It's a regular old Friday morning as I sit here in at my kitchen table pounding away at the keyboard in hopes of finishing my Science project by 11am. The only thing different about this morning is the fact that Your Body is a Wonderland (John Mayer) just played on my Pandora station, and I couldn't resist leaving my indian style seating at the table for the obvious dance floor the kitchen opened up for me between the oven and the dishwasher. Everytime I hear that song, I can't resist an overwhelming sense of happiness, it is just such a clever song.

So I guess I don't have anything profound to pull out of this, just wanted to share a moment in time when everything was alright and I had no worries for the three minutes that song played. The best part is, that three minutes of carefree happiness is just a preview to what I will experience as I head to Charleston, SC this weekend :) I can hardly wait.

Breathtaking- Andrea Bocelli and Katharine McPhee

After listening to this beautiful re-make about a hundred times, I figured I would post it for you all to enjoy as well. Andrea Bocelli's voice is absolutely breath-taking, but Michael Buble will always be my first love. . . seriously.

Biblical inerracy... or not?

As Christians, we often times get in the habit of leaning on "Faith" to answer those tough questions, and Biblical contradicitons.

This seriously frustrates me, for a number of reasons.

We do not possess faith at the expense of critical thinking and research, or vice versa. God has gifted us with minds to think, to analyze, and to discover. Who's to say we can't use them!?

I will dwell on this thought tonight, and write back in the morning...

In the meantime, despite our questions and uncertainty on many things concerning God, we can rest assured that

"Though the mountains may be shaken, and the hills be removed,

yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken,

nor my covenant of peace be removed,"

says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

Isaiah 54:10

Religion-ship

So often, we get caught up in Religion that we forget about the actual Active and Living God.

Religion is a variety of approaches to worshipping and learning about the SAME God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

What we should seek more than Sunday morning church is a relationship with the Maker of the Universe... instead of just listening to another man's take on God, why don't we discover Him for ourselves?

You see, God is the same, never changing, but your interpretation may be completely different than your Pastor's. What I'm saying is that is OK.

We need to come to the realization that God is living, and we have a fire actively burning in our hearts to know him! We can water that fire and let it burn out by going to Sunday morning church and feeling content in that. We need to add ammunition to that fire by seeking answers, by asking questions, and by SEARCHING for God!

I know this life is filled with sorrow, and there are days when the pain just lasts and lasts,
but there will be a day when our pain is washed away....
God is SO Holy, so majestic, and so complex... we cant even begin to fathom his ways!

I challenge you to seek God this week... ask a question and find an answer, but I bet you won't just find one...

What I've discovered is there are no definites in my answers, the only is that God is Love, and Love has come and died for us all. Yet I still find peace and even more honor for my God as I seek His presence and understanding of His unfathomable ways and will!

Isn't it true that a simple song can take us anywhere, to any place, any specific memory. . . any specific person?

Isn't it wonderful?!

Something like that happened to me tonight.

Out of some sort of instinct, I felt the need to start a double batch of homemade cookies at 11:30 at night, just because.

After a wonderful day, some sort of blissful little girl glee has come over me that makes me want to do strange things like bake in the middle of night, and dance like a crazy woman in my kitchen to Michael Buble love songs. . . those songs that give you goosebumps and take you to a memory.

My conclusion: I really hope no one was outside my kitchen window, they got quite an interesting show. . . oh, and I burnt the second batch of cookies.

So for now, I'll bid farewell, with my last batch of cookies in the oven, and currently singing along to "Everything" by Buble, basking in the memory of another time. . .

"In this crazy life, and through these crazy times, it's you, it's you, you make me sing,

Your every line, your every word, your everything."

Nothing Special On My Own...

It's easy to get wrapped up in our greatness. . .
I do it all the time.

What we tend to forget is that pale blue sky above us, that sun that burns without fail, the stars that shine for us. Everything we take for granted, is the extra-ordinary that is truly worth the attention we seek for ourselves.

I am so small in the presence of my all mighty powerful GOD. Underneath me, all around me, his works surround me.

The mighty strike of a flash of lightning, is His.
The aqua blue seas of the Caribbean, are His.
The black night sky sprinkled with glittering stars, is His.
The universe in its complex entirety. . .
everything we know, and all that we do not know, is His.

I am His creation too.

Every good work is inspired by the ultimate Creator. It's easy to forget, in a world where we focus so much on finding "ourselves" that we lose God in the meantime.

Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus. . . vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!

In your eyes I see the pain, come soak this dry heart with healing rain. . .


The crazy part about life is that we never know what's ahead of us. We live a life in faith or in fear, in anxious anticipation, or in open hearted trust. When we are faced with the unexpected, the unthinkable, and unfortunate, we draw closer or pull away. . . but what we often forget is that there is so much more than what we are actually perceiving.
Life seems so real, it feels so real, the pain is real, the questions are real. But there is a God who is more real, more alive, and all-knowing. . . he is the universe in its entirety. As humans, we are limited to what we can see, and understand. . . but if we look closely we can see with our hearts what most can't.
God sends healing rain to wash away the hurt, the sorrow and the grief. Open your heart and feel that rain. . . dance barefoot in it, basque in the glory of God's grace! Rest in his hands, the hands that molded the earth, shaped the mountains and placed the stars in the night sky. . . lay your head in that hand!

So, lift your hands they can be held by someone greater. . . the great I Am!