Chelsea Crockett Hurst

12/01/2025

Slide if you must. 🤣 Mirror pics still acceptable? Or too 2013? Welp, anyways.

Shared the past couple weeks of having social media free evenings and wanted to let you in on a couple thoughts 💬

1. My mind was used to finding a “faulty rest” in relaxing with my phone. So often I’d use the evenings to scroll mindlessly instead of actually relaxing like winding down with a book, talking to an old friend, or even playing a game with my husband. 😅 Realized I was stimulating my brain instead which led to restlessness and little deep sleep.

2. My creativity flourishes in empty space! Having the evenings to let that flow gave me really special ideas that I wouldn’t have had otherwise.

3. This is easily doable to repeat every day, and I shall for the most part. 🫡

Thank you to everyone who did this with me! 🥰

Now for the OG’s I gotta knowwww who has been here since 2013 plz and thank you. 🐷

11/23/2025

He slid into my DMs on Twitter 9 years ago, and we reflected on that last night at dinner. 😆

Since then we’ve dated long distance, got engaged, married, traveled lots, had two little boys, are running a marketing business together, and on mission in ministry. ⚡️

No day is easy but every day we go to bed expended and knowing that God has truly been our sustainer. He writes the craziest stories. Ever since I heard him tell me I was standing next to my future husband at Passion Conference in 2017, I never would have expected the life He’s made between us.

I was passionately following career and ambitious goals, but the Lord highlighted Nick and allowed me to see life in a whole new way. I’m so grateful. 😭😭

❤️🥲

11/12/2025

As a naturally creative person, AI (chat gpt and such) frustrates me so much lately. I read posts on instagram and I see it all over. We are using the same language, the same expression, with no variety and little creativity. I have seen the exact same phrases and posts on repeat.

Where this saddens me the most is in those that are believers in Jesus using AI that has its roots in worldly ideology. There are some that only use the Bible as their base for AI, but they are rare. Can I challenge you for a sec?

You get to partner with the Lord for your work!! But we can easily bypass Him to get our inspiration and words from a robot. I have grace for those who do. I’ve used it in projects before, but we do have to be very careful to not allow it to dictate the very expression that God has given us to reflect in the world. We will lose our luster and shine this way!!

I am nervous for future generations who cannot think for themselves. Where they may get nervous trying to write a paper without having a robotic system write it for them. When these systems get so “smart” that we have pastors and preachers using it to create sermons for them and gospel messages. (This could make me cry haha) 😆

I get the pressure to use it. It’s so much easier to have something think for you or help you generate ideas. But what if you’re silencing the very voice of God that inspires you to create beyond the box that AI has. I know you can create prompts and various “inputs” to get something better and more tailored towards your voice. I get it. But I feel a holy frustration to push back in the ways that I can.

Sit in silence. Ask the Lord for inspiration and ideas. Allow discernment to rise up and only use AI “help” for what you must in your creative process, in your schooling, in your work. But keep your creativity! Keep your voice! Keep your beautiful mind that God designed in your mother’s womb! You are so beautifully made, words cannot even describe how much I wish I could shake you and make you believe that. Go create, go share what you believe, and go share the hope that you have with urgency in the voice that God gave you. ❤️

Okay now, what are your thoughts? 💭

11/04/2025

I think they call these the good ol’ days 🥲
All smiles were bribed with queso and chips.

10/21/2025

Fall traditions with nugget in tow 🥹 They grow so fast, someone stop the clock. 😭

*adds sob music for dramatic effect*

09/30/2025

Everyone share their favorite apple orchard!! 🥹🍎 This time of year is one of our favorite as a family. Apple cider, donuts, apple picking, hay rides, sweater weather 🥹

Haven’t posted as much “content” lately here as there’s been a lot of personal demands on us lately, but the fall is already looking beautiful. 🍁🍂

Side note, if you read this I need genuine feedback — is a podcast worth recording and listening to (for you) if there is no video version? 👀 Looking for ways to make our lives more sustainable while also posting what God lays on our hearts to share in our podcast. Just want to know!!

09/26/2025

Happy 28th birthday 🎈 today to my deepest love, closest friend, and greatest confidant. I struck gold with you. Love you so so much, !! 💎

Everyone please wish this amazing man of mine a happy birthday!! 🎂

09/12/2025

I think about the next generation a lot, because I know one day I won’t be here but my children will, and our children will be handed off leadership for the next. 🔁

I’ve cried a lot thinking about this entire week. News stories of shootings in schools, Charlie’s life taken (and his little family), a Ukrainian woman’s life taken while going home from work, and continued war. 💔

I think a lot of people are being pushed into different “groups” right now based on how they grieve, what they speak about, how they talk, if they don’t, etc. Violence is a weapon the enemy uses to steal, kill, and destroy, and the fall out can be division if we allow it. 🥲

I’m so so glad the Lord looks at the heart. Whew, isn’t that relieving? That we don’t live for the opinions of others? The weight of human opinions can feel real heavy when you get your identity from them. You were made for more. You were actually made to live without any fear of man at all!

With the passing of a pretty bold voice this week, I’m inspired to keep speaking up even when I’m told to shrink back. In my case, the gospel is worth losing everything on earth for. It’s the hope for our world, Jesus is the hope of this world and I’ll forever share that! Not from a place of obligation, but of love.

Because loving others that agree with you is pretty easy, but Jesus loved those that spit in His face and called Him a fraud. He saw past all their pain and misunderstanding, and that’s truly unconditional love. 😭

The next generation depends on us staying unified in that mission. 💛🙏🏻

08/29/2025

We’ve been back to podcasting for 3 weeks now! Would love to know your thoughts on this week’s episode 💛

So much came up in this episode! Fitness, communication professionally and personally, and thoughts on changing overtime in marriage. For those single, datin...

08/27/2025

Taylor Swift getting engaged had me in my 13 year old feels when I listened to this song on my nano iPod 🥹 Anyone else?

Marriage is such a beautiful gift and I hope more and more of our generation experiences hopeful and beautiful stories of commitment, trust, reconciliation, and love in the context of marriage. I think of our little boys and how my marriage will shape them. And then I zoom out and think about the millions of little boys and girls that will one day start their own families and leave their own legacies.

Who you parter up for life with matters. Choose someone you could see yourself building a life with. Raising up littles with. Making a house a home with. Living a life beyond yourselves. 🌎

Our generation has a lot of darts being thrown at us. Temptation to be caught up in addiction, lust, envy, greed, bitterness, pride, and more. But we can live lives set apart. It starts with us. 💙

Sappy chels out ✌🏼

08/21/2025

What areas are you more frugal and where are you more relaxed?

I love being de-influenced, personally! Most of the time when I get on these apps I feel pressure to buy more, be more, and have more!

But here’s a reminder that joy is not found in a perfect home, wardrobe, or material things. God’s plan for our family has been a slow build that I’ve been learning to enjoy and embrace the process. So grateful!! 💛💛💛

07/31/2025

Summer forever !! But the real question is: Europe or Asia for Nick and I’s vacation we’re planning for next summer. What would you do?! 👀🏰🌏