So then continued the train of thought: What’s the point of desiring something if it’s never going to happen?

Spoiler alert: it happened…

The cliché response to all of this would be that Heaven is our true home, and until we get there, we are simply pilgrims on a journey towards that Home. But that answer doesn’t necessarily satisfy the inner turmoil that all of this has created. As far as my earthly life is concerned, where do I belong?…

The culmination of reading the content of these emails, finishing classes, and marking the one-month milestone since we left campus allowed the reality to finally sink in: as of April 25, 2020, I am no longer a student of the University of Mary…

The Lord was asking me, as He asks all of us, to give Him my heart and everything entangled in it—my hopes, dreams, desires, wounds, failures, sufferings—all of it…

Ite ad Ioseph! Vai a Giuseppe! Go to Joseph!…

Dear Class of 2020…

When I originally titled my blog “Fearless Adventuring,” I desired to live life fearlessly and share the adventures with all of you, the readers. I would say that I was pretty successful in doing so. Did I live life completely fearlessly? No. But did I let the darkness of fear overcome me? No…

Who is Maggie, and how can I be her, no matter where I am or who I’m with? …

As I was reflecting on my own inability to name things I would want for Christmas, I recognized that, what I truly wanted, no one could purchase, gift-wrap, and then give to me. What I want for Christmas is…

It's so easy to be constantly looking ahead to the next thing. I get it. I graduate college in less than six months, and I spend more time thinking about the future (career-wise and vocation-wise) than I care to admit. I’m afraid we’ve created a space that makes it easy for someone to dispose of their current vocation because it’s seen as an obstacle in the way of the next step of their lives. But how do we fall in love with, rather than resent, our current state of life?…