The one where I graduate

Six weeks. That’s it. 138 weeks of college down, 102 of those weeks in College Station, and only 6 weeks to go. Every time I start to think about graduation I shut it down with “it’s not time for that yet Regan, you still have a month or so to go” – but it keeps […]

To Jesus, my very best friend at the table

I’m sitting at the head of my kitchen table, in the same chair that has been my go-to for the past two and a half years. Since August 2015, this very spot has been where I’ve gravitated to. It’s where I’ve sat to eat my Chipotle and Chick-Fil-A, to do my homework, to spend one-on-one […]

I am set free

I am set free for freedom. I am set free for grace and joy and wonder. I am set free for forgiveness and placing all of my failures into Jesus’ outstretched hands and then dancing away. I am set free for deep friendships and Christ-centered conversation and aimless drives and meals and coffee and sprawling out on […]

The richness of love vs. the cheap idol of attention

We need to acknowledge how deeply our desire for attention affects our lives. It encourages pride to rear its ugly head. It claws at the insecurities that we have buried when that desire doesn’t get its full. Which, actually, it will never get its full. No amount of attention will ever feel like enough. It shows […]

“In the beginning, God created”

I want my life to mirror God’s first and greatest act: creation. It was the act that every other move He made hinged upon. I want everything I do to be strung together in one beautiful & musical & smooth & obedient act of art that reflects King Jesus in its every facet. “In the […]

A life set apart by freedom

I am constantly putting expectations on myself. Expectations in the forms of both limitations and pressure. I tell myself “I can’t do this” or “I have to do this”, and I’m not sure where I got the idea that I know what is best for me at all times, because that is, quite honestly, purely […]

My mission trip to the Netherlands

I began writing this blog post on my last day in Utrecht, a city in the Netherlands that I became accustomed to and really began to love and understand. I lived on mission there for 4 weeks this summer with a team of 12 total people that I had never met before, and we spent that month living in […]

Week 1 in Utrecht: Lessons in unexpected places

I’ve been in the Netherlands for 5 days and my world has been rocked. I thought that I had no expectations of what my time here would be like, but my first foot in the door of the hostel disproved that. I certainly wasn’t expecting squeezing 7 girls into a space half the size of […]

We were made to be lovers bold in broken places

We were made to be lovers bold in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and again until we’re called home. -If You Feel Too Much by Jamie Tworkowski Focus on those words. Since reading them almost exactly a month ago, I’ve been trying to focus on those words every day. To remind myself that I […]

The heart behind the solitude & the relationship

Lately, God has been calling to me and telling me to write. He whispers in my ear that this is important. That what I have to say is effective. He pours through my car speakers that He can use me. He confronts me when I’m shampooing in the shower and says I am telling you to write. Jesus reminds […]