Facebook is such a weird "social networking" tool. Mainly, because I don't use it for networking. Apparently it is best used to make sure that the kid you sat next to in fourth grade for three months is still alive. It's such a weird thing - you meet a person once and suddenly you have a friend request from them. Five years later, you and that ( Read more... )

"There's no one quite like you among the gods, O Lord, and nothing to compare with your works.
All the nations you made are on their way, ready to give honor to you, O Lord, Ready to put your beauty on display, parading your greatness, And the great things you do- God, you're the one, there's no one but you!" Psalm 86:8-10 [MSG]

 Life has been unusually hard lately. Therefore, I am going to list many of the things I am thankful for, in hopes of gaining some much needed perspective ( Read more... )

 My favorite professor from undergrad put it SO well ( Read more... )

 I just read that. I've been staring at the computer for at least 45 minutes now, not knowing where to start, what to say, or even how to feel. I was just clicking around the internet absentmindedly, and I came across something that said "Crying is okay here." And I thought, whew, good thing.

I am so sad. I'm in this incredible funk. And it's not ( Read more... )

 I love my mom. So much. Besides being an amazing, caring, loving mother, she is my best friend. We have incredible conversations; ones from which I walk away a better person. She knows me so well, and just seems to know what to say exactly when I need to hear it.

Take tonight, for example. I was driving home from an incredible emotional roller ( Read more... )

 So much of this year I've spent doubting myself. Today, in my seminar class we were talking about feeling like maybe we weren't cut out for grad school. Not that that is true, but that a lot of us feel like that. We feel this fear, like maybe we won't make it through. And that is a scary thought. We feel so passionately about this field, what if ( Read more... )

 I'll admit it.

It's been too long since I've prayed like I've really meant with. My prayers have been lacking any sort of passion. They haven't felt necessary. I know that is incorrect, but that is how I've felt. Like maybe my prayers didn't mean anything; couldn't change anything; were not helpful. Maybe I thought they weren't being heard?

I'm not ( Read more... )

 "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
-Anais Nin

New mantra. 1) Because I love Anais Nin and everything she's ever written/said, 2) Because it's so true for this phase of my life right now, and 3) It reminds me that it's okay to be scared... sometimes allowing yourself to be ( Read more... )

 Oh wow, there's nothing quite like going though old journal entries to humble you quick. My life is a MESS ( Read more... )