“Our Father strips everything away from time to time to give us the opportunity of loving and trusting and responding to Him just because He is our Father. He knows what the cross is going to mean in our lives; He knows the death march that lies ahead of us in order that there may […]

Well, we’re finally under 50 days, and I will now allow myself to begin the countdown 🙂 From and including: Thursday, June 9, 2011To and including: Wednesday, July 27, 2011It is 49 days from the start date to the end date, end date includedOr 1 month, 19 days including the end date Alternative time units […]

Where is my oven mit? I hate moving…. Laying in bed last night, I told Grayson that I “really don’t like large doses of change”. He just laughed. I suppose it is a bit ironic, with us preparing to move to Europe and all. This transition has proven to be a much bigger turning point […]

Two years ago to this day, Grayson Lynum took me hiking in the Vernon Marsh, a beautiful wetland–the same one he took me hiking in to ask me to date him. This time, just like the fist, he built me a fire. This time, like the first, he asked me a big question. But this […]

I may be too wordy. All throughout school, I was the one stressing not over meeting the word count on a paper, but rather limiting myself to the maximum word count allowance. And here I find myself again at 91 words over, and I have not yet written my conclusion. I hate deleting words. It’s […]

“We rationalize these passages away. ‘Jesus wouldn’t really tell us not to bury our father or say good-bye to our family. Jesus didn’t literally mean to sell all we have and give it to the poor. What Jesus really meant was…’ And this is where we need to pause. Because we are starting to redefine […]