I used to pour my heart into writing, be it poems, stories, or just day-to-day thoughts.  My writing subsided when I began to realize it lead me to over think things and under appreciate the situations my life blessed me with.  I was getting lost in the angst of what had happened and started losing sight of God in it all.  I'm coming back around.  I have a new-found hope in myself and in God, but it's been a real struggle to make my way back to him.  Isaac preached this Sunday on Missing Home and it was the one message that I didn't realize I needed until I was sitting there listening and getting convicted sentence after sentence.  I don't only love Isaac because he challenges me, I love him because he speaks truth and his truth is like a train hitting you in the face.  It helps you realize so much about yourself but also so much about God and his love.


I'm a work in progress, but I just wanted to get that out.
Also.. Romans 5:3-5.

You have to Love

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

—	Louise Erdrich (via girlwithoutwings)