Men

Can I also tell you that I am ALL about this men's hair trend. ALL ABOUT IT

Where the wind comes sweeping down the plains.

Tomorrow I am hopping on a plane and heading "home" and I say "home" because my parents just moved to a new city about and 1 and a half from our old home and this will be the first time I go to this new place. But they say home is where the heart is right? So I guess wherever my family is, that's home.

Anyway I am SO excited. Like woah. I get to see my parents, my grandparents, my brother, my sister in law, my nieces, my favorites Lisa, Michael, Cory, Reeves, and Taylor and my dog. Oh goodness it is going to be a week full of 5 minute hugs and laughter.

Things is Nashville are great but a little time away is going to be oh so good for my soul.

i, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

anais nin

Yep

(via Meg)

Hippie Hair

Ya'll, this stuff is CHANGING MY LIFE.

Best thing since sliced bread. For real.

(I'm on day 2 of not washing my hair...gross or awesome? I choose awesome)

Run Run Run

I completed Week 1 of Couch to 5K. By day 3 I wasn't completely dreading the run. I was actually looking a little forward to it (but just a little). It was an escape and by the end of each run I felt great. This week the running segments get longer. I feel the hate of running slowly fading away.

Yes, I realize this photo is completely fake, but still, every time I look at it I get chills and have a mini panic attack. Can you imagine.

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It's an incredibly good and a sometimes painful thing when God places people in your life who challenge you to be a better you. To be more like who God created you to be, who He longs for you to be.

Sometimes they are fully aware of the challenge they are giving you. When they see something in you, or an action you take and they call you out on it. Or they make you think about something in a way you've never thought about it before. Or they just remind you something you once knew, once held close that you somehow let slip.

Sometimes they have no idea the impact they are having on you. Just being around them makes you want to be better. To live better. To be who you are supposed to be. It may be an innocent comment or action that catches you off guard and makes you think and reexamine parts of your life.

And all of a sudden things start to come into focus again. You see that sin or attitude that you have been trying so hard to ignore, or that passion you once had comes flooding to the surface, or you realize why you do some of the things you do, or a teaching or scripture you once held dear is brought back into your life with just as much power as it had before. And it's beautiful. Even in the painful moments of seeing things in yourself you wish you didn't see, it's beautiful, because you are becoming more beautiful. You see this person for the complete blessing they are.

And you're thankful. So very thankful