brave
its september first, which means that 2016 is officially 75% complete. and i have one question. where did the time go? eight months and one day ago, i went on a date and attended a New Year's Eve party with someone and we got to talking about resolutions. i've never been good at making (or keeping) resolutions, but every year i pick a word that i try to live by. this year Jesus picked a word for me: brave. it felt foreign at first and i didn't even like saying it. it was a word that i resisted and rejected and fought. until i knew i had to give in. i knew that 2016 had a lot in store for me, and deep down i knew that i had to be brave in the midst of it. brave in making big decisions. brave even in making small decisions. at first i thought bravery meant putting on fancy clothes and shaking hands until i got a "big girl job". i thought it meant single handedly saving the american education system. i thought it meant moving across the...