Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. -Winston S. Churchill Just recently I had some sort of meltdown. For some reason, that whole week I had been feeling very down. I was focusing on all the negative in my life rather than the positive. I started to evaluate my life based on all my…
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I don’t know about you, but I have asked God “why did this happen?” or “Why am I going through this?” It’s hard not to question him when a family member has cancer, or a friend passes away, or we constantly fail. All these reasons seem fair to question what God is doing and more…
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Where you’re at now is where you need to be. Since the beginning of our lives, we are placed into a timeline. We are expected to accomplish things at a very specific age. We are expected to graduate on time, start college right away, get a job, get married before “it’s too late”, have kids…
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For the longest time I believed in pursuing. I believed in pursuing your dreams, pursuing the life that you want and even at some point pursuing that boy. How incredibly naïve have I been. Don’t get me wrong, you do need to pursue what you want, but before you do that, there’s a missing part…
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The end of the year is always so hectic. There is so much to do. You know that by the time November gets here, the year is basically over. I usually start realizing that I didn’t finish half the things I wrote down at the beginning of the year. At this point I start to…
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There is a story in the bible called “The parable of the Lost Son.” You can find this story in Luke 15:11-32. This story is about a father and two sons. The younger one asked his father for his inheritance, but that is not what fascinates me the most about the story. What I find…
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Recently I was having a conversation with a friend. We were talking about messes and how we felt about them. So thank you for inspiring me to write this. He said something that made me think of certain messes in our lives. He said he didn’t mind the mess but also didn’t mind cleaning and…
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Loneliness approaches us even when we are filled with friendships and relationships. It can cause pain that we can’t identify and don’t know where it’s coming from because in reality, physically we are not alone; it’s just our inner self that’s alone, it’s our spirit that is missing something. Even when you’re surrounded by people,…
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Our need for acceptance– is a powerful feeling that affects our thoughts and feelings. We strive to be accepted by this world. We change our beliefs and our lives to fit into what is “normal”and we forget who we are. Our view of who we should be is influenced by society. It’s manipulated and carved…
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