Sunday, August 28, 2011
4x7 (1)
4x7 = 28 pictures this week.
No words to explain, no order of events, just shots I have enjoyed over the past several weeks.
No words to explain, no order of events, just shots I have enjoyed over the past several weeks.
Dolphin Tale
We were given passes to a preview of Dolphin Tale which is due to hit theaters on September 23rd. This was an amazingly inspirational story with a beautiful message and based on true events. I would recommend this movie to any family looking for a good, clean movie this fall.
I will put the disclaimer out that I cried (several times) through-out the movie... bring your tissues!
Dolphin Tale - September 23, 2011
I will put the disclaimer out that I cried (several times) through-out the movie... bring your tissues!
Dolphin Tale - September 23, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
a dozen things
1. I cut all my hair off again... I think I wish I was more daring and would cut it even further. I do miss the pony tails though!
2. I finally got two things off my to do list that have never made it on paper but have been on the back of my mind... ditch the "craft table" and get a shelf AND buy a backup hard drive so I don't cry if I loose all my pictures. Whew... feels good to have that done!.
3. I took on some big stuff last year and said I wouldn't take on more, but just realized I took on three additional "challenges". I feel NO regret, only excitement that I have been given opportunities!
4. I am excited to start blogging and taking the blog in a different direction.
5. I am madly and deeply in love with my husband. I love him more today than I think I ever have... words don't express!
6. I have a goal to talk less and listen more (in every area). I will need prayer for that one!
7. I am pretty addicted to America's Got Talent right now and blown away by the talent people have... also very grateful to not be held hostage to the television; thank you creators of the DVR.
8. Happy Birthday to my mom today who never reads this blog so it's a bit silly to wish her a happy one here, but maybe one day she will check it out and know I was thinking of her out loud.
9. I have had an exceptionally wonderful summer considering our circumstances and what the expectations where.
10. I have found so many blogs by chance that I just love to read. not martha is one of my favorites (isn't the name great?). Another great one... bake it in a cake - yes, seriously this is SO fun! What are some of your favorites?
11. I finished two great books: Seventeen Second Miracle and Wednesday Letters. I am hoping to get my hands on The Help and East of Eden soon!
12. I saw this wonderful bumper sticker:
The more you see the problems of others... the smaller yours seem.
2. I finally got two things off my to do list that have never made it on paper but have been on the back of my mind... ditch the "craft table" and get a shelf AND buy a backup hard drive so I don't cry if I loose all my pictures. Whew... feels good to have that done!.
3. I took on some big stuff last year and said I wouldn't take on more, but just realized I took on three additional "challenges". I feel NO regret, only excitement that I have been given opportunities!
4. I am excited to start blogging and taking the blog in a different direction.
5. I am madly and deeply in love with my husband. I love him more today than I think I ever have... words don't express!
6. I have a goal to talk less and listen more (in every area). I will need prayer for that one!
7. I am pretty addicted to America's Got Talent right now and blown away by the talent people have... also very grateful to not be held hostage to the television; thank you creators of the DVR.
8. Happy Birthday to my mom today who never reads this blog so it's a bit silly to wish her a happy one here, but maybe one day she will check it out and know I was thinking of her out loud.
9. I have had an exceptionally wonderful summer considering our circumstances and what the expectations where.
10. I have found so many blogs by chance that I just love to read. not martha is one of my favorites (isn't the name great?). Another great one... bake it in a cake - yes, seriously this is SO fun! What are some of your favorites?
11. I finished two great books: Seventeen Second Miracle and Wednesday Letters. I am hoping to get my hands on The Help and East of Eden soon!
12. I saw this wonderful bumper sticker:
The more you see the problems of others... the smaller yours seem.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Good Friday
At our worst and our best
(repost from Firstimportance.org)
Imagine your worst moment of guilt and shame, the memory that, when you let it, haunts you and threatens to hound you to the grave. In light of that sin, we sometimes cannot imagine how God could possibly forgive. Yet it was for that moment that Christ died for you. At your worst, God gave you his best. While you were still a sinner — of the worst kind — Christ died for you (Rom. 5:8). The Passover teaches us that no debt of sin is too great to be forgiven because the precious sacrifice of Jesus pays it all.
