It took a few months of dating to realize our priorities were out of alignment of God’s will for our lives. Luckily we got connected to a church and gradually started making changes that more so reflected the lives we knew we were called to live.

During that time (my sophomore & junior year), I wrote a book and decided to donate half the proceeds to the local children’s hospital. I worked on designing the book/coming up with a marketing plan through the winter of my junior year and then launched the book at the end of March in 2018. I ended up raising over $8,000 for the children’s hospital.

While I was working on designing and launching the book, I really missed writing and sharing my thoughts, so I decided to start a blog. I had decided to name my book “Bound Blessings,” a name that came to me while I was about to take a nap in my college dorm room (fancy, I know). The name meant that blessings were bound in my writing as blessings were bound to happen to my readers and those kiddos at the hospital. I stuck with the name for my blog as well, and in January of 2018, I launched my first blog post on a website I created.

I was just posting these blogs on my personal Facebook page, but the second blog post I wrote got shared so many times that I was getting a countless number of Facebook friend requests. In fact, my friend request box was full, so Facebook was notifying people that they could not even request to be my friend. As a result, I started a Facebook page called “Bound Blessings” and started sharing all my blogs and writings there.