So, it's a new year.. (side note: I feel silly having a blog again, but here it is! The last time I had a blog was myspace and xanga like 6 years ago..wow. I'm getting old) Dear Future me, Please, remember this time of your life. I wouldn't want you to regret it, or even worse, repeat it. Love, Past you. Well, let me start by saying that 2013 was the best/worst year of my life. The best because I've been given opportunities to learn things about myself and my walk with God I've never learned before. The worst because I've never felt so much heartache in my life ever. Starting January of last year I was able to finish out my associates in college (finally! I've been doing missionary work for the past 5 years and put it to the side for a while). I was able to serve in the ministry full-time. I was able to visit family for the holidays. I was engaged to a man I couldn't wait to start my life with. That June we got married! We moved up t...
Something I've realized since I've been separated is that nothing is guaranteed. For the past six years, I dreamed that one day I would go into the ministry, get married, have an amazing family of my own, live out of the country at some point, and grow old as couple recalling the many ways God worked in my life with gratitude. And while all those are great aspirations, they are based off of an assumption of what 'life to the full ' looks like. As a disciple, I can misplace my hope; I confuse God's promises and replace them with my own expectations. danger! When I was asked to become a full-time intern and moved to San Jose, my heart got excited to check-off a dream answered. Then when I got engaged, I thought another dream achieved. As much as God would soon expose sin in the relationship, he wanted to expose my own heart. I quickly realized that in my own heart I needed to check where my hope was --was it in the things God gives me or in the cro...
Congratulations!!! So first of all, I'm so excited for you! I can't wait to watch your pretty face walk down the isle to the man God has placed you with! Secondly, I wanted to share some of the things that helped me during my engagement and wedding planning time! (obviously my suggestions may not be relevant for everyone's situation, but I hope they are helpful <3 ) He popped the question! Now what?.. Get a lot of advice from your ministry leaders/disciplers- They will help you tremendously from making rash decisions. Because my husband and I lead a campus ministry in Sweden, it was important for us to balance ministry and planning, so what worked for us was meeting once a week in the morning to go through any updated plans for the wedding and spent the rest of the week focused on ministry. This also helps in the area of purity so your mind is guarded from thinking about wedding stuff and each other all the time. Lets be real, satan is there for...
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