life in color

This past Sunday was Easter, and I was blessed to celebrate with my dear family. As part of our preparations for the holiday, we watched Bible videos that corresponded with each day of Holy Week. On Thursday evening, we watched Christ enter into the Garden of Gethsemane. In the sweetest understatement I've ever heard, my two-year-old nephew stated, "Jesus sad." In those fateful moments, Jesus was more than just sad; He experienced pure agony as He took upon Himself the sins and the pains of the world. He truly descended below all things ; no one has ever felt as low as Christ did that day. Just a few short days later, an angel declared to Mary Magdalene that "He is risen." I love the word choice here. "Risen" implies that Christ was (1) restored back to life, (2) that He physically got up and left the tomb, and most importantly (3) that He became elevated to a higher state. Christ overcame death and sin, He received a perfect, immortal body, a...

I haven't been too successful at my goal to be a regular blogger. I have many thoughts that often make it scribbled into a small notebook in my purse or hastily added to the notes on my phone, but my thoughts rarely make it into coherent sentences posted for the internet to read. I hope to be sharing more of my thoughts with you in the next few months as summer arrives. Figuring out my summer plans has been stressful. I am (finally) in a major that I love, but boy is it competitive. It seems like every day the professors announce, "You should have five internships by the time you graduate." And every day I hear other students describing their elaborate summer plans to work in New York City or intern for a national PR firm. As everyone else's summer plans solidified, I started to worry that I wasn't doing enough, that I wasn't going to keep up with my peers, that I wouldn't graduate as a marketable employee. I started frantically looking for internships...