Just posted a rather snappish post...no worries, it's not directed at any of you, my friends. ;) More towards the people who are trying to drag me down in my life right now...even if they don't read it. :P There's somethin about writing it out that calms me down...it sure is better than freaking out in their faces! As tempting as that may seem at times...
Anywhos! Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and I's got the day off from work. Yayness. Now, let's see...it is currently 11:30, and what have I done so far today?
I:
- slept in
- showered & dressed for the day
- did devotions with the fam.
- made myself breakfast (1/2 tsp of sugar in the coffee today...I am determined to have NO sugar in my coffee by the end of this week...it gets easier each time. :D)
- cleaned my room
- did my own, personal devotions (still reading "Completely His" by Shannon Ethridge...MAN, is it GOOD!), which were puh-retty AMAZING. I'm fallin more and more in love with Him!
- journaled for a couple hours...so, there was a lot to get out, what can I say?? :P
- am now doing this blog post
And what shall I be doing for the rest of the day?
I shall:
- take my pic. of the day for Project 365 and hopefully post it on my photo blog: samanthalaurenphotography.blogspot.com
- FINISH MY SWEATER!! Only the sash and collar to finish knitting, then I can stitch the pieces together! w00t!
- write at least ONE letter.
- package up some books.
- practice piano.
- MAYBE get a jumpstart on my post for StS (sistertosister.wordpress.com) tomorrow.
- FINALLY reply to some e-mails. *sheepish*
- movie night w/ Ducky...Larkrise! Squee!
- And who knows WHAT else! :)
And just to be random...ten things that make me happy today:
#1. Texts from Ducky & HannahBeth that lifted my "spirits" and encouraged me!
#2. Journaling to my HEART'S content! Or at least, until my hand gave out. :P
#3. All three of Bethany Dillon's albums. Good stuff.
#4. AWESOME devotional time!
#5. Sunny skies. :)
#6. Fuzzy purple socks.
#7. Hugses from Juji!
#8. Knitting.
#9. Photos from last spring, reminding me that spring WILL COME!
#10. Feeling pretty darn content. Amazing feeling!
What are ten things that are making you happy today??
Monday, January 17, 2011
Revolutionaries
Many have traveled this road before
I see their tracks in the dirt
But maybe I don’t agree
With where they are leading
And who am I, just a youth
But why has that become the excuse
A monotone voice
In my head saying
They shake their heads
As they drive away in the bandwagon
Didn’t feel like hitching a ride
Oh, but I’ll be fine
Some nights it’s hard to be alone
I want some kind of kinship
But the finish line
It drives me on
When they say.
Dreaming all the time
It’s so foolish
Your flood of empty words
Will drown you in ruin
So we listen
Should we listen
Come with me
They’ll call us revolutionaries
Come with me
They’ll call us revolutionaries
Revolutionaries
Revolutionaries
Dreaming all the time
It’s not foolish
Your flood of life giving words
They will refresh, they will refresh
Dreaming all the time
It’s not foolish
Your flood of life giving words
They will refresh
Should we listen
Revolutionaries.
- Bethany Dillon
Maybe. Just MAYBE I don't want to join your bandwagon. I've got a streak of the revolutionary in me that refuses to blend in with the crowd. Your mockery, your teasing, your abuse...none of it is going to sway me from changing who I am, what I believe, or what I stand for. There is nothing wrong with the way I dress, the way I think, the way I live, the way I LOVE Him. I may be tired of all the poking fun at me...but ya know what? Bring it on. So what, I'm not an average girl? Nothing wrong in that. And if you're making fun of me, do you know what that means? It just means, you NOTICED. And ya know what? I've got someone very powerful who's got my back. Someone stronger than all of you put together, who will back me up on being different. So yeah, go ahead...bring on your worst.
I see their tracks in the dirt
But maybe I don’t agree
With where they are leading
And who am I, just a youth
But why has that become the excuse
A monotone voice
In my head saying
They shake their heads
As they drive away in the bandwagon
Didn’t feel like hitching a ride
Oh, but I’ll be fine
Some nights it’s hard to be alone
I want some kind of kinship
But the finish line
It drives me on
When they say.
