you make beautiful things
Yesterday I was walking after a 4 mile run (I am training for a half marathon-who knew?) and I was thinking about how alive and energetic I felt, how I'm really excited about the path that God has me on, and how I got here. I have found a contentment, joy, peace, and happiness that seemed to evade me for years. This is a definite contrast to where I was in 2010... I am pretty sure I was experiencing what John Mayer would call a "quarter life crisis." I felt lost, afraid, uncertain, ugly, insecure, and honestly, useless. I was working an insane amount of hours, barely making over minimum wage, and I had a degree! Wasn't that nice $20,000 + piece of paper supposed to make me more marketable? I think for years I just thought I would meet the right guy (he was going to be a COG pastor, of course, or a music minister), we’d get married, and I would start popping out babies. There was no need to find any career because the church, ...