Skip to main content

Extraordinarily Blessed

I have returned from retreat with a cold but am nonetheless grateful for the experience. It was such a blessing to just be able to spend time with friends in fellowship and encouragement towards one another. After the retreat I just cannot stop noticing all of the blessings that surround me. My life is so amazing and I have so many people in it that make it so. I also came back with a greater appreciation and love for my local church. I was very encouraged by a sermon that was said by Vitaliy Pelikhatyy about knowing what your calling is. Before, I was worried that I wasn't following God's will because I didn't choose nursing for my career or am not married and taking care of children. This sermon encouraged me in knowing that where God has me right now is where He wants me; and where I will end up in five or ten years is where He will want me. I also realized that I don't have to wait until I finish my Bachelor's Degree or get married to be doing something important for God- that what I am doing right now is God's work. I am so amazed by how He orchestrates everything so perfectly and takes care of His children- Our God is an awesome God. I am so grateful to Him that He placed me in the environment where He knew I would be able to grow most. 
A little about the happenings at retreat- my friends and I got to Poulsbo early so we can explore the city. There was an instant attraction to the small town and its beautiful marina. We had a delicious dinner after which we headed to the docks to capture some stellar shots. We then got ice cream and headed to our retreat destination. We had three days to enjoy there during which we kayaked, stargazed upon shooting stars and made up plenty of inside jokes. On Monday evening I had the awesome experience of riding on a ferry across the Puget Sound! It was magnanimously beauticious!! The city lights were at first just glistening on the far horizon, but became ablaze as we approached them. We had a late night snack of mouth watering clam chowder from Ivar's and said our goodbyes to our Seattle brothers and sisters. On our way home we were accompanied by heavy lightning and encouraging conversation. I loved every moment of it. 
Life after retreat has been awesome as well. I hung out with my good friend Vika Sokolova and when I got to her house, she had put together a beautiful, candle lit tea party in her backyard; surrounded by tiki torches!! It was magnificent!! On Thursday I got together with my cousin Nina to check out a coffee shop that we had long had our eyes on... and it didn't disappoint. Latte Da proved to be modestly exquisite. We decided to enjoy ourselves in the outdoor sitting area where shortly a downpour joined us- we thought we would be okay because the area was covered but we were wrong and ended up getting soaked because of the thin material hanging above us- we thus abandoned our original plan, went to my house, dried ourselves off... and went shopping instead. It turned out to be one of those 'Remember that one time when we got soaked at Latte Da' moments that we will remember always. Anyway, I won't bore you with anymore stories that are only special to me and instead will just leave you with a few pics. Enjoy and Blessings. PS. I was listening to Christmas music the whole time I was writing this blog :) I gladly await the chilling cold that is just around the corner.









Popular posts from this blog

You missed me, I'm flattered

Hello Peasants, multiples of yous have requested an updated blog post- like whyyyyyy tho? Please note the following reasons for which I have stopped blogging: IG stories now keeps all of my highlighted content from my travels I keep a journal for the deep stuff I have become more introverted and am very intentional about spending purposeful time with people that matter to me- basically all of the important people already know what's going on in my life. If you read my blog... well then, lets rethink our friendship But I'll bite, I'll provide a quick update of a few places I have traveled to and a few things I have learned about myself/God/the world/existence/life/people etc., since my last post.  Alrighty, lets dive in - I'll try to keep it brief (skip to the end to go straight to my life learnings.) March 2019- Victoria B.C. Not going to go into detail but we ate a lot of good food and saw a lot of pretty things. I made friends with a Chocolatier a

Judge Not/Love More

Last Sunday's youth sermon was truly convicting. And not just a "yeah, that was important" type of convicting, but really a "wow, I need to change my whole perspective and really hit the root issue here, truly repent and ask God to change my heart in this regard" type of convicting. The whole time I felt as though the sermon had been specially crafted for me- to really get me to analyze my own heart and realize how little I love the people that are truly my brothers and sisters. By nature I love to critique everything- I always thought it would be awesome to have a career where I get to criticize companies or stores and tell them what they are doing wrong. Unfortunately my sinful nature brings this into the way I deal with people. As I was listening to the sermon I realized that judging people was just my default setting. In my own head, to myself, I always concealed this as honest assessment or analyzing- instead of downright, sinful judging. When I would be c

Australia

Guysss, Australia was a dream! I know that this was already my third trip there, but the views just never get old and I can easily say that this was one of the best trips I've ever taken. Obviously, the best thing ever was getting to meet my chicken nugget niece Laylah for the first time. She is such a fierce little daredevil who never sits still but has the funniest facial expressions and word pronunciations- love her with all my heart. Hanging out with sweet Dedric was a treat as well, as soon as he woke up I would hear him yell "Daddy! Mommy! Auttieeeee!" from his room. Shortly after we arrived, Sabir and I left up north to stay at a pretty sweet AirBNB located in North Beach, just one block from the beach. I truly just wanna describe every beach as "the most incredible beach" but don't wanna lose credibility with my readers, but really, every beach we went to was the most incredible beach. While at North Beach, we took a day trip to crazy beautiful