Boundaries, Idols, & Grace

“And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.” – A. B. Yehoshua “At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don’t keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That’s how [...]

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Another Crossroads

I feel like I’ve been confronted with many crossroads recently, as I’m fulfilling the very purpose of this blog–finding out what it means to be the girl who changed her mind and the world, maybe not really the whole vast world but at least my own world. I’ve always been the “good” girl. That’s who [...]

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So I Jumped

I talk a lot in here about the need to take chances. I also talk about the fear of the unknown. I mull over the big questions in this little girl’s mind–the ones about God and love and life and faith and fear and forgiveness. I write about wanting to be healed from heartache. I’ve [...]

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Just Go…

“Little change of the heart. Little light in the dark. Little hope that you just might find your way about it.” Sometimes you find yourself standing at a crossroads. You don’t know which way to go. Then with unexplainable clarity you realize you’ve stood at this same crossing before, but you’ve never made the movement [...]

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Living Proof that What You Write Sometimes Comes True….

I’ve been really happy over the last few weeks. July has been a great month, for many different reasons. Today, I am being irrationally unhappy. No scratch that. I’m not even unhappy; I’m merely in a funk. I don’t have any real reason to be feeling this bleak, but for some unknown reason, I’ve given [...]

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A Dark Place

Tonight I’m in a dark place. It’s that dark place that I go to when I see nothing turning out like I want. Life in general, school, my love life….it’s all so dismal. I can’t seem to catch a break. It’s one thing after the other. I can’t believe that it’s supposed to always be [...]

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