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The Best Five Years

This is a blog dedicated to the years between fifteen and nineteen, which L. M. Montgomery describes as, "The best five years of a girl's life."

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- June 15, 2018

This is my kitten, Moses. She is named after the children's story by James Herriott.

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Encountering Confession Through St. Augustine

- April 12, 2021

"May I know you, who know me... This is my hope, and that is why I speak. In this hope I am placing my delight when my delight is in what it ought to be ( Confessions , Book X, i(1))" - St. Augustine I have questions, yet I do not know who to ask, how to ask, or what answers could suffice to solve my questions. So, I shall write them here and give them to God. It is to God that I give all the people, things, and worries in my life. God, yours is the glory, and your will be done in my life and with the people I love. Give me the steadiness that I lack in my thoughts and my day-to-day life and fill my restless soul with your peace. Help me to listen to the words of others more mature than I, and grant that I might be able to emulate their good behavior and in so doing grow my own character. I wish to be like you, abiding in you, and loving you with all my being. I know that their perception of my life from their perspective will offer me light and understanding. Let this guide...

The Precipice

- July 23, 2017

Now isn't this unfortunate folks, I am writing my second post, and already I cannot decide on a quote to use. Being this the case, I suppose I must, ahem, enlarge my list. Doing this will, of course, not help me in the long run, but it still sounds like a good idea. Here this goes. (Way too much later) Nope. I just cannot decide on a quote. Well, I'll just jump right into it. Okay. This week(Monday through Friday) I was at Youth Camp. It was an amazing experience, and it was just what I needed right before the kids arrived. I felt that I was in the eye of the storm, the moment of peace before the hurricane. I did not have an easy year last year, and I am not expecting an easy one with the kids coming so soon. This time in between that I could devote undividedly to God was just really special. Right now Grandma is here, and we are doing *fun stuff* like weeding and preparing everything for the kids. I say this with sarcasm, but it must be allowed that it is not all bad and it...