"The best gift you can give yourself is a lifetime of adventures." Let’s go on an adventure!  Oh, how I love to get in the car and drive. I could drive around my city, through the country, or get on the highway and just go. I long for the fall weather and the changing of … Continue reading Let’s Go on an Adventure!

Quote 1: "Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you so you can become who you were meant to be in the first place." Quote 2: "It's not your job to be the most palatable version of yourself just to make someone else feel comfortable" … Continue reading This is Me!

"I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed. And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day … Continue reading How Sweet the Sound

 “For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge and condemn the world [that is, to initiate the final judgment of the world], but that the world might be saved through Him." … Continue reading To love or be loved?

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the … Continue reading Moving Forward toward Year 3

“And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.” Revelation 12:11 I have written a lot about the tension between grief and joy. There always seems to be some fence that I am straddling and constantly torn … Continue reading Volume 1 vs Volume 2

Your memories tell your story. What story do you want your storage area and mementos to tell about you? Is it a life well lived? Is it that you loved others well? Is it that you have an amazing collection of XYZ? Do you want your story to be summed up in collected items or … Continue reading A lesson from Storage Unit 1458

"When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”  “Where, O death, is your victory?    Where, O death, is your sting?” I Corinthians 15:54-55 When was the last time you read this scripture and just … Continue reading The Duality of Life.

"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.  John 15:12-13 In honor of a month where the theme is love I felt it very appropriate to share with you about the ones I love … Continue reading The Circle of Love.

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, that is why it is called the present." Eleanor Roosevelt Time is a funny thing. Sometimes it flies, sometimes it drags and sometimes it seems to completely stop. But why? Why is time like this? Just the other day I heard someone say, “I … Continue reading Time keeps on ticking…