collections of stories
I pulled back my covers and climbed into my bed. Usually I am falling asleep to the sound of Gilmore Girls repeating on Netflix but tonight I was just laying there. Exhausted. Tired. Weary. In silence. In the silence I felt anxious. I felt like I was being swallowed. I felt like everything was foggy, [...]
Everything. I met KT during a conference the first year I began working for the local church. I met her because we were stuck in a van together, our van was definitely the best, in May of 2013. When we got home, I asked her if she would mentor me and she graciously [...]
It’s my favorite season. It’s fall. It reminds me of warmth, of cozy clothes, pumpkin everything, golds, browns, and oranges with hints of white, and of getting to use our amazingly cute fireplace. It is my favorite place in our very old, creaky, and amazingly beautiful house downtown. Part of my favorite season is driving [...]
Roughly a year ago, I was handed two separate cards with birthdays similar to mine and a box checked under the "Interested In" section... "Putting my faith in Christ." I called both numbers, put names to faces on a Sunday morning, and the next thing I knew I was driving to a Starbucks where we sat [...]
My stomach flips. It doesn't last long but for a moment I'm nervous...I feel the weightiness, the potential, the meaning, the moment. And it feels different even though the thoughts display the same... I could say something wrong, I could point someone in the opposite direction, I could miss my chance, I could mess up. [...]
Three years ago I started this little thing that has turned into one of my greatest passions, joys and challenges. Before this little blog was born there were other blogs, attempts, and journals filled with my dreams of being a writer. Something beautiful was born out of it, something that set my heart of fire and [...]
One of the most amazing blessings in my life has been meeting these two and growing and learning with them from different cities, in summers away, and in short trips together. I love our group text, it's also titled "SQUAD" which is so fitting, because it's laced with prayer requests, our broken pieces, our victories, [...]
"Don't...unless you're desperate..." "That will make you look desperate..." "What if they think I'm desperate?..." What if they do think you are desperate? Why does that matter? Looking, feeling, acting desperate isn't something that we exactly strive for. It harbors in the realm of weakness and serves as the co-author of shame...yet, there is a [...]
In July of 2015, I was working for a summer camp in Panama City Beach, Florida. Before every night session at camp we would meet in the green room for a production meeting and a devotional. The devotional that night was out of Psalm 51… Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew [...]
I am so thankful for the friends that are more than patient with me. My best friend still picks up the phone even though she is 99.5% sure of the conversation we are going to have. She knows that I keep running around in circles, that I know what I need to do but that [...]
The Celeste Elizabeth 