There’s something about moving to a new place that makes you crave a sense of familiarity and belonging. In May of last year, I moved into a new one-bedroom apartment (my first time living alone). Once my mom and brother left town after helping me move, all of the excitement and busyness suddenly stopped. It was just me in my little apartment, and I was hit with the unfamiliarity of living alone for the first time. I had been looking forward to this transition for a while, bu

"But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." -2 Corinthians 12:9-10 Boasting in my weakness seems to be the opposite of what I'm compelled to do these days. Maybe it’s pu