About ME
Kiki for the Days
What I Do
I am currently a college student, studying Healthcare Administration. Although I love my major very much, I plan to go into ministry when I graduate.
Here, I share about my hobbies and what I’ve learned from them. I would almost call this blog a hobby as well, although admittedly I am hoping this hobby can bring in some money (being alive is not cheap y’all!).
I have three main hobbies: Painting my nails, reading, and crafting.
I was an avid nail biter until I was fourteen, and cut myself off with “no bite” from Orly (I can’t recommend that stuff enough) and ever since I’ve been nearly obsessive about keeping my nails polished and pretty.
I’ve been into reading since my kindergarten teacher taught me how to, and recently I’ve been realizing how many wonderful Christian books there are out there for women. I hope to use this blog to help spread the word!
Crafting has been a passion (yes, a passion), for maybe as long as I can remember. I have taught myself to crochet, to create with resin, to bead, and frankly probably more things I’m forgetting at this moment. This summer I’m hoping to learn how to sew (beyond just the basics). I also love painting and am a firm believer in DIY.
When I’m not making something (rare) I am studying, bothering my friends, or sharing with someone about Jesus.
Why do I go by Kiki?
Listen, people. I am putting pieces of myself here on the internet for people to see (risky, I know), and frankly I am not willing to give my name. I don’t know exactly how much protection it affords me, but I am sure it offers some (besides the protection I paid for when I began this blog thru bluehost, amirite?). Kiki is a nickname one of my younger brothers gave me when he was little and couldn’t pronounce my name, and what can I say, it stuck. I am called Kiki by my family nearly as often as my real name, and I answer readily to both. In the same vein, I also at this time am not putting up pictures of myself. It simply feels too risky as a young woman, and I wish to be wise about the way I go about this. Thank you for your understanding.
My Testimony
I feel that this is important so it may be known a bit of what you may run into here: I am a born-again, on-fire-for-Jesus Christian.
I was raised in a Christian household, where we went to church every Sunday & prayed before dinner & read the Bible when we were supposed to, like at advent or Easter.
Despite my upbringing, I ambled through high school with no idea about what living for Christ truly looked like. I went to youth group and all the summer camps, I had my little group of Christian friends, I even stood up for the Lord against my atheist friends on one or two occasions. I wasn’t, however, living for Christ. I was living for myself.
Coming to college, I knew I had to get involved with a church. I’d been going to church my whole life, I wasn’t going to quit now. God led me to meet a student leader at my orientation who connected me with a church leader a few days later, and I had Bible studies with the two of them my first semester at school.
Through that Bible study, I came to realize that I was not only not right with God, but I was also not living for Christ. I’d spent my whole life proclaiming to be a Christian, but I had no idea how to have a relationship with God. However, God was with me, of course, and He immediately forgave me. I’m honestly crying right now just thinking about it, about how lost I was and how much grace He has bestowed on me.
I gave my life to the Lord in September of 2022, as I bawled at a picnic table with some wonderful ladies around me.
The change was immediate. I wanted to read the Bible, rather than slogging through it only when I felt like it. Church became one of the best parts of my week, rather than a chore I dreaded. I looked at my friendships differently, at my relationships with my family members differently, because I wished to give more often than receive. I am so grateful at the way God stepped in to change my life. I can honestly say that I am a new creation, and I am so thankful.
I’ve got no one to thank but the God who loved me first, before I even knew who He was. Thanks be to God for all I’ve been given, and all glory to Him!
-Kiki
