I mean all this focus on how we look on the outside. It's just all wrong

To the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.

I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely 'normal' life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more - much, much more.

I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

God planned for our lives to connect. Let's make sure we keep it that way.