stories untold

This was a really random decision. As I was looking through the “Posts” folder within by “Blog” folder on my laptop, I came across a few blog posts that I started but didn’t finish. My blog is my journal. Sometimes my thoughts are just an unfinished memoir and other times they are complete. I wanted to share with you some lessons that I learned but was unable to bring together as a journal entry.

Even When It Rains, He Reigns

For the past two weeks, I have been struggling to write this blog post. If I had written it two weeks ago, it would’ve been titled something along the lines of “Where are you God?”. I was going through a very hard time – “through” implying that I would eventually come out of it – and I didn’t feel like God was by my side. I felt like there was truly no way out.

The Big Man Upstairs – Defending Sanctity

The Truth About Forgiveness

Here’s my thing: When I trust somebody, I trust them completely. Once I decide that I trust someone, I trust them with my heart – my feelings. This leads me to subconsciously believing that that person is perfect and that they would never wrong me. When they do wrong me (which is likely to happen), I struggle to forgive them. I really struggle.

The truth about forgiveness is that it’s hard. Imagine putting all your trust in somebody, just to have that trust shattered into a million pieces. I mean, you can only have your trust broken so many times until you stop forgiving people, right? Nope.

I’ve Been Thinking About Relationships

The Power of Words

Before I came to college, I decided that instead of acquiring an American accent, I would acquire a British accent. I also decided that I wanted to improve my spoken French as well as my French accent. To do this, I needed a friend who had a British accent and who spoke fluent French. So, I prayed persistently for exactly that. I also proclaimed my desire to my friends and family. I prayed that my roommate would fit this description. Unfortunately, she did not (I still love her). I kept hoping and asking God to give me this friend…

Zeal for Your House

What excites you? What gets you so energized that you can’t contain yourself? What is the one thing that, if it were to be taken away from you or were to change, would upset you incredibly? What do you care about deeply?

I’ve been studying the Gospel of John (one of my favorite books in the Bible) and it has been especially eye-opening. The author writes very poetically and in a way that is so easy to comprehend. If you haven’t read it yet, I encourage you to do so. Read all the other books in the Bible too! I want to focus specifically on the time that Jesus got really angry. Yes, Jesus actually got angry!

Worst Summer Ever

My predominant emotion this summer was anger. For those of you who know me, you know that I’m not someone who gets angry very easily. In fact, up until this summer, I had only experienced true anger once before (just to give you context of how bad this summer was). My patience and my happiness were at their lowest and all I could think about was how nothing was going my way.

Maybe some stories are better left unfinished.

God truly loves you.

With love,

Mandile.