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SIMPLE + TRUE

by Grace Theisen

Simple + True EP available now on iTunes and Spotify.

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I will forever be the girl in @nike shoes and @adidaswomen socks... She will forever be the girl in Birkenstocks. - And somehow this unlikely shoe duo will forever be best friends who rock. 🤗 - Also cheers to attempted pressionate kisses for the queen herself, @emilysue322, when really I think I need more lessons in how to kiss a little less intensely. 😂🙈
When you’ve been around people and kids 24/7 for an entire week straight (for an introvert who currently lives alone... this is a LOT) the best way to rejuvenate is to escape ad spend time with this sweet Mama. - Who needs counseling when you have a Wilma?!? She’s the best kind of listener! 😂😍😭 (totally kidding. Everyone needs counseling. Especially with a real person.) - Also cheers to not taking a real shower in over a week and teaching your nieces that showering in the lake and wearing braids 24/7 is equally as healthy and efficient. 🙈 #lovelakelife #thatsconsideredcampingright - And now on to MARRYING @emilysue322 tomorrow!!! - #horsegirl #farmlifeforever
When you finally get to see your sweet girl again after 5 years and you instantly feel a rush of peace. All is well in the world when I am with this mama. She has always been a source of comfort and joy. (Plus sass and hormones.😂) I am SO excited to spend the next month with her. She’s only gotten more beautiful with age. - So so so thankful for my 4-H community, all that it taught me, and for the opportunity to come back, help out, rest and rejuvenate for these next few weeks at home doing things that I love. 🤗
HEY IG FAMILY. IT ME. - I just wanted to stop by and say THANK YOU to everyone who has been pushing this Go-Fund Me Campaign for me to help cover medical costs. For those of you who do not know... I had to take a few months off work starting in April because Pain and anxiety had gotten so bad and my body was starting to shut down. - I’ve gone through some massive transitions this year... from a second back surgery, to moving, to major changes with @songsagainstslavery, break ups, countless medical appointments, procedures, Physcial therapy... and my body is exhausted. To the point where I became suicidal last month. - Two days ago, my dearest friends launched this campaign to help ease the financial stress while I am not working and I cannot begin to tell you how thankful/relieved/humbled I am by the response. I’ve never been one who likes to ask for help but Pain has taught me I CANNOT do this alone. Nor can my family. - I’m off my parents insurance and to give you a rough idea of how much these things costs.... I have already had to pay over $6,000 in medical bills for the last two months of testing and appointments. And let me tell you at 26 and only having a nonprofit job... I don’t have $6,000 just lying around to spare. Not to mention my last surgery alone costs $146,000.... and that was just ONE procedure. Chronic pain is NOT a cheap life which is such a catch-22 because it also inhibits you from being able to WORK/LIVE a normal life to afford it. - If you feel led to give, share, pray or just send an encouraging word-it all matters. Every dollar counts. We currently don’t have a lot of answers for my continued level 6-8 daily Pain and the more we search... the most $$ it costs. - Thank you thank you thank you. For everything. Link is in my bio. ❤️
WHEN YA GIRLS KNOW WHAT’S UP. - EVERYTHING about this was pure perfection. The horses, the scenery but mostly the three of us bringing up the rear with laughter, conversation and (sometimes) going the wrong way. (Thanks Dakota.) Stubborn women + stubborn horses = the best life. - Rode these babies for ten years and have had to take a break for the last six from surgeries and back pain. Thankful that my crew knows exactly what makes my heart EXPLODE. ❤️ I never felt more at home than in boots, jeans and these creatures all around. (Not to mention smelling like a barn for the rest of that day. 🙋🏻‍♀️ sorry Mama.)
Living with daily chronic pain is hard enough. Throw on top of that med and personal changes at the same time and it can feel completely crushing. Most of this week I barely wanted to move let alone get out of bed and face the world. Also when you are taking a few months off from work it’s easy to become lazy and numb with unhealthy things. - When I wanted to sob alone in my bed my people instead showed up and held me. - When I wanted to stay inside and watch tv for hours, my people took me to movies, on walks, to the pool, and HORSEBACK RIDING. - When I didn’t want to eat my people made me food and watched me eat it. - When all I wanted to do was give in to the crushing pain, my people texted me and told me I was stronger than that. They reminded me who I am. - When I didn’t want to get up and go to boxing because my body felt like death, my people said, “Sorry Charlie. You’re coming.” - When I wanted to lay down and quit, this dear sister pushed me harder and harder so that WHEN I was able to lay down-it was from exhaustion, tears and sweat of knowing I kept going. - This morning I felt all of it. But I said to myself, “get out of bed, go to boxing and push through.” And the moment I walked in, I was greeted by a massive hug from this sweet girl in the middle and she asked me after I boxed if I wanted to have a dance party. Of course I said yes. And guess what? She was right. I needed to have a dance party. - Sometimes life throws you lemons all at once and you have to let your people help you make it into lemonade. I cannot thank my people enough for how much they stepped up and stepped in this week. I’m learning you don’t need a massive group of friends-you just need a handful of people on your speed dial who will show up for you-even when you don’t know you need them. - And thanks to @gwalker65 for telling me I look stronger than ever before. It made my whole day. It’s hard to unlearn numbing habits with pain and to re-learn healthy ones... but I am proud of my progress. Also special thanks to @meghanguilfoil for letting me yell at you. ;)
