As Times Go By

I really like Brother Lawrence.  He's been my favorite "go-to-for-encouragement" guy for a few years now as I've been learning how to devote my days to prayer and glorify God in even the most mundane tasks.  However, it has been a few months since I picked up his book of letters, "The Practice of the Presence of God."  But after today, in all of it's business and boxes of coffee and upset customers and awkward set-ups and trash runs and spills and sweat and unpreparedness etc etc., I was longing for His Presence. Today I spent two hours with a new believer and two other friends from my church and we listened to these awesome questions and discussions that came from this new believer.  It's amazing to see how much curiosity God has given us and it was such an encouraging time to dissect what the Bible tells us and to still have questions that take us deeper.  I'm very thankful for her.  Surprisingly those two hours were pure goodness to my soul ...

Welcome to my blog! This is my first blogging experience so bare with me. I've been told before that I should start a blog, but never did because I didn't really think I had anything that significant to say.  So what changed?  Nothing really.  No radical, life altering experience that gave me copious amounts of knowledge.  But, for a year now I've lived in the real world as a semi-real adult and I think I've learned a thing or two. Along with me on this journey has been my very faithful and comical cat,  Ingrid. (image to the right. The day I got her, and only a few weeks old).  She was a gift from my parents when I graduated college in May of 2012 and she is a riot.  Now I'm not one of those crazy cat people, though I do like joking that I am, but I just really love my cat. So the premise of this blog will be pictures of Ingrid and the things that she does along with my thoughts of life events So let's begin. I'm a college graduate from Shi...