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"I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out."

Luke 19:40

Welcome to my new blog! I don't know how many people will actually read this. I don't know if anyone will. In spite of that, I know it's important that I write this down. By "this" I mean the journey that I've been taking in my life. I haven't done anything spectacular. I haven't achieved anything worth an Oscar or Nobel Peace Prize. But what has happened to me recently is something that I wish everyone could experience and I hope that by chronicling recent events (and hopefully even more to come in the future) I can share this gift with others to help them experience it as well.

First, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I'm 24 years old and I've been married to my husband Patrick for almost 2 years. I have grown up and lived in Florida all my life and I intend to stay here forever. Anywhere north of the Florida/Georgia line is just too cold for me J I went to The Florida State University for undergrad and recently graduated with my J.D. from Stetson University College of Law.

Not only did I grow up in Florida, but I also grew up in the church, attending private school until 11^th grade and always attending church with my family. Despite that long background in the church, it has only been recently that God has really revealed himself to me in a way that I will attempt to describe through this blog. I don't know why I am just experiencing this now … I think it's because this is the first time in my life that I let him in.

And that's why I'm writing this blog. When I look back on the past 4 or 5 years of my life I see the way that, as I became more and more open to God, he began to order my steps on a path that is far more awesome (or, awesomer?) than I could have ever wanted for myself. The manner in which my life has unfolded is nothing short of supernatural because there is just no way that I would be where I am if someone had not been orchestrating all of the "coincidences" for me starting years before I even asked him to.

So that's it. I'm writing this blog because I want to share with others the journey that I have been on that has led me to this amazing life I lead. A journey that became increasingly more successful as I opened my heart and mind up to allow God to come in and do his thing. I'm writing it all down because once I experienced God's presence in my life in such an amazingly real way, I knew I had to share it. If only one person ever reads this and uses it in some way to come closer to that real breath-of-life, day-to-day, BFF relationship with God, well then it's worth the effort for me.

Coming up: Why I consider myself an overachiever and why we, as a people, have special challenges when it comes to accepting God's grace.