sparknotes because hamlet

graduation party planning

ed sheeran

finding out that my car windows aren't broke I've just had the window lock on since I bought it

praying 

thrifting

crafting

hammocking

percy jackson reading

freezing because weather

singing and dancing in my car all the way home from work

reading through 1 Corinthians 

what have you been up to lately?

G R A C E

This weekend wasn't grand, it was normal. My family continued to get over sickness, everyone but me that is. We mostly just sat around, cleaned up the house a little, and relaxed. I went to the pond and tried out my new hammock too :). Saturday night was different though.

I usually have my quiet time before bed. I read my Bible, pray, and then drift off into dreamland. This night was different though. I have really been stressing out about this stupid ACT/college crap. I've given everything to Him, but being the planner/worrier that I am it's hard to try not to worry about. I try to pray when I know I'm fixing to start stressing out about it. Anyway that was a side note. 

Saturday night instead of reading first I prayed first. I prayed that He would continue to take the burden. That He would do His perfect will. I then opened my Bible. I have been reading through 1st Corinthians so I went to turn there, but my Bible opened to a bookmark that my best friend had put in Jeremiah. She had put it there to help me remind her what her life verse is (Jeremiah 29:11), so naturally when my Bible opens there I usually keep turning. This time I felt led to read it though. I read the following...

     "For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart."

This was comforting to me. Sometimes we all feel like God isn't listening. We feel like He is too big, with too many real problems to care about our little people problems. This verse tells us that that's a lie! He listens. He cares. The God that made and hung the stars is holding your heart and guiding your path! God always knows what you need when you need it. 

Today I wanted to give you a little hope for your Monday. God loves you. Trust Him.

G R A C E

Yesterday was my birthday. My 18th birthday. I'm an adult now, by government standards anyway. My whole life up until now has been an awkward stage, and I'm pretty sure everyone else's on earth has been too. Now, however, I'm at a different stage. I've now reached this stage...imagine you're on a pirate ship (or any ship, but pirate ships are more fun so let's go with that.) Anyway...you're on a ship your whole childhood and the ship is great fun. As you grow though, you get closer and closer to walking the plank. By 18 you have to jump off of the plank but you don't fall into the shark infested sea right away, instead it's like on those old cartoons where the character is in the air and stays there for a while and then falls. Being 18 feels like that. You know that pretty soon you are going to have to plunge into the water, but for now you're teetering in mid-air.

Okay so maybe that analogy is just a little extreme, okay a lot, but I do feel like the fall is coming. I know that pretty soon I'll be swimming with the sharks, and on my own. That's scary, but it's also really exciting. I am so excited to see where God takes me in the next season of my life!