My hands move so fast I don’t even realize what they are doing- building ice castles that melt into puddles, scavenging for materials to hide the shame, enslaving themselves to endless work. The idealistic outcomes and lies drive me forward, a little girl chasing the wind like a fool. I escape under the covers, hoping …
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“True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His promises.” -Francis Chan I am a firm believer that everyone should always be growing in something; for me, it’s my faith. While I also try to be intentional about growing in other areas, my faith is by far the …
Teary-eyed Goodbyes/ Addii con le lacrime agli occhi (italiano sotto) Although I will always want to be back in Bologna, where time moves as slow as your pace of step during a passeggiata, but also so quickly that 5.5 months came and went with a blink of an eye- it was time for me to …
Living as Light I just wanted to update y’all with how I’m doing and share one thing I’m learning. Since the University of Bologna has 100,000 students, I’m absolutely burdened when I go to class and know that because <1% of Bologna is evangelical Christian, the chance that any of my peers here have heard …
The Rainbow Trail in Florence This past weekend I had the most fantastic day and Firenze is now my favorite city in the world! Some American friends and I originally wanted to go because the annual Chocolate Festival is happening throughout February. So, Friday we made the decision to go and on Saturday morning I …
I love New Years- it’s something about the glitter, the date changing from one year to the next, and being surrounded by people I love. On the eve of January 1, 2014, I was in Washington, DC at a Campus Outreach Conference that brought together ~750 college students from all over the East coast. We …
When I was studying abroad in Italy, so many friends and family members constantly checked in on me. Inevitably, their top question was always, “How’s your Italian?!” I would think of my social interactions with my roommates and say, “Yes, in fact I did talk to them about 7th Heaven” (they absolutely loved 7th Heaven, …
