Last week marked my 33rd year of this amazing thing called life. It is always interesting to me to reflect back on the years. What has changed. What hasn’t. Lessons learned. Laughing at my silly teenage self and seeing how crazy, different my worries then were compared to my worries now. I do believe with age comes wisdom, so younger self: here is what I would tell you now… Just because you loved someone and didn’t receive that love back, does not mean you are unlovable. Just because a loved one didn’t show you love the way you wanted them to, does not mean you are unlovable. You’ll learn that…
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What I Learned (attempting) to Read the Bible in a Year
January 1, 2015: Start Bible in a Year plan on my phone. Read Genesis 1-3. Fall off the wagon before Leviticus. January 1, 2016: Let’s try this again. I’m more hungry now. I’m ready to see what really happens in the Bible. Somewhere around March 2, my app is filled with empty circles. January 2017: Same Story. Different Day. Or Year, rather. January 2018: I’ll give you one guess. All of this led to beating myself up for not being able to commit to just 2-3 chapters a day. To grow in my faith, at that. Current Year. January 2019: New Planner. “Goals” section in front. One of which includes:…
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A letter to my husband: when the newlywed phase has passed…
“You’re two good people, just maybe not good together.” Remember hearing this from several people in our life, during the beginning of our relationship? Truth be told, we would have given the same advice to our friends if they were in our shoes. We’ve even said recently, we wonder how we made it, looking back at our early days. We were young with baggage, but I guess this is one [huge] time where our stubbornness paid off. Today marks one year short of a decade together! The newlywed phase has made like Elvis and left the building. We no longer go out to dinner with friends every weekend. The days…
