This is a tough season. It's a season of questioning, wondering and learning to rely on God in new ways. It's a season of seeing people come and go in my life. It's a season of fighting old habits and learning new things. It's a season of being long distance and wishing I wasn't. It's a season of fighting for my joy daily.
Louie Giglio said this morning in order to move forward we must face and embrace our past. You don't have to accept it or like it, but you do have to face it and embrace it as part of your story.
Recently I’ve felt like I was caught up in months and months of being stuck in a drought, stuck in hurts, stuck in everything just being against me, but I feel like the rain is finally coming. The rain is ending the drought.
Sometimes it just feels like life won't stop throwing more at you... when you already can't handle what you've been given. That's how I've felt a lot recently. I feel like I'm in a broken and sinking boat that just keeps getting more holes poked in it so it sinks even faster. It feels like a… Continue reading choosing.
When the world says you need to fit into this little box, know that that box isn't everything. Fitting into that box won't bring complete fullness. Fitting into that box won't make you any more worthy of love. Fitting into that box won't make you feel complete.
Recently I've been in a process with God of really listening to who He says He is as well as who He says I am. It's so easy to let others decide who I am and am not and let that become my identity. The beauty is when you allow Him to determine that and speak that over you. He gave me the word "becoming" this morning. I asked who am I to you and He answered all the words that I could only aspire to be.
That's something that I struggle to see so much of the time, that He really does accept me as I am. I am not pushed away because I have crap in my life, but He pulls me closer and gives me what I need to begin healing.
I want to tell a story that God's been writing throughout the last nine months. It's messy, it's beautiful, and it's been challenging. I haven't loved every moment, but every moment has taught me a lesson that nothing else could. I'm grateful for this process and that it's not and won't be over anytime soon. When you ask God to show up, He does. Here's a story that proves that.
Since being here in Asia on out-reach I've struggled a good bit with the culture not accepting or being emotional and having to adapt to that. I'm a pretty open and emotional person most times, so being in an environment where emotion doesn't exist and everyone is just happy all the time has its challenges.… Continue reading Having a soft heart in a cruel world
I don't even know where to begin. I'm now in my seventh week living here in Germany and it's been an interesting ride thus far. We've done all kinds of crazy things, learned a lot through teaching, but also learned a lot about ourselves through time in the mountains.
