Author: kallieterrana

I write to process, and sometimes send those thoughts out into the void. Passionate about Jesus and people and bringing those two together. Living in and learning to love Texas. In love with my cute lil family. Working with college students, who are the coolest. Seeking Jesus and JOY in everything.

hurrying to arrive (what chicago taught me)

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I have spent the past week in Chicago at a conference for Christians in student development. I have loved learning and thinking about my role, and listening to people teach about it who are really good at what they do. It has made me, more than think about what I do, ponder who I want […]

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Rushmore, rush less.

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When I finally find a time to slow down, to let my soul catch up with my schedule, I always come back to this question: What will your story be?

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my teenage heart

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And the reality is that when I don’t spend time with Him I don’t have anything good in me, and I don’t have anything good to say.

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church, for one.

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“It wasn’t until I heard that…speech about self-doubt that it struck me: the real issue wasn’t that I felt like a fraud, but that I could feel something deeply and profoundly and be completely wrong.” – Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In  I’ve tried really hard not to write about singleness. I don’t want to be one […]

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spice up your life

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Last weekend I went to a 90’s pop princesses sing-along, where they handed out glow sticks and miniature British flags and sticks with the faces of the men from Bridget Jones’s Diary on them. We danced and sang along to En Vogue, Ace of Base, Destiny’s Child, and of course, the Spice Girls. There were […]

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catch and release

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Release means to be let go, in its simplest form. To be set free – well, that is a whole other level of meaning, and of truth. Often God releases us from things that we don’t necessarily want to be let go from, but maybe we need to be set free.

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Cinderella, the DMV and why kindness is most important

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[to those of you who get these in your email – sorry for the repeat…oops.] I finally had a day off of work last week and decided to make the most of it: aka, spend my inheritance on new license plates at the DMV. I gave myself a pep talk in the morning: “Kallie, you’re […]

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GRACE (for when you feel like a screw-up)

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I started a new job in January and pretty much set out to be perfect at it from day one. (Yes, you can laugh). So when I messed something up this week I felt the weight of that expectation fall on my shoulders real heavy. I thought that the “Hold yourself to a standard of […]

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don’t live with the pigs (and don’t fear the Father)

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I find it ironic that the One who tells us over and over again “do not fear” happens to be the One we fear the most. We are afraid we aren’t good enough for Him. We are afraid we are disappointing Him. We are afraid to talk to Him, because we might say the wrong […]

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