The Traveler.

  She’s beauty with a splash of quirkiness. She’s exquisite in her own skin & there once was a day when she owned the style of ‘pink hair.’

  This town has become her home, but I believe that she’s made for something bigger. Something that helps her stand firm in this world of challenges & heartbreaks & happiness & love. She’s stubborn & silly. She’s love in itself & beauty on her own. She loves the simple things in life, like naming her someday children & buying random stuff & making it unique. She gives more than she receives in this beautiful world & believes that every person deserves a second chance.

 She’s venturing out, she’s exploring new horizons & finding herself. This may be a journey of love or just an adventure for her & our Daddy in Heaven to take together. She’s saying ‘goodbye’ to this town that has been her home for twelve years & opening the next chapter in her book. Life is about to take a rollercoaster & it may be tough, but nothing is too big for God to handle. Chelsea is just along for the ride.

  God has this chapter filled with a lot of doors & windows & she has no clue what will be waiting behind them, but she’s going. She’s taking that leap of faith & trusting the One that knows her heart & her desires & her loves. –He knows the desires because He’s heard her cries & heard her joyfulness as she’s expressed through her journals throughout the years.

  The years of waiting for her life to take the road that is traveled by few, is coming upon her. Chelsea has been chosen. God called out her name & placed this in her hands & watched it all unfold before His eyes. He knew that every obstacle & every adventure that has happened in her life would all lead up to this moment. He knew it. He wrote it. She’s living it.

  Chelsea loves with a love that most people would die to have. This girl, she may have a quirky dog & a silly life, but all those beautiful things lead up to the girl that is standing before us all tonight. She doesn’t get everything right the first time, but she’s not afraid to try again & live this life abundantly. She’s a girl that sings at the top of her lungs in the car & expresses herself through her words.

  She’s not simple. She’s someone that is worth your time to listen to & hear her story. Chelsea is loveliness. She’s creating something new, everyday.

  New journeys, new places, new people, same girl. Just a new zip code.

She’s starting her next chapter in Denver, Colorado. 

Grace.

{This was written for my sister as she ventures out on the next chapter in her life.}

Girl, I love you more than you can imagine. Only 5 months. {maybe}

Loved.

"I hope that someday you let your heart be free, to love and be loved, to hurt and to heal, to dream and to remember, to believe and forgive, to make promises and to keep them."
-Grace.

Prayer.

God is the healer of broken hearts.
He's the one that mends anything back to His wonderful masterpiece.
There are times though that prayer is all we are capable of.
He holds our future in His hands, and knows the ending day.
We need to believe in the power of prayer.
We need to believe in the strong power of Our wonderful Maker of the universe.
Pray for someone in the middle of eating lunch.
Pray for someone in the middle of a food store.
Pray for someone that is struggling with something very difficult in their life.
Pray for healing in a broken family.
Pray for restoration.
Pray for strength.
Pray for the ability to say what you're truly feeling about the incredible person you have the honors of calling "Abba Father."
Pray for the homeless.
Pray for the broken.
Pray for the lost.
Pray for a friend in a difficult time.
Pray for love.
Pray for someone you don't even know by name, but God does!
Pray for this WORLD.

This may be a lot of 'prayer' for tonight, but a lot of this stuff we pass up every single day we live our lives. We forget about the homeless, the people that don't even know where their next meal is coming from. We forget about the broken....the people that are going through a hard time. We forget to think about them for a change instead of what WE want to do with our time. We forget about the hurting.

Think about them....And stop thinking about yourself for once.
Just listen for God's voice, He'll direct your path!

.Simply Grace.

Angel By Your Side.

She's fighting. She's crying. She's yearning for something better.

She's believing in miracles. She's fighting the Devil. She's not giving up on her own prayers. She's never going to give up.

This beautiful girl is broken. Even in the tears and brokenness she is finding comfort in the midst of darkness.

Days pass, and she sees herself believing in a better "dream." She sees beauty in the midst of anger, and hurt.

She sees a hurting heart and longs to heal it. This girl, she believes in the power of God. She believes this is only temporary.

Friendship and love is what this girl longs for. She needs an "Angel by her side." Someone that will be there in the tough hours, and in the "easy as making Mac and Cheese" hours. She needs that light that she can't seem to find right now.

She needs a friendly hand to grab, and feel comfort. She doesn't believe God will ever fail her. He's here for the long run, and in the midst of fighting battles, He's there with His arms open wide just waiting for you to run into them.

You may not know what tomorrow holds, but God does. He knows the ending day. He sees your hurting heart and yearns to mend it back together. He's trying.

When you cry, Our Heavenly Daddy longs to wipe those tears. He's crying right along with you, because when your heart breaks so does His.

People don't always know the right words to say, they're not suppose to know everything. Trying is the best thing. Being there, and showing your concern, that's all a broken heart needs. Love.

"Every plant goes though a bad season of their growing process, they have to go through the dirt to get to the lovely bloom of the flower."
-Nameless.

