Embraceable love

    What about your family and friends you left behind, don't you miss them?      As someone who has traveled and lived in several different countries and places in these past couple years, I get asked a lot of questions, but there is one that seems to come up more often than others and that is this: don't you miss your friends and family back home? The answer is simple, yet difficult. Yes, of course I miss everyone back home, someday's all I can think about is the day that I can finally be reunited with them again. I have an amazing community/support system back home that makes leaving them difficult. I see family and friends posting things on social media about upcoming events, babies being born (my niece being one of them), friends getting married, bible studies, school starting, and the list goes on. I smile and get excited for them, then I see that event that is coming up that I would love to go to because all my closest friends will be attending, and a...

Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4      At the beginning of high school I had my future all planned out. I knew what college I wanted to attend, which career I wanted to pursue, what kind of man I wanted to marry and when, and probably even the kind of house I wanted to live in. I look back now and laugh at how different my life is now from the life I once dreamed of in my head as a child. I'm positive God was probably laughing as well as he watched me plan each step of my life, knowing already what would actually happen.    Not long after falling in love with the Lord and surrendering everything to him, I remember someone asking me what I wanted to do with my life after I completed high school and I had no answer. The plans I had once made were no longer my desires. I desired nothing more than to glorify my sweet Father whom I love more than anyone or anything else. My life is nothing like I had planned, ...