Living Faithfully From the Beginning
I’ve been part of my faith for as long as I can remember. I grew up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, served a full-time mission, and learned early what faith was supposed to look like. For a long time, I thought living faithfully meant doing everything right and doing it consistently.
Lately, though, faith has felt different. Quieter. It’s become less about proving anything and more about trusting God in the middle of ordinary life. That’s where the idea of simply living by faith began to take shape for me.
It’s become less about proving anything and more about trusting God in the middle of ordinary life.
How Marriage Changed My Perspective
Getting married changed my faith in ways I didn’t expect. Not because my beliefs changed, but because the structure around them did. So much of my beliefs before had been shaped by schedules and expectations of what faithfulness looked like.
Marriage slowed things down. Suddenly, the way I worshipped started showing up differently in morning routines, shared prayers that didn’t always feel eloquent, and learning how to trust God in decisions that felt heavier because they weren’t just mine anymore.
Learning to Live What I Believe
I noticed that I wasn’t striving in the same way. There was less urgency to prove anything and more responsibility to live what I believed in the small, unseen parts of life. Faith became less about consistency for consistency’s sake, and more about presence; choosing to invite God into everyday life, even when it felt simple or incomplete.
In this season of my life, I realized that my strength in Christ needed to be something I relied on daily. I needed faith in Christ to get through the day and to steady me when anxiety felt overwhelming. This was not a season of asking whether I had faith, but one of intentionally choosing to build it.
Simply Living by Faith
That is where this blog comes in. I needed a place to write down those faith-building moments as they happen. My hope is that it can also become a space where others recognize God in their own lives in ways that feel personal and real.
My faith has become more personal than perfect, and I am deeply grateful for the experiences and trials that continue to shape it.
