Status of Mission: Accepted and Excited

The consistency of my posts has gotten so bad, I'll login to blogger and imagine myself seeing a higher number in my number of blog posts than the last time. This time its gonna be fo real.


My Jesus is absolutely, 100% or more amazing.
 Just because that is the truth.
                                                                          

 

And don't His glory shine!

The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.  (Hebrews 1:3)

                                                                                                                             

And now that He sits right next to the Majesty, He leads me through a mission. A mission that is so highly valuable and precious, I really always doubt that I will make it out victorious. But! He promises that I am not the only super agent on this mission. He promises to guide, love, and carry me through this undertaking. This purpose encompasses every single part of my life; every nook and cranny. The pursuit isn't over until I am with my Savior, glorifying the Majesty. Which, will prove more than worth all of the twists, turns, jumps, and ducks my mission took. 

In fact, I think the mission I am on is far more rewarding, precious, spectacular, and joyous than any other thing I could ever do.

Will I ever be able to do it on my own? Never.
Will I fail? All the time.
Can I do this? Not really.

Won't Jesus love me all the way through? With a steadfast love.
Will He ever fail to share His beauty with me? Nada.
Can my purpose in Him be bright, shining, and alive? I certainly plan on it.

So,
I accept. And with my soul bursting with excitement.

(PS. Don't you just love my blog header slideshow?! ^ Its so cool. All credit goes to Zachary Bruno. You should really check out his blog: http://zacharybrunomusic.blogspot.com, he's one talented guy!)

Life in a blog post.

Loooong time, no expansive post.

But in the mean time I have been:


flying wit de birds

traveling to the moon

 chilling with Einstein

 making new friends

 considering joining Hollywood

discovering future job possibilities

enjoying a good meal here and there

(and I wasn't the only one)

chilling with the night life of Caliiifornia

working on that thing called sleep

watching little girls become big girls :')

initiating summer into session

 

seeing God in this place

watching the moon rise

admiring textures

still doing that education thing

painting with my hands

oh yea, and taking pictures

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780 Pictures Later...

A New Face for February

To Lend a Helping Hand

A Picture a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Okay! So to start this off:  Something a little late for Valentine's day and to honor amazing men who (although commercialism forces them to do so) get ahold of the good stuff to give to their ladies. :)

And now for something a little less delicious:

Since allllll the photographers are doing it! I hopped right along and joined the Project 365 train.  Or, it was more like I thought it was my own, original, brilliant idea, and it turns out millions have been doing since before I was 3.  But big thanks to Sonja Langford (abygonetime.blogspot.com/) for giving me the nice, little push I needed to just do it!

So it has been one month! Here's a couple of the pictures and their sentences (not onnnnly was it challenging enough to take one picture per day, no matter where I am! but, some people thought it in need of further hard work... so everyday a sentence goes along with the picture. No judging!)

A life lived in light blooms the brightest.

Life is loved in all languages.

Life rocks my socks off.

1 ball + 10 pins = challenge.

Today, I took a _______.

Oh, I LOVE the rain!

My tears seem to have fallen on the outside, blurring the light and blurring the hope.

Life can make me smile.

If flowers were moments, good AND bad, I'd pick every one of them!

Just play the next chord, cause the rest are unpredictable.

Don't stop playing dude!

^I think that last one is my inspiration to go onto the next round and take the next 31 pictures!

Well, this post has been:

Challenge

Today, I feel challenged.
Challenged to not worry about the rest of today.
Challenged to live the lifestyle God has given me.
Challenged to be willing to trim my hair with faith that it will keep growing after that.
Challenged to live and share my story.
Challenged to every day be a better photographer than I was the day before.
Challenged to be willing to hurt.
Challenged to speak truth, and nothing but the truth.
Challenged to meet challenge with a smile on my face.

Maybe it is because my brother is home and he is the epitome of challenge or maybe it is the new year, but (no maybes included) I do know, it is God who is challenging me.
And the funny thing is, God is the one challenging me, yet, ultimately, it is only Him that will have the ability to face that challenge (and with gusto)!! But, I am glad to not be facing big, scary challenges all on my own.  In fact, it is comforting that God is holding me in His hands while He presents these challenges.  It is actually really cool and gets my adrenaline rushing!

Somedays I feel like this:

And other days its more like:

Then sometimes I talk to God kind of like this:

Aaand a lot of days life is like this:

But I always want to be like this:

Strong, vibrant, sturdy. Never willing to leave God's hand.

Also, I'm excited to get to see this out of my window at 2 in the morning: