It's okay.

Well hello beautiful people! Long time, no talk. If I'm being completely honest right now, I have been lacking motivation and inspiration recently but today, I decided that I would journey back to this sweet place.

It has been a little bit over a month since I started my sophomore year of college and so far... things have been less than easy. This year (so far) has been trans-formative. Last year, was my growing/adapting year and this year is my transforming year. God has been teaching me so much about who I am in Him, who I am to others and who I am to myself. Particularly in finding my security and identity in other things like school, friends, family and dreams.

I love to give advice and I love to talk, but in the last month, I feel as if I have been called to listen. To be quiet and to listen. To listen to God and what he has for me. To listen to friends and to support them silently but surely. To be that shoulder that they could lean on to cry and to not be told that it's OK, because a lot of times, it isn't.

And if I'm being honest, I'm tired but I won't give up. As long as I seek the Lord in all that I do and all that I say, the best kind of rest and the most perfect peace can be found in Him. What a comfort that is to me! What comfort we can find in Him.

Life is hard. This I absolutely know to be true. Whether it be supporting a friend in a time of need or being there for a sister who is adapting to college or studying really hard and not always succeeding or losing a loved one. No trial, big or small, comes into your life without passing through the hands of the Lord. He never gives us more than we can carry and anything is possible through Him. What a perfect promise we have in Him.

If you've read this far, you rock. If you skimmed, you rock too. I'm going to leave you with this one final sentiment before I return to writing my political science paper.

It's okay.

It's okay to be sad or lost or wondering or lonely. It's okay to feel that way. It's okay because we have been saved through the blood of our perfect and beautiful Jesus. And that alone, makes everything more than okay.

Kristen