A Letter from Kirsten

I built Monarch Springs for those who love Jesus deeply and yet have grown weary of living from effort instead of intimacy.

Somewhere along the way, many of us learned to manage what we feel, perform what we believe, and call it maturity. But the heart Jesus gave us was never designed for distance. It was designed for attachment—secure, joyful, and steady in love.

What I have come to trust is this: healing is not the finish line of discipleship—it is often the doorway into it. God does not only forgive; He restores. He does not only instruct; He attaches. And from that sacred attachment, He gently begins to re-form us—until Christ looks like Himself in us, with our voice, our story, our temperament, and our embodied life.

For more than two decades, I have walked with leaders, creatives, and seekers through seasons of tenderness and turning—holding space where God’s presence does the deepest work. I have watched the soul settle when it is finally safe with God. I have seen discernment clarify when the nervous system is no longer braced. I have witnessed joy become strength, love become stability, and presence do what pressure never could.

This is the way I walk because it is the way I have been met.

If you are here because you sense a quiet hunger—because you can no longer return to shallow waters, because something in you longs for a truer kind of formation, I want you to know this: you are not late, and you are not failing. You are being invited.

Not into a program, but into a way of life.
Not into performance, but into communion.
Not into striving, but into surrender, where God Himself becomes your sanctuary.

With love,
Kirsten