My Story

Hi, my name is Madison Aichele (like Michael without the “m”), and a lot of my dreams haven’t come true.

That’s not the story I’d like to share, but it’s the one God’s given me to steward.

I’ve dreamed of glimmering business ideas, from online stores to life coaching, and each one met the same conclusion: It didn’t work.

As a believer in creativity flowing from God’s own desire to create, I knew that my ideas mattered. I knew that the Father was asking me to embrace the dreamer within me. It’s how He created me.

Yet, I couldn’t reconcile this belief with the hard endings I continued to meet.

After tragedy struck close to home, and I packed up my creative dreams for good, I was convinced that creative dreams didn’t matter. They were a drop in the bucket in a world that was overflowing with darkness.

Then, a phrase—True Things Last.

It floated down from Heaven like manna. Light broke through, and all I could see were the seeds of significance in each obedient step to dream and create with God. All of it mattered. Every single step. Every single dream, even if it didn’t come true.

It’s a message that God shared with me when I felt overwhelmed by grief—grief of what was happening in the world and my life. Now, it’s a message I want to share with you: the dreamer, visionary, artist, writer, entrepreneur, ministry leader.

We may not understand how the work matters, but I know it does. Your dreams matter. You matter.

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”

John 1:5 ESV

What I’m Up To

I currently live in the Nashville, TN area with my musician husband and three-legged cat. In addition to my own writing, I serve as Executive Director at Calla Press Publishing, where I’m overjoyed to help authors share their much-needed books with the world.

My debut book, True Things Last: Why Creative Dreams Matter Even If They Don’t Come True, will arrive later this year with Calla Press.