What A Year

In true Filled With Grace fashion, I am a day late. As of yesterday, I have had this blog for a full year! For some strange reason, people stick around to read my rants on a day to day basis and for that -- I am so grateful.

I started this blog simply to serve as a creative outlet. Some time ago, I had the epiphany of the fact that I am not the only teen going through this. I am not the only one with struggles and questions. I am not the only one wandering around looking for my place in life. There are thousands of other kids, teenagers, adults even, struggling with the same things I am.

Joy has been something I have been focusing on for the past few years and let me tell you, this blog and the people who I have come in contact with because of simply writing has brought me more joy than anything. There is not really any way to describe the feeling of someone telling you that your work helped them. The idea that my rants thrown onto my own website altered somebody's path or way of life is truly daunting. I am so, so, SO blessed to have had the opportunity to have created something like this.

So really I am here to thank you. Thank you first of all for even reading this. Thank you for the emails, phone calls, texts, and comments filled with love and joy about my work. Thank you for the coffee dates where we got to simply talk about the insurmountable love of Jesus. Thank you to those who took the time to proofread my work or let me interview them. Thank you to those who pushed me to do what I love and tolerated my crazy, compulsive attitude along the way. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I love each and every one of you dearly.

Here's to many more years of crazy, all over the place rants and nearly never on time studies of the Bible.

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