Four Fair Maidens

❤️❤️February is my favorite(because it's my birthday month)-joking. But, it definitely was a great and memorable month! So thankful for another month filled with new memories and adventures!  1. Hanging out with Vadim and Tanya in Tacoma 2. Visiting relatives  3. Celebrating Valentine's Day event at church with other couples  4. Celebrating my 22nd in Victoria, Canada with my loved ones❤️❤️

January went by way too quick! It's amazing to see how we are expecting the new year and make all these goals and resolutions and the first month just flew by!  Some of my favorites from the month was: 1.) My girls visiting me and we explored Seattle and Bellevue together.  2.) Visiting Portland and hanging out with mom and Tanya and hanging out in Bridgeport and jamming out in the car.  3.) Celebrating 6 months of marriage with Yura on January 31! Did I say time flies? Can't believe it. Really. So blessed and thankful to God for so many things in my life and for giving us this time with each other. 

It seems like January flew right past us.   I love this month because it feels like a clean page, a fresh start to life. Getting older came upon me like a thief in the night and totally took me by surprise this year!   Being busy with school, work and clinicals this term already consumed a lot of my time and energy and all I was planning to have this year was a small family dinner to celebrate.   Turns out my dear friends had other plans for me.     They took me out to Portland for the day and the idea was to “just catch up and eat cake” at Papa Haydn’s and walk around Pittock Mansion.   Little did I know that the moment I left the house, cooking and party decorations were started at full speed!    After our day of adventures, Vi hurriedly drop me off in front of my house, refused to come in and said “I have another friend I have to see tonight” and just left me.   Trying to be optimistic while hiding my disappointment, I walked thro...

Last weekend I had a great privilege to attend our church’s annual prayer retreat at the beach.   The invitation was very last minute but I was so grateful for the opportunity to go for two years in a row.   Probably the greatest part of retreat that I loved was coming once again to the understanding that prayer is the only tool we have when coming to God, asking Him to bless us with wisdom and guidance, both personally and as a church.   There is nothing I can do to make myself or the people around me better.   There is nothing I can do to better myself in ministry or make my life count with my own weak, human efforts.   Coming to God in prayer and pleading with Him to work in me and through me is the only sure guarantee I have, and I know His plans will be accomplished.   One truth that stood out to me during that time was “I will spend the most amount of my time and that which I love”.   The way I spend my time is the evidence of my love.   I ...