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Prayer

  I just finished reading Fervent by Priscilla Shirer, and if this book does not invigorate change in the way you pray after you are done, you need to read it again. This book challenged me to think about the way I pray at times. There were places in this book that made me cry and realize that I am human and it’s ok I’m normal. I am so grateful for the amount of encouragement this book gave to me. Prayer has always been a hard thing for me; I always feel like I am not doing it right or saying the right thing. I used to look at people that said I can hear God or I felt Him and roll my eyes because I honestly felt like it wasn’t a real thing. I can now without a doubt say that those people are right and He does speak to us you just have to be ready and willing to listen to Him. “Prayer is how we isolate the real problems. And prayer is how we get up behind those problems and attack them at the roots. It’s how we…

Shattered

It started when I was 14 years old. I was seeking attention and approval from boys, for them to be the ones who made me feel like I was enough. When I was in junior high and even into high school I was not the prettiest one, or the most popular; I had plenty of friends like that, but it was not me. I can remember trying to buy short skirts, coloring my hair because maybe if I was blonde they would be more into me, and trying to like things I wasn’t necessarily into just to fit in. I smiled, laughed and I was friends with a variety of people, but the internal turmoil that I dealt with all through these years was so hard. Truth be told all these years later I can remember struggling so hard to just be wanted to be prettier, to be skinner, and it’s so painful to think about. “We will never be enough for this world because that’s not what God created us for”- Grace Valentine- Am I Enough I was 17 years old when I fell in love for the first time, and…