In a world dependent on its own idea of rationality, truth, reality, reason, and tangible fact there is a question that seems to be on the mind of everyone at some point or another, even the most devout of Christians: “How do I hear God?” This is generally accompanied by a great many follow up…
This will be my year.
This will be my year—that’s what it said. 365 days have passed since then. More than anything, I am glad it’s over. I want to celebrate and take a little time to just savor the fact that I made it another trip around the sun—and that I survived the revolution. Of course, this isn’t my…
Thinking Outside the Box
I am a four. If you have no idea what I am talking about, let me give you some crash-course insight. Four is one of the nine types classified by the Enneagram personality assessment. The Enneagram is basically a way of organizing and categorizing all people into one of nine groups, each of which possesses…
Take Care of Yourself
It’s crazy to me that we live in a world that is so easily able to convince us of something. Even admitting that, my immediate response is, “the world can’t convince me of anything—I know what I believe and what I think and I stick to it.” It took me a little too long to…
Love Actually is All Around
This year, for the first time in my life, I was completely unable to get into the Christmas spirit. Generally, I’ll admit, I start the holly jolly entirely too early. Just last year I cracked the vault of premature cheer in mid-October, when I realized they were already releasing new Hallmark Channel Christmas Classics. It…
Living Green: Why I Am a Vegetarian and What It Has Taught Me
It’s been one heck of a long year. When I started this journey in mid-December of last year, even I thought I was crazy. If you would have asked me then, I don’t think I would have had much faith in myself, if any at all. But now it has been a year… and I…
Letters To Me
Life is so funny. One day you are great, the next you’re not. Seasons change in a split second. Sometimes they last a month, sometimes a year, and sometimes they never seem to end. I’ve tried to figure it out, like there is some algorithm for which days are going to be good ones and…
Live Colorfully
For months, I have avoided it. I tried to stay off of social media, and I didn’t want to read the articles or watch the news broadcasts. I continued to push aside any thoughts or feelings brought on by the never ending airing of the culmination of life. I knew these weren’t my stories to…
The Purpose of This
I would argue that in life, it is easiest to overlook the small things, the short things, and the seemingly meaningless things. After all, how can something so tiny have such a big impact? While I am completely guilty of overlooking the simplest lessons of everyday life, once in a while God will open my…
The Bookshelves
The final days of my trip to Uganda consisted of pure, lighthearted adventure. The other voyagers and I traveled up to the northern Nile and stayed in Murchison Falls National Park. The African savannah is absolutely beautiful and nearly surreal. To physically be in a place I had only read about as a little girl…
The October Opportunist 