• My Top 5 Bible Verses for When Life Hits a Little Too Hard

    My Top 5 Bible Verses for When Life Hits a Little Too Hard

    Sometimes life gets me super down. Sometimes the things I want and expect to happen don’t ever happen at all. Sometimes other people let me down, and sometimes I let myself down. Luckily for us, in these times of trouble, pain, or just flat out discouragement, we have words of comfort that come directly from the mouth…

  • Seeking Assurance in All the Wrong Places

    How often do you ask for other people’s opinions on your life decisions?  On an almost daily basis I’ll find myself asking Kierstin (my roommate/conscience/therapist/best friend) about her opinion on pretty much everything I’m doing with my life, and although it probably sounds like I want her advice, mostly I realize that I’m just wanting her to…

  • Say YES

    Say YES

    Well, I’m three weeks in, and college has officially become a very real thing in my life. Like a big thing. Like a big, stressful, time consuming, real thing. It could be the fact that I’ve moved 5 hours away from home, begun attending 12 credit hours of class per week, or that I literally live…

  • A Major Decision

    A Major Decision

    So y’all. I am officially a registered student at the University of Florida. I even have an ID card and class schedule and everything to prove it, is that crazy or what?!?   After attending orientation last week, to my delight, I felt so much more excited about the beginning of this four-year-long journey. At the…

  • These Decisions Aren’t Mine

    “Before I decide, I wish I knew what the outcome would be…” Story. Of. My. Life. You know, once I finished picking a college, a major, and all the other big decisions I’ve had to make recently, I thought maybe I could catch a break. I thought maybe things could be simple for a while;…

  • Wait…. What Now?

    Wait…. What Now?

    So it’s official… I am a high school graduate. Thursday night I walked across Steve Riggs Stadium as Pomp and Circumstance blared through the speakers. I sat in the first row and listened to the top six students in my class deliver speeches that were meant to encourage and excite my graduating class as this chapter came…