And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. Ezekiel 36:26a NLT For the last couple of years, I’ve chosen my #OneWord365 to pray through and meditate on throughout the new season. Past words include SIMPLE and REVEAL. And beyond a shadow of a doubt, these words have shaped me into who I am moving into 2019. A few weeks back, my sweet friend Continue Reading
A Christmas Note From Me to You
You guys, how is it already Christmas? Is it just me or does time pass faster the older we get? It seems like it was just January, and I was sending you guys out a New Year’s note and telling you how I was gonna write more in 2018. *face palm* And here it is Christmas and I barely wrote anything this year! I have a lengthy list of post ideas flying around in my head (and in Continue Reading
Traversing Through Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
Oh my goodness you guys! I recently spent the most incredible week between Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. If you follow me on social media, you got a small taste of my trip through photos and stories. But SO many of you reached out with questions, I thought I would share in more depth about my week. For those of you around for a while, you may remember a few Continue Reading
Traveling Down the Sunflower Trail
Oh my goodness you guys! If you haven’t hopped over to the Dixie/Belcher/Gilliam area of northwest Louisiana, please get there as fast as you can! Every June, millions of sunflowers spring up along Louisiana Highway 3049, transforming a stretch of country road into a magical Sunflower Trail. It really is a sight to see, dotted with plantation houses, old churches, quaint Continue Reading
Why I Keep Going Back to Guatemala
Has the Lord ever called you to do something CRAZY? Like get on a plane to a foreign country with a group of strangers, not knowing what you’ll do or where you’ll stay once your feet hit the ground?! For this Type A, hyper-planning, uber-structured gal, this was a massive risk, and massively uncomfortable. And I did this very thing, early in 2013. After reading Wrecked by Continue Reading
So, What Exactly IS The World Domination Summit?
Back in 2014, when I was hit with the epiphany that life is short, I should soak in EVERY minute and decided it was time to plan my life, another divine opportunity was placed in my path. My sweet friend, Dawn, who I met on my first trip to Guatemala, ended up with an extra ticket to this “World Domination Summit” and asked me if I wanted to go. She said she really didn’t Continue Reading
Don’t Cry Over Spilt Milk (or Lost Luggage): An EPIC Delayed Bag Tale
If you travel frequently by air, chances are you own an experience with delayed or lost luggage. Honestly, I’ve had it happen more times than I care to recount. But back in November 2014, I had the EPIC lost luggage experience. It was one of those trips where I was leaving Corpus Christi for OVER 2 weeks, with stops in multiple cities along the way before finally making it Continue Reading
Finding God in First World Problems
It’s sort of a joke all over social media… When things don’t go as planned or Murphy’s Law takes over resulting in minor inconveniences, we hashtag pictures, tweets, and posts with #FirstWorldProbs. #FirstWorldProbs make light of our American plights (no outlet to charge our cell phone, a water boil (Corpus Christi knows ALL about this), a Starbucks drink not made to Continue Reading
4 Reasons I LOVED Traveling With My Parents
If you picked up a copy of Living Forward and read the exemplar life plan by ‘Rachel’ (aka me), you discovered one of the specific commitments under my family account is to be more intentional about spending time/traveling with my parents. To kick off the fulfilling of that commitment, I just wrapped up a super fun week of adventure doing JUST that! We started out in Vegas, Continue Reading