how we be

WHOA, hey!

so Jesse and I got each other some instruments for Christmas. We did presents early this year because of timing with seeing each other and everything. I got him a second-hand (steel-string) lap slide guitar and he got me a melodica!


So awesome!!


please take note of our Charlie Brown Christmas tree. It is elegant, I think.


also, you know, I've decided it's okay to sometimes get a little personal on here... I mean, I'm assuming only people who actually want to read this, read this - versus me publicly posting my thoughts and feelings on something like facebook where people see what I am doing with my life whether they like it or not.

That being said, I wrote this in my journal the other night, and I want to share it here. I was writing it and even kind of thinking about my blog and everything. Maybe it can be encouraging, or challenging. I hope it is:

Dec. 19

You know, life is just too short to live it miserably.

And with everything I know, with the information I have, I choose to believe in freedom, living fully. Understanding that God is fully pleased with us. I want to believe in miracles. Miraculous transformation, people changing, lives being completely turned around.

I want to infuse all of my actions with a sense of deep hope. Like the french verb espoir -- hope with a sense of certainty .. with a faith not dependent on myself but in God. A faith in God that leads to a belief, an adherence to the fact that yes, I am worth loving. People are worth loving.

I don't know. I'm sitting in church and I just feel this sense that these past few months I've been only living to half of my capacity.

I just think so much in this life pulls us forward, pulls into reaching our full potential. And that takes imagination, to literally visualize ourselves where we are not, but were made to be.