I've recently started dating again. 

It's been an interesting road. To be honest, it's been a scary one.

To those of you who are new here, to give you some background, my dating history could be described as nothing short of a disaster. I fell in love with…

Every once in a while, instead of doing a bible study I like to just open my Bible and see where it lands. The Lord had been tugging on my heart last night so before I went to bed, I opened my bible and it opened to Daniel – more specifically, the story of Daniel […]

This healing time has been incredible. I say incredible overall which is true, but that definitely doesn’t mean that there haven’t been some really low and hard moments. My guy (s/o Jesus) and I have gone through many different seasons of healing in my life but nothing quite like this one. This one has taken a lot more time and…

He starts to get deeper into the message and all of the sudden he brings up what the Lord says about forgiving an offense that was deliberate and undeserved. He continued on to talk about the fact that forgiveness is not an emotion but a choice. That it's ok to forgive someone even though you don't feel like it.

In the midst of this, I started to feel a knot in my stomach and thought I was going to be sick. My spirit started stirring like crazy and I started fidgeting and couldn't sit still and I felt myself starting to shut down and my feelings literally sprinting to bury themselves while at the same..

Over the last several months of praying and asking the Lord whether or not I should write this, the Lord has revealed a multitude of things as well as placed me in many situations that have caused a deep fury and righteous fire to develop within me. Not only that but He has also placed many women and men in my life over the last few months who have shared their stories about what has happened to them and I no longer am able to keep silent.

My fire for this topic started a long time ago.. but what most don't know about me and what ultimately was my breaking point was that within my time in college, I was drugged and raped. Only about 7 people in my life knew this 

I can't speak for the guys on this, but as for girls, finding that partner to spend the rest of your life with is something we hope for and dream of and look forward to for majority of our lives. Even in the periods of my life where marriage seemed like the last thing I could  possibly ever want or desire, still deep down I knew that longing and that desire was there and very present.

But how do we know we're ready? How do we know if we're equipped for a relationship or if maybe the Lord is calling us to a time of singleness?