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For the women who are still becoming who God always said they were.

"Grace doesn't just cover redemption. Grace resides in it."

"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.'" 2 Corinthians 12:9
Kristin Grace

The ministry I didn't expect
to write.

There is a journal entry sitting in a drawer somewhere with a list of devotional ideas scrawled on it. I wrote it ten years before I found it again. When I picked it up, I didn't realize the date on the page was the anniversary of a teenage suicide attempt I had survived decades earlier. Everything I'd ever written — the poetry, the blog posts, the margins of every Bible I'd ever owned — came rushing back. And God began to give me titles.

This is not the ministry bio I expected to write. I spent 30 years in meeting rooms, offices, and training rooms — always doing the same thing in different clothes: finding the people who had been left without what they needed, and making sure they left with it. I administrated digital and contact center banking operations, taught personal financial management to thousands of new servicemembers, coached families out of financial crisis, and led church systems — convinced, somewhere in the back of my mind, that all of it was preparation for something I couldn't yet name.

I was right. It was preparation. For this.

I'm Kristin Grace — a pastoral candidate, a women's ministry advocate, and an author-in-progress. I write Bible studies for the women who have sat where I've sat. The ones who grew up without their biological fathers and spent years looking for love in every wrong place. The ones who lost their title — their role, their identity, their sense of self — and stood in the wreckage wondering who they were now. I've been the mom with children not born from her body, but in her heart. The mom suddenly homeschooling her teenager with unexpected special needs. The ones who have loved a prodigal at close range and kept showing up with the love and grace God first showed us.

I've been all of those women. And I've watched God show up in the middle of every single one of those stories — including mine.

I'm currently writing four Bible studies, pursuing ministerial credentialing, serving at my home church, and building my platform to share the work that God has done through my life.

God has called me to do it, and I am obeying with an empathetic heart. I write for the woman who has been told her story disqualifies her. I know her. I was her.

Pastoral Candidate Financial Coach Women's Ministry Advocate

— Kristin Grace

Studies written from
the inside out.

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  Faith & Ordinary Seasons

Somedays and Sourdough

Faith, Patience & Finding God in the Ordinary

For the woman doing the slow, faithful work of showing up — for her family, her God, her life — and wondering if any of it matters. The sourdough seasons, the ones that take all day to rise, are exactly where He does His deepest work.

  Identity & Life Transitions

When God Removes Your Title

Identity, Loss of Role & Who You Are in Christ

Retirement. Divorce. An empty nest. A layoff. We rarely realize how much identity we have built into what we do — until the day it is gone. Honest about the grief. Steady about the truth. Pointing to the one identity that cannot be taken: Beloved. Daughter. Known.

  Grace & Family Ministry

The Miracle of Loving a Prodigal in Your Living Room

Grace, Forgiveness & Loving the Difficult Person

For the woman whose hardest ministry assignment lives under her own roof. This study does not offer easy answers. It offers something truer: the God who loved prodigals first, who never stopped waiting on the porch.

Reflections from
my prayer room.

May 17, 2026

Somedays and Sourdough

Faith  ·  Bible Study

As I have been writing Somedays and Sourdough, God has been preparing me to prepare you for the waiting.

Yes, the waiting.

The part we all wish to power through as quickly as possible. Sometimes, as I wait for my dough to rise, I ponder the creation of each bubble. Much like us, they are all different. They are going through the same strengthening process, but the experience may be different. Even in the same environment, they all produce at their predestined rate.

Fermentation can happen slowly or even too quickly. Can you imagine walking just after birth, or not walking until the age of 11? It's hard to fathom, but the reality is that for either one to happen, there must be something supernatural at work. It could be a miracle. It could be spiritual warfare. Both happen all around us every day. We just can't always see them.

God's ways are mysterious to us. Yet His ways are far better than ours. Consider this as obedience: If I follow the instructions and my hands have prepared the necessary ingredients, it will eventually rise. I could stare at the dough for an hour, waiting to see it. I could see nothing happen at all in that hour, but it's still working. How often have we waited, prayed, declared a trade just to see something move? Yet when we turn it over to God, we can turn away, rest, and trust that He is at work.

There is a moment when I come back to look at the dough, and it has doubled in size. When did it happen? How? It was growing all along; I just couldn't see it.

But I obeyed. What is God growing in your life that you feel like you just can't see? What are you waiting for? I can't make the dough rise any faster than you can make something happen without God's hand. Rest in His comfort, His peace, knowing that what grows in His hands is made perfect.

— Kristin Grace

April 2026

Why I Chose the Echinacea

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I chose the echinacea coneflowers because they bloom slowly, even in harsh droughts or poor soil. The center is a raised cone, held upright even as the petals droop.

It bounces back after storms, slowly — but its resilience is radiant, and its roots run deep. It symbolizes healing, strength, and resurrection.

More posts coming soon — welcome to my prayer room. 🤍

Poetry & Prose

Words written in the margins, the quiet hours, and the in-between. This is where grace finds its voice before it finds its audience.

  Poetry  ·  2026

The Secret Place

I wish to join you
In the secret place
The space
Beneath the noise
In the language
Only you can hear
Where wisdom speaks
Whimsies roam
Rare beauty flows
Within the storm
The lightning cascades
The dark clouds loom
Yet, peace
My grit
Perseverance grows
Where glory true
In empty silence
And all it seems
Is solely where
Creation blooms

© 2026 Kristin Grace

"Grace doesn't just cover redemption. Grace resides in it." 🤍

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