front of my eyes
•septiembre 24, 2008 • Dejar un comentario
I’ve just come to realize how selfish I’ve become recently. Really, lately I’ve become so wrapped up in my own world. It’s so easy to get so focused and involved in doing your own thing, reaching your own goals, dreaming about your own dreams, thinking about your own circumstances and how you wish you could change them. Ugh. It makes me disappointed just thinking about it, because that’s exactly what I’ve been doing. This life isn’t supposed to be all about me. That is the farthest thing away from what God has called me to do. I don’t know why it’s so easy to get swept up in my own agenda. I’ve to come to realize (and am still realizing) how important each and every day is. Each and every person, each and every moment… I want to get back to serving other people. I want to reach out to others again. I want to make a difference. Not for my own sake, but for others. I want to start living the life I was created to live. But I want to stop thinking about myself. I want to get back to what’s important; what really matters, instead of this material junk. Instead of this idea that I could be somewhere else, doing something else, talking to someone else. I need to remember that I’m experiencing this time in my life for a reason, and the future comes soon enough. I need to stop looking ahead so much, otherwise I’m going to miss what is right in front of my eyes.
Sometimes…
•septiembre 25, 2008 • Dejar un comentario
Sometimes I think God brings certain people into your life, right when you need them most. Sometimes it’s not always as long as you would like, but I know he’s got a plan and purpose for everything.I’ve made a few changes pretty recently, some easy and one not so easy. But you know, it’s not always easy to do the right thing. Sometimes what you want, and what you need don’t exactly match up. But I’ve had to learn the hard way in order let go of certain things and people. You make mistakes. You do things you shouldn’t have done, you say things you wish you could take back. I am not surprised, but I am amazed at the amount of patience God has had with me over the past year. I always seem to find myself pressed up against a wall at the end of a road I insisted on taking even though I knew better.
But somehow, in the midst of this year, no matter how hard I tried to close myself off, he still found a way to speak to me through the people around me. I love all of the people that God has placed in my life because each one has touched me in such a special way. I think it is so beautiful the way God can use anyone, even if they don’t know they are being used.
Doubt
•septiembre 25, 2008 • Dejar un comentario
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerfulbeyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.We ask ourselves,
who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?Actually, who are you not to be?You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated fromour own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Honey, you are a rock upon which I stand•
•septiembre 25, 2008 • Dejar un comentario
Coldplay has always been my favorite band, since I can remember. Perhaps that may seem lame to some people..but what can I say? Everyone has that one band though…that band that they claim as
their own. There is just something about their music that has drawn me in since the moment I heard them. It’s the feeling you get when you can’t help but listen to a song over and over again.
It’s the lyrics running through your head all day. It’s the tune that slips out of your lips in a solitary moment. It’s a very power and special thing when you can personally identify with an artist’s work. Whether it is a painter, photographer, singer/song writer, dancer..you name it.We are emotional creatures, looking for a connection, desperately searching for some type of identification.
Though my personal beliefs tell me this connection can be found in someone much greater than a simple song or poem, I do still believe these things still have the power to effect who you are and how we live our life.Coldplay is my band. Those are my songs, my words. And even though there is a chance I’ll look back 10 years from now and laugh at how much I ‘loved Coldplay’, I’ll also remember all the memories that I tied to each one of their songs. You can’t deny the type of effect that music has on your mind. That’s why I almost laugh whenever I hear someone say “I LOVE music.” Honestly, who doesn’t? Music is everywhere.
My favorite!
•octubre 10, 2008 • 4 comentariosI love working with people and being able to capture what I see in them. In fact, the majority of my photographs tend to be more about me than my subject. I like to think I am able to capture something more than what they even know about themselves. I see a beauty in others that most do not, and it is this quality that I strive to elicit through my work.
I have a deep love for God’s creation and the people he has placed in my life. This is what I feel most natural doing, everything in life has prepared me for what I am doing today. Now I just want to share it with others.
