Two Thousand & Nineteen

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I promise this blog won’t turn into a smathering of engagement and baby announcement photos, but two of my closest pals, Jimmy & Chandler, were in need of Christmas card pictures this year! They’re having their first little one in March before making the move to Dallas. They are cute and I am totally biased, but I’m also correct.
I am absolutely in love with Lauren Daigle’s new album, Look Up Child. I watched this video when her single “You Say” released and I felt immediate relief. She’s been able to put my current life season into the words I haven’t been able to say.
“Steady the course, steady the course.”
xo,
A
A few days back I traveled to New York City with my college pal, Courtney. We stomped all over Manhattan (about 200,000 stomping steps to be exact). We saw Waitress on Broadway, the nation’s favorite T. Rex at the Museum of Natural History, and the hauntingly beautiful 9/11 memorial. We ate Shanghai street food and cornflake chocolate chip cookies from Milk. Everyday around 3pm, we would buy a singular taco from a recommended spot and rate it on varying scales of flavor, toppings, and texture. We (almost) mastered the public transit system. We visited Hillsong Church for explosive worship just before heading back home. I encountered God in ways I didn’t know I would while visiting America’s favorite city. The extravagant love He gives, even to the ones with dirt on their face, a cup of coins in their shaky and dry hands, was overwhelming at times! The privileged, proud parts of myself couldn’t believe He loves even them. But He does. There is no “me” and “them” in the kingdom of heaven. It moved me in all the ways I didn’t know I needed, and I loved every second.
I can’t get over Tori Kelly’s new album, Hiding Place. It is absolutely beautiful and makes me feel at home in the eternal sort of way!
This one features Jonathan McReynolds and is all my R&B/Christian dreams coming true.
What happens when absolutely nothing goes how you thought it would go? What happens when you actually find more joy and peace in the midst of it?
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