You are loved.

source What would happen if I told you, "You are loved."  Would you believe me?  Would you laugh at me?  Would you try to redirect my acceptance of your flaws, transgressions, and failures?  Would you turn away and seek lesser love? Then why is it, that we treat God's love for us with the same disregard? In a moment of vulnerability that thought hit me HARD today...

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beauty for the taking

Source if there is one thing that i have just began to understand, it is that God made everything beautiful.  whoa, say what?!?  for serious though.  yeah it is easy to see the beautiful trees, feel the beautiful breeze on a sunny day, or hear the beautiful laugh of a baby, but to look in the mirror and see beauty: doubtful. and that is something that i have personally struggled...

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monday pinspiration

Happy Monday!  Hopefully by now you're feeling a little more into your routine.  Today I'm starting the worldwide 12-week BBG challenge (follow my Insta for updates)! Here are a few of my favorite pins from my weekend Pinterest binge!                 ...

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Release

It's finally the first Friday of 2017!  I wanted to hop back on the blog today to reflect on the first week of 2017, and share my goals for this next year! As of currently, I have chosen Release to be my word of the year.  I want to release tension, doubt, fear, and worry.  As I graduate, I want to release myself as an arrow...forward.  I love the reality of an arrow --...

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Small.

It's starting to get cold in Wisconsin.  Nighttime temperatures are in the low 40s Fahrenheit.  Now, you can probably imagine that when my mom asked me to take the dog out at 10:00pm, I apathetically agreed.  Sure. So I am out with the dog--the dog that didn't even want to leave her blanket to go outside.  We walk down the long sidewalk to the tree line where she usually sniffs...

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