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Sometimes I wonder how many promising connections never get the chance to grow because two people are waiting for the ot...
10/14/2026

Sometimes I wonder how many promising connections never get the chance to grow because two people are waiting for the other to make them feel completely safe from rejection.

My pastor once explained faith to me using a jet ski analogy.

God can steer you left or right, but you have to be moving forward for Him to direct you. Otherwise, you’re just spinning in circles.

When James told me how close he came to canceling our second date, I was shocked. And honestly, it made me wonder whether my own pride would have kept me from trying to save the date if he’d canceled.

I’d spent two years learning how to date with wisdom and discernment. But I was still learning what it meant to be vulnerable.

James was learning to have the courage to pursue a woman when he wasn’t completely certain she felt the same way.

Neither of us had all the answers. We were just two Christians trying to move forward with faith and intention.

I’m so grateful we did. ❤️

I don’t believe faith means certainty. I believe sometimes it means having the courage to take the next step while trusting God to guide you.

What if discernment costs me the very thing I’m praying for?That was one of the hardest parts of dating in my mid-30s.Be...
10/04/2026

What if discernment costs me the very thing I’m praying for?

That was one of the hardest parts of dating in my mid-30s.

Because when you want marriage and children, every man you release can feel like one less opportunity.

What if I’m being too picky?
What if I should give him more grace?
What if I let him go…and there isn’t another?

I remember releasing a man I liked because I wasn’t comfortable with his work and living situation.
Someone told me:
“You’re 35. You can’t be picky. Give him some grace.”

And as a Christian woman, that hit a nerve.
Because aren’t we supposed to give grace?
Yes.
But I had to learn that grace and discernment have different jobs.

Grace can forgive someone.
Discernment can still tell you he is not your husband.

The real question became:
Did I trust God enough to use wisdom even when wisdom seemed to be shrinking my options?
Could I release what felt misaligned without demanding proof that something better was coming?
Could I surrender my timeline without surrendering my convictions?

James 1:5 tells us that if we lack wisdom, we should ask God, who gives generously.
So I asked.
Then I had to have enough faith to actually use the wisdom I was praying for.

I still dated intentionally.
I still communicated clearly.
I still took action.

But I stopped believing fear was permission to negotiate against what I knew.
I turned 38 last month married and pregnant with our son.

Not because discernment guarantees the outcome we want.
I didn’t make that timeline happen.
But I did keep taking intentional action in faith, praying for wisdom, using discernment and trusting God with the outcome.

That, for me, was surrender.
Not passivity.
Faithful action without trying to control what only God could control. 🤍

38 today. 🤍Five birthdays ago, I was newly single after betrayal and quietly wondering whether marriage and motherhood w...
09/14/2026

38 today. 🤍

Five birthdays ago, I was newly single after betrayal and quietly wondering whether marriage and motherhood were still part of God’s plan for me.

I couldn’t control the timing. But I could decide what I did with the waiting.

At 35, I created Clara for Daters and committed to one intentional date a week. Clara became my accountability tool…helping me slow down after each date, reflect honestly, recognize patterns and decide whether a connection actually deserved to move forward.

Those two years taught me something I still carry with me:

Crawl before you walk. Walk before you run.

I stopped looking at every date that didn’t become a relationship as a failure. Each one was teaching me how to date better…to notice consistency, trust what I was seeing, release sooner and keep going.

There were 98 dates before my husband.

Then came Date number 99.

One year ago yesterday, James got down on one knee after three months of intentional dating and asked me to marry him.

Today I’m 38, almost seven months married, and pregnant with our son. 🤍

Five years ago, I questioned whether I would ever get to be a wife and a mother.

What I know now is that faith and effort can coexist.

I couldn’t make the right man arrive on my timeline. But I could honor the desire God put on my heart by continuing to show up intentionally.

And Dates 1–98?

They weren’t failures.
They taught me how to recognize number 99.
That is, and always has been, the heart behind Clara. 🤍

At 32, I wondered if marriage and motherhood would ever happen for me.Today, I’m 6 months married and pregnant with our ...
08/15/2026

At 32, I wondered if marriage and motherhood would ever happen for me.

Today, I’m 6 months married and pregnant with our son. 💙

I’m back.

I got quiet for a little while because when the blessings you’ve prayed for come all at once after years of waiting, it can feel overwhelming in the best way.

After being betrayed at 32, I spent five years single and two years dating intentionally.