Dreaming all the time
It’s so foolish
Your flood of empty words
Will drown you in ruin
So we listen
Should we listen
Come with me
They’ll call us revolutionaries
Come with me
They’ll call us revolutionaries
Revolutionaries
Revolutionaries
Dreaming all the time
It’s not foolish
Your flood of life giving words
They will refresh, they will refresh
Dreaming all the time
It’s not foolish
Your flood of life giving words
They will refresh
Should we listen
Revolutionaries.
- Bethany Dillon
Maybe. Just MAYBE I don't want to join your bandwagon. I've got a streak of the revolutionary in me that refuses to blend in with the crowd. Your mockery, your teasing, your abuse...none of it is going to sway me from changing who I am, what I believe, or what I stand for. There is nothing wrong with the way I dress, the way I think, the way I live, the way I LOVE Him. I may be tired of all the poking fun at me...but ya know what? Bring it on. So what, I'm not an average girl? Nothing wrong in that. And if you're making fun of me, do you know what that means? It just means, you NOTICED. And ya know what? I've got someone very powerful who's got my back. Someone stronger than all of you put together, who will back me up on being different. So yeah, go ahead...bring on your worst.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Thought of the day!
Lately I've been reading "Completely His" by Shannon Ethridge...and so far, I've been lovin it! Something I read last week really stuck out to me...so much so that I copied it down in my journal. And I figured I could copy it down here as well, so as to share it with others!
"First, God doesn't call the equipped, He equips the called...Second, our fears do not change God's plans, but understanding God's plans can change our fears...Third, accomplishing great things for God doesn't require great talent, only great faith in Him."
- "Completely His" by Shannon Ethridge
- "Completely His" by Shannon Ethridge
And I'm just reminded that...God never sends me anything too difficult to do! I may trick myself into thinking that things that come along in my life are too hard to do...too scary...too something! I can fool myself, but fooling myself doesn't make a thing true. He doesn't call the equipped...He equips the ones He calls!
Monday, January 10, 2011
Bestest fwiends.
Bestest fwiends.
What does that mean??
It means:
- Making homemade popcorn, and shrieking when the grease comes flying out of the pot.
- Making peppermint hot chocolate and discussing drugging one's sister with REAL vanilla flavoring.
- Watching "Roman Holiday" and saying "I'd so do that." when she loses her shoe.
- Stalking cute guys on Facebook.
- Stealing one another's phones and texting the other's friends.
- Pretending to be Pirates.
- Making wacky recordings to post on Facebook.
- Watching "The Importance of Being Earnest" at one o'clock in the morning.
- Lying across from each other in the dark and telling secrets.
- Giggling hysterically about nothing.
- Glaring at each other over a game of Dutch Blitz.
- Hitting each other with a blanket and a pillow or just our hands.
- Interrupting each other in conversations but not caring.
- Trying to out-talk each other.
- Encouraging each other to stay strong.
- Giving sympathetic awws.
- Promising to pray for each other.
- Listening.
- Lying in comfortable silence with no awkwardness.
<3 <3 <3 <3
What does that mean??
It means:
- Making homemade popcorn, and shrieking when the grease comes flying out of the pot.
- Making peppermint hot chocolate and discussing drugging one's sister with REAL vanilla flavoring.
- Watching "Roman Holiday" and saying "I'd so do that." when she loses her shoe.
- Stalking cute guys on Facebook.
- Stealing one another's phones and texting the other's friends.
- Pretending to be Pirates.
- Making wacky recordings to post on Facebook.
- Watching "The Importance of Being Earnest" at one o'clock in the morning.
- Lying across from each other in the dark and telling secrets.
- Giggling hysterically about nothing.
- Glaring at each other over a game of Dutch Blitz.
- Hitting each other with a blanket and a pillow or just our hands.
- Interrupting each other in conversations but not caring.
- Trying to out-talk each other.
- Encouraging each other to stay strong.
- Giving sympathetic awws.
- Promising to pray for each other.
- Listening.
- Lying in comfortable silence with no awkwardness.
<3 <3 <3 <3
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Curiosities and Work
Reading Owl City dude's blog, his post on curiosities in the house...I had something similar, growing up...the back wall of the house has this "rain"? stain that, I swear, looked just like the head of an indian. Pretty interesting. I'd take a picture of it, but since my childhood, the stain has grown and no longer looks like an indian. Ah well.
