There’s a whole lot of things in life that I don’t understand. I don’t really get math most of the time and have recently been struggling in Spanish. I don’t understand why people get their hearts broken. Why we have to lose people we love and why dogs don’t live longer. I don’t get why I have panic attacks and anxiety at moments that I can’t control.  I can’t understand just how big the world truly is and how there’s so many people we’ll never even know. The world is full of questions that we’ll just never have answers to. I could sit here for a long time and write pages of all the things I just don’t get. The world is just complex like that. It’s so easy to get caught up in all the I don’t knows. It’s easy to question God in these moments and wonder what the heck is even going on. But I’m learning that we just simply aren’t supposed to always know. God knows and we have to trust in that.

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Change can be really tough. New situations can make me nervous and sometimes even make me feel pretty lonely. I stared college about two weeks ago and it’s already been an adventure. I was only in my dorm about  a week when we all had to evacuate for Hurricane Dorian. Feeling so thankful that it didn’t end up coming here and praying big for the Bahamas! If you know of any ways to support them let me know and I’d love to get involved!! Anyway all of that led to me being home for a week which was so great but also kind of hard. Adjusting to a life where I don’t see my family everyday is tough. While this new change is great in so many ways it doesn’t mean there aren’t times of struggle. Read More

Strong & Courageous are two words I try to live by. For me being a christian means being Strong & Courageous. It means standing up for what you believe in no matter what. It means still believing even on the hard days. It means that there will be highs and there will be lows. There will be mistakes and wrong turns. But there will also be happiness and joy and strength and courage. 
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Lately I’ve felt sort of stuck. I’m in this transitional period of life between High school and college and in some ways between childhood and slowly becoming an adult. It’s been a time of reflection and rest and honestly I can’t believe it’s July already. It’s a time that results in a lot of waiting. Waiting for the next big step while quickly trying to process the last one. Waiting to see how things will turn out and what decisions will be made. There was period of time in this part of my life when I was quite honestly annoyed at all the waiting. I thought I was ready to go. Ready for the next chapter. But Jesus has slowly showed me how much I need this waiting period. It’s given me a second to breathe. To set goals and enjoy life, one step at a time.

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Dear freshman Annie,

There are so many things I want to tell you and some things I think you’d be better off just living through yourself. To be honest, the next four years of your life won’t be the best four years of your life. But they won’t be all bad either. You’re going to grow so much. The person you’ll be four years from now will be more confident, have thicker skin, and be secure in who she is (most of the time lol.) I could tell you the hard things you’ll go through. Like the times you’ll try for something and not get, the times you’ll feel alone at lunch or lost in the hallways. The times you’ll get your heart broken and the times you’ll feel like you’re not good enough. Because the truth is these things will happen. But the good news is, you’ll survive all this and come out stronger. Because the things you tried for and didn’t get led you to right where you needed to be and exactly what you needed to realize.
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