Shattered Silence

When Words Fail To Speak.     Hey there.    Sorry I haven't posted a lot recently.    If I'm being honest, I'm going through some stuff, but as a writer, writing heals, and for that I am thankful.     Yet, despite what I am going through, I believe that God is with me even when I don’t sense His presence.      Being real with you, the past few months have been very rough on me.    I can’t feel the Holy Spirit, am very confused about life and circumstances, and it seems that the more I pray, read Scripture, and soak in the Word, the worse and more depressed I feel.    However, if I have learned anything while my time in college the past few years, it would be that true faith is found in these moments. The moments where we can’t feel anything or know for certain.      But faith is not a feeling, and, therefore, my belief in God is not contingent on the circumstances that do or don’t happen to me.    Regardless of if I am having a good or bad day, or have all

My beautiful best friend on her wedding day! What my best friend getting married taught me about love: Since the fifth grade, my best friend and I have been inseparable at the hip and that was now thirteen years ago. Meeting at a kid’s camp that our school made us attend, I wouldn’t call it a coincidence that out of a hundred kids, her and I were randomly chosen to stay in the private cabin with a few other girls because the main lodge didn’t have enough room to host all of us. Simply sleeping on the bunkbed above her, I didn’t know at that moment that two small girls, bright-eyed and bushy tailed in their excitement, would grow to become like sisters over the years, but God knew what we needed and blessed us with each other. From that moment on, it is crazy for me to try and reflect on our most prized memories because so many exist. But of the most remarkable, I remember that our friendship was not always easy. Though it started with Quiz Bowl matches, peewee basketball ever