Name change...?

Not entirely sure if I'm going to stick with this forever or if this is just a seasonal change, but I have changed the title of this blog from 'Pirate Bones' to 'Open Hands'.


God has placed Psalm 62:5 on my heart during this time. This verse says,


Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him.


God is teaching me how to open up my hands. Whether I'm opening them from holding on to good things like dreams, aspirations, desires for missionary work, or my major. I have to open my hands. Then there's the things I need to let go of because they are dragging me down; social media, my world view, relationships, and fears.


This verse reminds me that everything I have, everything I am, and everything I want needs to wait quietly before God and let him have control. He is in control. He is sovereign. He is good. And he knows exactly what he is doing.

If I give it all to you, will you make it all new?

If I open up my hands, will you fill them again?

There are so many things I want to do, so many places I want to go, and so many lessons I want to learn. I have to stop, breathe, let it all go, and look to my Savior as he unfolds the journey in his own way.

Lauren Dubinsky of the Good Women Project once said in a post, "We forget what he has done when we do not intentionally sit at his feet in our mess."

Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him.