Last 30 Days of NYC-Day 30

Today, April 26th 2012


NYC today you brought me:

1. A "Good Morning" greeting from the Hale & Hearty Lady who has always loved what she has done!
2. A Walk to Chipotle for Lunch with a slight rain starting to fall. 

3. My normal coffee run to Starbucks with more rain showers! 

4. Dinner with a friend in Upper West Side and Pinkberry for dessert :) 
5. Finished packing up my room for the new roommate to move it! God is SO good :) 


The beauty of this life is that we get to experience everyday as if it is our last -- if we choose. I don't tend to be negative, but when I do feel my heart slipping from that of grateful to pitiful, I pray I remember days like these.

 Days when my heart couldn't describe the peace and my walk surprisingly turns into a skip. 

There are simple joys in each day that we should all embrace. I move to Dallas Texas in one month, and this day starts 30 Days of grateful love for this city. The simple days to the eventful days. There is always something new and exciting to speak about!

Stay tuned for more schedules, memories, and skipping through this city <3

What Lies Within You?

I saw this image today on Pinterest and I realized, what a true statement. How many of us take what happened in our past to bring us down in our future?

Out of all my post, this will be the shortest, but I believe powerful in the same. What lies within you that could change the course of your future and help you let go of your past? I ask you this to not call you out, but to examine your heart. We are all here for a purpose! You went to the university you did, the high school you graduated from, the restaurant you might have ate at last night, and the apartment/house you live in right now all for a purpose. You are in your block, neighborhood, and city for such a time as this.

Not only do I love the picture for the quote, but for the image. A Cowgirl. I don't know about you, but the few cowgirls I have met in my life are tough as nails. They do all they do with passion, heart, and courage. They push themselves in all areas of life until it hurts. I pray that as I get older and one day when I have kids that I teach them that no matter what lies behind them or in front of them, what matters is what lies within them.

Maybe you needed to be told that today to. So let go of yesterday, grab those reigns and get ready for the ride of tomorrow <3

Overwhelmed to Overflowing

Have you ever felt overwhelmed? I have. Most of my life I have felt overwhelmed, but in a sense of suffereing, pain, or heartache. So whatever overwhelming feeling you are feeling, don't worry, I probably have been there; along with a few other million people.

Overwhelmed. A word that could depict most of our lives as we run day to day trying to pick up the pieces left from the day before to make it to the next. Today's post really has nothing to do with writing a blog, but more for remembering a moment. 

The moment when I truly was overflowing instead of being overwhelmed. A moment when my cup was so full of finally seeing all of the Lord's goodness and amazing love in my life. Tonight, sitting in a circle of friends in New York City, eating food we had cooked together and drinking a glass of wine in coffee cups. No royal engagement, no passover dinner, but a night where God showed up. 

He has taught me so much in the last 8 months I have lived in this city. The main one, being overwhelmed isn't a lifestyle I choose to lead, nor one I would encourage any one else to lead.

A few insights...

Being overwhelmed:

1. Isn't trusting that God can handle it all, it's taking control and believing you are the one handling it. 

2. Doesn't get you ahead, it makes all the work you do now and in the future less of "amazing" because of your lack of concentration. 

3. Isn't living, its surviving 

Overflowing:

1. Is a joy that can't be measured or even spoken, for some simple words of Oh What a Savior will do...

2. Is a feeling of love, rainbows, cupcakes, and beauty all in one smile

3. Is an emotion that isn't driven off the need of anyone elses approval, but of the complete satisfaction in Him and Him alone

I don't pretend nor I ever want anyone to believe that I know anything at all of what all a walk full of your cup overflowing looks like. I pray every day I learn more and more of what this is...so then when I know it fully in heaven, it will make these days all the more sweet.

So as I said, tonight isn't really for anyone else, or maybe it is, but it's more for me to remember of my cup overflowing.

What a time for the Lord to reveal it to me, the same weekend I am remembering His ultimate sacrifice. He sacrificed so I could be satisfied. He laid down His life so that I could live my life. 

