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reflections, simple joys
August 18, 2024 (the #iloveprompt of August)
reflections, simple joys

(bringing back the #iloveprompt because idk why, it just felt right.)

reflections, simple joys
friendship, travel
May 26, 2024 (the gift of adult friendship)
friendship, travel

Prepping to leave for Paris and Lucerne in a couple of weeks (!! send me all ur travel recs !!) and I just can’t wait. Both cities sparkle with charm and elegance—I have no doubt the trip will be lovely beyond belief. But even more than the experiences, I can’t wait for the company.

friendship, travel
reflections
May 14, 2024
reflections

Been seeing + loving these types of posts lately, so here goes mine:

Things I’m still learning: The delicate art of balancing passion and practicality. How not to procrastinate. How to pour latte art.

reflections
faith, trust, waiting, hardship, scripture
April 27, 2024 (God of the Impossible)
faith, trust, waiting, hardship, scripture

I’ve started casually referring to myself as a “cynical idealist,” aka: someone who fervently longs for perfection, utopia, untainted beauty, and wholehearted love at every turn. Yet, someone who also has been burned—

faith, trust, waiting, hardship, scripture
reflections, waiting, trust
March 19, 2024 (faith for today)
reflections, waiting, trust

I’m always so astonished when people declare, with seeming certainty, that they know exactly what God is up to in their lives. How he’s moving, what he’s doing, and which doors they expect him to open next. I must look absolutely dumbfounded in their presence as they talk—with my furrowed brow and dropped jaw.

reflections, waiting, trust
reflections, beauty
February 18, 2024
reflections, beauty

The other week, I drove into town on my lunch break and got a flat white from the local produce stop (I’m obsessed), and then meandered my way down the familiar, yet unfamiliar, streets of my city.

reflections, beauty
reflections
January 14, 2024 (Trente-Deux And The Grace of Seasons)
reflections

( for my birthday )

reflections
scripture
January 4, 2024 (Luke 9)
scripture
scripture
new beginnings, reflections
January 1, 2024
new beginnings, reflections

The ins and outs for 2024.

new beginnings, reflections
the character of god, reflections
November 30, 2023
the character of god, reflections

I can lower my defenses with God.

I don’t have to be discerning, because everything he speaks is true.

the character of god, reflections

New from the Portfolio

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Seven Years at The Little Lake House
Seven Years at The Little Lake House

It had charmed me from the start.

One Thirty-Nine
One Thirty-Nine

It takes more than four walls

to hold my soul;

Equations
Equations

In grade school, you are taught

that the world is composed of formulas. 

A Prayer for Those Who Just Want to Feel Something
A Prayer for Those Who Just Want to Feel Something

Heavenly Father, we confess that we have been sleepwalking through our days. We’ve stumbled through moments when we should have been present…we admit our yearning for more.

He is More
He is More

Jesus is more

Than a tool for behavior modification.

He is more

Than an exercise in rational thought,

A prop to be put up,

A mask to be worn,

an act to adopt

what does it mean to be re-born (on Easter)
what does it mean to be re-born (on Easter)

what does it mean to be re-born?

the stars don’t reveal their secrets,

so confounding us —

A Failure To See
A Failure To See

I see you

Walking down a tightrope,