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2025!!

The year of ACCOUNTABILITY: to God & to myself

Some highlights:
- fulfilled a lifelong goal of doing a pull up!! 
- started a podcast!
- ran an olympic tri!
- got a new sister!!
- spent unbelievable amounts of quality time with people I love!! 
- moved across the country!
- left behind the people I love!! 
- cried a bit!
- started grad school!!
- found more people I love!! 
- lost myself a bit! 
- cried a bit more!! 
- started gaining confidence in my process!
- made some work I’m proud of!!
- developed more of an appreciation for Baachan & my Savior!! 

Four things I’ve learned this year (and am very much still learning): 
- the only opinions about my life that matter are my own and God’s. If I’m aligned with God and straight with Him, nothing else matters. 
- it really is all about the loaves & fishes. I bring what I have—even when it’s stale bread crumbs & old stinky fish—and God will multiply and consecrate it to be what it needs. I just need to actually bring what I have. Put in the effort. Act. And He will make it enough. He’s given me the talents, the opportunities, the resources, and it’s my job to steward them wisely.
- stillness is key, especially in the mind. it’s wild how many more ideas I have, how much more I feel the spirit, how much better I’m able to show up as my best self, when I cut the mindless distractions
- engage in the wrestle. determine the things worth wrestling for. be willing to put some real time and effort into those things and ignore everything else. 

Continually learning, growing, stretching, evolving. All glory be to God. I’m excited for this coming year.
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life tip: marry someone who’s sister is a wedding photographer 🤍

utah bridals ~ private vows on the shores of nc after the wedding
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