about

Hello there, friend. I'm honored that you have come to visit my page. I find that relationships and community are very important parts of life--we humans crave intimacy and despise the feeling of being alone. Now, I don't mean BEING alone. That I love! Gotta recharge sometimes, yuhknow? But rather, I mean that we hate feeling that we are the only ones going through something, whether difficult or not. I always have "blog" ideas in my mind, and mainly they come in the form of: this might help someone else if I share, or I wish someone could have told me this. So with that being said, even if just one post from my brain/heart to this page encourages one person, or helps someone to try something new/ think with a different perspective, then my goal has been accomplished. I pray that one person is you. YOU are valued, loved and have purpose in this crazy world. 

I decided on the name "neither toil nor spin" from one of my favorite bible verses: Luke 12: 27-31. My whole life I strived for perfection, and constantly worked under performance. I correlated whether I should be loved with how well I was doing in life, which always fell below what I hoped for. The first time I heard God loved me, was FOR me, and sent his one and only Son to die for me so that I may not perish but have eternal life [John 3:16 reference] was in my sophomore year of high school. My friend took me to church and it made me hear the gospel a little clearer. Little did I know I would fall in love with Jesus, His character, His qualities, His actions, and His pursuit of the lost. I was lost. And I can joyfully say He found me. He found me in an anxiety depressed heap on the ground starving to know what love actually is. God taught me that love is sacrificial, never ending, and unconditional. He taught me to neither toil nor spin, because I need only be still. My prayer is that you would feel this in my writing. That you need only be still. I promise to be as authentic as possible in all of the ways that I have stopped trusting God, and how I have not taken my own advice to neither toil nor spin. But I also promise to bring it back to truth and encouragement: be blessed, be loved, be still.

Love from Laura.

{rejoicing in simplicity}