The other day a podcast I was listening to (I honestly can not remember what one it was) gave me a challenge that has been sticking with me all week. The challenge was to make a list of all the things you want for your kids' future. All your hopes and dreams for their lives. If your kids are grown up, think about what you wanted for their lives when they were younger and think about how those hopes and dreams have changed as they grew up.  I need to actually write a list and

The other day, a friend was talking about milestones in their life and casually said,  “I thought things would be different.” That one sentence stuck with me. It sat in the back of my mind for a few days, quietly replaying itself. And the more I thought about it, the more I realized how often I’ve said the same thing to myself—sometimes out loud, sometimes only in my head. Looking back on my own milestones, there are plenty of moments where I thought things would be different

In my highschool and early college years I remember taking tests to figure out what kind of person you were. I remember the one that I took in a youth group that was supposed to tell you what gift you had. I really wanted it to say I was a worship leader because that was my goal in the church. But it said I was supposed to be an evangelist. But I did not feel like that was me, so I just thought it got it wrong. I have always struggled to find my thing or path in life. My sibl

Growing up my mom always said “watch what you say because words have meaning and power.” She also often warned about speaking things into being. I am pretty sure I have genetic arthritis but doctors have told me that even though I have the symptoms they can not diagnose me until it shows up in my bloodstream. And that does not usually happen until later on in life so i just have to live with it. Whenever my mother hears me say that I have genetic arthritis she says “stop sayi

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“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” William Shakespeare uses this line in his play...