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September 2013

September 06, 2013

Fear Not

It's kind of weird how I am able to step on stage in front of...

September 02, 2013

Not Enough

It's taken me a while in life to come to realize that I can choose...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

Unanswered Prayers

We sat in silence, as the head pastor stood next to one of our churches...

August 26, 2013

To Live is Christ

After becoming a Christian, I went to therapy. Yeah… I literally went to therapy because...

August 09, 2013

Giving Up On God

I threw the towel in this summer… I quit. I had had enough of God....

July 2013

July 15, 2013

Finding Your Place

I don’t know where I belong. If we were in a support group together I...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

Hope

It's kind of crazy how life can change in a blink of an eye. An...

June 07, 2013

Surgery.

Hey guys - so I am heading into surgery today (Friday), as many of you...

June 03, 2013

Love Does.

When I was a kid I was made fun of a lot... and consistently. One...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Quitting Christianity.

I recently stumbled upon a quote from Anne Rice, who in 2010 decided to “quit...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Live.Travel. Adventure.

I've always loved to travel. My dream has been to sell all my possessions, and...

January 16, 2013

Chosen.

Full Disclosure: My mother was 19 when she gave birth to me. My dad unknown....

June 2012

June 25, 2012

Letting Go.

[Photo by Richard Gatson] It's exciting being "young" (I put that in quotations cause i'm...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

My next step forward…

Someone asked me the other day what sucks the most about being 27 and living...

May 14, 2012

Quarter Life Crisis

Some days I wake up and I'm like what the @#ck?! If someone told me...

May 07, 2012

If this isn’t it, then what is?

I recently heard, "Frustration is a spiritual gift..." In response to that, I must say,...

April 2012

April 18, 2012

Perspective

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the...

April 16, 2012

Hipster Frames and Life

So I packed up, quit ma' job, left the church, and moved cross country... But...

April 11, 2012

Haters Gonna Hate

Okay, so in the past two weeks the posts have been way too serious. So...

April 09, 2012

Leaving The Church

So it's taken me so long to respond to my first post, because I haven't...

April 02, 2012

My Story

So as you can see, I've transitioned my blog over to a new template, and...

March 2012

March 26, 2012

The Bible… Ugh…

For the past couple of weeks it’s almost as if my bible has been glaring...

March 06, 2012

In search of glasses…

So, when I went to the eye doctor the other day, and he told me...

February 2012

February 20, 2012

I’m Sorry I’m a Christian…

I'm Sorry I'm a Christian by Chris Tse Make sure to check out more of...

December 2011

December 19, 2011

Weight, Regret, and Shame.

I was driving in the car listening to some tunes, when a voice in my...

October 2011

October 17, 2011

Faith, Hope, and Love – Guest Post by Laura Lawson

[Written by Laura Lawson] We all know how the next line goes: but the greatest...