Hello Readers, Something that I've been really interested in for a while now is psychology. And with my love of psychology comes my love of personality tests (no, not the Buzzfeed ones). One of the most popular ones, or the "gateway personality test" as I like to call it, is the Meyer's Briggs (I'm an [...]
Category: Theology of a Teen
the scars i chose for myself – a poem
Hello Readers, Today I wanted to share a freeform poem I wrote based off of a person I met at church. I always enjoy hearing people's stories, and this person had an interesting tattoo to go with their story. It was one of those things that are just begging to be written. the scars i [...]
Heroes & The Hard Things
Hello Readers, My heroes have been many different people over the years. Men and women, fictional and real, famous or unknown, these people have inspired me. They have made me try harder, reach further, dig my feet in when the world tries to pull me off the edge. I want to surpass my heroes. I [...]
I’m Not Enough and That’s A Good Thing
Hello Readers, Something I've been thinking about lately is a personal battle of mine. I'm sure that many of you feel this struggle I'm about to describe, but even if you don't, it still can be applicable. I'm good at borrowing guilt, or "borrowing depravity". I will feel guilty about things I have never done [...]
A Poem Made Of Hymns and Worship Songs
Hello Readers, The words fail to come to my fingers, my friends. They swirl in my head but don't look right on paper. Like a misspelled word or a painting turned sideways. I want to write a poem, but I do not have the words to one. I can not write because what I have [...]
The Sea’s Calling
Hello Readers! I'm sorry for the long hiatus, and I wish I had a good reason for it. I simply couldn't think of what to write. I don't know how to write what I am feeling because I do not understand it completely myself. And if you can't understand it, how do you explain [...]
The Reality of Failing Expectations
Hello Readers, I have been struggling a lot lately with thinking that I have failed people. Struggling with the fact that I can not always live up to people's expectations of me. And it's hard, it really is, to not be all that someone thinks you are. To not be able to reach that high [...]
The Question That Plagues Us
Hello Readers, There are some very important questions we ask ourselves in life, and one that penetrates almost every season of our life is only three words. Who am I? Am I a hero? Am I brave? Am I strong? Am I courageous? Do I have what it takes? Who am I? Am I a [...]
Weeping For A Foundation
Hello Readers, Recently in my Bible, I have been reading in 1&2 Kings, and then 1&2 Chronicles. Now, after much reading about kings and their deeds and the lineage, I have reached Ezra. This morning, I got down from my bunk bed, bleary eyed and cold, as I went to go make breakfast and coffee [...]
Why I Want To Hear More "Boring" Testimonies
Hey Readers, You've all heard the classic redemption stories, the ones that make your heart burn and your soul go "Thank God for saving them. Thank God." We hear the stories about people who have been saved from drugs, immorality, prison, and all of these awful, awful things. But they've come back, and they're living [...]