1. Be Present Being present is a difficult thing to do. Our world is trained to look to the past on all the mistakes we have made, and look at the future for ways to improve. We rarely stay in the moment with the people we are with, and because of this we miss the [...]
Tag: life
Forgiven
"When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without [...]
An Adventure of A Lifetime
" To Live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde This past summer was one for the books. Many of you know my favorite band is Coldplay, because they really are the greatest band in the world...Hands down...don't deny it. Anyways! When I found out that [...]
Pretty Happy Book Review
"When you understand yourself and connect to how you can become body smart, you realize pretty quickly that the perfect, the ideal is not the goal," - Kate Hudson Many of us, myself included, are intimidated by all health jargon and the thought of working out just doesn't sound fun. Somehow living an active life [...]
Set Apart, Not Aside
To be set aside is once if the worse feelings in human nature. To be set aside is like saying you are not good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, strong enough, or even just enough. It’s lonely, painful and nothing about being set aside is good. However, to be set apart is something different... To [...]
Use Your Gifts.
I have been thinking a lot lately on who I really am and who I am supposed to be. Should I go to this job, should I try that job, what if I mess up... Then I end up stopping myself because my heart starts to take over and it starts feeling less safe and [...]
Book Review: Everybody Always By Bob Goff
If you know me, you know Bob Goff is my all time favorite author. His book Love Does is one that I read every year (sometimes twice a year) because it's just that good. Well Everybody Always, is going to be another one of those books I devour over and over again. Love Does is [...]
Beautiful Distractions
I am so glad God is a "come back to me" kind of love. Honestly, I have been so distracted lately, and not in God's presence. With working a full time job and part time job and then working odd jobs.... It's safe to say my mind has been elsewhere, and that's not a good [...]
Love Like Jesus
Loving the way Jesus loves is something that we are taught from the beginning of our journey with Christ. It is something that is imprinted on our hearts and we spend our entire lives trying to do, but heavily struggle with. Loving the way Jesus does used to confuse me. I never really new what [...]
I am the Desert. Jesus is the Water.
Rejection is something that scares us all. We all want to be accepted, loved, cared for, and known. We crave these things, and search for them so desperately throughout the world, but nothing ever seems to suffice. We think that if we meet the right person, do the right things, and go after our dreams [...]
Live Happily Inked 