The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Even if it’s 2020)

What? Two posts in like three days? What manner of inconsistency is this?! Well, I’m on break and it’s fall/winter and I’ve been listening to too much Christmas music. Which brings us to today’s post: Oh Boy Oh Boy It’s Beginning to Look a Heck of a Lot Like Christmas. I reread my Thanksgiving post …

Absolutely Nothing

It’s almost over. It’s almost over. But I’m too realistic (pessimistic) to believe midnight on January 1 will change much of anything. This year. This year has been full of things that, on their own, would have been difficult. Together? One after another after another after another? I’m tired. No, I’m exhausted. I was tired …

Let Me Love the Soreness

I’m supposed to be doing my Microeconomics homework. Or looking through International Officer candidates for an election in our honors society tomorrow. But, instead of being Martha, I’m trying to be Mary, which is why I’m writing this post. Like everyone else, my family and I have been doing church a little differently these last …

A Tween’s Guide to Having a Nemesis

I'm in a Creative Writing class this semester, and oh my gravy has it been fun so far. Since I'll be doing a lot of writing, I thought posting my pieces here might be a way to help me post more often. With that in mind, you'll find my Non-Fiction piece below. Enjoy, and when …

Hi, 2020.

This is the fourth time I’ve started this post. I’ve sat at this computer four times and tried to summarize the last ten years. I tried a vague post, a post for each year, and even a post that was essentially just a bulleted list of important events in a given year. I got farthest on …

The Strength to Let Go

There are a couple of songs I’ve heard recently about giving God control of your life. These are nice songs, and I’ve happily sung along to them in my car. But I didn’t realize what was wrong with them, or missing from them, until I listened to Switchfoot’s new album, Native Tongue. One of the …

Hindsight is 20/20

The decade of the 2010s has been a wild one. My life has been turned upside down again and again. God called me out of my sins and brought me to life through Christ. I watched friends, churches, family members, and plans come and go. I can’t hope to recap it all here (I’m sure …

An Open Thank-You Letter

*You've written me two recommendation letters so far. This is sort of mine for you.* Dear Mr. Herrman, I’m still mad at you. But this ‘open letter’ isn’t about The News in the Gas Station (although you can guarantee it will come up). This is my thank-you letter. I should probably save this for when …

Too Much

It’s too much. It’s too much. That’s another reason I cried on Sunday. Sitting in Sunday School, for some reason, I suddenly felt crushed under the weight of life. There is too much. So, so, much. There is so much pain. There is so much joy. There is so much wrong and so much right. …

Love

I cried in Sunday School this morning. I thought my emotions were messed up because I drank an insane amount of sugar masquerading as coffee with nothing else on my stomach, but that wasn't it. The reason I cried this morning was what I heard from the women in my class as they remembered a …