The Bubbly blogger

"When I am willing to explore my deepest disappointments I might be surprised to find my deepest desires lingering just beyond. Knowing Christ may only be possible when we come face to face with our deepest desire and are willing to walk through our deepest disappointment." p. 176 of Simply Tuesday So I am 3/4 of the way done with this book that I thought would be a struggle to read because its about slowing down and taking time to sit on a bench. In my head I am thinking " I will try to read this book but will probably quit halfway through because I don't need to slow down. I mean I am unemployed for gosh sake. All I have been doing with my time is slowing down." Then I get halfway through the book in the chapter " Success and Envy" It is all about accepting the importance of our right now work. She tells the story of  lifeguards at a nearby indoor pool by her house. They each are assigned an 8 ft space that they keep watch over. They are not wor...

Happy Sunday!! If you are in Minnesota you are probably loving this weather as much as I am! Its sunny and breezy and 74 degrees here. Yesterday I took a road trip with my roommate, Alexi, and we visited people in Eau Claire. I hung out with my sister Abbey. We went to a Farmers Market, coffee shop, brunch and dinner at an Irish Pub. It was a great day!!!! As I was driving I was talking to Alexi about our platforms. I believe a platform is any topic or season you can relate to because you are in it or are apart of it. God has given you that platform for a reason so He can use you to help others with it. Your platform can change during your life. My platform right now is unemployment/ job searching. If you have ever been in a time where you didn't have a job, didn't know what you wanted to do with your life, wanted to know where God wanted you to go then I can relate you. I had long term subs last year which were temporary jobs until the teacher came back. I can also re...

I love her voice, her story and this song. Take a listen "We are not born to fall and lose the fight... We were born to follow the light that never fails. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRsfm2jZY80 Here is her story 

Dear Millennials, You are going to be okay. You are going to do great things with His power. Its okay to not have your life figured out in your twenty's. You might switch jobs often or more than you thought you would. You might still be figuring out the passions and gifts that God placed in you. You are going to big dreams and want to do great things. You might still live with your parents in your twenty's. You might have to take a job you hate just so you can pay the bills. There will be times you will question what you are doing with your life and  maybe even the degree you got in college.  Should you have majored in something else?   Leaving college will be hard. You will crave community with other young adults. You will want relationships with both genders. You might have questions about your relationship status. You thought you would be married after college or at least meet "the one" It might be a struggle to find a church with other people your age that are...

Hey All- I got back two weeks ago from Chicago. We went on a vacation for four days and it was wonderful. Enjoy the pics

This post  is going to be filled with a bunch of random thoughts that I feel the Spirit has brought to my mind in the past couple of weeks. God is good all the time and all the time he is good. Hmm... seems simple but hard to remember, God is good even when I don't get that job, marry someone, get the right house, get accepted into that grad school, go on that trip etc. Following that train of thought, if I get my dream job, house, life etc then I am only following God based on conditions that I put on Him. I need to remember that He is worthy to be followed no matter what happens in life. Our identity is not in our dream job, dream life. I must find my identity in Christ and him alone > the lesson I am currently learning God is love and he is all I need from this day forward and all eternity. .> just heard this in a song by Owl City and Britt Nicole called You are not alone. This phrase stuck with me. Because I like to end with quotes, one of favorite bands G...

"One of the most challenging characteristic's  of God is his patience." Pastor Peter Kaspner of Open Door This is something my pastor talked about this morning. He started by explaining how we notice God's timing the most when there is injustice in the world.  We will wonder when is God going to intervene? Then throughout the sermon he talked about the reason for his patience is so that not one of us will perish as said in 2nd Peter 3:9 " The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise,  as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient  with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." As I am sitting here thinking about the sermon I see the way God has been patient in my own life. I would be lying if I said that his patience didn't frustrate at times especially in this season of waiting for a classroom that I can call my own. But then I realize how if God wasn't patient with me I would have a really shallow relationsh...