12 hours until i land in LA. what!?

Joy: The Lord has been preparing my heart in a truly beautiful way... for freedom, for challenge, for selflessness, and for the adventure bound to be pregnant with emotion lying ahead. I've spent the past three days reflecting and digging up roots, discovering that i've lived the past several months of my life with a blind selfishness, confusion, ( Read more... )

my heart is absolutely broken for the strong feeling of oppression not only in my own home, among my family, but also among friends. i can feel it and it hurts. i feel the oppression from broken relationships, enslavement to a job or a marriage, self worth, body image, confusion, selfishness, the list goes on and on. it makes me so angry to see ( Read more... )

"I don’t know how your love works ( Read more... )

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some people hate surprises but i really, really miss them. i also really, really desire to travel and meet someone who craves adventure and will allow themselves to act on it ( Read more... )

Almost a year ago today, I found myself writing Tony Bowick, the Pastor of Community Development and my future discipleship leader, an e-mail. It was a sunday night. I'd just seen him speak on stage about ways to get involved and involvement was exactly what I wanted the most ( Read more... )

bought wine.
researched ywam.
loved emily glomb and melissa mage.
played the sims (horrible thing to start).
began a revo.
interviewed for an RA position.
loved people and public relations.
received free food.
missed old friends.
wanted new experiences.

it was for freedom, we were set free ( Read more... )

i understand you when you feel overwhelmed with life.

i'm learning that life will never slow down. there will always be something new. if we keep making excuses for why we're holding ourselves back from living a life fully alive, we'll never move forward. i'll never move forward. every second is a battle. resistance is fighting with everything it has. and if we're not careful, it'll take everything we ( Read more... )