My Favorites of 2011.

I love Mason Jars, if it be for candles,  or for wild flowers. I think they are perfect.

Bulbs for, trees, bowls, or vases. I love it all. 

Felt. From ornaments to pins all the way to scarfs. It's perfect.

Tissue Paper Flowers! 

Yum. If you have it be thankful. If you don't pray saints. Pray.

I like the twang, and the bang and the boys and girls in their trucks and thangs. 

its simple. but so very necessary. 

Cow boy boots. I likem I lovem. 

I'm Happy. 

It's repaired. I'm so thankful. 

She is my best friend. 

The wedding of the year. 

My world. Sarah beth and Julianna <3

How we are.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:                                                                                                                    1 Peter 2:9

Every secret, every shame
Every fear, every pain
Live inside the dark
But that's not who we are
We are children of the day

So wake up sleeper, lift your head
We were meant for more than this
Fight the shadows conquer death
Make the most of the time we have left

We are the light of the world
We are the city on a hill
We are the light of the world
We gotta, let the light shine

We are the light of the world
We are the city on a hill
We are the light of the world
We gotta, let the light shine

We are called to the spread the news
Tell the world the simple truth
Jesus came to save, there's freedom in His Name
So let his love break through

He will not forget about us.

"We have no electricity, no water, no drains. But we are still alive. God will not forget about us, he created us. That is what I believe. God wouldn't have created this population just to forget about us" - Coming from a Father of 14, one son who is mentally handicapped and his wife recently passed away. 

And I worry, that God doesn't remember I have a school bill to pay, a job to get to everyday and homework that needs to be done - I worry that God doesn't remember about "my" problems. 

My...problems? Having a roof over my head, food to eat, a family that loves me, a school that supports me? 

I don't see any real - problems- fitting anywhere in between all those - blessings- 

After hearing this father talk about his reality, it showed me my reality. That I am blessed beyond measures, that I serve an awesome God. Also that I am still alive, and I serve a living God. Living. Not dead, and still doing that which the prophet Joel spoke of. But Do I really want it? 

He hasn't forgotten about us. 

But have we forgotten about him? 

The Basic's.

It is amazing to be how all the little things, can just open your eyes to what it is all about. 

I started this blog, because a teacher once asked "Have you talked about Jesus today?"

I sat there thinking "I go to Bible college I talk about Jesus all the time" 

But, the more I thought the more I realized. She was talking about simply mentioning anything about Jesus.

Talking in terms of pouring out what the LORD has done for us, sharing our testimonies, or something we read in the bible that day. 

Not just talking, but sharing devolping our thoughts on Jesus, and just loving him. 

I talk about myself an awful lot, to not talk about the King of Kings. 

So it is a basic day, because Im going back to what this blog all started with.

Jesus. 

Matthew 28:19-20

King James Version (KJV)

 ¹⁹Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
 ²⁰Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

"Fade"

Take this song of Love that's written On my heart As an offering of Worship.

Hear my cry, o Lord How desperate I've become For your Love For your love

You can heal me With the touch Or your hand And it's only By your mercy

I can come to you Knowing who I am And be loved Still be loved

Fade me away Let nothing More remain So you can Take your place

We long to Worship you To honor you And give you All the praise

Fade me away

That I may dwell Under the shadow Of your grace God almighty, be my refuge

May the power Of the cross Live in me

Live in me, Live in me...

Jesus my savior We adore you Even the angels Bow before you

Great is the Beauty Of your holiness to meee…


I long to
Worship you
To honor you

And give you
All the praise

Fade me away.

The Rule.

“It’s very tempting when you really want to be with someone to settle for much, much less - even a vague pathetic facsimile of less - than you would have ever imagined. Remember always what you set out to get and please don’t settle for less. These guys exist because there are a lot of women out there who allow them to.” — Greg Behrendt


New Living Translation (NLT) -Proverbs 4:23

 ²³ Guard your heart above all else,
      for it determines the course of your life.

*remember, if you have to change for him, he's not worth changing for and be someone's priority. 

How Scarfing of me.

I am known for my scarfs. I wear a scarf almost everyday, almost.

At work, customers will say to me,

                                                                     "No scarf today...?"

I smile, and say either I didn't have one that matched or that possibly the record heat made me take my scarf off earlier. So I tie them to my purse, I loop them through the sides or hook them to the straps. 

I seem to always have some sort of scarf with me, and I see scarfs and say "Oh...That would look good with such and such..."

What if I wore my lifestyle, like my scarfs?

What if everyday I walked into work and they saw a christian? Asked rather about church then where I purchased my most recent scarf?

And If all they are noticing is what I am wearing...am I missing out on something else?

                                                             I think yes. But I also think I'm not perfect. I won't ever be.

But my God is. He is perfect in every way and he sees me for SO much more then whatever I have wrapped around my neck that day. 

So instead of mix matching scarfs this week, I'm going to try and wrap something else around me, the word of God.               I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. Psalms 119:16

So I may forget a scarf this week, and I may forget my purse or wallet, But I won't forget his world, cause that should be close to my heart.

Exodus 14

Imagine all your life living in bondage.

Creating temples to worship false God's, being wiped for pure entertainment.

Watching your children grow up in a word of hatred, and false religion. 

Building the highest towers, to only watch your own world crumble around you simple because you were a Israelite.

Jesus called them OUT  of egypt.

Just like he has called us, out of our Egypt.

Our world, is not so different from the one these slaves lived day to day in.

The Israelites had been persecuted from the moment they were in Egypt many of us know the story of a little boy being placed in a basket to flout on the waters, into the arms of the Pharaoh's home. We know this man to be Moses, sent to free the Israelites.

