hello world, hello new year

it's been 174 days since i last wrote something on here. that is almost half a year.
however, now, by popular demand (i wish) - i am back!

i thought this new year presented the perfect opportunity to revive this little virtual space of mine.

i am currently without a laptop which makes this undertaking a bit harder but my aim is to at least once a week post a little something and enlighten the world with my oh-so-brilliant thoughts.

i hope you all had a good start into the new year?! i spend the last day of 2014 going to the theatre together with my family which was such a great way to end the last and greet the new year.

today - the first day of 2015 i read most of the day. one of my 'new years resolutions' is to read every day. this year i don't want to set myself some unrealistic goals but try to find ways to include the things i love more into my everyday life.



as i haven't posted much in the last six months i thought i'd share three hightlights slash important events of the last year.

#1: graduating from university. i loved my time at uni and it was amazing to celebrate education and the hard work of the last three years.

#2: starting work for the church. for an introvert like me it has its difficulties to work with, for and around people but i am learning so much and am able to see how god is at work in his church and in me.

#3: falling in love with my best friend.

i hope you all are well and 2015 is filled with joy and love, cake and good wine, good friends and good books and an increasing understanding of jesus' love and a decrease of worry. (francis chan is boss).



peace and love.

tuesday tunes

here we go with another edition of my favourite tunes. some chilled out acoustic worship. enjoy!





also, for more good music check out my summer playlist on 8tracks:




sun or rain, music makes everything better.
have a great day!

Hey there

i feel like i am starting a lot of posts with an apology for not posting anything for such a long time, but here we go again: excuse my lack of blogging please.

today i just quickly wanted to update you all a little bit on what is happening in my life.

i finished uni! next week i have my graduation ceremony and will then have a bachelor of arts in politics, philosophy and economics. who would have thought?!

the next year i will be working for my church and attending a leadership training course. i am very excited to dedicate a year to serve the people in my community, study god's word and to grow in my strengths and weaknesses.

in fact, i am so excited that i am not even sad about finishing uni.

i am very grateful for those last three years. i was able to study three subjects that i loved and learn so many new interesting things. what a privilege!
hopefully i will return to study some more in the future but for now i am ready for new things.

via verswand

this is not the sun setting, 

this is the world moving on.

happy monday friends.

summer tunes: the boom booms

sit in the sun, drink some cold beer and listen to this.
there's a high chance your day gets instantly better.
i think summer is coming.

words for home

one of the things i miss most about being in germany is speaking german. i have always been a lover of language and of german in particular, and whenever i am here to visit, when i am immersed in this beautiful language i find myself after a few days with my head full of words and verses and so i wrote this poem. for those of you who might not speak german: it is a poem about origins, about belonging and words and what they can change.

hope you all have a beautiful day!

i'm back

hey ho hello.
this has been quite a long blogging break, life was filled with writing essays and revising. i still have quite a lot of work to do until june but i missed blogging too much and the last couple of weeks have been full of ideas and things i would like to share here.

for now, i just leave you with some beautiful impressions from my easter vacation in germany:

hello and happy 2014

a little late but happy 2014 everyone! i hope the year started well for you and will hold many good things, inspirations and intellectual challenges.

2014 is going to be exciting for me - i will finish my bachelors degree, will start to work for my church and hopefully start doing a masters.

as all my creative energy flows into my dissertation at the moment i will just leave you with some of my latest inspiration:
a beautiful song (my friend simone and i may or may not have started our day of studying by learning it on the guitar...) and a quote from my favourite book the fault in our stars by john green.