Carolyn Shields Because it would make sense for us to fall in love, I remember thinking.

Let's talk about indulging.

Latte-for-thought: the greater your income, the greater level of happiness, but there are three variables that trump this one factor.  Take that, Tony Stark.

Emily Rogers On a mission trip to Alaska, Emily and her team knocked on strangers' doors to invite them to a bible study. Behind one, a woman was seriously contemplating suicide. Emily literally knocked, and the door was opened to her and to a life changing trip.

Someone was thinking of us. And that's a beautiful truth, and that white envelope and the contents within its belly is a beautiful proof.

This novella which put Henry James on the map, author of The Turn of the Screw, presented America with either its greatest literary flirt or holy innocent...and debates on Daisy's character still get vicious in university classrooms.

Christopher Abel, a Protestant seminarian, attempts to answer the question that plague many of us: "When should we fight for what we want? And when should we wait for God to act? " This article, published on ze awesome Relevant.com, was released in September 2013.

63 Things to Do Before You Die

I fell in love with John Green this past summer when I listened to The Fault in Our Stars as I drove back and forth from New Jersey (a 3.5 hour drive), crying behind the wheel at what I’ve dubbed, ‘The New Walk to Remember.’

Love is a mystery that transforms everything it touches into things beautiful and pleasing to God.  The love of God makes a soul free.  She is like a queen; she knows no slavish compulsion; she sets about everything with great freedom of soul, because the love which dwells in her incites her to action. 

We all do it, too. We update our friends on new names we like, we contemplate themes for our big families (are flower names...Rose, Lilly...to hippie for middle names?), we scribble new ideas on napkins so we can add it to the list, and we are all in agreement that the future hubby will just have to deal with the names we chose five years in advance.

There's something about blogs that can never replace the beautiful and romantic art of journaling. An avid journaler since I was eight, I've filled twenty-two volumes with ridiculous episodes of my life.