These unemployed weeks have been interesting.  I had the chance to go on a weeklong retreat/class and it was the most perfect timing.  I was surrounded by people who get me.  We stayed at a beautiful place where there are rocking chairs that look out on the mountains, a constantly burning fireplace, and delicious meals […]

I am thankful that I serve and follow a God who is never surprised.  When something comes and turns my world upside down, I am glad to know that God isn’t shocked by that.  My world was turned upside down this past week by an email telling me that in three days I would be […]

I’m just going to come out and say it: God teaches me life lessons through wedding dreams. (Yep, I am a total girl.) Hear me out.  About three and a half years ago, when I was really struggling with anxiety, I had several dreams about weddings. The most memorable one being where I walked down […]

Friendship has always been at the forefront of my life.  My weekends revolved around where my friends were, my biggest anxiety about college was meeting people, my ‘career’ goal is really just to be in a position where I get to hang out with and know people deeply.  I’ve basically decided friendship is my vocation. […]

I’ve always wanted to attend a masquerade.  It seems fun – getting dressed up, wearing a mask…hiding behind something.  You can be whoever you want to be when you’re behind a mask. But when we wear masks in life, it’s not a fun event or a healthy game of dress up.  I knew a lot of […]

I always respond, “Tired.”  Every time someone asks me how I am, it is my go-to response.  Either that or, “Good…busy…” I’m tired of responding that way (yes, irony.).  I want to say, and actually feel, free, happy, content… I think a step towards that is changing my posture.  Both literally and figuratively. I am […]

“How do you feel?” “Tired.” “Tired is not a feeling, it’s a state of being.” “I think it’s a feeling. I feel tired.” “Pick a better word. Google ‘feeling words’.”“Ok, fine…” (and after literally googling ‘feeling words’), “…somewhere in the ‘dissatisfied, disillusioned, frustrated’ section.” I am thankful for (and sometimes annoyed by) friends who push […]

I was preparing a lesson for my middle school small group girls about obedience and decided to use the story of Joshua and Caleb when they were chosen, along with ten other men, to go scout out the Promised Land.  When they returned, Caleb and Joshua were the only ones who said, “We should go […]

If you know me at all, you know I really don’t like winter.  I don’t like snow, and I just really don’t enjoy being cold.  So now I live in Colorado, a state known both for its snow and its sunshine and its affinity for having both in the same day.  But the other day […]

So friends. We’ve talked about what trust is and what it means.  This week: one step in how to trust. A friend in one of my classes said the other day, “Trust is tricky…because it is both the journey and the destination.”  In order to be trusting, you just have to trust.  You can’t really […]