Puppies and Puns

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opened and closed doors

writing love letters to "strangers" might not be so "strange" after all

love is something i believe very strongly in. i hope we can all say the same. but to me, like loving other people is one of my favorite things to do. i say this not to brag, because there have been plenty of times i have loved wrong or even loved too much. but there is an organization called more love letters. they write love letters for “strangers”. i put strangers in quotes because we can all…

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for when surviving seems like the hardest thing you'll do that day today was not my best day. i went to bed around 1:30 and i just felt It coming on.

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i'm turning 20, and i think i'll make it as i'm sitting here gazing at God's beauty that is milligan college campus, i have writer's block.

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please stay alive so september is national suicide prevention month, as some of you may know. i'm just going to put this out there that this blog post isn't going to be a light and fluffy one.

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i miss my pop and i wrote about that when i was thinking about what to write for this week, i had lots of ideas. i keep a running tab of things i want to write about.

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i give relationship advice even though no one really asked so i need to preface this article by saying this post has nothing to do with my past relationship.

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control and surrender

God did some serious work in my heart this past week

this feels kind of cheesy and christianese, but God really put this on my heart and i really felt the need to share it. do with it what you please. this is also me trying to post weekly again. it is almost monday, so we’ll say that i’ll post this monday and hopefully post again by next monday. i know i said that i would do weekly posts last year and more or less so failed, but here i am trying…

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yeah i have blue hair

trying to figure out what it means to love having blue hair

so we’re back with another blog post. it has been awhile, again. i am sorry (kind of), again. this has been a crazy busy summer. many jobs + an internship + summer classes + (somewhat of) a social life will do that to you. but this summer has been a summer of identity. i’ve been trying to figure out what it means to be erin donovan. you see, in 9th grade i felt a call to ministry. i wanted to…

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challenging my whole life

challenging my whole life- how i'm ready to finally start being disciplined

mountain has just started a new series called #everybodymatters, emphasis on every Body matters. (i started this post a little bit ago, so this series has been going on for a few weeks now.) it is a series about how the Bible talks about our health. they are also doing the whole health challenge alongside it, and i am so excited. i am a firm believer that physical health plays into mental and…

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we lost a sweet, sweet girl and this is for her today is the day. it’s easter! all day you’ve been on my mind. all i keep thinking of is how last easter is the day we really connected.

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just call me john green

2 posts in 1 week! this one is part one a kind of embarrassing story i tried to write. hoorah!

so i’m trying something different this week. for two reasons. the first is that i woke up with a line in my head and i want to try to write a story with it. the second is that i started a writing/creative instagram this week and tried to hide but somehow it got connected to my facebook ?? so people found me. i deleted all my posts when i realized that this had happened, but last night got some…

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to rest is to trust

to rest is to trust

yes i know. it has been a hot minute since my last blog post. but i can explain. i took spring break as a sabbath, completely. i only did the spanish homework that was due, and nothing else. i rested, i slept, and i took that time as a sabbath because i needed it. that took up two weeks. and then last week, i had so many things on my plate that i knew it was better to do those necessary things…

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new york city changes lives

new york city changes lives

last week the group of interns here went on a trip to new york city that completely blew me away and so i thought i would share my experience with you. not a super heavy or deep topic as usual(i wanted to say per but no backspace coming at us strong!!!) so the reason we went up to new york city was for church planting! the couple that took us were so super rad, heather and alex! heather’s sister…

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alone time with God

alone time with God

this week in my leadership class, we were given an hour to take time and just spend it with God. i didn’t write down this prayer with the intention of sharing it, I am actually quite nervous to post this, but last time God pushed me to be vulnerable on the internet he moved in big ways so i’m standing here again, trusting him and his process. “God, right now i am sitting in room 21 at mountain…

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things are a changin'

my life is changing before my eyes

blog post number two, here we come! so, more people read the last one than i had anticipated. weird. i even got some comments on my social media when i shared my article there. even weirder. when i saw that people were reading what i was writing, i had the reflex to not write another blog post. let people forget what i had said and start writing without people reading again. but why am i hiding?…

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i don't know if i'm going to love this or regret this

i'm starting a new thing and decided to put it on the internet

i am writing this to tell you that I have set a goal in mind of putting out weekly blog posts. i know this is a daunting task, especially when my one from two weeks ago was the first one I had written in about maybe six months? it had been a hot minute for sure (sorry Josh) (he hates when i say hot minute). but i was reminded of my love for just writing. not poetry, not a paper, not a sermon,…

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New blog post about that is happening today Today is January 20th, 2017. Today I am four years clean of self harm. Today is also the day Donald Trump becomes our president for the next four years.