If someone had told me a year ago what my life would be like right now, I wouldn't have believed it. I'm such a planner, and in my mind, I had a pretty good idea of what I expected to happen within the next few years. Things have happened that were completely beyond my control and I desperately have fought with God over the reins of my life as I ( Read more... )

My sister Julie told me I need to make a thermometer to show my fundraising efforts so far, so.... when I have the opportunity to further procrastinate from other responsibilities, I don't need to be told twice!


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Three years ago, God led me to make a scary decision that would impact the course of my life. At the time, I felt drawn to international missions of some sort, though I really had no idea what that entailed. Through prayer and a lot of indecisive list-making (I am the pro/con list queen!), I chose to go to Siberia with Global Aid Network for two ( Read more... )

"Friend, no prayer is more effective than the one that finds its roots in the pages of God's Word. Jonah challenges us: Have we taken time to inscribe God's Word on our hearts so we have a framework of verses to construct our prayer in the time of need?"
-Priscilla Shirer

Since November, the women's Bible study at church has been slowly moving ( Read more... )

Usually when I go for months at a time without an update, it's because I've gotten so carried away with how busy life is that I forget I even have this blog. The same can be said for the past two months, except there have been many times where I've opened the page to write an entry, only to find that the thoughts I'm drowning in cannot be organized ( Read more... )

color:#222222">I will say, though, I'm so thankful for where God has me in my life right now. Despite how traumatic and hard this year has been, there have
also been parts where God has poured out his love on me in tangible ways. Abe's moving here has helped me in countless ways, but mostly it's easier to have him right next to me as I walk this ( Read more... )

It's hard to believe that I have already completed the first week of my fifth year of teaching. Sometimes I go back in these livejournal posts and I think it's insane that I've been keeping up with this thing since I was a sophomore in college. And to get technical, I had a blog on ujournal for three or four years before that! I'm so glad I've ( ( Read more... )

During the week I wrote my last post, I was on one of the lower parts of my emotional roller coaster I've been on since April. I didn't have much going on during the week, little to no motivation, and seeing the final installment of Harry Potter made me miss Aaron and Rachael more than I had anticipated. Because they were the reason I read the ( Read more... )

To say that 2011 has not turned out as I had anticipated would be a massive understatement ( Read more... )

Because I'm an authority on movies, here's my ballot for tonight's ceremony ( Read more... )