Growing Up

The girls and I have been talking about how we don't feel like grown-ups. Maybe we seem like it on the outside, but so many things about us still seem child-like in our eyes. We're trying to figure out how to make the cross over into true womanhood, and so for a small start, I thought I'd try and make my blog style a bit more mature. Hope you enjoy the new look!

Shauna Niequist

Reading is my favorite past time. I just finished a book called Cold Tangerines by the author, Shauna Niequist, and am now working on her second book, Bittersweet. Check them out if you get the chance!

Wisdom.

I love wisdom.

My younger sister, Steph, might pose the argument that I love wisdom because I always like to be ‘in the know.’ She would not be incorrect.

Surface-level, nosy-rosy, pleasure-seeking Christine hates to be the last one to hear the latest news, detests being left out of the loop, and delights in knowing information (before you) for the shear fact of knowing (before you). 

Holy Spirit-living, genuinely-loving, humbly-serving Christine desires wisdom because she has learned that wisdom brings PEACE, unveils TRUTH, calls forth Purity, is Considerate, full of MERCY, and full of good, luscious, yummy FRUIT.

I want to be the later described Christine more often than the version first described. We’re still working on it.

Living by the Spirit is easy once I give up and let the battles be fought for me. It’s the ‘giving up’ that I have the hardest time with…