Reflections from Senior Year

In that house on the top of the hill, there lays a box of the last of my UCI memories. This is the box that didn’t get to stay with me after i made the trek down to what is now my home in SD. While visiting my parents I came across it and found [...]

His Goodness

You can give thanks for what you have… instead of hoping for what isn’t even sure. I saw it in the girls when they kept asking for a staffer and what the chances were of one. I was exasperated by how stuck on the topic they were – in my mind, its simple. If God [...]

Balancing Act

Somewhere along the way, I started running to God first, stopped spilling my guts to people, it became slightly harder to be transparent, and slightly more often that I was presenting some sort of front of having things under control.
1 part guarding my heart
1 part confiding in the Lord first.
2 parts defense mechanism.
Now, to find [...]

Little Deaths

Today in Streams in the Desert:

It is by being cast down and not destroyed; it is by being shaken to pieces, and the pieces torn to shreds, that men become men of might, and that one a host; whereas men that yield to the appearance of things, and go with the world, have their quick [...]

Proverbs 16:9

Do I plan for grad school….
- accumulate more student loans
- become fully dedicated to being Ms. Excellent Student (how else am I going to get those Letters of Rec?)
- move to Norcal and live on my own (CSU Hayward or SFSU)
- commit to staying in the U.S. for at least 4 more years (in order [...]

Have Faith

Its tempting to wonder what good our prayers are…especially prayers of very few words for our friends that don’t know Him. What do you we ask for – just blessing upon blessing? Good things? Happiness? Do we pray for conviction and repentance? Doesn’t praying that they would know God’s love become trite?
Perhaps its because our [...]

Homesick

Homesick.
The world is bigger
Now that i’ve seen
How could I think
it was ever about me
Your glory is greater
than what we’ve known
But how do I express
what i’ve been shown
(chorus)
Not quite homesick
la la la la la
But I don’t fit
la la la la la
The life I’ve come back to
Or at the ends of the earth
Let me find [...]

This is My Life…am I who I want to be?

“My hearts one desire is to be holy
Set apart for you Lord
I choose to be holy
Set apart for you my master
ready to do your will…”
The time to start praying about my future is upon me. Senior year – it’s here. The average job search takes six months. I know, because I work at the career [...]

Something More

When you made me, what did you plan for me? As you held me in the palm of your hand and fashioned me in your likeness but with characteristics that would serve your purposes what did you have in mind? You didn’t say “With a beautiful voice, she will sing songs of healing”…you didn’t say [...]

Only One

There is only one God who can fill our hearts and our desires. But why do we fall prey so easily to the things of this world? Especially our own self-centeredness. How can be we so wrapped up in forming our own personalities and people’s impressions of us when we were made for so much [...]