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The Artist’s Showcase: Christ in Us, a beautiful glimpse into Eternity
How does God use art to display Christ in us? Eternity? That’s what God put on my heart recently. Photography is something I just love. It’s exciting to play with light and angles, to experiment, create scenes, or to capture candid photos at the right moment– to capture a moment in time and preserve it. And when someone orders a print from me, it’s almost as if I’m gifting someone a piece of history; I’m giving someone a still frame of their life. We recently had an amazing pottery demonstration at my church. Before everything began, I was sitting in…
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To the adventurer: what my anxiety taught me about faith
I’ve always loved adventure. Where others see obstacles, I see opportunity– sometimes, to a fault. See: local 18-year-old girl comes near-death during a long-boarding accident. But suffering from anxiety made me feel stuck. Nothing helped. That is, until I found freedom in faith. Anyway, as a young child, I was the one who would convince the other kids to take the mysterious trail home, or to walk the “long way back” for sight-seeing or in hopes of finding a wounded animal to nurse back to health. I created Survivor games in my backyard where my sister and I would play…
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Turning 27: A message on love, faith and perseverance
I’m 27 and only now understanding what real faith and perseverance actually looks like. If you feel lost, I wrote this for you; if you’ve recently had a birthday, I wrote this for you. I rang in my 27th year here on Earth stuffing my face with my father’s famous baked ziti and a sweetly layered bucket of trifle that my mother and niece made. Layers of chocolate cake, pudding, cool whip, and candy. Dessert heaven. Prior to this, each of my early-to-mid twenties birthday parties were charged with massively loud crowds of people, alcohol, and illegal fireworks. The type…
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I Wrote this for you: to Women living alone in quarantine
Last night I went for a long walk through my neighborhood, down to the seawall and back. It was the first time I’d taken a walk by myself since the beginning of the Coronavirus quarantine. As a woman living alone in such an uncertain time, I’m finding new ways each day to become a better version of myself. The sun started to set as I popped my earphones in and set out, unusually carefree about what time it would start getting dark. It’s getting harder to know exactly what day it is. I think we’re somewhat conditioned to track time…