sparkly, shiny, and new

New time of life = time for a new blog. 

Coming to college I killed my xanga and started a my blogger, Prisciselyi, and yet again it is time for a new location for my thoughts. Coming to college, I was ready to leave my small town and find myself )hence the name for my old blog). It was about discovering who I was, in the moment, in the new place with new experiences. 

I'm not going to say that I've completely figured it out, but I am no longer striving to know myself better in the same way as I was then. I'm ready to chronicle something different. 

So is born "ano auxano". 

God has placed me in Philadelphia this year for a reason. Despite my struggles with the decision to stay originally, I am excited to see the work of His hands. It's taken a lot to get me to this place, both in God's patience, my prayers and other's prayers, and now I can say that I can't wait to meet with the Lord this year. I am ready. BRING IT ON. I know it may be hard at times, but this Joy I have is indescribable. I'm so content with this relationship with my Lord. I feel like a little girl in love and who is waiting in expectancy for even more moments where I can sit and find Joy. 

So this blog is my year ("ano" in Portuguese) of growth ("auxano" in Greek). May I always remember this feeling I have right now even when times get tough and when struggles come, may I find joy in the midst of it all. 

2 Peter 1: 5-10

 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, ⁶to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, ⁷ to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. ⁸ For if these things are yours and abound, youwill be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. ¹⁰ Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; ¹¹ for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.