Welcome Friends!

Hello dear friends! 

If there’s one thing I’ve come to realize this year, it’s that I have a wonderful blessing of having friends and family from the ends of the earth and beyond, and it’s quite a challenge to keep all those communities updated in one period of time. And usually that’s ok. My generation has been spoiled by the amount of communication we are able to maintain with friends and family who don’t live nearby. But in other cases, when big events arise, it’s nice to be able to keep everyone in the loop, and so here goes my attempt to bring something like that to fruition. As some of you might have heard, I've got a big spine surgery coming up soon and so this blog is my attempt to try to keep you all updated through the process.

I find it fitting to name this blog Taste and See for two reasons. After the amount of ups and downs I had already experienced after the first 5 months of this year, I came to a very fragile point with the Lord. I knew that logically and rationally I could trust His goodness, but emotionally and spiritually I was so afraid and felt so distant from that truth. And He did a beautiful thing with my faith, but part of that was a prayer that I haven’t stopped praying which is from Ps. 34:8 which says, “Oh taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is He who takes refuge in Him!” I started fervently praying, asking the Lord, that I would be able to taste and see His goodness. This fragile and weak faith I had needed to be reminded of His steadfast love, and He has been so faithful. There’s nothing more beautiful than being so dependent on His love that you cannot help but see His works in your daily life.

And the other side of this Taste and See blog is, if anybody knows me for just a few months they will know that I have a special bond with kitchens. When I reach the kitchen, I have found my happy place, a place to think, a place to create, and a place to escape when the world’s problems just seem too big to handle. And so you should not only expect to taste and see God’s goodness in my updates but hopefully you’ll gain some tasty recipes of sorts as well and who knows what else… :)

And so I warmly welcome you to my journey this year. I hope to keep you updated as things progress with my surgery and as I begin a new life down in Durham, North Carolina as I get to start nursing school at Duke very soon! And I hope you don’t mind if I throw in some random blogs of my thoughts and meditations in between.

My latest update on surgery will soon follow…