When you feel like you can't feel God in your suffering.
“Hey, I’m sorry to interrupt. I know you are busy. I won’t take too much of your time, I promise.” But she did. She took up my time. And it absolutely irritated me–BUT not in the way you would think. It irritated me because I could hear the pain and fear in my friend’s words. […]
I wish you could see my room, but since you can’t, I will describe it. On the right side of my bed is a pile of dirty clothes (ok, full disclosure it is not a pile because piles can still look organized, it is an explosion of dirty clothes all over the floor that don’t […]
I know, I know, a weird title for a first blog in over two months, but when I set out to do the blog I decided to be as authentic as possible. I promise this will not be a stinky post, other than sometimes life can really stink. A couple days ago was my birthday. […]
Acceptance. Belonging. It is crazy to reflect on how many decisions in my life have been motivated by these two things. Living a life where decisions and actions are motivated by acceptance is exhausting. It is not sustainable to compromise who you are in order to belong. Doing things for the approval of others distracts […]
I feel like my life is wasting away in road construction. LITERALLY. I am in construction traffic for almost two or more hours daily. But, one day, it was in this construction that God restructured my thoughts and actions to be more Christlike. The construction of reorienting our thoughts towards Christ is no less messy […]
It is a very strange thing to try and write about something you are passionate about. It is not easy to find the right words to accurately communicate what is on your heart. Ever since I decided to be a writer, I wanted to write about freedom from guilt. You see, for years I was […]
I have thought about what my first blog post would be for months. Everything that I attempted to write just seemed to fall flat. The words felt like fluff, not real, forced. A few months ago it hit me, pretty hard to be honest, that writing a blog scares me. It's a pretty inconvenient truth […]