May 2013
1 post
The Jump.
I remember the first time I snuck out of my house.
I was 13.
When we first moved into my house,my parents wisely put me in the room right next to their’s, however, it had a window that opened to the roof over the porch. As with most things I attempted as a teenager, the distance between the porch and the roof was just enough to scare me and encourage my rebellion with equal measure. I kept...
March 2013
1 post
Compelled.
“It’s not that she doesn’t like you, its just that she thinks you try too hard to be so ‘un-churchy’, like you have to let everyone know you are so against everything. You know, you have to be the rebel and offensive or whatever” I have heard a lot of bad things said about me. I have been called every horrible name in the book. I have brushed a lot of them off since, to be fair, I did my fair...
December 2012
1 post
Christ in Christmas.
This is a hard Christmas on America.
A tragedy that seems unthinkable. People struggling to understand. How? Why? What is to be done? I found my mother, a kindergarten teacher, crying at our dinner table telling me that she would have died for her babies too. I think thats why it hurts so much, we all would have. We don’t understand the evil. The absolute non-sensical pain. Little girls get...
September 2012
1 post
Bug Catching.
One summer, I nannied the most precious boys. Max,4, and Sam, 9 months, were some of the sweetest children I have ever been in charge of.
Also, I have an admittedly weird hobby of being fascinated with the different personalities of people on this planet. A collector of glimpses of Jesus. And Max was beyond precocious.Because of this, he always had funny and insightful sayings that I...
August 2012
1 post
a letter for life.
So recently, I have been throwing myself the world’s most pathetic pity party. Seriously.
I have had one of the most unbelievable summers of my life, yet I have managed to come up with some major poor me soap boxes. I have even tried to invite other people to attend this most depressing soiree. So to pull myself out of the major Taylor Swifting happening in my head, I read a letter I wrote to...
July 2012
2 posts
A Chicken Culture.
Because of some people’s desire for Chicken sandwiches and other people’s desire for controversy, the waring cultural landscape of our nation has been on bright display. Don’t worry, this post is not really about that. Anyway, because of this a lot of my DC friends have been discussing Christianity. Most of them aren’t religious and few are outspoken atheists. All of them...
A resume.
I received the biggest compliment I have ever received. It was like everything I have ever wanted in life and it came out of one woman’s mouth.
So let me tell you a story.
I am currently in Washington DC interning for a senator. I work in the capital building. I have a badge to get me by capital police. I go to important meetings and scribble unimportant things for important people. I wear...
June 2012
2 posts
Home is Where the Wounds Are
As many college students do, I have returned home for a few weeks this summer to be with my family. It was a much needed break from the craziness of internships and LSATs.
As I lay in my childhood bed, I think about the significance of this hallowed ground. I laugh at the awful photos that remind me about the horrors of middle school fashion choices. (Why a chubby girl with braces walked out of...
Today.
Today, I study for the LSAT
Today, I worry about how my diet is going.
Today, I clean my room and wash my clothes.
Today, I live.
Today, my friend is dead. She didn’t die today. Five years ago today she took her own life. Everyday that I live, is one more day that she is dead.
Everyday that I live, I hurt for what she missed. For who she was. For who she wasn’t. For the friend that I...
May 2012
4 posts
Hell of a Nice Time.
In the spirit my current devotion to studying for the LSAT, lets do a little logic. If someone is a Christian, then they should not just accept people.
Two things are probably offensive about what I just did. The first being that I made you read formal logic.
The second is I just said loving people is about not accepting. Woah, Sarah Darden, did you skip kindergarten and every lesson on Dr....
Bubble Blindness.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am actually doing this. Guys and girls alike have suggested I do this. Even though my credentials on the subject are shockingly slim.So blame them. I, Sarah Darden, am writing a dating post. Check Revelations guys,this might be a end times sign.
Frustration. I am so very frustrated with this topic. With myself. With my friends. Or more specifically, Christians. We are...
Risk Management.
People will hurt you. Every person you love will one day hurt you. Sometimes in small ways. Sometimes in agonizing ways.
They will.
We cannot stop this from happening. Planning, Relationship Talks,Lack of Commitment, Independence, Dating Jesus, Finding Prince Charming. We can’t prevent pain.
You will be hurt.
No, this is not the post from my 15 year old broken hearted self. Taylor...
To Be or Not to Be
You have a choice. Actually, you have a myriad of choices.
No matter who you are. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
You always have a choice.
Especially, at this time in our lives. We have the best array of choices. They are life changing and inconsequential all at the same time. We choose our major. We choose which job to take. We...
April 2012
4 posts
Fare Well.
I love Goodbyes. I love leaving. Change. Moving on thrills me.
I feel like I am not in the majority of this. Most people hate losing something what they were comfortable in. Letting go of the familiar.
So we hold on. We desperately hold onto life as though we can stop time from moving past us.
But inevitably we become stagnant. Our ability to grow atrophies. This isn’t living, its...
Free.
Let me go. Please, if you can hear me, let me be free of this. I am tired, angry and broken. Take me.
Almost five years I ago, I prayed this prayer. I couldn’t find Jesus if I had tried and He seemed about as real to me as the tooth fairy.
But I was exhausted. I was done. I had seen betrayal,sexual abuse,anorexia,addictions,lies, self mutilation and abandonment. Everyone I knew was...
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the...”
7 times 70.
Forgiveness.
This is concept that I have struggled with my whole life. I have denied it. I avoided it. I have misunderstood it.
I knew that forgiving someone was biblical. Or at the most basic level, that it is the right the thing to do. Morally sound and all that.
But I couldn’t truly let it go. I held on. Tighter and tighter until I couldn’t breathe.
Even though I have loved so...
March 2012
3 posts
Know thyself
I am convinced that life doesn’t ever get easier. We just get better at living it.
We learn to love more selflessly. We can predict how we will feel about things. Find people who accept and understand us. We stand our ground.
The secret to happiness is not getting to a place in life were we can finally settle into the calm. Its being strong enough so we never have to.
How do we do...
Joy comes in the Mourning
We are obsessed with happiness. Strength. we celebrate those who can take care of themselves. The world tells you that there isn’t room for your pain. That someone is well adjusted if they can fight through adversity. Those are our true heroes.
Our automatic response is to convince everyone that we are fine. That our world is proceeding without problems. We don’t deserve to burden anyone else.
...
Friend Request
drug addict.old lady. Guatemalan orphan. prom queen. abuse victim. homosexual. pastor. frat guy.muslim. stripper. homeless teenager. ambulance driver. hippy. atheist. opera star. FCA president.soccer mom. alcoholic . special needs kid. prison inmate. teenage mom.business man.prostitute. mental patient. Pro Bmx-er. McDonald’s worker. Millionaire.lawyer.revivalist. tattoo artist. professional...
