Back Again

 

Guess who's back at trying to blog again: This Girl. 

I don't know why I have had such a hard time keeping up with blogging and making it a priority but it is one of my goals this next month to blog at least once a week so hopefully I can hold myself accountable and write some decent posts. Here we go.

This week I had the amazing opportunity spend my spring break at the beach with twelve of my best friends and ADPi sisters. Our week was filled with laughter, sunburns, movie nights, Kilwins runs (toasted coconut ice cream is literally the best thing ever) and relaxing. Our sweet BYX (a Christian fraternity) friends also came to visit us twice and we had a blast getting to laugh and be dumb with them. I am so overwhelmed with how the Lord has blessed me and how He continues to place such awesome people in my life since starting college. I am so expectant to grow in these friendships in the next three years.

I just feel alive lately with the expectancy of what the Lord is doing in my life. I know he has me where I am for a very specific purpose and I am eager to grow into the mold of who he has planned for me to be. It never fails that when I feel this way, words of any shape or form make me feel even more alive. So tonight I leave you with a quote from my favorite author in one of my favorite books. This quote has kept me moving since college and I hope that it will stir a dream in your heart to venture out onto the road on which you are traveling.

“And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story will be about changing, about getting something beautiful born inside of you about learning to love a woman or a man, about learning to love a child, about moving yourself around water, around mountains, around friends, about learning to love others more than we love ourselves, about learning oneness as a way of understanding God. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?

It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

I want to repeat one word for you:
Leave.

Roll the word around on your tongue for a bit. It is a beautiful word, isn't it? So strong and forceful, the way you have always wanted to be. And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed.”
― Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

Be blessed friends.

Happy Easter.