Faith
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Reflections: My Difficult Yet Beautiful Journey Over the Past Few Years
It’s been a long time since I’ve written a blog post. Lately, I haven’t had as strong of an urge to write. I used to constantly write blog posts and journal entries — it was how I processed my feelings as well as how I expressed myself to the world. Lately, my writing has just been the occasional journal entry after a major life event, to make sure that I remember important things and when they happened to me. I decided to give myself a bit of a push today and write about what I’ve been going through lately. In the past few years, I experienced a long series of…
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Finding Purpose in the Ordinary
“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you. Take your everyday, ordinary life – your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life – and place it before God as an offering.” Romans 12:1 The Message I read this passage a few days ago, and since then it has been the meditation of my heart. It really stuck out to me because lately, I’ve been experiencing a bit of boredom with my life. About two years ago, I was blessed with a new car, a new job, and then a new house and a great husband. As I enjoyed decorating my home and learning more about the man I…
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Experiencing the Abundance of God in Times of Pain
Some people don’t believe that I am an abundant God. They don’t understand the fullness of the relationship that I offer them. They don’t believe that material or spiritual blessings are for them. They live in fear of what pain they might endure in this life rather than the abundance I desire to give them. The truth is, I am an abundant God. As much as I can, I pour myself out to those who will allow me to do so. Sometimes this looks like material and relational blessings here on earth. You were created to be loved, and in a perfect world, love involves relationships and gifts and total…
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Waiting for the One: 4 Things You Should Look for in a Relationship
Recently, my fiancée surprised me with flowers. It was a simple gesture, but it carried a lot of weight for me. As I cut my roses and placed them in a vase, I thought about all the times when I was single that I picked up flowers for myself. It is so important to learn how to love yourself before you’re in a relationship, and I definitely had plenty of time to learn that. A long time ago, I wrote a blog post about “waiting for the one.” This post garnered a fair amount of internet attention for me – I received a lot of emails about it, including an invitation…
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Thoughts on the Value of Gratitude
Gratitude. I must admit that this is something that hasn’t always come easily to me. In the past, I was somewhat of a blind optimist, excited for everything in my life. More recently, some of the struggles in my life have gotten to me, and I went through a time where I really had to look harder in order to feel a sense of gratitude for anything that I had. When I got diagnosed with bipolar I felt trapped and frustrated. My medicine was making my thought processes a lot slower than I was accustomed to, and in some ways this made me feel trapped inside my own head. I knew I…