EXCITING NEWS! I got asked to be a writer for @jordanleedooley new blog...joined by a group of POWER HOUSE woman. It just launched yesterday! Here’s a snippet of mine. Link in bio. :) - “When @SoulScripts asked me to write a blog post anything I wanted, I had a hard time choosing a topic. I sat down at my laptop with a million thoughts buzzing around in my head; it felt like I had to write the perfect blog, which led me into walking away from my laptop. - Pressure turned into anxiety and despair. I just didn’t know how to write the right thing (no pun intended). I sat at the pool in my apartment complex and watched the sunset bounce off the water, which paralleled to all of the thoughts jumping around in my head. - I finally gave up trying to write the perfect post and decided it was probably best for me to just write the most honest blog I could–a blog that demands not perfection, but imperfection.  So here, my sweet reader, is my most imperfect blog post (written by the pool on my phone). — Think of me sitting across from you with our favorite drinks in hand (mine is most definitely Topo Chico these days) and we’re going to have the most honest, heart-to-heart conversation about Jesus. I’ll go first: - IN MY 26 YEARS OF EXISTENCE–I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO QUIT LIFE MORE THAN IN THESE LAST FEW MONTHS. - I know you’re probably waiting for me to say “but God [fill in the blank]” or offer some deep theological explanation, but right now, for me, there isn’t one. Life has completely and absolutely wrecked me. Not in a sort of “trial” you get through and learn all these amazing one-liners about God and Jesus that you write about and help to change people’s lives. - Sigh. I wish. - It’s been a four-year journey including two major back surgeries, constant (chronic) pain, endless doctor’s appointments, medications, spinal injections, nerve injections, hospital stays, bouts of depression, grief, panic attacks, anxiety, unanswered questions, and doubt, all while trying to run a nonprofit that works to fight sex trafficking…and still be a normal 26 year-old... and I have never doubted God more in my life.” (Link in bio for more.)
“The difference between great improvisational jazz and great classical recitals is simple: in the first, there are no wrong notes. If someone makes a mistake, nobody cares or even notices. Everyone just keeps tapping their feet. In recitals, however, everyone expects perfection. We spent a lot more time doing recitals in our faith communities than I think Jesus had in mind. Stages, audiences and platforms change us. People who are becoming love don’t need any of it. It’s not inherently bad to have all the stages, but we can end up playing to the wrong audience.” -@bobgoff - Headed into a week long retreat by myself at @goldmonarch to learn how to do less recitals and more improvisational jazz in my life. Less perfection and more grace. Ask more questions and be ok with less answers. - These last few months I haven’t wanted to be alone. (And if you know me you know I am INTROVERT all the way when it comes to rejuvenating.) I haven’t wanted to face my fears or my heart. I’ve just wanted to numb pain through people, endless tv, books, podcasts and social media. Where did that leave me? Feeling like a fraud in my own body. - This week I am turning off the noise and sitting in my fears, facing my demons head on and telling them they have no room in THIS temple. I’m going to listen to the never ending lies in my head and then watch them as they pass by me like a distant lover. - Will this be messy, hard, and emotional? Probably. Because I’ve learned when I numb my pain I am numbing Jesus. But I am going into this week with an open heart and hands to receive whatever He has for me. - I’ve always loved roses. Their layers to me are so phenomenal. Because beneath all the layers is a bud-just like beneath all of our layers is a heart. And the healthier the bud-the healthier the layers that surround it. The more they shine and walk through life open and ready to receive instead of closed off and wilted. - Our hearts are our lifeline, y’all. And WE get to be in charge of what we let in and out. What I am learning this year? Our hearts were never intended to be closed off to God. Our outside feels wilted and dead. And that’s our signal to turn our buds back to Him.
“Francis taught me that if we spent less time worrying about how to share our faith with someone on an airplane and more time thinking about how to live radically generous lives, more people would start taking our message seriously.” -Chasing Francis, @ianmorgancron - I’ve been thinking a lot about the intersection between living out our faith versus sharing about it. It’s made me think a lot about what it’s like to sell something to someone: essential oils etc. I know I know I am equating faith to “selling worldly things” but hear me out. - When we are approached by some stranger who wants to clearly sell us something... we instantly put up walls. How many times do we pass people on the street in big cities because we don’t want what they are selling? Why? We can’t believe in what we do not know. Seriously. I didn’t start selling LipSense until I knew for myself I loved it. Also I was in relationship and built trust with the person introducing me to it. - I think faith is a lot like this. We can stand on streets and yell as loud as we want about what we believe and how we think others should believe it too. But I know I would be the first to pass that up. I would walk the opposite way. Why? Because I can’t believe what I do not KNOW. - And knowing = relationship. Knowing = trust. Knowing = KNOWING someone first before believing what they have to say. - How did you come to know Jesus? Was it through someone “selling it” or someone spending time with you in relationship, caring for you despite your flaws and mishaps in life? For me... it was the latter. - Take it one step further... a relationship with Jesus doesn’t happen overnight. It takes years even DECADES to get to know someone so intimately. So why do we try so hard to force things on people when we would never want anything forced on us? - We are here to extend the invitation. Gently, humbly and I believe, that starts with building trust through relationships. The rest? That’s up to God. We aren’t in control of any outcomes. - Jesus extends an unending invitation to a relationship with Him to all of us... despite how much we mess up or fall down. Shouldn’t we do that for others?

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