The Blog
Welcome in! Hungry for the Spirit was launched at the beginning of 2026 as a way for me to chronicle my journey in growing closer to God.
If you feel like you want to:
- Grow closer to God
- Learn about biblical fasting
- Find inspiration for your spiritual journey
- Connect with like minded people
then you’re in the right place! Follow along with this blog and we can learn together!
About Me
My name is Paris. I am a wife and mother of one, and my family and I currently live in New Mexico – the Land of Enchantment. As of right now, I am a stay at home mom and I spend a lot of my time working on our new home that we purchased in Spring 2025. I started this blog in the beginning of 2026 after an inspiring sermon from our pastor about how we all want more in life and how biblical fasting is a way we can give up idols in our lives and use the time we would spend on them to grow closer to God and experience the more He has planned for us.
My Testimony
I grew up in a Christian household where we attended church every Sunday when I was younger. Then, when I was a teenager, my family had a falling out with another family at our church and my parents no longer felt comfortable going there. Our lives got busier and we stopped attending church altogether. Without church, I became apathetic about my faith and grew further and further away from God during high school; and eventually, during college, I stopped believing in God altogether. As someone who was studying science, I felt like I couldn’t believe in God because I couldn’t see any definitive proof. There’s something about being a young adult that makes you feel like you know everything.
After graduating college and going to graduate school, I eventually became a pharmacist and spent my adult life away from the church. It wasn’t until I was working at a hospital that I started seeing signs in my life that were pointing me back to God. While working there, I had several Christian co-workers who were very up front about their faith. I felt drawn to their conversations and remember talking with them about their relationships with God and what it meant to them. Around the same time, one of my co-workers had recently started attending church and I remember seeing such a change in their demeanor and behavior. It felt like they had a light within them that couldn’t be dimmed. There was also one day when I was driving to work and I heard Lauren Daigle’s song “You Say” on a mainstream radio station and I felt drawn to the lyrics. Eventually, I also met my future husband at work; and when we starting hanging out, he would always listen to K-Love when we rode in his car. He was so assured in his faith and always answered questions whenever I had them.
All of these experiences were surrounding me and I felt more and more drawn to return to God and the Christian faith. Then one day, I found myself standing in the book aisle of Walmart and I picked out a Bible for myself. I spent some time reading it and had more conversations with my future husband about faith. He invited me to go to church with him, and I was so nervous about it, but ended up accepting. We started attending church together and as we grew to know more about each other, we started dating, became engaged, and eventually were married. That was in 2021 and I’ve been attending church and growing my relationship with God since then.