A sibling project

I spent the day helping my brother Jared work on his geography project. It's much more fun because he is really into it and is enjoying finding facts and building this board that he has to use as a display at our next co-op meeting!

Look up

Sometimes its comforting to just stop and look up at the big trees covering you and let your perspective change. Suddenly you feel pretty small! Life is bigger than we think sometimes when all our minds are wrapped around is what's right in front of us. :)

A dying rose

I finally took the time to take a picture of this rose before it was gone! It smelled so good and was still so lovely even with the petals shriveling up and falling off. I love roses and as luscious as they are freshly blooming there is something delicate and old fashioned about a dried out one too!

A slice of pie

Yes, the perfect thing i needed for today! It was fun to make, fun to decorate and take a picture of, and then, of course, fun to eat!! Not to mention my little brother Jared helped which made for some nice time together.

The power of music

Today my heart wasn't in everything that i did. But when i play the piano i can't help but feel peaceful and calm. Music reaches deeper inside of me than i can go without it. Music is releasing. Music brings life. Music is a channel God has given us to glorify Him, and I'm so thankful for this gift in my life.

All I Have

If all I have is what you give, that will be enough

if all I hear is what you speak, that will be enough

if all i know is what you teach me, that will be enough

-(part of a worship song i listened to last night)

God causes the rain to fall and the sun to shine. He knows exactly what we need. With our fretting we cannot make anything come to pass outside of His perfect plan. :)

I look not back

I found this hymn today and the lyrics spoke straight to how i was feeling today-

I look not back; God knows the fruitless efforts,
The wasted hours, the sinning, the regrets.
I leave them all with Him who blots the record,
And graciously forgives, and then forgets.

I look not forward; God sees all the future,
The road that, short or long, will lead me home,
And He will face with me its ev'ry trial,
And bear for me the burdens that may come.

I look not round me; then would fears assail me.
So wild the tumult of earth's restless seas,
So dark the world, so filled with woe and evil,
So vain the hope of comfort and of ease.

I look not inward; that would make me wretched;
For I have naught on which to stay my trust.
Nothing I see save failures and shortcomings,
And weak endeavors, crumbling into dust.

But I look up--into the face of Jesus,
For there my heart can rest, my fears are stilled;
And there is joy, and love, and light for darkness,
And perfect peace, and ev'ry hope fulfilled.