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I feel like journaling is one of those things that you see on pinterest and it looks super aesthetic so you go try it and it just ends badly. Or you try to take up journaling as a new years resolution and you do it for like three days and then never again. On my sixteenth birthday I decided that I was going to try to journal everyday of being 16, that's a full year people! We're talking a full three hundred and sixty five days here! Honestly don't know what got in to me because it was way more of a commitment than I thought, but I was determined to tackle my goal. I set an alarm to go off every night at 10:15pm for me to sit down and journal before I went to bed. The idea was to use the alarm start the habit in my brain to journal everyday because, it takes roughly 30 days before something even becomes a habit. Let me speak from experience and say that it worked and that alarm is still set to this day, two years later. So every night I sat down on the floor in the middle of...

As a pastor's kid people ask me all the time "Hallee, what is your favorite Bible verse?" Often times I don't even know what to say. I literally have a running list of bible verses in my phone that just speak to me when I read them. Most of the time though I just spit out the first one that comes to mind because it's probably one I love anyways. My list of my favorite bible verses is what I go to throughout the day when I need a pick me up or just when I need some reassurance. Reading my Bible is my escape from reality. I can open my bible and totally distance myself from whatever is going on in my life at the time and, I feel so much better to tackle life afterward. Reading your bible is so important and one of my personal favorite ways to connect with God. My relationship with God is super important to me and what gets me through life every day. Without my relationship with God I don't think I would be where I'm at now and in the state of contempt and ha...

Freshman College Orientation, that one thing that's been marked on your calendar for months now. Some people look forward to it, others not so much. College orientation just goes to show you that this whole college thing is actually happening and in just a few short months. Reality check- High School really is over. Orientation brings may emotions excitement, scared, and overwhelming all at the same time. You want to learn about your university but may not know anyone there or where anything is. Here is my freshman college orientation experience and some tips and tricks to help you with your college orientation!  My Experience: If I'm being totally honest I was one of those people who didn't want to go to orientation at all. I would have been totally fine with just showing up on move-in day. I really had no choice considering all incoming freshman are required to go but I worked up the courage to go anyway. My orientation was over a two day period so we had to room with s...

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