Now imagine your best day. You’re on your winning streak, behaving well, keeping up with your spiritual disciplines, forgiving those who wrong you, helping those in need and leading non-Christians to Jesus. In light of such stellar Christian performance, we sometimes assume forgiveness, telling ourselves, ‘Of course God forgives me; I’m on his team.’ But the Passover teaches us that we don’t — and never could — deserve God’s forgiveness. Our debt of sin to him is so great that we couldn’t possibly pay God back, not with a thousand years of perfect performance (as if that were possible). On your best day, when you can most easily see yourself as God’s friend, your sin still makes you his enemy and requires Christ’s death so that you might truly become his friend despite yourself. God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
— Mike Wilkerson
Redemption: Freed by Jesus from the Idols We Worship and the Wounds We Carry
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2011), 75
(repost from Firstimportance.org)
Imagine your worst moment of guilt and shame, the memory that, when you let it, haunts you and threatens to hound you to the grave. In light of that sin, we sometimes cannot imagine how God could possibly forgive. Yet it was for that moment that Christ died for you. At your worst, God gave you his best. While you were still a sinner — of the worst kind — Christ died for you (Rom. 5:8). The Passover teaches us that no debt of sin is too great to be forgiven because the precious sacrifice of Jesus pays it all.
Now imagine your best day. You’re on your winning streak, behaving well, keeping up with your spiritual disciplines, forgiving those who wrong you, helping those in need and leading non-Christians to Jesus. In light of such stellar Christian performance, we sometimes assume forgiveness, telling ourselves, ‘Of course God forgives me; I’m on his team.’ But the Passover teaches us that we don’t — and never could — deserve God’s forgiveness. Our debt of sin to him is so great that we couldn’t possibly pay God back, not with a thousand years of perfect performance (as if that were possible). On your best day, when you can most easily see yourself as God’s friend, your sin still makes you his enemy and requires Christ’s death so that you might truly become his friend despite yourself. God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
— Mike Wilkerson
Redemption: Freed by Jesus from the Idols We Worship and the Wounds We Carry
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2011), 75
Thursday, April 21, 2011
rambling while I'm sleepy...
Have you ever been unable to sleep no matter the fact that you have been exhausted since the moment you woke the day before? What better to do then get on the computer and mindlessly hit the "next blog" button over and over and over....
Even better is to look at all the exciting things people post and realize that it is okay that things aren't exciting enough to post about.
This season is very odd... I have so much in my head it is hard to even think straight, but I am grateful. I am grateful that in all the noise that is mulling around that I am still in GREAT hands. With spring coming so late (has it really shown up yet?) I am reminded that sometimes to enjoy the sunshine... I mean to REALLY appreciate it, sometimes you have to come through a long stretch of storms (or in our case months and months or rain!).
I am working to truly appreciate the small things the Lord puts in front of me to remind me of all HE has brought me through and all HE is stirring in me now. It helps me trust in so many areas where I have no control (as if I have control in any area) that HE will provide, HE has a plan, HE first loved, HE is still present, HE always has been, HE understands, HE is teaching, HE is providing and HE alone is enough.
After months of silence, that is my rambling.
Even better is to look at all the exciting things people post and realize that it is okay that things aren't exciting enough to post about.
This season is very odd... I have so much in my head it is hard to even think straight, but I am grateful. I am grateful that in all the noise that is mulling around that I am still in GREAT hands. With spring coming so late (has it really shown up yet?) I am reminded that sometimes to enjoy the sunshine... I mean to REALLY appreciate it, sometimes you have to come through a long stretch of storms (or in our case months and months or rain!).
I am working to truly appreciate the small things the Lord puts in front of me to remind me of all HE has brought me through and all HE is stirring in me now. It helps me trust in so many areas where I have no control (as if I have control in any area) that HE will provide, HE has a plan, HE first loved, HE is still present, HE always has been, HE understands, HE is teaching, HE is providing and HE alone is enough.
After months of silence, that is my rambling.
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