This Is the Stuff

Life lately has been interesting. Mostly, I've just felt REALLY stressed. Have you ever had that little pit of anxiety that sits in your stomach and weighs on your chest and you just have that feeling. The feeling that the stress will grow. And consume you. Absolutely swallow you whole. Just one gulp is all it will take because you're just so small and helpless. With school, trying to figure out college and scholarship stuff, and my "motherly" nature (trying to fix everyone else and help everyone else) I feel less than paper thin. But through that I can still see that God is good. And he's using this time for a reason, whatever that reason is.

"The LORD your God is with you. He is mighty to save. He takes great delight in you. He will quiet you with his love and rejoice over you with singing." Zepheniah 3:17

What to Write About...

Today was a half day at school and I promised myself that I would blog today (See, I'm actually trying to make it a priority). But as I sit at the computer with a stomach full of BlueCoast Burrito, my mind falls short in the creative category. On most of my favorite blogs (see Here. Here. and Here.) there are some sort of "Favorite Things" Posts. So here are 10 things I love at the moment...

Ten Things I Love...

1. I am obsessed with all of Emma Leonard's artwork. Magnificent.

2. This reminder that sometimes life is actually as beautiful as I dream it to be

3. Moments like this one.

4. Let's get a {pretty little coral} trailer.."

5. I just love floral!!

5. My heart cries JOY for this picture..

Isaiah 61

6. Can I have handwriting like this please???

7. I'm seriously in love with these books.. Like my heart beats faster every time I look at them.

8. This beautiful pattern (Floral, again, I know)

9. This Hair (see how to here.)

10. This video by the wonderful Drew and Ellie Holcomb (Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors)

It makes my heart HAPPY.

Starting Over

I've wanted to be a blogger for a long time, believe me I've tried. So I felt like I needed a fresh start- a blank canvas. This is my last year of high school and soon I will be moving onto college and then wherever God takes me. Am I nervous? Nervous is an understatement. All I can do though is pray and rest assured that God has already made a place for me at a college, He's already laid out a husband for me, an occupation for me and many blessing, as well as trials, for me. I am some what of a control freak. I hate feeling out of control but God is teaching me that his plans are far better than mine and I can have faith that he has a plan to give me a hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11). So I am trying to break my grip on the steering wheel and enjoy life as God takes the driver's seat. So here goes nothing..

Enjoy the ride.

"I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord." Psalm 27:13-14