August 2011
1 post
I’m part of an online forum for KC photographers & came across this little piece of GOLD last night. If you’re a new photographer, or a photographer at all, read this & pass it along.
Via Jason Domingues: (I bolded my favorite parts)
…….I thought it was a fluke when I got the first call but after the second and then also running into 2 bridesmaids (in the same...
March 2011
1 post
Johanna & Carrie via Blue Ampersand Photography →
February 2011
2 posts
THOU MAYEST SEEK THY ALL IN ME. Lord, form this wicked heart anew & fill it with thy love.
On my heart this warm Monday afternoon: 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 God is telling me loud & clear that I need to put my finances under a microscope. Redeemer Fellowship just finished their 3-wk series on money and David & I are undergoing the 8-wk Dave Ramsy Total Money Makeover course. Not a...
October 2010
8 posts
Just because you live in the city doesn’t mean you should forget your small-town manners. You can still wave ‘thank you’ when cars let you cross in front of them; you can still let the mom with the screaming baby go in front of you in the drugstore line; you can still make small talk with the person making your coffee. When you start thinking you need to adopt the negative characteristics of the...
“Economical use of your time and money = thrift”
perfect depiction
"How many hipsters does it take to change a light bulb?”
“It's a really obscure number, you probably haven't heard of it.”
If you’re walking with someone, holding hands, and they trip a little, you tighten your grip to prevent them from falling. If you would let go of someone’s hand and just let them fall, you shouldn’t have agreed to hold their hand in the first place. So if someone you love starts to trip a little in life, you need to tighten your grip, your friendship, your relationship with them, to help prevent...
dems da breaks, kid.
i’m a 21 year-old girl dating a 30 year-old man. i dropped out of college to chase my dream. i am too fat to be a part of this new hipster nation.
People love to tell others their life should be more structured. But if you take everything out of a messy drawer and attempt to put it back in neatly, sometimes not all of it will fit. Just because someone tells you your drawers–or your...
September 2010
5 posts
LET THIS PENETRATE YOUR SOUL. IT'S 'EPIC'. →
isolation to community
i have two things going on.
1) isolating myself from shame 2) isolating myself to be numb
1) shame. mmm, my heart breaks at the word alone. the shame comes from my mutilated view of this body God gave me. yes, i still struggle with an eating disorder (a trifecta of anorexia, bulimia, & gluttony) & yes i still see myself as the 265-lb girl that i used to be. it’s such a bizarre...
solomon song
the man just gets me. he gets who God created me to be, & not only does he understand that woman, he appreciates it & draws out this newfound side of me that is the brightest & best i’ve ever been. it’s simply a gift that i know wholeheartedly came from Him. my prayer is this: for wisdom & guidance beyond my own understanding, for truth & a desire for His will...
August 2010
4 posts
hope
almost ninety percent of the time, i bullshit my way through explanations & truth that is this terrible addiction i have battled in the past with food. i bullshit because i don’t want to deal with it anymore. i am so farkin’ sick of talking about food, thinking about food, & catering my life around food so i don’t sink back into the endless black hole that was my anorexia...
right here, right now.
for every line on my body i want 1,000 stories.
of this i am certain. this 9th day of august, 2010: i am 21 years old. i love Jesus and accept whole-heartedly His open armed sacrifice for an eternity with my Maker. i am a single woman. i am still in recovery for a two & a half year long eating disorder. i feel at home in kansas city. i get pure joy from taking photographs & am blessed...
July 2010
2 posts
February 2010
1 post
September 2009
1 post
May 2009
2 posts
little black sandals
I'm being dragged down
Down by the hand
The hand of a golden giant man
He's crushing my knuckles and splitting my skin
He says he will let go if only I ask it of him
He says girl it's your call
You wanna fly
You wanna fall
So I shout I wanna get away from you as fast as I can
I tell my feet to move it
I hope they have a plan
These little black sandals are walking me away
These little black...
mercy seat
“The compassion of God in our hearts opens our eyes to the unique worth of each person. “The other is ourself; and we must love him in his sin as we were loved in our sin.” -Brennan Manning in Abba’s Child
God’s mercy right now seems like alcohol being poured into open wounds. I know it’s healing and I know I need it, but it stings like a you-know-what.
February 2009
1 post
