When the world welcomes us in,
we’re closer to heaven than we’ll ever know.
They say this place has changed,
but strip away all of the technology
and you’ll see that we are all hunters,
hunting for something
that will make us okay.
Now here we lay alone, in hospital beds,
tracing life in our heads, but all that is left
is that [...]

Boys.

Snails.

The lovely Ann at Dawes.

Ann said that it reminds her of Jane Austin books, and it kinda does. Doesn’t it.

I really enjoy reading old headstones.

Jumping Picture. I haven’t taken one of these in a while.

I love him so very much.

My fake henna tatoo, drawn with markers.

I got tagged by Ann, so I am supposed [...]

This website is amazing. It has all the Bible stories, told with Legos….
The Flood…

Jesus’ Baptism…

Some of them are pretty funny.

(( The Law ones are especially funny, but mostly too inappropriate to post here.))

Yesterday was a big realization for me. I’m not going to lie — it was dissapointing.  Sometimes I feel really sad about leaving Otterbein, but it’s stuff like yesterday that reminds me that it’s time to move on.
BUT I had a pretty schweet time in Dayton last night.
Driving helps me. And so does good [...]

“A place belongs to the one who has most deeply
loved it, they said, has hoped in it beyond
it’s self corruption. The land, the people, the city
is his if his nights are for recalling it,
calling it in tears of aloneness and amazed
thanksgiving, that luck let him kiss it in his childhood,
that it grew into him, [...]

OCF was really challenging, encouraging, and convicting tonight.
It was the last in a series of messages on relationships/marriage based on the book of Song of Solomon.
Horace talked about how marriage is depicted in such a disheartening way in our world today, even by the church. But that within a relationship with the Lord, marriage can [...]

we couldn’t cry
about anything
and the smiles of our silence
whispered in harmony:
i love you, and i won’t stop.

I haven’t been writing much wedding-related stuff in here because I am trying not to be one of those girls who turns into Bridezilla and makes planning their wedding their life. It is really exciting though, and now that it’s getting a little closer, I can work on more of the detail-y stuff, which I [...]