A Letter to my High School Self

This will be the worst four years of your life and it’s going to get worse before it gets better. Unfortunately, that’s just life. But you’re going to learn a lot from all those stupid mistakes you make so at least all is not lost.

Fruitless Joy

Lately, I’ve been a complainer. I see people who practically look like models, I see people who travel the world and make tons of money on photography, I see people in my dream cars…you name it! And I’m left wondering, “What the heck? Where can I get that?” 

My Marriage is Not “Goals” and Never Should Be.

13 Reasons I’m Just Like Hannah Baker

Shame After Sin

Romans 3:23

For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God;

A friend and I got into an argument and out of anger and I said some things I shouldn’t have said. I went a little too far with a boy when I promised God I wouldn’t do it anymore. I drank a little too much when I knew God didn’t want me to do that. These are just a few examples of the mistakes I’ve made as a Christian and after each act, I felt horrible. I felt like God didn’t love me and that he was angry at me. I felt like a failure; that I let him down.

The Day I Stopped Loving My Husband.

When you and your spouse first start dating, it’s that constant butterfly feeling. Their kisses made you drunk and holding their hand makes your heart race. What an exhilarating experience!

Then one day…those feelings are gone. The butterflies flew away and youre left wondering if You even loved them anymore.

Your Past Doesn’t Define You

9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.  -2 Corinthians 12:9-11

“You Got Fat After High School”

Psalm 139:14

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

I was a junior in high school and I overheard someone at the table next to me say, “She got big after she graduated.”

When I replaced God with Alcohol and Boys.

I was depressed and hollow. I felt like an empty shell. I was revolving my life around a boy who broke my heart. I didn’t really have God in my life and I was too concerned about being popular to care. Being a Christian wasn’t exactly the “cool” thing. Christians don’t drink and go to parties but thats what everyone else was doing so who cared right?