She's home!

Chelsea and I love to go out and just have fun. One night we needed a Seattle trip (something we do often), to celebrate Chelsea coming back up to WA. After taking pictures for my assignment I played around with my camera and got this picture which is worth more than 1000 words. Its us to a "T"!

Be MY Everything

You know that song be my everything? It says God in my thinking, God in my working, God in my waking....his words are so powerful, yet I dont think that we grasp them completely. It says "be my everything" wow. Be my everything, I'm just trying to think, do I let God be MY EVERYTHING? That's a big statement, and as much as I want that to happen I just find myself still trying to have some control. I find that when I'm driving I'll space out or day dream about what I would love my future to be but not what HE wants it to be. And with school I now know that what I am doing is what he wants for me but I still don't allow him to fully take control. I want God to be in my laughing I want him to be my hurting, I want him to be my everything. So why can't I just let go?.....God why can't I just let go? Why is it so hard to give you the full control? "Christ I me, Christ in me, the hope of glory...." God you are what i want my life to amplify and Im sorry if I haven't been doing that. Lord just reading your word I want to just sit and soak it all up. I miss being so close to you, I miss that urge of wanting to get into a deeper relationship with you. God, thank you. Thank you for still being that friend, and father who no matter what you still give 110% of yourself when I sometimes only give you 50%. Thank you for movin through me, for putting people like Alison, who has mentored me through the stupid things I have done. For giving me Chelsea, that best friend who prays for me, who gives me scriptures to read when I'm struggling....thank you. Thank you for putting yourself and making yourself MY EVERYTHING

TOMS One Day Without Shoes 2011 - Will You Join Us? - Song "One Day" by ...

Way to go TOMS! I hope people were able to participate in this amazing event to raise awareness. If you did I would love to hear all about it!

That one little face

Its crazy how something just seems to hit you hard. Last night before I went to bed I was looking on facebook at CMIA (Christian ministries in Africa) an organization that I teamed up with when i was in Africa. Anyways, I was looking around and then I saw this little boy. He lost both of his parents to AIDS and he is deaf. I started crying for no reason, and just laid in bed wondering why. Like why does this little boy along so many other children around the world have to deal with little things like this? And to be honest they arent really even little things, they are matters that have made their life a living mess. It is so hard for me to grasp the concept of the pain he is going though. I just love watching the things that just effect people, and for me this is one of them. And to just sit back and not do anything makes it even worse. Man, just writting this brings tears to my eyes. I am just wanting to go back to Africa SO bad. Cuz kids like this need love, and they need to feel like they belong to someone....man oh man, life is just full of ups and downs. You always want to try and help someone but yet dont feel like your making a difference at all. I just keep telling my self that I am, and hopefully one day I can go and give this boy the biggest hug in the whole world.