Counting Grace | April 2026

Blessings from April 2026 <3

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Introducing my new series—Counting Grace! This series will be an end of month wrap-up, where I share the big and small ways I saw God move, along with random things I felt grateful for <3

So without further ado, here are the things I counted as grace in April 2026!

1. Food

As you’ll likely gather from the first items on this month’s list, I found a lot of joy in the mundane.

Most days, I just felt very grateful to sit down and enjoy a meal: meals with friends, meals with family, and meals alone with God and myself. Overall, I was just very aware this month that I typically eat three times a day, which is a privilege.

I had a lot of gloomy, stressful days in April, but every time I sat down to eat, buy groceries, or cook dinner, I was aware of how insanely blessed all of these activities are, and this perspective really made my month better.

2. Calm Days

There were some fairly interesting days this month, be it the weather, my job, or other special events, but I remember there were a couple days that were just flat-out uneventful.

But again, the Lord reminded me that the mundane is beautiful and a gift. I’ll admit, the news have been pretty anxiety-inducing, but overall, I wasn’t directly worried about my livelihood due to political affairs, there was no drama with friends or family, and I wasn’t impacted by a natural disaster and that’s good!

I get nervous whenever I think about how tragedy is inevitable, but it was interesting to view an ordinary day through the lens of “there could be a day where I desperately miss having nothing happen.”

3. Nature

I truly believe this is what I was most grateful for in April! With all of the hectic moments in April, the ones where I could take a walk at the park and make shapes out of the clouds were greatly appreciated.

As I joked about in this note from April 9th, there was a day where things were blowing up at work, and it was lowkey (highkey) sorta my fault (oops). I freaked out as I naturally do, I CRIED, but after my meltdown, I closed my laptop and walked over to the park that I live very close to for some much needed fresh air.

And as I watched the leaves blow in the wind, I realized that messing up a Microsoft Excel workbook is kinda not the end of the world, and it was incredibly therapeutic.

I don’t know, that moment really meant something to me :)

4. Plane-rides

Tbh, I feel like I did a pretty good job writing about this experience in my last article, so I’m going to shamelessly plug it here:

Turbulence

5. Creativity

April was a huge month for creativity!

Writing is a lot like marriage (says the girl who doesn’t even have a boyfriend). Do I love writing? Of course I do! Always! However, sometimes, I go through some pretty dry seasons with my writing, where things are less exciting and even difficult.

April was thankfully not like this! I found myself craving to write each night, and I saw the word count on the novel I’m working on grow substantially because of it.

Who knows? Maybe May will be the month where I finish my first draft :P

6. Another Year Older

And finally, yes, my 23rd birthday was in April.

To be perfectly honest, my birthday wasn’t my favorite one. For one, many of my plans fell flat, but also there were some things happening around my birthday in other areas of my life and even areas of my friends’ lives that left me a bit sad.

However, I think this birthday taught me that simply living to see the next year is worth gratitude and celebration in and of itself. It’s not about having the perfect plans, photo ops, or a girl squad of twenty; it’s a day to celebrate God’s gift of breath in our lungs and the character development we experienced in the past 365 days.

That’s what truly makes it a happy day.

♡❤︎⁠————❤︎⁠♡

To conclude (I still don’t know how to write conclusions), thank you for reading the first installment of Counting Grace, and I pray there are plenty of blessings for you in May!