fall deeper in love with life, the Lord, and the literary world of Emma Chester

Sitting across from my fiancé, complaining about my writer's block when it comes to this blog and the fact that I haven't written a post in nearly two months, he posed a very kind challenge to me: "Why do you feel like what you're writing has to be big - would it not be enough to just write a life update about all the goodness that you're experiencing?" At first, I wanted to protest, because YES! in my mind it DOES all need to be big and profound and drive people to tears, bu

Today, I heard something, that I don't think I've ever really thought of before: We come into the world looking for someone who is looking for us. Ideally, in a healthy, happy, functioning home and birth, we find this belonging in the arms of our mothers. For those of us who don't find that, we cling to the first thing that resembles found. We see this in animals (I can't be the only one following along with Punch the Monkey and his search for belonging?), and I think we se

I think there's a reason that every coming-of-age movie centers on a person in the age range of 16-24; and I can now say that being in the thick of this at 23, A LOT of life happens and rapidly changes over the course of those years. You learn to navigate independence for the first time, many people move out, relocate, and/or start jobs. Friends get engaged, and then married, and then move; family dynamics adjust and accommodate for new seasons of life. Life can feel like thi