So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night!

With in the next week, I have very dear friends venturing into new parts of their life.
Sara is starting seminary at McAfee School of Theology. She departs for the great city of Atlanta on Monday, August 4th. I am so excited for her, and I am even more excited for the ways that God has provided every detail of her transition. Not a single thing happened on her timing, but all things developed on time and more perfect than we could have ever imagined. Praise Him! I am going to miss Sara sooooo much! She was one of the first people that God brought into my new Nashville life to make the transition easier. The small group that she leads has brought more blesses into my life than she could ever know. Thank you, Sara! I am going to miss you like Meredith misses McDreamy!


Laura, my ever bubbly angel, is leaving not long after to attend New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Funny story about me and Laura, we knew each other for like two months before we really knew each other. But one evening at Preschool Praise, Laura looked at me and said, "We need to be friends." And then you usually didn't see one without the other. I'm kinda mad at her cause she became one of my best friends knowing that she would be leaving me in August. What kinda friend does that? I guess one that knows we are going to Greece next summer!!! I am so very excited for her new adventures, sometimes envious, but extremely happy for her all the same. Laura, you better call me!

While I am saying goodbye to two very important people, I will also say hello once again to two more that I love. I am ecstatic that my sister, Ashton, is coming to stay with me. We haven't had this much time to hang out with each other since summer breaks when neither of us had cars. Nashville isn't going to know what to do with the two of us! This should be very interesting. Ashton, if you act up too much Carla may come to visit. You've been warned.
Steven will be coming back to Nashville to finish up his senior year of college at MTSU. That boy is going to be busy. I'm not too sure when he is ever going to have time to sleep. He will be taking a full coarse load, filming projects, and working. Like me, Steven loves a challenge. I will be glad to have him back although I may never see him. LOL. Either way, my life is better with you in it.

Nothing ever stays the same. But that is fine with me. How boring would life be if you could count on the same thing everyday? I'm glad I won't find out.

...And she lived Happily Ever After.

So Erin, why Ever After for your title? Well, let's get the obvious things out of the way first.

1.I'm a girl.

2.Most girls love fairy tales, especially those that end well.

3.Every girl wants a fairy tale ending weather they will admit it or not.

So, I was thinking about these things above and how many jaded and bitter females now despise the thought of a "fairy tale" or the females who are so blinded by a false hope in what they think should be their "fairy tale." I don't want to be either of these girls.

Originally, I was girl "B" who had the false hope. In high school I imagined college as a free to do what I want type of life where I could become anything I wanted to be. It sounds soooooo cheesy and over used, I know, but I was that girl. In college I dreamed of being successful in whatever job my "print media" degree got me and living out the "independent big girl " life. Well, surprisingly it happened. Not like I thought it would, but it happened. And I'm here to testify, it's boring. So I could continue dreaming or......

I realized that if I continued to wait for tomorrow and a possible Happily Ever After, it would never come, at least not the way I imagined it. I have the makings for a fabulous Ever After, but how boring would it be if all I got was one big "prince on a stallion ride into the sunset" and that was it. That would be what I had saved up my whole life waiting for? Sorry, that's not for me. I have all the intentions of waiting for "my man," but my Ever After is going to involve so much more. 

My Ever After is now. I am a young adult that is apart of one of the most ambitious generations. I desire to live a life that is filled with more than a cooperate job, a comfy apartment, and a pew to warm every Sunday. I want a daily adventure, opportunities to travel, and a ministry that pushes me beyond all of my comfort zones. Look up Ephesian 3:20-21. I have no reason to settle.

Which is one reason I am writing my blog. To remind myself that settling for a mundane life at 23 is ridiculous. And my God is bigger than that.