My heart beat faster and my hands shook as I listened to her slowly repeat the words I was speaking. Her innocence, sincerity, and enthusiasm touched my heart and I had to fight tears as I listened. My new friend, Candy, kneeled next to me on my bedroom floor, eyes closed, hands folded, desperately asking [...]
After a few hours at a wholesale market, ruthlessly bargaining for a bigger version of Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree, Duke and I needed a little relaxation. So we had four friends come over to help us make our little apartment festive. Amity, Siela, Chelsea and Emily have all had a really deep connection between them [...]
When Team Sharkbait does something, our motto seems to be “Go Big, or Go Home.” So … with all of our ambition and great ideas, we decided to give our friends a true taste of Thanksgiving. That included a real Thanksgiving meal, complete with mashed potatoes and apple pie. It was such a success! We [...]
I personally think that pizza is a staple food of the parties the Angels have in Heaven when a new person comes into the family. It has to be true, because pizza tastes so much better when you’re in the company of friends and you’re talking about God. Especially when one of those friends is [...]
Seventeen pieces of paper. Seventeen names. Seventeen girls, once strangers, now friends. All seventeen of these pieces of paper lay in a jumbled heap on Duke’s bed. One by one we sifted through them, lifting each name to the Lord. We specifically asked Him to bring breakthrough in the lives of our friends and in [...]
“Hit him again!!” That’s the cheer I hear from God as I find myself standing in a spiritual boxing ring. I have a few bruises and a pretty nice black eye but I’m still standing, swinging with everything I’ve got. My enemy, who thought he was so cool when we first stepped into this K-town [...]
Somewhere far far away lives a beautiful girl named Winter. Winter has big brown eyes, a love of Jane Austen, shopping and dresses, but bigger than her love for Pride and Prejudice is the love of a “magic book”. Let me go back and explain. I met Winter by chance. She was the friend of [...]
My heart raced in my chest and my legs burned as I peddled with everything in me to beat the crazy mix of cars, buses, bicycles and pedestrians that were all converging on the tiny intersection I suddenly found myself in. In all my years I have never faced an adrenaline rush like riding my [...]
I fought tears of pure exhaustation as I walked to my apartment in the rain. The last week had been a rollercoaster of ups and downs and I definitely was ready to get off. The week was jammed full of new foods, “think walking” on our campuses, and lugging all of our luggage up the [...]
“Let's shout out loud from the rooftops, we won't be quiet, we've fallen for You hard and we can't stop, we won't deny it.” These are the words running through my ear phones as I sit in a plane, thousands of feet above the surface of the country that is to be my home for [...]
