Unfinished Thoughts by Joanna

"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." II Corinthians 12:9 This is my life verse. As you can most likely assume from the previous post, I have a lot of self-doubts. I feel like this verse is written for me; of course, it is written for everyone, like all verses in the Bible, but I think it's a wonderful feeling to have.  When I start getting stressed out about my lengthy homework-related to do list, or when I remember that my room looks like someone played a game of Jumanji in it and I should clean it, this verse comforts me. I can see myself getting stressed and I don't like the person I become when I'm stressed. But His grace is sufficient. He is certainly enough for my tiny issues that seem inflated through teenage drama and my propensity for worrying. He is always enough! That's such a si...

I'm not going to tell you how this blog will work. I'm not good at following outlines, and my life needs a little less structure (or structured chaos, rather) right now. I'm going to start by saying: words have always been my metaphorical comfort food. Either someone (or Someone) has comforted me with words, or I have comforted myself by writing words. So as you can imagine, writing instills in me the joy of a completed project, something that I created by myself that isn't a total failure. But lately, I've felt like I am failing in every aspect of life, even though I'm really not, and how could I succeed in writing? I didn't want to tarnish something I loved to do by allowing it to go unfinished, or just poorly planned or badly written.  But today, when I was feeling frustrated about many different things, I decided that I was going to write, and I wasn't going to stop until it was done, and then I was going to change the name of this blog, hit the pu...