Oh What a Savior...How my Cup is Overflowing

When It Comes...Will you Be Ready?

Hello Wonderful Readers,

It's been a whirlwind of a couple of weeks, and oh goodness, how the Lord has wrecked my heart with crazy change, hope, joy, sorrow, and a loss for words.

God has given me a calling, a love, a passion, and a generation. He has brought me from ashes to beauty to share the Truth of the Gospel and to encourage others that there is something better. We all search for hope, we all search for true love and happiness, and we all are searching for ourselves. We have seen the way in which we have failed and though we try not to, we sometimes lose heart. We lose our way from finding joy in the midst of the days, to being despaired and full of heartache and worry.

I come to you today not to preach to you, but to sit down with you and grab your hands and say "I've been there, some days I AM there." I want to tell you that you are not alone and you have been give a gift. A gift to be exactly who you were meant to be. You have the friends you have and the family you were born into and the job you are talented at for such a time as this. I want to sit with you because I want you to not give up. To not believe the lies of the enemy that tells you that what you are doing today, in this moment, does not matter.  

As young men and women we are always waiting for the next journey to rise us up to be all we were made to be. In high school, we wait till college; in college, we wait till marriage, and in marriage, we wait till children, and so on and so on. A continued web of doubt that you are never at a solid confident place in your life.

God has given you this day, this moment, this journey for such a time as this. I don't want you to say when it comes I will do this; I want you to say I will do this now, so when it comes, when He calls, I will be ready. 


I am ready for this next journey in my life only because I know that Jesus has sat me down, held my hands, and said:

"Don't Worry, I've been there, and my daughter, I AM always there with you. I want you to know that you are not alone and that you have been given a gift. A gift to be exactly who I have made you to be. I have given you the friends you have, the family I bore you into, and the job you will take for such a time as this. I want to sit with you because I want you to NOT give up. To not believe the lies of the enemy that tells you that what you are doing, today, in this moment, does not matter."  

My Friends, I am moved with more love and joy than I have ever felt before. I see the beauty in the midst of the unknown, and with all of my heart, I pray that God would overflow your heart with His love and joy.

When it comes, when your whole life changes in the midst of a season, will you be ready?

"And He made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment -- to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ." Ephesians 1:9-10

He's ready to take your hand and guide you, will you let Him?  

A Matter of Change

Hi Guys,

Have you ever thought your whole world could change in one second? Most of us have experienced some kind of tragedy or death or even a moment when the world seemed to stop moving. This can range from moments in relationships when your whole original course for this person completely changes. Or it could be the moment you realize what you want to do with the rest of your life is opposite of the road you are taking.

Moments of change build into the journey of life. 

This happened to me last Tuesday at 4:45pm. The course of my life that I had thought was "right on track" was completely put off course. Do I have any idea what exactly the future holds? No. Do I know that in that moment the only thing that mattered was knowing that in Christ alone I will be okay? Yes.


Though our life constantly changes, God never does. He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. 

So I write this blog today to encourage you and warn you, don't get so caught up in the current course of your life that you forget the original course set for you is probably very much different from your present stage.

God has given us a calling to ride this wave of life and continue to do so whether the storms come or the sun shines. No matter the weather, don't change the course of your ride for fear of how big the next wave might be. 

So yes, deep and even a little metaphorical, but you see my point. Change is inevitable, but how you deal with the change, that is irreplaceable.

A matter of change is in ever moment.

So live for the moments and hope for the tomorrows <3

"This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." Psalm 118:24

Reality of God's Joy

Hey Y'all! 


I am so excited to be able to post another video for the series "The Reality of the Gospel." God has given us so much in this life to take and use for His Kingdom and Glory! We have been given the tools, the community, and now I pray this is your encouragement. 

Before and After: Reality of God's Love

Hey Blog Readers,

So most of you are friends with me on Facebook, but I am still going to post the three videos on here for the purpose of having them all together! :) Hope you all enjoy and know without a shadow of doubt that you are LOVED! <3