Redhead born, redhead bred, and when I die, I'll be a redhead dead.

Lord, You are a true Healer. Your love is beyond compare, and I cannot help but tell the world about it. I have nothing but delight when I think of how close You've been throughout this time, and I pray that I never turn from Your will and leave Your presence again. You are the Lord of my life, You know best, and I know not everlasting and steadfast love except that which You have shown me.

Lord, You created me exactly as You intended me to be. Thank You for Your wonderful design, even though at times I will confess I suppress it and try and change the daughter that You designed. Because of Your grace and majesty though, I am complete, forgiven, and overwhelmed by love and beauty.

LEC

I love to run, slowly and in sunshine, often without music, because the world is beautiful.

I think taking walks with special somebodies and holding hands is ridiculously adorable.

I love 90s country, Elvis Presley and Patsy Cline, Fall Out Boy and Akon, and all things indie.

I fold shirts like a normal person, in half.

I think the perfect day involves a delicious breakfast of banana-chocolate-chip pancakes, followed by a run, a scalding shower, chai tea and Jane Austen in a window seat.

I like hydrangeas, daffodils, and peach roses.

I love ponies, especially really really big ones that like Peeps and look gorgeous in hunter tack.

I enjoy singing at the top of my lungs, but only when the radio is turned alllll the way up.

I love babies, but I'd prefer if possible to birth potty-trained two-year-olds, and boys only please.

I am both incredibly naive and wary of others at the same time.

I dance in the street, badly.

I live in boots, cowboy, heeled, equestrian (which I have yet to get a pair of), etc.

I think guys in trucks with humongous lifts are downright sexy...But not if it's a Dodge.

I enjoy being a woman, and I like cooking and cleaning and wearing aprons and doing laundry.

I love the beach, but am terrified of water.

I wish I could tan, and sometimes I try, but I don't like the idea of melanoma, so it's a battle.

I think history is crazy interesting.

I am currently enamored with chai tea lattes, as I have given up my precious Diet Mtn. Dew (for now).

I like feeling short, and I secretly wish I were a few inches shorter.

I like guys that play drums, though guitar is nice too.

I hate irresponsibility in people, and dishonesty, and unreliability.

I dislike those qualities the most when I see them in myself.

I have a hard time saying no, but I'm working on it.

I want to move West, to Dallas or Nashville specifically, after graduation.

My dream house is an old white farmhouse with a huge porch, porch swing included, and a never-ending summer. There will be a barn in the backyard, which should be filled with puppies and horses. The driveway would be lined with trees, magnolias to be exact, and in the driveway will be a muddy Suburban for adventuring. Everything will be likely be partially askew at all times, but this home will be bursting with overflowing love, for each other and for Christ.

I considered dying my hair brown this week, to see if it would seep through to my roots and maybe soothe my feisty-ness.

Then I decided that I'm done not being who I'm supposed to be. I am the woman that God designed. I will never be perfectly put-together, I will forever be without a sense of rhythm, and I will always be striving to love the Lord more.