life. faithful.

Life is busy--sometimes, there's no way around it. We all have responsibilities and obligations that keep us moving full steam ahead. Other times, though, we choose to be busy because we know that if we slow down we'll have too much time to think; we keep moving forward because we just don't want to look back. I've never been fond of falling apart. For those who know me, that's probably putting it a bit mildly, huh? I pride myself on being independent, able to handle things on my own. "I can do it myself!" was probably the first full sentence in my vocabulary. I guess it's a control thing. The problem is, in Christ we are called to brokenness. "I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death , and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead." Philippians 3:10 & 11 "But He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for ...

I love stories. I always have, from the early days of stories about Little Bear and ones by Judy Blume to the stories in middle school by Mary Higgins Clark and about Dawn Rochelle to the books that line my shelves today-- I have what's possibly one of the most eclectic bookshelves around, with Dean Koontz, Gilly Graham, Gone with the Wind, C.S. Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, Einstein, Dracula, Harry Dresden, the Kingkiller Chronicle... --the list goes on, but I'll stop there! Stories do amazing things. They teach lessons without preaching sermons, take you to different worlds or times, open eyes and soften hearts. I write stories, here on this blog and in more notebooks than I can count that are scattered all over my house.I wrote a fantasy novel that I poured my heart into, a devotional that opened my eyes to aspects of God's character I hadn't paid much attention to before, and most recently a story that's still a secret because the person it's meant...