What can you feel? What can you hear? What happens when we take a moment to slow down? What is it that we will see? It’s that time of year when the air begins to warm up. It’s when you start seeing the buttercups adorning your yard and hearing the birds chirping their favorite tune. Spring is the season of […]
“I can’t believe it’s Halloween,” my friend Samantha said to me. “I know. I feel like it was just yesterday we were at the beach,” I replied. “Well, you know what they say. Time flies when you are having fun,” she laughed, even when you’re not. “That’s true.” Life has been fun. The summer had been a blast, and so […]
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ~Jeremiah 29:11 We go about every day, going to work and planning our lives out for as far ahead as we can foreshadow. We start planning since we are young. We […]
If you have a Netflix account, then you probably have scrolled past the show “13 Reasons Why.” If you have not heard about this show, it centers on the suicide of a teenage girl named Hannah Baker. Her decision to end her life is explained through a collection of cassette tapes that she leaves behind, blaming the people responsible for […]
Walking through the grass, I read the names on the stones. Some of them had flowers placed or planted all around, and many had flags. They are the same names I read every year on Memorial Day and on my brother’s birthday. The same thing I do every year. I walk through the graveyard to visit his grave; and as […]
Emily Jean 