The Journey.

As I have said before (many times) and will say again, this has been the hardest school year of my life. Yeah, my short life but none the less..my life. Senior year is hard. I think I am having a hard time right now because there is so much that I expected to be happening right now that isn't. I expected to be going to ORU mid-August, expected to be friends with certain people who I am no longer close with, and just expected some relationships to still be around. Life is such an odd thing. I expected these things to be there without a doubt. Yes, I had the "maybe Jesus will change things, and I will be okay with that" mentality but I also had the "I REALLY hope He doesn't" mentality as well. And.. it looks like I got more of the first assumption. So. Much. Change. Change has been something that I have feared almost my whole life. Those who know me very well know that I have moved over 10 times in my life, lived in two states, attended almost every schoo...

Preface to this post: I am in no way shape or form a theologian that has figured out the bible, I am just a 17 year old girl that sometimes just gets smacked in the face by the Word of God and desires more than anything to understand the heart of my Father.  This morning I rolled over as my alarm clock was blaring, hit the off button and grabbed my phone as many Americans do now. I opened my bible app because I had actually woke up on time and the verse of the day was this: Galatians 5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love the neighbor as yourself." Awesome! I loved that word and felt so encouraged to begin my day so I clicked the convenient button that said "Read Whole Chapter" and what I didn't know was that I should have just put my seat belt on and prepared for a heart check from Jesus, aka "getting smacked in the face by the word of God" (this is a GREAT but TOUGH thing most times). As Galatians 5 goes on Paul begins...