New inspiration!!

Nothing makes me quite excited as getting new ideas for interior design (for some reason). I'll be posting updated pictures of my room in a few days after I finish something. I'll just say I love rustic glass lanterns and birdhouses and clouds. :) Happy Saturday!

I'm going to try and make this short...

just because it's sort of a simple idea and I don't have much to say about it. And no one likes reading long posts. But I did want to mention it. Monday night in anchor groups we were talking about faith being so much more than an "emotion" and how the church is so focused on getting you "emotionally wound up" when in reality, God/faith/worship/discipline is so much more than that. This was good for me to hear because I don't always "feel" like loving God. Sometimes you have to make a decision to do something even when you aren't in the mood. Then the next night at 1822 during worship I found myself...I don't want to say bitter...but...confused? I was listening to the music rise and rise and saw the band get more into the song as it built and I was brought back to this idea of emotion. I felt weird and almost like I was being tricked into a feeling. Shouldn't worship be so much more than an emotion created? Should our faith be guided by an emotion? And then a thought popped into my head...there is no emotion in religion. It is dead. But what IS full of emotion is a relationship. Emotion is the center of relationships, in fact. I am so grateful to say that I have a relationship with Jesus instead of a religion. And now I believe that I have a right to emotion and passion. I never want to over analyze worship again. I just hope that any feelings created in my faith walk have nothing to do with lighting, intense guitar strumming, etc. but only feelings which are created by God's presence. Eh, let me know what you think.

I hope they hire me when I'm 18.

I've said this before, but I really do enjoy some beautifully creative stop-motion. by Anthropologie.

Tell me when you hear my heart stop.

You're the only one that knows..

Tell me when you hear my silence.

"You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness."

-C.S. Lewis

I love love love

spending time with homeless people and learning about peoples' lives and trying to find a bathroom in VCU and chai tea with soy milk and live music and the energy and crazy perverted hicks and Connor's face as people destroy his house and making Eric stand in front of me because he's tall and otherwise they'll swing their fists in my face and it's funny because I think it's dumb but they look like they're having fun and I just stand there and nod my head and don't get the urge to hurt people and egging Scoob on to do a Ten33 song and talking about crews because they take themselves so seriously and going to Sheetz and random talks with Hannah and Marykate and taking a chance and Radio War.

Been cleaning my room all day..

Going

a bit

cray-cray

Here at 6:15 I decided to take a break, sit down and look at some Ellie Goulding on youtube. She's a British artist with a beautiful voice. She does a lot of covers, all of which I love. The first video is her covering "The Cave" by Mumford&Sons. If it gets to the middle of the song and it sounds unfamiliar, it's because she does a little jig, if you will, of her original song "Starry Eyed". But I love Mumford. And I love her. And the two songs blend nicely :) I was just going to post that video, but then on the sidebar I saw a video of her covering "Only Girl in the World" by Rihanna. Granted, I don't even like this song. But Ellie covering it along with about ten other people doing orchestra-esque music to it was quite delightful. Check it out. And take note of the cute way that she uses the word "lad" ...and pretty much her overall accent. *sigh* I want a British accent.