So. Since we had the carpet laid down in the children's room, we set up the bookshelves a bit differently from the way we had it before, that way we could fit in two? three? whole extra shelves to expand. We were getting horribly cramped...especially in the "C's" and "S's" and "W's"...so we expanded. And that means that we had to rearrange a bit, moving the books down farther along. Now the "L's" are where the "G's" were, and the "M's" where the "J's" were...very confusing. There I am, blissfully deep in my own thoughts, arriving at work, ready to get down to business. I arm myself with a stack full of books and head over to the bookshelves...not even a quick thought pops into my head about how the bookshelves have changed...I've been shelving these books for the past 4 years...it's now more a thing of habit than anything else. I can quite easily shelve without any conscious thought about what I'm doing. Not so anymore! I shove a book onto a shelf and start to walk away, whereupon I suddenly stop in my tracks. Whoops. An "F" book does not belong on the "J" shelf. Drat.
No worries...I shall get used to it, I shall!
So. Since we had the carpet laid down in the children's room, we set up the bookshelves a bit differently from the way we had it before, that way we could fit in two? three? whole extra shelves to expand. We were getting horribly cramped...especially in the "C's" and "S's" and "W's"...so we expanded. And that means that we had to rearrange a bit, moving the books down farther along. Now the "L's" are where the "G's" were, and the "M's" where the "J's" were...very confusing. There I am, blissfully deep in my own thoughts, arriving at work, ready to get down to business. I arm myself with a stack full of books and head over to the bookshelves...not even a quick thought pops into my head about how the bookshelves have changed...I've been shelving these books for the past 4 years...it's now more a thing of habit than anything else. I can quite easily shelve without any conscious thought about what I'm doing. Not so anymore! I shove a book onto a shelf and start to walk away, whereupon I suddenly stop in my tracks. Whoops. An "F" book does not belong on the "J" shelf. Drat.
No worries...I shall get used to it, I shall!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Genuine
A cup of peach tea and devotional time. *siiiiiiiiiiigh* :)
Again, after my daily reading (at the moment I'm in Joshua), I was flipping through the NT and stopped in Romans, because I LOVE Romans. :D And my eye caught the verse, "Let love be genuine..." Romans 12:9
I never really thought about making my love genuine...but if I really think about, I don't always love genuinely.
With God, my love is like off/on. On the good days, I love Him, but on the off days I'm inwardly screaming at Him and yes, even some days, I feel like shrieking, "I hate you." to be perfectly honest with myself. That sure isn't genuine love. So today it's my aim to love with a genuine love.
Oh, and on a side note...peach tea tastes like summer. <3
Again, after my daily reading (at the moment I'm in Joshua), I was flipping through the NT and stopped in Romans, because I LOVE Romans. :D And my eye caught the verse, "Let love be genuine..." Romans 12:9
I never really thought about making my love genuine...but if I really think about, I don't always love genuinely.
With God, my love is like off/on. On the good days, I love Him, but on the off days I'm inwardly screaming at Him and yes, even some days, I feel like shrieking, "I hate you." to be perfectly honest with myself. That sure isn't genuine love. So today it's my aim to love with a genuine love.
Oh, and on a side note...peach tea tastes like summer. <3
Monday, January 3, 2011
2011? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.
"So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please Him." 2 Corinthians 5:6-9
Just thought I'd share that passage that really stuck out to me when I was going through Corinthians in my daily devotions...I've moved on now to other books, but I was flipping through the pages in my Bible, stopping now and then to read what I had underlined, and that was one of the passages. It just really stuck out to me again, because I really fail when it comes to making it my aim to please God. Sure, it's pretty darn easy to make it my aim to please ME and generally that's what I do! And at other times, I make it my aim to please other people...be the sort of person other people want me to be, and generally I fail at that. Because my impersonating the person other people want me to be is all a lie...it's not who I am. Thus a fail. And it's a fail that I should just move on from, because I don't want to be who the world wants me to be! Anywho, rambling here...
I want it to be my complete and number one aim to please HIM and HIM only.
On a completely different note...Happy New Year, peeps! Thanks to those and any of you who follow this blog! I had my one year anniversary last month. w00t!