We know he ran from his calling, finding strength in those around him, and in a burning bush. He listened to God's voice and followed after what that voice told him to do, and we he finally set out and freed the Israelites.

They looked back and said.

¹²Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

The Egyptians were on the heals of the Israelites, and when they thought everything they have done failed them, Moses spoke to his people - The Lord Shall fight for you.

The Lord will FIGHT for you.

Not only will he free you, give you peace, joy, hope, salvation.

BUT he will FIGHT for you.

The Lord told them to go forward.

"and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord..." verse 18

Imagine, if every time we fell to opposition in our lives if we let the Lord just fight for us.

What if we just put it all in his hands, laid everything before him not withholding anything back from him, simply because we know he is the Lord.

He wants to fight for you. He wants to give you the victory but clenched fist do a lot less the hands stretched out surrounding it all to the Lord.

See before he can win the victory in our life, we must give the fight to him.

Let the Lord go before you today, let him fight your battles.

And through it all be still, because his timing is perfect, his ways are just, and his mercy endureth forever.

Tissue Paper Flowers, for bandaged fingers.

"When My heart won't make a sound, when I can't turn back around when the sky is falling down.

Nothing is greater then this."

Love is right here.

We are all, fragile, like tissue paper.

What's so amazing is how much we seem to forget the person next to us at the post office, across the street or taking our order at our favorite restaurant could be without love.

There is just something about true, pure love.

Not the kind of love though we find in a spouse, a love that is believed to make everything right.

Because Love is already everything, and is already making everything all right.

Love forgives.

When we are children, we want love.

When we our teenagers, our parents fear about our loves.

Then, when we our just us.

We forgot what love even is.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.  ~Mother Teresa

Jesus.

Loved.

And Because of this love, paid it all.

Jesus saw me, as the tissue paper flower that I am.

Being folded, molded and shaped into what I am going to be.

I needed a creator.

My creator paid it all for me.

Made me, changed me, formed me. 

The tissue paper flower that I am.

So today, find a tissue paper flower in the making.

Encourage them, pray for them.

Or if you are the tissue paper flower.

I encourage you and I am praying for

Y o u.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. 

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Label Me.

 Labels - a piece of paper, card, or other material attached to an object to identify it or give instructions or details concerning its ownership, use, nature, destination, etc; tag

    We are programmed to stand up against "labels"

To be our own person, to live to a standard of life style that we want. 

But what if what we want, leads to regret and hurt.

In trying to get what we want, we lose our self respect.

We cast out labels and cast out our self worth. 

What about perfecting ourselves?

And perfecting ourselves for the king of kings?

My other,  is the greatest label one could ever know.

I’m a one God Apostolic tongue-talking holy-roller
Born again, heaven bound, believer in the liberated power of Jesus name
I’ve been washed in the blood, sanctified by the spirit.  

My Identity? My instructions? 

Acts 2:38

My ownership?

Jesus. 

My destination?

Heaven

"The Outside informs the world, what is on the inside" - Pastor LaFave.

I am who I am, because Jesus paid it all. I owe my all to him, everything. Tonight my Pastor taught on a lesson, he taught about "perfecting holiness", not perfect holiness, but perfecting it. He said that holiness is the one thing that we don't ever want to lose, and as long as our church stands, so will holiness. I couldn't agree more with the words being spoken from our pulpit. I felt challenged, to remember that our churches have been growing with the truth everyday, NOT conforming to the world, not creating a "seeker friendly" church in his words. The idea, of changing how we witness, how we connect with people, to have more seats filled in our churches is devastating. But the truth sticks, and where things stick, people stay. I pray that we don't become discouraged because other churches, seem to be bigger, or that they seem to have more "saints". Because the truth sticks, and the truth stays.

Our churches have staying power, our preachers have staying power. 

Our doctrine has staying power.

So today, claim the victory.

Scream with everything you are "I am victorious" 

Because, you are.

Keep Calm.

There are so many ways these days to "keep calm"

Praying on.

Open Doors.

Sometimes, when there may be arguments, disagreements or even tension. 
I leave my door open, so that maybe people won't see it as intimating, open door, open hearts.
I am not even talking about a crack though, I LEAVE it WIDE open. I have a small room too, so you can definitely see everything. I'm not hiding. Just sitting in an open room, waiting for you. 

Through everything I always want to have an open door, open to discussion, chats, anything. 

But What to do when no one wants to come through your door?

They don't even want you in their door?

So you sit there with your door wide open, and realize that no one is even looking your way and if they are they are pretending not to see you. 

So what if we sit in open rooms with no doors?

Nothing.

What about if we stood in the middle of many rooms with no doors?

Nothing.

"Every Wall is a door" - Ralph Waldo

Take out.

I have an idea. See I live in "upstate" NY. I was watching a movie and they got city take out- and I have decided that I want to get "city" take out in an upstate world. 
Or more or less. I like food, so I'll get back to you on the take out world, recently it was nothing impressive cause, well it was nothing. 

Prayer.

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.  ~Samuel M. Shoemaker


I definitely most certainly don't always know the answers to things. 
Actually most of the time, I never know the answer. 
I have a difficult time making up my mind, I struggle with making decisions and sometimes I want prayer to do it all for me. 
Sometimes, I want prayer to SOLVE everything to fix relationships, problems and situations. 
I suspect for God to hear my urgent, tearful, regretful prayer, then rush to fix it. 


But what about fixing me? 
Maybe the reason I am where I am, is to fix something anything within me. 


The answer is, I have no idea what I am going to do with my life, and I have no clue where I am going to end up. Right now though, it's exactly where I want to be. Cause if you were me, you would want the same thing. 


Cause I am not ready to be me, without being all of me.