All of my life has been waiting for this culmination. Yet somehow I'm still stuck in between. It's like everything about where I've been is about to give way into everything about where I will be and the catalyst is who I am now. I have been learning so much over the last few weeks about trusting God, and He's been speaking to me a lot about things with cumulative value—things that are worth very little by themselves but compound into things...
Got any to spare? Lately, it just seems like that's the one thing I'm missing. I have none. Zippo. Zilch. Nada. No bueno. I walk into a room full of people and I practically run to a corner where I can be a notorious "wallflower" and smile at people (sometimes) but not really talk to anyone. I make myself sick. You'd think I'd been locked in a room my whole life... ahem. So how about that weather we've been having? So anyway, I've been feeling a...
Here's my latest attempt at writing poetry. You can find more of my poems in my books. You can also find my latest book in Apple's iBookstore by searching for "Snapshots". Greater I have no more to say.
You have come and overcome
my spirit with Yours,
my spiritual moors
are strengthened by Your presence. O God, I ask for greater faith!
All I've seen and all I've heard
reignites my trust in You,
reignite my trust in Who
You have shown Yourself to...
This summer is shaping up to be a wilderness for me. I have no idea where I'll be living during the next couple months, and I may not be going back to school in the Fall. The things I've been enjoying, learning, and looking forward to—all of my hopes and plans for the future—have been unraveling. This is the picture I am left with: a wilderness. I'm not afraid: I've been here before. It is at this place I am reminded that during times of...
Have you ever been in a place where you're overwhelmed by a deluge of truth? It's like the facts of life are rolling in today and I realize how much I just need to trust God. Thank You, Jesus for opening my eyes. I feel like I have been given new information on my immediate future. It's information that is hard to accept joyfully, because on the one hand, it reinforces the fact that I might not be coming back to school in the Fall. On the other...
I've had so much to think about today. Mainly, I've just been realizing how much I am indebted to the graciousness of other people. I wouldn't have had a house to live in for the last four years had it not been for the graciousness of friends. Somehow I had managed to not think about because I was not dealing directly with those people (my mom was), but I still feel bad for being as complacent as I was. I am where I am in life right now because...
Lately, I've been consumed with looking up. Literally. Here's a picture for you. I think my obsession with looking up has some meaning to it. I'll get to that in a little bit. I've also been enjoying gazing at vast expanses such as this one. There's something inspiring about wide-open spaces—something freeing that beckons you to run wild and take ownership of and responsibility for all that you see. Maybe that's just me, maybe it's not. I've...
Some days I wake up and I feel good. Those days are special to me. Often, I wake up and I feel a lack in my heart. There's really no easy way to put it into words. At least, there wasn't until tonight. There was an open mic at our school's chapel service tonight. I listened to many, many of the students that I live with on campus give their testimonies of how God has been working in their lives, and a theme emerged: community. The word seems so...
