Dear classes, I don’t miss you at all.
Dear classmates, I miss the heck out of you.
Dear hair, I’m gonna need you to be strong. I know you’re just reaching your baby tendrils back out into the world and I’m throwing chlorine and cheap gym shampoo at you all of a sudden. Stick with me, girl and don’t go back to your frizzy ways.
Dear shower, I know I work hard to make you all squeaky clean and sparkly but I haven’t even seen you all week because I shower at the gym. I know you miss me, but be happy for me. It means I won’t die in my triathlon in 3 weeks. Really, it’s not you, it’s me.
Dear God, I asked you to put joy on my heart and you have. You are a good, good dad.
Dear porch, I dream for you like a mother dreams for her child. We are leaving right now for home depot. You don’t even know what you’re in for.
Dear the 5 people who actually read my tumblr, I’m sorry it’s been so long. Imma gonna write more I swear.
Dear Saturday morning, THANK YOU.

getting this.

Two days late - not too shabby. Win! (Taken with instagram)

I never give the season of Lent enough thought. But I have landed on something I can “give up” for Lent with faith that it will indeed bring me closer to God and closer to the person He intended me to be. It’s not Starbucks. It’s not chocolate…

I’m giving up lies. 

The world tells me (and you) constant lies. Here’s some of the ones I’m not going to listen to anymore. (With oodles of God’s help). 

• I’m not good enough.
• I’m not beautiful enough.
• I’m not strong enough.
• I’m not smart enough.
• I’m not a good wife. 
• I’m not a good friend. 
• I am ugly inside and out. 
• I don’t contribute anything to my workplace, to my classes, to my community group.
• I am not worthy of this great Love I chase.

These lies are sneaky. And they don’t listen to a simple “go away”. This is going to be all out war. I’ll lose some battles. But I’ll walk away with a better picture of the person God believes I can be. 

Here we go… 

Making our own dish soap. (Taken with instagram)

That. That is so beautifully true. (Taken with instagram)

I love following this blog and especially love this post. Don’t we all feel this way? Love like this seems too good to be true. 

You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.