Saturday, October 29, 2011

Drive All Night



Last night I went to another Needtobreathe show with a few of my favorite people. We road tripped it up to Chattanooga to get another fix. I have seen this band 7 times. I will never sick of seeing them. I think I could see them once a week for the rest of my life and never tire of it.

Needtobreathe puts on a special show. It's the kind of show where you wish you could freeze each moment and relive it over and over. Passion just flows out and every bend of the guitar string is dripping with soul. These boys believe in music, they believe it's powerful and magical and it shows.  They move you, they inspire you, because they believe in what they do.  They are also the epitome of cool, I think every person in the venue has a crush of every member of the band by the time the show is over. They really are something special. I would strongly encourage you to get to a show if you ever have the chance. You won't regret it (well you might regret how much you fall in love and how instantly obsessed you are, but probably not)

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Tounge Tied

Blond hair
Broad shoulders
Side smile and ice blue eyes
Will be the death of me
I swear

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

This was fun

Type these words into your music library and name the first song that appears


Happy: Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - David Story Love:  Make You Feel My Love- Adele 
Light: All Those Pretty Lights - Andrew Belle
Dark: Dark Hotel- K.S. Rhoads
Good: The Feel Good Drag- Anberlin
Bad: Bad Kids- The Black Lips
Smile: Smile- Stephen Speaks
Cry: Laugh So You Don't Cry -Andy Davis
Girl: Hey Girl- Dashboard Confessional
Boy: My Boy Builds Coffins- Florence and The Machines 

Monday, October 17, 2011

"Why am I afraid to dance, I who love 
music and rhythm and grace and song 
and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, 
I who love life and the beauty of the flesh 
and the living colors of the earth and sky 
and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who 
love love love?"


Eugene O'Neill

Sunday, October 16, 2011

"I'm tired of justifying....the fight for you is all I've every known..."








There is this band.
This one band that I happen to really like
But one that I am always hesitant to listen to
You see they remind me of you
And I'm afraid you'll sneak back in
That through the lyrics and melodies 
I'll let my guard down by accident 
and you will flood in and take over again
Your name flows through their words, each note
And I can't let you back in
I can't survive it.
So every time I hear their familiar songs on I close my eyes and prepare for you
I fight back memories 
I try to focus solely on the music
and sometimes I am not up to the fight
and I simply sigh and change the song
Today though, today I don't mind the battle.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Just Remember


My small group is doing a 30 day Scripture Challenge as a part of our series as church. Basically we are just committing to dive into the word everyday. It doesn't matter what you read or how much read, just that you read every day. Then we have an e-mail thread and we e-mail each other every day with what we are reading and what we are learning from it. It's been so awesome to not only have that accountability but also to see what everyone is learning and to learn from that as well. To grow together through the scriptures.

Anyway I read Ephesians 1 yesterday and thought I would share what I shared with my small group.

I feel like I am in a funk and a little life crisis. Nothing that everyone doesn't go through, but tough still the same. I feel a little lost in my own life. Like I don't have direction any more. I came to Nashville with such direction. I knew exactly what I wanted to do and the industry I was going to be in. Music. There was no question in my mind that it was going to work out. Well it turns out it's been a little harder than I thought and things just haven't worked out. What I used to be so set on I now have given up on for the time being. The passion that so consumed my life and heart now seems to be burning out. And friends, that's scary. It's scary when what you've planned on doing doesn't happen. You have questions like "Well what do I do now? What can I do now? I don't know how to do anything else. I'm not good at anything else." and even "Who am I? Now that I don't have this thing that I thought would define me, what do I have?" that last question is silly, but it still gets asked. So when I read Ephesians 1 it gave me a huge reminder.


 I wish I could just copy and paste the whole thing onto here. But that would be really long, and silly. So I'll just tell you a little about it...

 Paul is telling the people about the spiritual blessings they receive in Christ. It starts off by saying "Praise be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ." Every spiritual blessing. That. Is. Cool.

 Then he goes on to talk about how God chose us before the beginning of time, how in love he predestined us to be his, to be adopted. How he gave us Christ for forgiveness and redemption, for his pleasure and will. He ends the section by saying: "Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession- to the praise of his glory." I don't know about you guys, but that gives me chills every time. 

 I needed desperately to be reminded who I am. Whose I am. It's so basic but it's so easy for me to lose sight of. What a miracle it is that God choose me, he predestined  my heart to be his. I have been given every spiritual blessing in Christ, in love. I am filled with the Holy Spirit and the power that comes with that. I am God's daughter. There is great purpose in that. No matter what my days are filled with, job wise, relationship wise, I have quite a calling and quite an identity and I need to rest in that. 

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Lately

Here are some pics of what life looks like lately:

 Wine with Dinner
 Sweet time in the Word. 
 Fun fall outfits and new glasses 

 INcredible Needtobreathe Secret Show. Swoon
 Waiting in line in the rain for the Needtobreathe show. LOVE these girls 


 Baby girl's second birthday. And her DIGGING into that cupcake. Like a boss
 My nieces bring me so much joy 
 Lyric texts from my dear friend

Tea in my Dallas Texas mug. 

Life is sweet 
Things that make me seriously happy:



-restoration of friendships
-OU football
-the chill in the fall night
-the smell of bonfire in the air that always seems to come with the fall
-candles burning in the house
-laughing with girl friends until you cry
-a glass of wine with dinner

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Steve Jobs

‎"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle." --Steve Jobs 


‎"...because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” - Steve Jobs







Thank you for all you did Steve.


Today, I'm inspired. 

Saturday, October 1, 2011

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