Manna
f r o m H a n n a h
ABOUT ME
Hi! I'm Hannah.
Thanks for checking out my blog!
Here's some more about me.
My full name is Hannah Marie Sterling. Why do I have a blog? Well, the time periods where I haven't had a blog or I don't write, I feel awfully disarranged. I absolutely love words, writing, and photography. When you put all that together, you can definitely end up writing a blog. The best part about the words, writing, and photography is that I can incorporate everything else I love and think is amazing into them. At twenty years old, life moves fast. I'd love to share it with you! My current location is Augusta Georgia and my life consists of Jesus, Noah, my family & friends, riding horses, animals, yoga/exercise, coffee, baking, art/photography, college, travel and more. Anything and everything you will see on my blog is originally owned by or credited to yours truly. If something is not, citations and credit will be given. Feel free to subscribe! I'd love to hear your thoughts, opinions and questions!
If you'd like to know more intricate details....
I was born in Durham, North Carolina, which is near the Virginia border. I was a blessed little thing from the very beginning. Mark and Michelle Sterling (my parents), Joshua Sterling (my older brother), Elizabeth Sterling (my younger sister born 22 months after me), and I make up the Sterling family.
I admire my childhood.
There are so many wonderful things to remember!
Here are a few photo memories.
So, my family moved from N.C. to Atlanta G.A. and then to our current destination Augusta G.A. Moving wasn't the best experience considering I had to leave things I loved each time, but it grew me and brought me to the place I call home! Once I moved to Augusta, my Dad (He has always been a pastor), took the place of head pastor at Curtis Baptist Church. That name right there became my whole life it seemed like. Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 3:00 I attended Curtis Baptist School and on Sundays, I attended Curtis Baptist Church. Call it all Curtis really because it was all in one place with the same people. Add in extra activities from church and school and it was a full seven days of Curtis Baptist. That right there is one of the best things that has happened to me yet.
Honestly, all I can say is thank GOODNESS for change. Also, picture days were never my best days. On picture days I either purposely looked bad like my junior year, or I completely forgot it was picture day. The highlight years were obviously fifth grade and senior year (pink bow & string of pearls). And to answer that question some of you might have, yes I am wearing the same black polo my sophomore and junior year. At the end of the day nobody frames their yearbook pictures. Why? Because typically they look like these pictures right here. LOL
Of course, I just made it sound like I lived at Curtis when really whenever I got the chance I lived at the barn. I have always been very passionate about riding, training, or caring for horses. There are few people you can find that really make this passion something important in their life, but for people who truly enjoy it, it's like nothing else in the whole world!
When I was eleven, God became very real to me, but I didn't get real with him until I was about sixteen. What I mean by that was I asked Him into my heart when I was eleven, but I didn't surrender my whole life to him until I was sixteen. At eleven I knew I couldn't fix my sin, and that my heart was empty and would go to hell and be separated from God forever if I didn't repent of those sins he paid for on the cross and believe that he rose again and defeated death and every single of those sins. The day I gave my life to God and when the Holy Spirit came into my hear ti t did change absolutely everything. From then on I had a growing relationship with God, but I was in a process of surrendering everything to him. What changed things at sixteen was the loss of my horse. I felt like I lost everything and that's when I figured out I had to find everything in God alone.
As I grew in Christ and grew out of my hot-headed middle/high school years, I was being prepared for something I never expected so soon.
I had crushes and things growing up, but in my senior year of high school, I met a God-fearing and loving boy whom I know I am going to love for the rest of my life. A friend of mine asked me to attend her youth worship, but I had my own youth group. Why would I go to another one? But, I went...and thank goodness for that! I did not go expecting to meet anyone. In fact, after I met the tall, dark curly-haired, blue-eyed, handsome boy and his friends I prayed and said: "God these boys love Jesus they probably have girlfriends, I didn't come here to meet boys, just show me what you have for me tonight." Little did I know that boy is what God wanted to show me that night. Within a couple of days, he had my number and we went on our first date. So, I thought I left that church and would never look back; and then the curly-haired boy asked around for my number and contacted me a few days later. I am beyond thankful for Noah Patrick Cunningham who I am proud to call my boyfriend.
He has a heart of gold and all because of Christ.
When I began to think about college my heart only knew one thing about it: I wanted to stay home. So, I am here, at home seeking the Lord daily about how He wants to use me. I am starting my third year majoring in Elementary Education! I have no doubt about where God has me. I am excited to teach and do what he has called me to do.
My heart wants to dwell where it is called by God, and right now that is here in Augusta.
I also enjoy things like my 1999 jeep wrangler, art, yoga, exercise, reading, cooking, baking, traveling, and random fun like dancing around the kitchen and buying someone dinner.
But, don't get me wrong, life isn't always full of all of that. Life is real and deep. I do believe that the people who feel deep live life in a different way than those who live and feel at the surface. But living life authentically, genuinely, and deep requires faith, and sometimes hardships. True JOY in LIFE is finding surrender in Christ alone on the good and bad days.
That's when I feel I am able to live life to the fullest.
So, this is real life. This is my life.
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No matter where God takes me, He is always loving me and has a perfect plan!
My name is Hannah Marie Sterling
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I am blessed!
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