know you trusted them and you thoughtContinue reading “But God, I don’t want to forgive them!”
A Letter to my High School Self
Dear high school Leah, I wish I could’ve told you how much all of those things you’re worrying about right now will not matter to you at all in a few years. I wish I could show you now how much you are growing in your relationship with God and blossoming into the woman HeContinue reading “A Letter to my High School Self”
The Longing
Lord, I long for your presence. Not just during a praise and worship song at church, and not just when I walk up to the altar to receive prayer. I long for your presence to permeate every aspect of every single day of my life. I realize more and more how completely incapable I amContinue reading “The Longing”
It will cost you
Obeying God isn’t always easy. In fact, it isn’t easy most of the time. It’s hard, because it will involve you giving up absolutely everything else you could possibly trust in in the natural in order to be completely and totally reliant on God. When we obey God, we are communicating that we trust inContinue reading “It will cost you”
Why am I in seminary?
I ask myself this question quite often. Seminary is challenging, time-consuming, expensive, and straight up just a WHOLE lot of work. It’s hard. It takes up most of my time and money, so why am I doing it? I am in seminary because I KNOW this is where God has called me. I know thatContinue reading “Why am I in seminary?”
“I trust in God, just not in me.”
If you’re anything like me, you spend a lot of time doubting yourself. You think to yourself “oh, that person can do that, but not me, I can’t.” You focus so much on your flaws and your struggles that sometimes you even forget that you’re a whole person outside of those struggles that you face.Continue reading ““I trust in God, just not in me.””
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