front porch

Last summer I fell in love.

I fell in love with a couch on my front porch. But my love was taken away from me when we were told by our landlords that we weren't allowed to keep the couch there. My heart was broken.

Summer is coming around again. I'm living in a different place and spending time on a different porch. Expanding my porch-sitting experiences has helped me to realize something: some day when I grow up (or just some day soon), I want to have a front porch with some serious sitting potential and space to put a couch.

Looking forward to falling in love with another couch and porch ...

the paper kites

Sometimes I wonder if you guys get sick of me posting about music. Then I just tell myself that you're probably really thankful to have someone with such great taste in music giving you suggestions.

Joking! Well, kinda. Obviously I like my own taste in music because I'm me. Anyway. Here's another one for you that hopefully makes you smile inside.

Scratch that. I'm posting two because they're both great. Sorry I'm not sorry!

evangelize

I'm reading "The Fuel and the Flame" by Steve Shadrach (side note: it takes me foreverrrr to finish a book). It's about campus ministry and it's 100% awesome. And 94% convicting.

Today's excerpt comes from a section about evangelizing, and how so many of us prefer "sharing" or "letting our lives do the talking." These aren't bad in and of themselves, but it's not good if we use them to avoid our responsibility to win people to Christ.

"Webster's definition of evangelize is 'to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity.' Is it wrong to have as your goal to win someone to Christ? ... If love is meeting other people's needs and the essential need everyone has is to establish a personal relationship with their Maker and Savior, then the greatest act of love I could ever show anyone is to give them an opportunity to start that relationship."

yarn bombing

these. are. SO. COOL.

Whoever is behind these: brilliant. I would love to see graffiti like this pop up in my neighborhood. I can't knit, but that tree is so awesome it makes me want to paint one.

night comfort

I've been waking up earlier than usual. Which my body does not like since I'm not going to bed any earlier.

I'm tired, but I still have some work to do tonight (did I ever tell you I am a professional procrastinator?). The sounds of the night, the highway, and Phil Wickham's latest singalong album are comforting. Just gotta get a few things done before I can let them sing me to sleep ...


Oh, btw, Phil's second singalong album is free for a month - check it out!

new website

YOU GUYS. Guess what? After a few trials, I've finally created a website I'm happy with. It's pretty simple - just one page with a quick bit of info about what I'm doing and where God has me right now.

But it's pretty, right? =]

It's got links to important websites, shows you how to spell my last name correctly, and even has little icons that make it easy for you to share via Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.

If you're super excited about what God is doing on campus at U of I through GCM and you are dying to tell others about it, this would be a great page to share with them (so they can get in touch with me and I can tell them more about Illini Life's mission and vision!).

I also updated the "My Passion" page (up top) to include the link to my website, so if you want to find this page in the future, that's one way to do so.

Check it out here!

re-learn

Sometimes you have to re-learn things in life. Oftentimes you gain an even greater understanding of what you're learning/re-learning. I feel like that's the case in my life right now. Re-learning how crazy awesome prayer is. And understanding it more.

One step back, two steps forward?

A little more specifically, last Thursday a handful of us spent some time praying for an outreach opportunity for a friend. Friday night God provided more than one opportunity. I'm pretty sure God was just waiting for us to ask. He was so pleased that we asked because he wants to bless us. He wants to be our provider. He wants to give us so much if only we ask!

nick of time

Love in the nick of time

until you listen

Some songs sound great until you listen to them.

The first time I heard "A Team" by Ed Sheeran it was actually a cover by Birdy. Both versions are great.

Want another one?

the cost

Currently listening to: