Death Cab for Cutie songs have a tendency to resonate deep within me. Hence why "Someday You Will Be Loved" is my ring tone. (That and I am too cheap to buy another one.) Christopher introduced me to the new album. Narrow Stairs. When "I Will Possess Your Heart" started to play, I found myself looking inward and the song just grabbed me. The ( Read more... )

I knew it was beautiful moment when I pulled into my driveway, letting the car run so I could still listen to the radio, but turning off the lights. With my head resting on my hands that were still on the steering wheel as I let the tears fall down my face, I knew that exact moment was absolutely gorgeous for all its humanity ( Read more... )

I could be writing all of the things I wrote in my head during my trip to California. But I'm not ( Read more... )

As human beings, we crave love. We're relational creatures. It is how we were made. God fashioned us, knit together our hearts and filled them with the desire for love.

I'm realizing the reason I crave love so much is because I crave God. In Scripture, it says The King is enthralled with your beauty. My King is enthralled with my beauty. Mine. As ( Read more... )

I'm really at a crossroads in my life. In all honesty, there are days when I feel like my world is being ripper apart at the seams, others times I feel like instead of my world, it's just my mind. I don't know. This semester has just shaken my world in a lot of ways. It's hard not to feel like this semester has been a giant waste. I lost something ( Read more... )

There are those times when the wound feels like it will never heal, and then, while the blood is still warm and dripping the skin knits itself together after your fingertips grace the hem of his robe in an act of faith. It's that sudden feeling of wholeness after feeling so broken and incomplete and it is as though life has been breathed into your ( Read more... )

A look at Miss Steffi Jean. (Yes a good portion of this is my new facebook profile, but this is the extended version ( Read more... )

I have a tendency to be very hard on myself. Anyone who knows me remotely well knows this about myself. I have a tendency to be very harsh and criticial of myself and I overanalyze things far too much. My friend Christopher said the most beautiful thing to me today on the phone. "Steph, you are the woman of God that He wants you to be right now ( Read more... )

Imagine this scenario, if you will. You're a virgin, engaged to be married. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, an angel tells you that you are pregnant with the child of God. That there is a baby in your womb that is to be the savior of the world ( Read more... )

Slipping and sliding in the slush on my way to campus, my mind drifted to remembering where I was this time last year. It was the Christmas Choir Concert at Hendricks that jogged my memory. Rose told me she went last night and it brought me back to last year. I didn't go to the concert, but I was taking photos at the tree lighting because I was ( Read more... )