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Thanksgiving Thoughts

Over the last couple weeks specifically, God has been laying it on my heart that life is a gift. It is a simple statement that seems to be used frequently but people don’t absorb it’s meaning.  Life is a gift.  And it is.  I am 26 years old. I’m young. Yet I keep hearing about people who are my age that are dying in tragic car accidents, dying by suicide, overdosing on drugs, passing away from cancer/other diseases, or being murdered. My heart breaks. The news breaks my heart.  It says in the Bible that life is a vapor (James 4:14). We are here today and gone tomorrow. This has been convicting me on so many levels. What in the world am I living for? You want to know the sad but truthful answer? Me. At church, we have been working our way through the book of Philippians in the Bible. Paul says in chapter 1 that to live is Christ and to die is gain. Simply put, my life is only to be lived for the Lord, and to die is better than life here on earth becau...

"This Love is Ours"

Much of my high school, college, and young adulthood was spent with the wrong kind of guy. You know what I mean, the boys who crazy excite you but are so terribly wrong for you. Every broken-hearted Taylor Swift song was exactly how I felt from being a teenager to the age of 24. Truly, it is sad that I spent so much time chasing after these kinds of relationships - shallow, superficial, ill-intentioned, toxic. Everything that I didn’t want in a husband, I spent majority of these years pursuing. What I’ve found in my conversations with most women of all ages is this: it seems we’ve all settled for these relationships at one point in time. You might not fall in this category, and if you haven’t, praise the Lord! Seriously. Sometimes I think we long for someone so badly, we forget what we are worth and what we deserve. I still see and work with these women on a daily basis – the ones who are in toxic relationships. Relationships that consume them, control them, make them feel les...

The Art of Letting Go

“One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.” – Brigette Nicole I wish someone, somewhere along the line, gave me a rule book to navigate through loss. Not loss like death, rather loss of someone still living. I honestly understand death more than I understand leaving and letting go. What do you do when people leave? What do you do when people change? What do you do when you are forced with a decision to try harder or let things be as they are? After prayer, reading through many quotes on Pinterest, and talking to some of the people I love most in this world, I have come to this conclusion: if it doesn’t bring you joy, let it go. Letting go is not something that comes natural or easy to me. I do the fighting and the trying harder. I do the “let’s talk this through”. I give and give and give for the people I love, because I believe everyone deserves multiple chances, even at the dispense of my own happi...

Learning a Healthy Life

For a long, long time, I have been praying about starting a blog. There were a lot of reasons why I didn’t and haven’t. I didn’t want people to view me as a girl who broadcasted something openly, because I wanted some kind of attention. I didn’t want the hassles of having to keep up with it. I didn’t want any kind of judgment or criticism that came with posting my thoughts and feelings. I could always come up with reason after reason…until today. I have decided today I forget about what people think and jump into this. In college was when I learned my passion for writing. It became therapeutic for me, and I really fell in love with it. When I was away at USI, I felt like I really came to know who I was – my personality, my strengths, my weaknesses, my identity. It honestly was a time of self-discovery, if you will. Writing was a large part of that, coupled with best friends and Jesus Christ. I can recall countless memories sitting on the floor of our dorm room or the apartment hav...