Trusting Grace

Hey there lovely, Look at you go! You’re a big ol’ senior, the pinnacle of success in the high school world! You’ve worked hard to get to this point, and you’ve grown so much on your journey, but it doesn’t stop here. You have your whole life ahead of you, another stage of life is about to begin. You’re at the beginning of the end, friends, and that shouldn’t scare you. I know, it still does though. You see, I was you a mere year ago. A senior ready to take on the world, I knew what I wanted and nothing and nobody was about to stop me. I read every buzzfeed article on college life, I toured, I researched, I planned. But nothing teaches you like experience, so here are all of the things I learned my freshman year of college. 1. Saying goodbye to your family is harder than you thought it would be. I don’t know why this is such a taboo topic in the realm of preparing teenagers for college, but for some reason no one talks about the transition until you’re holed up in your r...

I have to be one of the most inconsistent bloggers on the planet. It’s been a good minute since I last chatted with you all and for that I apologize. It’s been a whirlwind in my world, moving out of college, saying goodbye to good friends, starting to work full time, summer classes, and a social and spiritual life to boot. Ya girl had been a little busy. I did want to share this small word with you all today though.   I live in an area with a lot of roads with signs that all have a variation of the same words. “Blind drive ahead”. Now for those of you who don’t know what that means, it’s often near a hill or sharper turn to notify the driver that their turn could be coming and they won’t see it or that drivers might be coming out of that turn they cannot see. I’ve begun to notice life is kind of the same way. I switched majors in January. Now for those of you who don’t know me in real life that might not seem like a big deal to you, but I have been planning on being a lawy...