Some stories are funny when you look back on them. And then there are the stories that changed you. This is one of those stories. In my late 20s and early 30s, I made two decisions that affected me far more deeply than I understood at the time. Two abortions. And if I am being honest, the decisions themselves were only part of the story. The aftermath was its own kind of suffering. The topic of abortion has become incredibly polarizing in our country. Every election cycle, it

Some stories make us laugh now… not because they were wise, but because grace carried us through them anyway. In this honest reflection, Ilonka shares the Christmas Eve chaos that almost landed her in the back of a police car — and the redemption that followed when Jesus stepped into the middle of the mess. A story about shame, healing, emotional immaturity, and the kind of grace that rewrites everything.

I married a guy I met in a nightclub 18 days earlier. I would never do that in my 40s, but grace has a way of meeting us even in the stories we would never repeat.