For years I've wanted very badly to get married and be a wife and mother...and for that, one needs a husband! I hadn't found my man at Bible college, even though that's a logical place for meeting eligible Christian young men, and I was told that moving to New Zealand wasn't really a wise choice if I wanted to get married.

This past August, I wrote ( Read more... )

I don't know how many people actually have read it, but in the "this sojourner" part of this blog is a short "About Me" thing that I typed up some time ago and added to as time passed (some of the most recent additions were actually permitted plagarisms from my dear sister-friend, Hannah).  I generally copy-and-paste that short paragraph to be used ( Read more... )

In a way, it's somewhat humourous how it works...but in a way, it's not! I write a blog post about something God is teaching me and what I think I'm learning from it...and things are going quite well in that for a couple days, and then, BOOM! I fall again and seem to completely forget everything I've learned from all that happened before. ( Read more... )

One of my favorite books is Hinds Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard. It's the allegorical story of the journey of Much Afraid, with the Shepherd, from the Valley of Humiliation to the High Places. While there are things I disagree with in the book (mainly how Songs of Songs is used), I can very much relate to Much Afraid's journey and as such ( Read more... )

Being a grown-up is hard...and, in my opinion, being a single grown-up is even harder. There are decisions to make and responsibilities to handle and all of it falls on you. Granted, I know that's what is supposed to happen as you become an adult, but that doesn't make it any easier. And this past semester I've really started to have to be a "grown ( Read more... )

Over the past year or two, I’ve been in the very slow process of copying all the quotes I’ve collected over the years into one notebook. And it’s been interesting to come across quotes that I don’t remember, and their wisdom again strikes me anew. I ran across one of those such quotes this evening...it was from Mr. Williamson, the professor for my ( Read more... )

After personal experience and much thought about some of the things the Lord has been teaching me lately, I’ve come to a conclusion...politeness is a great destroyer of true fellowship and close friendships.

That may seem like a ridiculous thing to say...I mean, aren’t we supposed to be polite to each other?! Well, actually, according to the Bible ( Read more... )

After the couple months of summer, I am once again back at school. I know that I said I wasn’t going to be coming back, but plans changed and I’m back now. This year is going to be very different from last year…many things have changed, I’m not taking a full load, etc., but it’s still good to be back!

Since many of my close friends are here at ( Read more... )

For me, my Bible is such a comfort...there have even been times when I wouldn't even read it, but would just clutch it to my chest and fall asleep...usually after having cried myself into an exhaustion. Several nights ago, while coming back home from Bible college, I was in need of comfort so I just started typing up some of my comfort Scriptures ( Read more... )

Several times I've posted the lyrics to the song, "He's Always Been Faithful", by Sara Groves and I'm going to do it again...that song has pretty much become the defining song of my life in the last couple years.

Morning by morning I wake up to find
The power and comfort of God's hand in mine
Season by season I watch Him amazed
In awe of the mystery ( Read more... )