Kaase Levell

This is it! The final memo of the season! We made it! But before you get all "sad summer's over" and start posting montages with slow songs, listen to me: the "Sun-kissed + Sanctified" life doesn't end just because the sun sets on August. In fact, we are just getting started. I’m not even looking at the girl you are today—I am looking at the woman you are going to be 365 days from now. Close your eyes for a second and imagine her. Imagine the girl who has spent an entire school year walking...

Wait, stop what you’re doing for a second. Put down the iced coffee, pause the scroll, and I need you to go look in a mirror. Like, a real mirror, not a filtered front-facing camera. I want you to actually look at your eyes. Because if you’ve been leaning into these downloads and actually opening your Bible this summer, I promise the girl looking back at you right now is not the girl from June. You’ve had a "holy glow-up" that has zero to do with a new lip gloss and everything to do with your...

There is a massive difference between a girl who "knows about" God and a girl who actually knows her God. One of them is easily shaken by a bad day or a mean comment; the other is an unmovable force. One of them seeks confidence from her outfit or her "likes"; the other has a confidence anchored in the Eternal. As we get closer to that first day of school, there’s this huge temptation to just "slip back" into the crowd. We think, "Okay, I’ve grown, I’ve changed, and now I just want to go back...