About Me

 Hey, guys! As you've probably figured out by now, my name is Kirby, and this is my speck. I'm a high school student who is really just striving to learn how to love God, love others, and love myself. My friends and family would describe me as someone who is compassionate, loyal, and insightful. I manage to keep myself pretty busy throughout the year with chorus, drama, piano, church youth group activities, and student council. As nerdy as it sounds, I absolutely love school and love nothing more than the smell of new books. I'm totally enamored with choral music and showtunes and have never heard 99.9% of the most popular songs on the radio. Some days I feel like I'm way too nice, and other days I feel like I'm not nearly nice enough. I have so many things that I'm passionate about, and sometimes I find it kind of hard to stay balanced! (It doesn't help that I try to convince myself that I'm a superhuman who can actually do 46382 things at once.) But at the end of the day, my biggest passion is for making a positive impact on the people around me, and I hope that this blog will be a reflection of that.

In my writing, I always aim to go beyond personal inhibitions in an effort to break down the barriers that divide humanity. The love of God has completely crumbled all of the walls of my heart, which fills me with a joy that I cannot describe. Through my trials and failures, I have learned so much about what it means to be a part of this world, and what it means to strive for something greater. I am utterly overwhelmed by what God's grace has done in my life, and as I gain knowledge and wisdom, my prayer is that through this blog I will be able to somehow express the inexpressible.  

Over the past couple of years, one of the most important things I have learned is that I am not perfect, and I am not indestructible. I am not a saint who has it all together. I am flawed. I am broken. This used to frighten me, and I used to think it made me less worthy in the eyes of God. But, from my place of weakness, my life has been transformed by 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, a passage that has blessed me with an incredible hope:

"But He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weakness, in hardships, in insults, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."


When we don't have the strength to take another step, God's grace washes over our inequities, and His perfect power is made complete. So we don't have to just drag our feet or meander aimlessly along the beaten path. We can sprint wholeheartedly along the path He has marked out for us as new creatures, fully weak, yet fully strong.

I look forward to sharing my victories, my defeats, and my muses with all of you. I pray that God will bless you and keep you, that His face will shine upon you, that He will be gracious to you, and that He will turn His face towards you. I hope that you will learn to rejoice in your weaknesses as they are covered by the perfect power of God.

~ Kirby

* If you have any questions, concerns, or struggles, feel free to contact me at kelizabeth407@gmail.com. I love hearing people's stories, and I love knowing how I can help people in their journeys. I'd love to hear about what you're going through or about what God is doing in your life!