And there it goes again. That terrible dreaded question I have heard time and time again. Every holiday. Every gathering. Even when I babysat the girls from my church. Don't they know the answer by now? Couldn't they have guessed? And yet, they continue the question: what are your plans after you graduate? After my first and second year of university I could have told you exactly what I was going to do. And everyone told me, “Oh you have plenty of time.” But after my third year, I was at a total loss as to any direction I should go. The nice sentiment of having so much time dissolved into a slowly rising panic of a lack of direction. But let's back it up a bit. As a total fangirl of Matthew

Imagine it… you’ve just landed on the ground after skydiving for the first time. Before you jumped, you felt all the feels: fear, excitement, joy, and confusion all at the same time. But eventually, you worked up your courage, took a deep breath and jumped. Your mind screams at you to stay put, to stay safe, but you did it anyway because why not? You're on the ground now, exhilarated, tired and feeling overwhelmed by emotion. You feel frozen in place. On the one hand, you feel marvelous: wow, I jumped out of an airplane at 50,000 feet and I didn't die! Im invincible! I feel so courageous and unstoppable I can conquer the world!!! On the other hand a wave of fear and self-anger rushes over yo

Sometimes life is a lot simpler than you’d think. Really, we build up walls in our lives that create mazes, and get stressed out when we find all these dead ends which are the result of our own limitations. One way that I boxed myself into a maze was thinking that God could only use the equipped and capable to do His work, but thankfully those walls have been broken down and I’m living proof that the opposite is true. At a young age I was determined that I would be a missionary when I grew up, although my idea of what a missionary was at the time was a little different. I thought I’d go off to some third world country where religion is banned and sneak in rosaries and food; I thought that it