The Bubbly blogger

I love going to Corner coffee on Saturdays with my roommate. Just sitting and talking and being in atmosphere and with live music made it a great start to a morning. I love when my best friend texts me that we should meet up because she is coming to the cities for 24 hours so we do and get fro yo which besides coffee is my favorite thing in the world. I love the invention of Skype and being able to chat with my friend about my trip to Japan. I love packing for vacations. Sunday was just as great as Saturday minus the fact its the last day before returning to work :( I love seeing the genuine emption my pastor has when he preaches especially when its about choosing to walk through the wilderness, fasting on something so I can feast on something else. He challenged us with the question of how is my soul? Then he offered us space to sit and reflect on it. I love that God connected it to my discover group that meets on Monday night and the book we are studying is about our sou...

I have been thinking about how songs are linked to different memories we have throughout our life.  Just like when I see a photo and I remember what was happening, when I hear a song I like to remember who I was with and where we were. I decided to make a list of the songs I can remember off the top of my head with the memories that are associated with them. 1. Lets get sappy song out of the way now ;, Butterfly kisses on my mom's Wow worship cd. My parents used to play this song for me before bed. 2. Basketbal l: This song is in the Like Mike movie, that I would watch A lot with my sisters and brother. I would rewind that part over and over just so I could try to learn the dance the cheerleaders would do. There is an embarrassing fact for you. 3.  Shake it off by Taylor Swift: This song brings me back to being in my aunt's basement over Christmas, & my cousin Augie was visiting from Iowa. Apparently that was his favorite song at the time so w...

If you read the title and started to break out in song... then YAY I did my job. I get emails from one of my favorite authors every Wednesday. Her blog is called Coffee for the heart and her name is Holley Gerth. Every Wednesday God uses her to speak directly to my heart. She shared her an excerpt from new book set to release in October and the first line caught my eye. Yesterday I had a tough day at work and sometimes it feels like I am not cut out to do my job well.  I was feeling like life was beating me up and I was SOO ready to throw in the towel. Then I read the first line of her excerpt and it was like God ignited a fire in my soul. It doesn't mean my job or circumstance changed but the change in attitude helped me see that I can finish this race or in my case my job that God has set before me. I went through a similar experience in 2014 when I taught in North Minneapolis. I saw how God built in me perseverance and brought me through the flame when I thought I would...

So this past season God has taken me on a journey that I never expected. Keep in mind I am still in the midst of it but man it has been hard. I think my current struggle is being a people pleaser. I will ask my sisters how my outfit looks, I will text four different people to see if they like what I am buying and I will hold back my opinion for fear of what others think. I discount my feelings and look to other people to dictate how I feel. It is unhealthy. This is a struggle I didn't know how to break. It wasn't until I was talking with a good friend of mine that we both realized that we struggle with people pleasing. Talk about seeing God's grace in this friend. The more we talked I saw how God had brought some tough decisions in our lives that we needed to make and the outcome would break of us of our people pleasing. One of the decisions I had to make was choosing not to go on a second date with someone. It was a very difficult decision. Being a girl I...