

“I’ll be okay.” This is a phrase I repeat to myself multiple times a day every day. It’s what helps me get past the anxieties and the fears and the stresses and the worries and the doubt and the confusion. It’s how I’m able to keep putting one foot in front of the other. It’s Read more

I had a not so great experience recently, that kind of hurt me. It’s not the first time I have experienced this, and admittedly last time I was hurt much more than this. Perhaps, one might call it growth, a growing understanding of people and myself. I am constantly learning about the complex dynamics of Read more

I miss the quiet. I can’t say my mind has ever really been quiet. No, it really shouts to me. So maybe instead of missing the quiet, I miss when the shouts of my mind were my only distractions. I miss having time. I miss those times I would have every summer growing up. It Read more

In my head, it’s really loud. There are lots of thoughts running around, bumping into each other, demanding my attention. Most days it’s chaos in there. And it’s exhausting. And most days what I do to combat them, to give myself a break from their screams, I drown myself in some other noise. Sometimes it’s Read more

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.” Philippians 2:3-4 NIV I read Philippians 2:3-4 today and for the first time, didn’t breeze over it. Almost every time I had read Read more