sigh no more.

seriously love this vid. great reflection of how we look upon ourselves and how God looks upon us. what a difference.


[sigh no more | a reflection of beauty] from JJ Starr on Vimeo.

thank you. feliz navidad.

thankful for these insane people in my life.

i <3 christmas music videos.

Great.

"It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself."

This is one of my favorite quotes. I live my life as if Im significant... and while at some points the world would consider you/me to be significant, our purpose is not to portray that. But it is rather to amplify God's greatness. (amplify has become one of my favorite words if you wanted to know).. but seriously, I can not tell you how many times i am confirmed by my own achievements. I confirm myself that I am "liked", that im "pretty" or whatever else seems cliche, solely based upon if people tell me Im significant. Focusing on the greatness God, and the less(ness) (not a word) of myself is impossible because of how imperfect we are, but having the mindset and the willingness to consider ourselves as someone who "falls short" is important. heisgreaterthani.

freakin excited for Christmas

fun fact: the song "jingle bells" was originally made for Thanksgiving. good.



thats a wrap (ing paper).

love regardless.

Loving regardless is something I strive to focus on. I'm imperfect; therefore, "striving" for it gets ruined by distractions, but God's perfection covers for that. This concept of being joyful goes hand in hand with love. Having a willingness to love  God and love people can only be reached through a kind heart and a joyfulness that come solely from the lord. Something that I will never take forgranted was when a friend told me to 'love w/o expectations.' Hearing that, I kind of shrugged like what the heck do you mean by 'expectations', but really thinking about it made realize how much i expect something back with the love i give. Being nice in the hallways, holding a door open, or whatever it is can be self gratifying but are we doing it to overflow the love that God gives to us, or just to gratify ourselves expecting something from the people with love on?

needto(listen to this)

hmm if you really KNOW me, you know I have a mild obsession with needtobreathe. recently found an older song of theirs.. here it is!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DliS_Eynlaw

love.these.people

call me harry.

we fly high, no lie *

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watch. get tissues. be encouraged.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOljzwNVGNY&feature=player_embedded

unstoppable.

@ church this week, our pastor's main topic of choice was the fact that 'You cant freaking stop our God'. I've often heard people talk about the concept of accepting the fact that we have a God, willing to defend us from anything and someone who's omnipotent, but to be honest I never thought of him as being unstoppable. Weird, the first thing I thought of when I heard of 'unstoppable' was a huge semi truck bull dozing a house (i dont know how to spell 'bull dozingg'). God cant be stopped in whatever situation we are thrown into. HE is constantly active in our hearts, it's just a matter of us letting him work in our lives and do what he has planned. At least we have our Lord. unstoppable. perfect. good.

beyond blessed.

McCartney Rufff----beyond blessed for this girl in my life. She turned 18 this week, and im not gonna lie, its rad to say im best friends with an adult. ayoooo. she makes me laugh till im peeing my pants, and I dont know where I would be if it wasn't for her. God definitely chose a great person to throw into my life, especially at times when I needed her most. love YOU. ready to party hardy at her birthday party tonight.

:)------ hume 2010

in sickness & in health.

crazy birds.

(fan)tastic.

random fact #384-- i absolutely love watching games at school and yelling so much for oaks that I lose my voice; therefore, resulting in my voice cracking in my college interview the next day (hypothetically speaking)

alexa,lauren,&kensy


*shoutout to my girl sarah who just won the championships for tennis... ayo.

"where do tennis shoes live?"
... "tennis-ee"--

being forgettable.

This past weekend I was at the all girls conference at Hume Lake. Kind of having an idea of what to expect, I went into the weekend with the mindset that I would just kind of hear the cliche, the 'your made in Gods image, God loves YOU' cliche that we can get so caught up in, but that was not the case. In the first prayer of the conference, Sheri Lewis, prayed for herself to be forgetable. Now while that happened I just thought to myself, why would you WANT people to forget you? we are called to make this mark on the world shining Gods light, yet you are telling me to be forgotten. Further on that day, it hit me. Do we live life to be remembered? Realizing thats how i live my life so often, I was encouraged to change. Living a life for Christ involves portraying to people why you live your life, why you have so much confidence, and why you love the way you do. In a devotional book I read, it said, 'Do you show others that you have confidence in yourself, or confidence in Christ?'--- relating this to being forgettable, radically changed not only my weekend, but also the way I live daily in accordance to what God has called me to do. be forgettable.

oh ya & for Halloween I was a gnome.