And two months before I met James, I finally admitted something to myself:

I felt my window shrinking.

And that fear was making me give more time to connections I already knew weren’t right.

So I surrendered the timeline to God.

Not the desire for marriage.
Not the desire to become a mother.

The timeline.

For me, surrender looked like releasing the wrong connections earlier…even when loneliness was loud and my age made every ending feel riskier.

I filled that space with God, church, fellowship and a life that wasn’t waiting for a man to begin.

Then came Date #99.

James.

And instead of trying to make him fit the future I wanted, I could see him for who he was.

Peace. Consistency. Alignment.

This season is part of why I built Clara, to help women date intentionally enough to recognize what’s actually in front of them.

So if you’re dating in your 30s and your timeline is getting louder:

Feeling like you’re running out of time is not a reason to force the wrong relationship.

Surrender wasn’t me giving up on what I wanted.

It was making room for what I’d been praying for. 🤍

If you are dating for marriage and he is still “seeing where it goes” at six weeks, you need to look in the mirror.By we...
06/08/2026

If you are dating for marriage and he is still “seeing where it goes” at six weeks, you need to look in the mirror.

By week 6, the problem is no longer just his ambiguity.

It is what you are doing with it.

You are already treating him like a real potential.
Already imagining him in your future.
Already trying to let your family see what this could be.

Meanwhile, he is still “seeing where it goes.”

That is not patience.
That is not grace.

It is you trying to create clarity out of a man who is still choosing vagueness.

You are not giving him time.
You are betraying yourself.

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06/07/2026

I was paying for travel
for a man I was not married to.

I was pretending to be a wife
hoping he would start
acting like a husband.

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I was paying for travel for a man I was not married to.

For him.
For his family.
And feeling proud to be able to.

At the time, I called it partnership.

But we were not married.
There was no covenant.
And he had not shown husband character.

I was doing wife things for a man who had not earned wife level sacrifice.

I was pretending to be a wife
hoping he would start acting like a husband.

He didn’t.

Then I met James.

I did not have to overfunction first.

He flew me to his hometown to meet his family within weeks of meeting.
He planned it.
He paid for it.
He executed it.

I did not have to play wife
for the right man to show me husband character.

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“Maybe I am asking too much” is how women talk themselves into staying in the wrong relationship.I know because I did it...
06/06/2026

“Maybe I am asking too much” is how women talk themselves into staying in the wrong relationship.

I know because I did it too.

I dated a man I had fun with.
But after 4 dates, it finally came out in Clara:

I was uncomfortable with his work history.
I was uncomfortable with his living situation.

And instead of letting that discomfort tell me the truth, I softened it.

I called it grace.
I called it patience.
I called it maybe I am asking too much.

But once I wrote it down, I had to admit what was really going on:

his life was unstable
and he was not actively improving it.

That was the trap.

I was not asking too much.
I was asking a man with no conviction for a future he was not building.

Then I met James.

On our first date, he told me he wanted to fully provide for his family so his wife could be with the children.

And his life already reflected it.

He went from Navy medic
to medical school
to ER doctor.

That is why I feel so strongly about this now.

You are not asking too much.
You are finally admitting you are uncomfortable.

Download the Clara for Daters app and start reflecting honestly on your dating life. Link in bio.

By date 3, if he cannot commit to seeing you once a week, you should be releasing him.That wisdom did not come from me b...
06/05/2026

By date 3, if he cannot commit to seeing you once a week, you should be releasing him.

That wisdom did not come from me being dramatic during my intentional dating journey.
That was me being 36 and dating with a real timeline.

If marriage and family are the desire on your heart, consistency is not a bonus. It is part of discernment.

You cannot build real momentum with a man who is still vague about when he is seeing you next.

And if he already knows his life is about to move in a direction where he cannot see you weekly for the next 3 to 6 months, you need to stop calling that potential.

Call it what it is:
too expensive.

My husband did not date me vaguely.

He moved with intention.
We were engaged 3 months after meeting. Married 5 months after that.

That is why I feel so strongly about this.

If a man cannot commit to seeing you once a week for the next 3 months, how is he going to seriously discern whether he wants to propose in 3 to 6?

Intentional dating is not about dragging things out to feel “balanced.”

It is about releasing misalignment sooner so you stay free for what is actually meant for you.

Follow me at Clara for Daters for hopeful, intentional dating content from my own 5 year intentional dating journey that ended 2.15.26 when I walked down the aisle at 37 years old.

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