And just how did this gal celebrate New Year's? Heh. Not going out for a drink, even in spite of my 21 years, I can assure you of that! :P I didn't even throw confetti or toot a horn or clang pots together or shoot off fireworks. Yeah, I'm so epicly boring. :P
Instead...on New Year's Eve, I did Bible Study with my bestest friend (which was amazing to say the least...I came away from it GREATLY encouraged. Our serious talks have a tendency to do that, and I love how we can share anything and everything with each other and just discuss it. You're the best, HannahBeth. :D) Afterward, we had a group chat with Ducky (yay!)...and I spent the rest of the evening...up til 12:30ish...chatting with Ducky and Ben. Yup, funness.
On New Year's, we had friends over for church, then after sunset my bro's and my friend, Joy, came over to spend the night. We sat around, watching an episode of "Sue Thomas: FBEye" with the kiddos, before they went to bed. Then we "big kids" watched "Despicable Me" with da parents. Then the parents went to bed, and my sis, Joy, and I stayed up late to watch "Step Up". Afterward, when Krista went to bed, Joy and I got into our "jammies", put up glow-in-the-dark stars, and proceeded to talk until we were too tired to talk anymore...which was about 4:15. ;)
So yeah, I had a great and fun New Year's! What did you do for New Year's?
-Other news "on the front"...the children's room is finally getting put back together. My job will be reorganizing everything today!
-I am doing Project 365 again this year. Done it once before...2 years ago. I skipped last year to take a break. But figured I'd try again this year. I don't have high hopes in my actually accomplishing it, since this is going to be a majorly busy year for me, but I'll do the best I can. Want to follow my attempt? My photography blog is: samanthalaurenphotography.blogspot.com
Just thought I'd share that passage that really stuck out to me when I was going through Corinthians in my daily devotions...I've moved on now to other books, but I was flipping through the pages in my Bible, stopping now and then to read what I had underlined, and that was one of the passages. It just really stuck out to me again, because I really fail when it comes to making it my aim to please God. Sure, it's pretty darn easy to make it my aim to please ME and generally that's what I do! And at other times, I make it my aim to please other people...be the sort of person other people want me to be, and generally I fail at that. Because my impersonating the person other people want me to be is all a lie...it's not who I am. Thus a fail. And it's a fail that I should just move on from, because I don't want to be who the world wants me to be! Anywho, rambling here...
I want it to be my complete and number one aim to please HIM and HIM only.
On a completely different note...Happy New Year, peeps! Thanks to those and any of you who follow this blog! I had my one year anniversary last month. w00t!
And just how did this gal celebrate New Year's? Heh. Not going out for a drink, even in spite of my 21 years, I can assure you of that! :P I didn't even throw confetti or toot a horn or clang pots together or shoot off fireworks. Yeah, I'm so epicly boring. :P
Instead...on New Year's Eve, I did Bible Study with my bestest friend (which was amazing to say the least...I came away from it GREATLY encouraged. Our serious talks have a tendency to do that, and I love how we can share anything and everything with each other and just discuss it. You're the best, HannahBeth. :D) Afterward, we had a group chat with Ducky (yay!)...and I spent the rest of the evening...up til 12:30ish...chatting with Ducky and Ben. Yup, funness.
On New Year's, we had friends over for church, then after sunset my bro's and my friend, Joy, came over to spend the night. We sat around, watching an episode of "Sue Thomas: FBEye" with the kiddos, before they went to bed. Then we "big kids" watched "Despicable Me" with da parents. Then the parents went to bed, and my sis, Joy, and I stayed up late to watch "Step Up". Afterward, when Krista went to bed, Joy and I got into our "jammies", put up glow-in-the-dark stars, and proceeded to talk until we were too tired to talk anymore...which was about 4:15. ;)
So yeah, I had a great and fun New Year's! What did you do for New Year's?
-Other news "on the front"...the children's room is finally getting put back together. My job will be reorganizing everything today!
-I am doing Project 365 again this year. Done it once before...2 years ago. I skipped last year to take a break. But figured I'd try again this year. I don't have high hopes in my actually accomplishing it, since this is going to be a majorly busy year for me, but I'll do the best I can. Want to follow my attempt? My photography blog is: samanthalaurenphotography.blogspot.com
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