moving

I can't escape this feeling of being on my way to amazing things. Nor do I want to. I've circled back around to a place with which I'm so familiar - such Joy about being who I am. I couldn't ask for anything more. I'm so thankful for this time I have to rejoin parts of myself that I had ignored. I can't even say I had ignored them. I thought they didn't need maintenance. But everything needs maintenance or else it passes into non-existence. I am everything I've ever hoped I would be, and I'm on my way to delving much deeper into parts I've not yet begun to discover yet.

Happy Birthday, Laurie! You're the absolute best there is! 28 is going to be an amazing year. Oh the stories we'll recall over international phone calls and international dinners. The best hasn't even arrived. O Happy Day this is!

him

This talent mystifies me.

summer 2009

I can't begin to express how much anticipation I have for this summer. My mouth is watering to linger by the pool, and run around town in the heat of the day and warmth of the night. So many things are in store for me. I'm more than sure that every moment will be noteworthy and each discovery a jumping off point for everything else I'm hoping for.

But I promise to you and to myself that my skin will be completely protected from the sun's blaze.

mood indigo

Today I feel like I've lost everything I love, and I have nothing to show for all that I gave. But it all makes such little difference. Soon these feelings won't exist and I will have moved on to the delight of all my dreams.

effortless

This is how I feel today. Light. Effortless. Impossibly optimistic. I'm not in control and nothing is in control of me. I freely give what I love the most in order to receive what I've always hoped for. How lovely to be free and know that I am held together by the power of Your word. I am on the cusp of something so much larger than I am. This makes my heart leap.

concealed

As all of us reflect the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, we are becoming more like him with ever-increasing glory by the Lord's Spirit. II Corinthians 3:18

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. Matthew 13:44

I don't know about you, but it seems to me that before something can be revealed, it has to be concealed. And that is the glory of it all!

LA, NY

"'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven' (Matthew 5:3). The Pharisee's lack of awareness of spiritual need disqualified them for the call of God to salvation. Ironically, the greatest sinners were the ones who recognized who Jesus was when He came. The prostitutes, stargazers, tax collectors and harlots all recognized Jesus as the Messiah."