A Search for Beauty in the Imperfection
It’s been a reoccurring thought throughout my life that I could have been born in a different location, to a different family, or part of a different culture. I still don’t know why I have been allowed to live a life with minor heartaches compared to others I know.
What I do know and came to realize this week is it’s not about avoiding being a part of the problem. Rather, as a believer and follower of Christ, I should be more concerned with being a part of the solution.
Details matter. They’re important. They bring joy to certain people who notice them. I usually notice the details. But there’s also days when I’m walking along thinking about something else and then I look up (or down in this case) and notice an unexpected surprise. A few months ago, I was working through what…
This is a three part series. Read part 1 here and part 2 here. Welcome to Week Three Plus! I fell a few days behind on my reading plan, but have continued on. After week 2, I started into the New Testament. Even though it’s much smaller in volume than the Old Testament, I found…
Everything the past few weeks have told me to write. I mean EVERY THING. From books I’ve read, to posts I’ve seen on Instagram and Facebook, encouragement from a friend, and even down to emails I’ve received. So I’ve been writing a little bit almost every day. In my journal. Where it’s safe. Where my…
It’s Week 2 (read week 1 here) and I’m two days behind in the 30 Day Shred Bible reading plan, but I’m not discouraged and ready to quit like the many times before when I’ve fallen behind in a reading plan. This week’s course of action has been to read some from the app, use…
This begins week one for me of what I’m calling The Resting Season. We all have seasons we go through in life, and this is my season of having no job, focusing on a few personal things I’ve neglected after putting my all into a job I loved and at times hated the last few…
What do I think of God? Let’s just start off this second half of the year, and my first blog post of 2018 with a doozy of a question. Yeah, it’s a hard question, but I think a necessary one to ask periodically because it reveals a bit of my heart that I’ve been too…
Alayna G Wilson 