Ellie Reed

this week began the season of lent! I love lent.  But not because I am good at giving things up.  In fact giving things up is really difficult for me.  This summer a friend told me I should give up my calendar.  That did not happen. Every year for lent, instead of giving something up, I take something on.  After all the point of lent is not to abstain from chocolate or coffee for 40 days, but to turn our focus on Jesus. This year I am reading more and more. Every morning, I get out of bed.  Turn on my computer, make a cup of coffee and read through the devotional provided by She Reads Truth. Before bed, I read through the Gospels and I pray. It would be wonderful to say that I do this anyways, but life has gotten the best of me lately, and lent is the perfect season to realign with what is important. Rob Bell talks about the season of Advent this way, "Advent confronts this corrosion of the heart with the insistence that God has not abandone...

it's late and I should be sleeping, but instead I have decided to get this baby up and running welcome to the blog! In a few months I will be serving at Washington Family Ranch for the summer, and I thought this would be a good place to keep everybody up to date. Let me start my introducing myself my name is Ellie, but my mom calls me Ellie Reed I love Jesus I love a good vanilla latte I love the ocean I love the ZAGS I love wearing shoes I don't have to tie I love my job I love grilled cheese sandwiches I love knitting I love Tom Hanks movies that is all.