i am alive.

Can I tell you a secret?

I'd like to write a book in my life...even if I bind it with my own two hands and gift it to my children one day. I realize that sharing this with you makes it that much more likely to happen in the future, and I am okay with that.

My book might be a list of my 1001 favorte things. Or it might be about the lessons I have learned throughout my life. Or it might be for young women seeking Christ.Or it might be a jumble of random thoughts and ramblings. Or it might be about being a wife or a mother.

Or it might just be centered around seasons. Seasons of life, seasons of our spirituality, seasons of nature.

I love Spring. The air is fresh, the birds are chirping, flowers are blooming, snow is melting, trees are growing, and I always feel like there is a literal spring in my step. I feel light and refreshed. But I think what I love most about Spring is that it reminds me of new life.

2 days ago we celebrated Easter. One aspect of Christ's resurrection that always excites me is that we have risen with him! Maybe you've experienced it before:

you were blind...now you see
you were deaf...now you hear
you were lost...now you are found
you were hurt...now you are healed
your heart was hardened...now you can love
you were dead...now you are alive

It's not that you have it all together or know all the answers. It's definitely not that you are flawless or live a perfect life. It's that regardless of life's circumstances, you have hope and belief and faith in a God who is beyond our own understanding.

Nothing is stronger than Christ's love for us. Not our sin, not our struggles, not our unbelief, not even death. He is alive and when we find ourselves in Him we enter into a life that far outweights our time on Earth. I pray that throughout this Spring your heart finds great peace and satisfaction in knowing that the God who created birds and flowers and clouds and sunshine and wind and trees...this God loves you and gives you life.

Let's go live!

"For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life."
Psalm 56:13