Introducing Taste & See Creative

Hi, I'm Samantha. Welcome to Taste & See Creative.

Back in 2020, God started stirring my heart to write a blog. At the time, I didn't recognize it as a nudge from the Holy Spirit. It was a chaotic time and my head, heart, and emotions were in turmoil. A blog seemed like a creative idea disguised as an escape from the reality that I was no longer satisfied with missing out on my young son's life.

As a new mom of a two-year-old, shifting to a work-from-home situation without support for childcare — the job I once loved lost its luster. The long hours and 100% dedication that once dominated my identity and defined my value didn't seem important anymore. It was disorienting.

As things stabilized and returned to normal, the dream faded and eventually left my consciousness completely. Fast forward six years later and the idea took on a new form — to include videos and stories of personal experience. The audience: other women, especially moms, who were struggling to find balance between their responsibilities as mothers, wives, daughters, employees, business owners, or homemakers and their relationship with God. This is a struggle I'm all too familiar with, and it had become a crushing weight.

"What I felt God calling me to do was to create a space where women could find God in everyday life through cooking, creating, learning, and honest conversations about faith."

While God was walking me through this struggle, He taught me so much about rest — the relationship between rest and trust, and the relationship between trust and my definition of identity and value.

So, here it is — Taste & See Creative. An act of obedience and worship. I'm not a theologian or trained Bible scholar. I'm just a woman after God's heart who is willing to share her story with the faith that God can use it to bless others.

This project will not aim for perfection, and my hope and prayer is that it does not become a place of comparison. It should be a place of encouragement — a place where every reader feels seen and understood, so you know you aren't the only one struggling. My prayer is that this space helps remind you that God is right there in the middle of it with you.

Thanks for being here.

"Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!
Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!"

Psalm 34:8