Surely the key to life is contentment. contentment is not complacency. contentment implies engaging your circumstances.

I LOVE SPANISH! I just love it! I do, ok? I love it.

I just got real with Jesus and told him the deepest desires of my heart. It caused me to realize that I've been walking on the edge of settling for second best. I can't do that! I have to open up this door wide and let Him in so he can tend to the dreams he gave me; so he can give them wings to soar for His purposes. Now isn't the time to settle!! It's the time to lace up my shoes and run full speed ahead into destiny. Life brings funny things your way...but no matter what it brings.. I want to shoot for the "best" things, and leave the "good" things to worry about themselves.

It's time to live full my soul! Come Lord Jesus, come!

Friends you travel with are friends indeed.

I have finished one race! It was by your grace. I am glad.

I'd just really love to live in South Korea. I really would.

In just a few weeks of being done with school, I am feeling myself in ways I completely forgot about; ways I haven't felt myself since I was 19, ways I didn't even know I wasn't feeling myself. I guess I just thought I changed as a person and I let go of those parts of me. I knew those aspects weren't my whole identity and I just tried to trust God with my personality and all of my heart, even if it meant laying aside big parts of me in order to complete that seasons call on my life. I was happy in school....but also not really. I thought I was, but now day by day I am growing soooo much more happy and joyful and myself, and am realizing how brutal that time was. I am meeting a me I thought was long gone.

I am not suggesting any deep conclusions. I am simply just so happy to feel so myself; to get to be who God designed me to be again. Personal characteristics will fade and shine in different seasons of life.. life gets ugly sometimes, and those traits really aren't everything. But again, it just feels so good to feel like me and to live like me....and to feel like i'm living at all. It feels good to come alive and it feels good to be free to plunge into the deep end. Bye bye shallow days.

Thank you Jesus. 

My point exactly

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Good Wednesday

Good Wednesday man. Home alone, cleaning my room, wearing red lipstick and a horribly unattractive spandex-shorts/wool sweater combo outfit, sporting oily middle parted hair pulled back, drinking freshly made hot coffee and singing along to Al Green. Some days are just good. I'm glad January 21, 2015 is here; real glad.

Many thanks groove along with me to Al Green in my heart today. 

Oh, one off topic note that's always worth saying: I LOVE my family. I am just truly so grateful to God that He gave me one, and that He gave me this specific one. They're tight to say the least. Help me to love them well and enjoy them hard God!

Righteousness and purity is freedom.

Gods way is life. 

Confession corner:

I'm rediscovering my Jr. High love for punk boys. Not super punk. But punk none the less...