Does the title throw you off? I am going to get vulnerable for a minute. I want this blog to be a safe place for you guys. And how can you feel safe if I can’t be real. I always felt out of place at youth conferences and youth group. I did not have some […]
Faith
Honest Post of Anxiety and Defeat
This week has been hard. The voice of defeat has been screaming, deafening my every move this week. Anxiety has shown his ugly head and has caused me to curl up on the couch most nights in tears. I have had health issues I have never experienced before, stress that causes me to question my […]
To the One Waiting on the One…
I dated someone a very long time. He was a great guy, loved Jesus, his family was amazing. After we dated for four years we got engaged, but what I did not know is we did not do it Gods way. God had not prepared or readied our hearts. We had everything but there was […]
50 Shades of Grey…Warning: Post Rated PG-13
…”Later on, Christian takes Ana on his private helicopter to his condo in the Escala Building in Seattle. There, he shows her his “playroom”, which is filled with BDSM (Bondage Dominance Submission Masochism) materials like ropes, chains, whips, and floggers. Christian explains that he is “dominant” and enjoys doing certain things with the consent of […]
I Did Not Want to Write This…
I find myself questioning what I am about to write…I am honestly scared. It is always nerve wracking when God lays something on your heart to share and your heart starts beating 530 MPH, because what you are about to do, say, or in this case write could change what others think of you. I […]
Dear College Student, I See Your Pain…You Are Enough.
I will never forget college (obviously). I will never forget the decisions, the confusion, the struggle, the desire to be more, to do more. I will never forget struggling to keep my grades where I wanted them. Struggling to make my parents proud, and at some points even struggling to breathe because I was drowning. […]
Should I be Dating Him? 5 Traits of a Godly Man
Should I break up with him? Will he think I am pulling the God card? We have been together for so long, everyone thinks we are perfect. But I love him! AND HE IS SUuuuuCH A GREAT GUY!! We go to church together, we pray together, it is so perfect!… I have been leading a […]
Comparison: I Just Want to be Enough…
Do you ever feel as if you never measure up? Not pretty enough. Not strong enough. Not rich enough. Not smart enough. Not successful enough. Don’t have your life put together enough. Honestly, I feel like this more than I care to admit. I feel as if everything I do will never be enough to […]
Why cant I hear God’s voice?
One of the questions I have constantly wrestled with is; why does it seem like people in the bible stories we read and study hear from God so much more than we do? Is it a matter of worldview? Did they attribute everything in the natural world to the influence of God because science was […]