They say that I'm a dreamer.....

She was a dreamer. Her head always filled with adventures and possibilities, with places to visit and jobs to try and people to meet.  While in her head she traveled the world and worked dream job after dream job while effortlessly having perfect hair (because let’s all be honest, our daydreams always include effortlessly perfect hair), she sat at a desk in a town she once loved and her heart longed for more.   

 

Oh, she loved her life. There was a boy who loved her and who she loved more than she thought she could ever outwardly express, and there was a wedding, and a new home, and a job where she liked the people she worked with and never had to wear a pant suit. There was a part of her, I think there would always be a part of her, that wanted to pack up (with future husband of course) and drive until they hit the ocean, buy the cheapest house they could find as close to the beach as possible and open a coffee shop. Or hop on a plane and cross the ocean to Ireland or Paris for a year.

 

Maybe one day they would or maybe not. I guess one can never truly know. The one thing she did know was that the world was calling to her. It was calling her to come explore it, to see its wonder, to love its people.

“Come and play”

Just Write

Just write. Write about fears and dreams. Write about feelings and moments and thoughts. Write. Chase. Remember.

 

Write about how the sun warming your skin makes you want to run and twirl and collapse in the grass to watch the clouds go by. Or how putting on your favorite sweater in comforting in a way you can’t quite explain. Write about the way your job makes you feel, or sometimes how it makes you not feel.

Write about your daydreams. Like the one where you and your love move to Ireland and work in little shops, barely getting by but having the adventure of your lives. Or how you move to a beach town and live for the beach and each other.

 

Write about Guatemala and how even after 4 years you can’t seem to get it out of your head and desperately want to go back and love on the beautiful people, while they teach you more than you could ever teach or do for them.

Write about your favorite songs and the memories they bring to mind. Write about college and the girl you were then, the things you learned and the ways you’ve seen yourself grow. Write your biggest dreams even they sound completely ridiculous. Put them out there. Don’t be afraid of them. Write about new hobbies or things you just try once. Write about the things love has taught you.

 Be bold. Be brave. Write.

Spiritual Blessings

This....just this...what joy, what hope, what love. 

Ephesians 1:4-14 

3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. 4 Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. 5 God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. 6 So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.[a] 7 He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. 8 He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.

9 God has now revealed to us his mysterious plan regarding Christ, a plan to fulfill his own good pleasure.10 And this is the plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ—everything in heaven and on earth. 11 Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God,[b]for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan.

12 God’s purpose was that we Jews who were the first to trust in Christ would bring praise and glory to God.13 And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own[c] by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago.14 The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him.