love never faileth.

thats what i'm talkin about.

chennergy

when i get married or engaged i want them to do my photos.

check out website here.
check out the best of 2009 here.

free rice

for every right answer, 10 grains of rice go to the hungry. 

go now. answer some silly vocab words. help feed a person.

(also- World Food Programme-check out the 12 ways to fight hunger this season).

merrrry day after christmas

find more alphabets here

 Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come

merry christmas, let us not forget why.

"let this be not of our hands, but by your Spirit"

words whose meaning has been growing more and more as of late.

i've never felt more out of control of my own life as i do right now.

i'm weak, i need God.

my ten current happies

1. banana cake for my mama's birthday

2. seeing friends you havent seen since summer

3. movie nights with the fam

4. theological talks

5. seeing zach in 11 days:)

6. painting the tree today

7. new fisheye camera

8. slouchy greeen beanie

9. cooking with my sisters

10. being in california.. aka not freezing weather and in n out

relax

being home never felt so good

the toppest tops

decatur or round of applause for your stepmom--sufjan stevens

brainwascht--ben folds

book of love--peter gabriel

heaven--brett dennen

chariot--page france

i bet you do--dan miles

you have my attention--copeland

dashboard--modest mouse

honey, let me sing you a song--matt hires

skinny love--bon iver

sleeping sickness--city&colour

little shadows--yeah yeah yeahs

we're all in this together--ben lee

people get ready--curtis mayfield

you've taught me now--aaron espe

hills of indigo blue--future of forestry

winter song--sara bareilles&ingrid michaelson

all that i want--the weepies

little motel--modest mouse

blessed--brett dennen

twice--little dragon

we walk--the ting tings

i'm learning that it's easy to say that God has a plan, but a lot harder to live life accordingly.

brett. dennen.

crystal ballroom

tuning his guiiiiitar

too excited

our friends:)

askdjhglkasjdgh <3

bff

best. concert. ever.

dear weather, please warm up, you're too cold for real life and i dont like wearing 78 layers. dear heater, work better please. dear next wednesday, please come real fast so i can go home. dear finals, please PLEASE don't be too hard. dear chamomile tea, i love you so. dear amtrak, sorry but i sort of hate you. especially when you are 15 hours long and i am by myself. dear best friend, thank you for always being real and loving me. dear roomate, you're loud. dear heater, work better please. dear yellow beanie, thank you for keeping my head warm but NOT thank you for making me have a dread lock the size of my fist on the back of my head. dear chinese noodle day, you're the best and i cant wait for you. dear hulu, thank you for having good shows. dear california, i miss you too much. dear mama and daddy, i also miss you too much. plus thanks for always supporting me. dear levi jeans, you fit so nicely, i never want to take you off. dear self, thank you for not being a vegetarian anymore because i love meat! dear aramark, sometimes i hate you and sometimes i love you. dear jesus, you are the best and thats putting it lightly.

daddy

the smartest, most selfless, godly, loving guy i know.

(my dad's a stud:)

ohh today.

when did school get so hard, JEEEEEZ.

i have like a million papers due next week.

overWHELMING.

my life seems so crazy right now. finals in two weeks, 67 meals left on my plan to use up, in NINE DAYS, more homework and studying in this week than i've had all semester, all my christmas advent calendar chocolates gone, taking ANOTHER 15-hour train ride home for christmas, which is in like 23 days (not that i'm counting...). 

i am also looking at other schools for next year and trying to finish applications and scholarship applications as well.

i'm not trying to whine, really. but everything is all over the place.

hence, this. one thing that never ceases to give me comfort is as follows; 

God is constant, i am not.

its something thats been on my heart a freaking lot lately. i need to pound it into my brain. malachi 3:6.

so we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. for what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 corinthians 4:18

he is my favorite.
<3

this day, i am thankful.

i am thankful for a sovereign, forgiving, faithful, loving, powerful God.
i am thankful for my parents and the love, care, perseverance, patience and strength that they have, that they never give up on me.
i am thankful for my beautiful, lively little sisters.
i am thankful for my friends, the people that love me, challenge me, help me, bring me joy.
i am thankful for the boy who changed everything, who continues to encourage me and love me and be real with me and challenge me every single day.
i am thankful for laughter. i am thankful for big hugs and mashed potatoes and warm blankets and tea. i am thankful for sparkling cider and little kids and books and my cats. i am thankful for redemption and grace.


i am thankful for this day that the Lord has made, i will rejoice and be glad in it.

i lahhhv this girl.

if life is just one ridiculous attempt to stay alive after another, i'm doing pretty good.
and if life is a contest to see who can procrastinate the most, and be the most laziest, i'm also doing pretty good.
and if life was created for the dreamers, to stand by and watch from the sidelines while hoping they get an opportunity thrown at them, i'm not doing too bad.
but if life is about doing and being and thriving and searching and telling and helping and loving, i've got some work to do.


and do work, i will.

oh

my cardboard life

ohhhh yeeeah.

makin a PLAN.

Plan.

promoting child rights to end child poverty.

one week

til i get to see this kid again:)

don't play with your food.

find more here!

simple.

fear God and keep his commandments.

--ecclesiastes 12:13

again, i'm amazed.

the human system of blood vessels - arteries, veins and capillaries - is over 60,000 miles long. that's long enough to go around the diameter of the world more than twice.


blood takes about 20 seconds to circulate throughout the entire system. the human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps, to squirt out blood 30 feet high and pumps nearly five quarts of blood through the body every 60 seconds.

the human eye is composed of more than two million working parts can distinguish 500 shades of gray

the skin contains approximately 640,000 sense receptors

six billion steps of DNA are contained in a single cell. this DNA can be stretched six feet, but it is coiled up in the cell's nucleus, which measures only 1/2500 of an inch in diameter


the acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades


 each time we blink, our brain kicks in and keeps things illuminated so the whole world doesn’t go dark each time we blink, which adds up to be about 20,000 times a day.


the human brain has a raw computational power between 10¹³ and 10¹⁶ operations per second.






what the...

wise

"where a lack of desire for communication with God pervades, no communion with God will exist."

chance? no stinkin way.

how great is our God?

it would take 23 years 105 days to get from Earth to Pluto (which is 3.57 billion miles away) on the fastest space shuttle.

the earth is 7,925 miles in diameter. the diameter of the sun is about 109 times greater than that of Earth, at 864,330 miles. 

Our Milky Way galaxy of stars is so huge that even at the speed of light, which is 299,792,458 meters/second, it would take over 100,000 years to travel across it.

The Pleiades star cluster is 24 quadrillion miles away from earth. not 24 billion, not 24 trillion. 24 quadrillion.

how small do you feel right now?

but even more,

how great is our God.