This girl is someone I hold close to my heart.
I hope she finds a "Angel by her side" soon.

Simply Grace.

In The Meadow.

In the Meadow is where I choose to be. Someday I'll sit there with you and cherish our time together. I'll look back on our time together as a journey of fun and laughter. I'll remember the hard times as a learning point, and I'll always believe in you. I choose the meadow. It's beautiful and lovely. I want to spend my days with you there in the meadow.

I love you.

This meadow will be ours. It'll be a place to run away to, and hide away from the world. It'll be ours. I haven't found this meadow yet, but I long to. I dream of it, and I believe that the day I find you, we'll find our perfect meadow. We'll leave our fears, and heartaches behind, and dream, and love. When marriage gets too tough, we'll always come back to this place and find comfort. We'll remember this place as the place we fell in-love, and it'll always be ours.

This is a place I've dreamt about for years, and longed to find. A place I always had in the back of my mind...lingering and longing to find. Never have I found it though. Walking through many woods, and trails, hoping this would be the time. And every time I had to wait a little longer. I'm still waiting, but I feel it closer, with every day passing. I believe that someday I'll have a place where I can just run away to with you. A place we can call our own, where it's away from the world, and it's just you and me.

Love, do I know who you are right now...maybe not. I long to know you though. I dream about you lovely. I pray for our relationship, and I know that the day our worlds collide into one, we'll make everything work. It's not going to be easy, and we'll be hit with challenges, but where's the adventure in the easy stuff?

Our whole life will be a adventurous journey.

But love, if we ever get off pace, and lose our way, and forget what's really important in life, promise me we'll find each other in the meadow. We'll always return there. I love you lovely.

Grace.

*this is written for the boy that will someday have my heart. Someday I'll know you.

(I wrote this on my phone sitting in "Home Goods" a couple weeks back, and just came across it again today...Yes, I get inspiration in the weirdest ways.)

Alone in a world that's so big.

I feel alone, like there is no one to turn to, so I turn to the one person I know will always listen. God. He’s here, and willing to love me.

This world is so big, so where do I fit into it all? Where is there a home for me? Life is changing just like the colors on the trees are changing. It’s becoming a new season for me, and this season is going to be a deep season of changes. A time for me to move on, and love a little more. A time for me to believe in the broken, and live in the present.

I feel broken, and lost at times, I feel alone, and I feel like the root of the problem at times. God’s love is all forgiving, but not everyone’s is.

This is a girl I know…or use to know. Someone that searched for her dreams, and fought for what she believed in. She cherished life, and held onto memories. She believed in the broken, and never let things get her down.

This is a girl that believes she’s beautiful in her own skin, and knows she’s loved in different areas of her life. She’s adored. Though this girl, she has a lot of doubts, and is not always on the same page as everyone. When she sets her mind to something it takes a lot for someone to change her opinion.

This girl wants to love. She wants to feel loved. And she wants to have a future filled with babies. She knows life doesn’t always work out as planned, or go the way she wants it to go, but it’s all in God’s plan. He knows the way to her heart, and He longs to love her. She’s searching deeply for Him.

This girl is ready to love, and believe again, she is ready to experience love first hand, and dream with all her heart. She sees the lovely world right in front of her eyes and she wants to explore it. She wants to be everything to one man someday.

This is a girl still searching for her heart, but she’s found that it’s hidden in her Heavenly Daddy. She may be alone in this world, but she will always have her one true love by her side.

Simply Grace.

Finding her way.

She’s searching to find that place she can call home. Where she can strive to be herself in this absolutely crazy life of hers. She wants to find someone that will take her as she is, who will love her even with her flaws. She wants to be accepted. She wants to find love in the deepest parts of her heart. She desires to travel this beautiful world.

She’s venturing out on a path that she’s not taking with anyone, and the people that will be there at the finish line, they’ll be her forever loves. She’s experienced her many heartaches, and found out what trusting someone feels like. She’s been challenged, and she’s found her first love again in God.

This is a crazy, authentic, beautiful, lovely, adventurous, witty, sometimes moody, and always trying to find her way kind of girl. She’s not content in being in a place for very long, she likes adventure, and road trips. She believes in love at first sight, and sees beauty in people’s love stories. This is a girl that doesn’t say, “no” to a life that’s full of adventure, and has some of the craziest dreams.

She’s fallen many times in her life, and made the wrong choices, but she knows it’s all leading up to the grand finale God has for her. She longs for a winter romance.

This girl, she’s keeping her heart guarded. She’s not letting it go so easily anymore, but she knows there will come a time when it’ll be hard to keep it hidden, because this girl…Well, she’s going to be in love someday. It’s going to be crazy, and fun, and lovely, and blissful. It’s going to be an adventure in itself.

…I’m going to find my place in this world. I’m not letting anyone stop me, because this is the journey where I’ll find myself.

There will be nights of going to my Heavenly Daddy, and asking for advice. It’s just going to be me and Him for a while. This is going to be an overwhelming, but always beautiful tale God is leading me on.

I’m ready.

Grace.