Eyes Wide Open

Click here to see my full coming out video. I never thought I would be writing this type of blog post and yet, here I am. The video above speaks a lot for itself and I hope you take the time to watch it. (I also said I would be posting this on my birthday next week, but I felt moved to post it earlier.) I am tired of living behind a fake version of me. The one who is "straight" and is only attracted to men. I've known myself to be bisexual for quite sometime now. But I hid it from everyone and dated men publicly in an attempt to prove to myself that I wasn't different. It was only in the past year that I began to accept myself for who I am. I came out to my husband at the beginning of the month and have officially come out to y family in the past week. So, yes. I am bisexual. And I am Christian. And I am loved by a God who created me from His image. I know a lot of people won't see it that way and will argue with me. I'm sure people will be cur...

Hi there. It's been a while, huh? Sorry for the months of silence. I've been struggling a lot mentally and spiritually. I felt like I wasn't at a place to write anything to you guys because I was so confused. I felt like I wasn't going to give you my best, so I took a little time off. I can't say that I've fully come back to the place I was when I started this blog again. And I probably won't be there for a while, but I do feel like I am at a place where I can start writing again. So, I wanted to share a little about what I did today. Since I was in middle school, I have struggled with my self image. Like most teen girls, I wanted to be skinny and pretty and cool and popular. And I never felt as such. When I was a preteen I started a bad habit of picking at my skin. Whether it be a pimple, a scratch, a bug bite, etc. I would scratch and itch and pick until it bled. In a way, this was my coping mechanism. It was how I displayed self harm without picking up ...

Oh goodness, every week I am caught off guard by God's words to me. And let me tell you, this week was no different. To be honest, in the past weeks and months, I have struggled to hear God's voice in my life. I've always found peace and comfort when I pray and worship. And I've felt those same things in church on Sundays and at small group on Tuesdays. But I never heard God speaking to me. It had actually been a while since He had personally spoken to me and I found myself praying more and more in hopes to hear His voice. Here's the thing: my life is busy. I work a full time job that even takes time from me when I'm supposed to be off. Don't get me wrong, I love my job and I wouldn't trade it for anything at the moment. I am just constantly responding to emails and calls and working on posts for our social media accounts. And when I'm not doing that, I'm at home trying to get my life together there. I'm taking care of my dog, spending ti...

Hi friends. Sorry it's been a while. Things have gotten pretty buys around here and I haven't had time to sit and write. One of those things included taking a trip to Pennsylvania to take about 20 dogs to a rescue up there! I went with my sister-in-law and we had tons of fun. We left Friday afternoon, got there Saturday morning and then drove back and were home Sunday at midnight. It was a very tiresome trip, but fun nonetheless. Check out the video below to see highlights! So, work has obviously been very busy and so has life. But, I won't dwell on that. In fact, I'd love to sit here and talk to you all about grace. Specifically, God's grace for us. A little over a week ago, I was at my small group and we've been discussing Peter and how we can relate to him in our lives. It's already been really eye opening and I'm loving every minute of it. I've even found myself reading more about Peter outside of the Bible and learning about who he was ...

It's me. Ya girl. I'm back to blogging, but decided to revamp my blog a bit. Don't worry, though. If you want to look back at my posts on my old blog, I'll be keeping a link for it in the sidebar. I'll probably delete it later on once I add more posts to this one. I like to look back and see how far I've come and I'll be updating some of the more important posts on this blog. So let's start with some updates: I got married in October 2018. That's right, ya girl who posted all the time about being single and break up drama is now happily married. I started a new job. My last post on the old blog talked about how stressed I was about my job at Chick-fil-a and how frustrated I was that I hadn't found a job in my field of study. Well, ya girl went and found one! I began working for the Lee County Humane Society in April of last year as an animal caretaker and I recently was promoted to Programs Assistant last month! This means I ma...