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How to have a truly happy new year.

For the first time in years, I don’t remember my New Year’s resolution from January. Usually, I write it down in my journal or on a note I stick to my mirror. There’s been many of those dog-eared sticky notes from years past. The year of contentment. Speaking life. We passed pancakes across the breakfast table on January 1st this year. “What do you want from 2018?” I can’t remember my answer. I know what I didn’t want though. I didn’t want to walk into her office and share the parts of my life I’m inclined to hide. I didn’t want to Facetime her the day after she delivered her baby that never breathed. I didn’t want to spend four months wondering how I’d walk into her house on Christmas day and see her empty chair. I didn’t want to go on another first date that led nowhere. We sit across from each other in a little coffee shop in Colorado, picking at a charcuterie board. “When I think about all of the things I have left to go through,” her voice cracks....
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The Edges of His Ways

(Re-posting: A lot of thoughts lately that are hard to get onto a blog, so I'm putting some old ones back up here.)

I walk home from school one night and can’t take my eyes off the stars. My neck starts to hurt from looking upwards. No matter how hard I try, I can’t see the edges of the sky. 

Like how my head starts to hurt from the strain of thinking forwards, planning years in advance, thinking of career, missions, marriage, family, and everything else in between. 

When only today is real. I have today. I know today. I live today. 

Like God’s ways stretch out before me—countless, never ending. Points of light and points of darkness. I can’t begin to count. 

But that is exactly what gives me hope.

“Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, And how small a whisper we hear of Him!” Job 26:14

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