A bit of honesty this morning. Life has been a crazy whirlwind since graduating college, and I have not necessarily handled it all very well. On top of the expected journey of just figuring out life beyond college, the pandemic made it completely bizarre, and losing my grandma, the matriarch of our family and a pivotal spiritual leader in my life, so quickly only 4 … Continue reading Raw Honesty

Today is my last day of the long Christmas weekend. Zach, the poor thing, already returned to work today because hospitals don’t stop! I’ve spent the day doing laundry, vacuuming, washing dishes, rearranging the house with the new kitchen gadgets and pots and pans we were gifted for Christmas, then spending a couple hours with my bestie. After she left, I handled a couple financial … Continue reading Banana Bread

If you don’t know already, I spent my summers during college living on campus and working for the English Language Institute. I lived in Beeson, and all three summers I lived upstairs. For two summers I lived right next door to the laundry room which was ALWAYS hot. But despite the heat, I absolutely loved the living situation. I would walk across campus to work … Continue reading Simpler Living

If you knew me growing up, you probably knew me to be a good student, a rule follower, and an “AP credit class” kind of girl. And while it’s true that I do love learning and enjoy the thrill of expanding my knowledge and wisdom through new materials or experiences, what you may not know about me is that sometimes I really struggle to focus. … Continue reading Thinking about the Brain: Head Space

I’m sure everyone’s heard the question, “Where do you see yourself in ______ years?” It can be useful in setting goals and figuring out decisions to make in your present. But it is a deep question; one that I think we often don’t take the time to really chew on. So, I think before we can answer where we see ourselves in the future, we … Continue reading Where Do You Hear Yourself?

Sometimes life gets so busy that we lose track of who we are. I mean, if we don’t even have time to respond to the emails in our inboxes, how can we be expected to have time to stop and remind ourselves who we are? Lately, I have been experiencing this. There are so many big changes in life and decisions to be made: Where … Continue reading I am the girl…

At church last Sunday we sang a song called “Surrounded” by Michael W. Smith. The lyrics say: “This is how I fight my battles It may look like I’m surrounded but I’m surrounded by You” I was lying on my bed this afternoon after a long past four days listening to this song. I was thinking about all the different kinds of battles we face: … Continue reading Battles

What a beautiful word: restoration. Three morphemes re (again) + store (to keep for the future) + ation (result of an action). It makes me think of a store, once full of valuable goods, but who’s shelves are now nearly bare after being opened up to the consumer world for so long. When the store is restocked with valuable goods, it has been restored to … Continue reading Restoration

Note: There was a time in my life where every day seemed to blend together in a black and white blur. I was severely depressed. Praise God I have been lifted up from that place, rescued from such a terrible time. But sometimes when the weather changes, especially in the fall and late winter/ early spring, I struggle as whisps of the dark cloud come … Continue reading Grey Wisps

There’s always been one thing that’s made the difference for me. There’s been this thing that made going to school worth it. Getting good grades worth it. Working hard worth it. Staying healthy worth it. Living my best life worth it. And that thing has always been music. When I came to college I stepped away from music for two reasons. The first: I was … Continue reading What Stays the Same