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I tend to always get reflective towards the end of the year. It's one of my favorite things about this season—in the midst of the pretty lights and the good company of others, I can look back at the year and gain an eagerness for the year ahead. But in this moment, I've found myself…
This season is an adventure. Everyday feels different and new. Everyday I screw up and stumble and return to the Lord in hopes of learning something from it. And it’s typical for me to find myself stumbling over the same thing the next day. Nothing about me is perfect, but everything about my Father is.…
God looks at you and says, "I've seen you, and I know you, and I'm not going anywhere." Do you believe that? That God sees you in the midst of your mess and still doesn't want to leave? Because over these past two months, there have been more moments than I care to admit when…
I've never been one to get super caught up in personality tests. Not that they aren't super interesting, because they totally are! But typically the results of my BuzzFeed quizzes get me more excited than my results from personality tests like the Enneagram or Myer's Briggs. However, after taking the Clifton Strengths test, I became…
A while back I typed out this quote from Mike Yaconelli and saved it in my notes with the title, "To Read Right Before You Go To College." And what beautiful words they are now to be reading three weeks into this grand adventure. Read this, and you'll see what I mean. So here I…
Since everything around me was going to change, I was expecting to feel so empty. But as I sit here at my computer the night before my first day of classes, my heart feels abnormally full. Wonderfully full. To my roommate—wow, just like, thank you. You have made this transition a breeze. I feel like…
Senior year has been a marvelous, exciting time in my life. It's, well, hard to describe if I'm being honest. It has been wonderful, but frustrating too. I think I need to explain. REJECTED. I felt like it was spelled out in big red letters across my forehead. More so than a rejection from the…
A year ago I told myself that I was going to write every single day for an entire year. Five hundred and twenty-one pages later, I can't believe I actually did. I thought that I would inevitably forget one night and call the whole thing off, or that perhaps one night I would decide I was…
November 26th, 2017. From my journal. "What I'm going back to tonight is my first high school fall retreat. The theme was the same as it was this year: "The Story." It was that Saturday night when I saw, for the first time I could remember, someone crying over Jesus's death. Tears were visibly running down…
https://youtu.be/6xx0d3R2LoU "I want to read this scripture to us. It's out of Luke 15. Sometimes people get confused by it, but I feel like the Lord's all over it tonight. I want to read it to us. Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. But the Pharisees and the…
Ellie Proctor 