Savannah, GA

Here are my 3 favorite photos that Momma took in Savannah this fall. :)

UPDATES

Tomorrow, I register for my LAST Spring semester ( my second to last semester of college)!! :D

Tomorrow, Shawn & I get to see WICKED!! :D

$84 have been saved towards the chapel rental!!

I've raised $70 for St. Jude!! :)
(Wanna donate? Go here.)

I got a $135 photo session, $35 revision session, & $100 towards prints for $50!!
Can't wait to have photos taken with Shawn. :)

Life. Is. Good.
Glory to God!! :D

Our New Friends

A week or so ago, Shawn's friend, Joseph, asked him to go with him to talk to some people living under bridges on Ellington Parkway. They went and met some really good people. They asked if there was anything the church could get them, and they simply asked for blankets. Nothing else.

The church held a blanket drive the following Sunday. It turned out great!! I'd say there were about 15-20 blankets/sleeping bags donated. (Almost all of them were brand new!!)

Last night Joseph, Jara, Emma & Joe, and Shawn & I went to hand out blankets.

It was a really neat experience. :)

Joseph & Michael

Shawn with Mr. Country & Little Stevie

Joseph with The Twins, Robert & Carl

GIVE THANKS!!

Goals and Losses

Goals
Weight: 110-140 pounds
Body Fat Percentage: 18-22%
Waist: 32 inches

Starting: August 13, 2011
Weight: 183.8 pounds
Body Fat Percentage: 39%
Waist: 42 inches

September 10, 2011
Weight: 174.6 pounds (-9.2 lbs)
Body Fat Percentage: 37% (-2%)
Waist:

October 22, 2011
Weight: 168.0 pounds (-6.6 lbs)
Body Fat Percentage: 36.4% (-0.6%)
Waist:

November 19, 2011
Weight:
Body Fat Percentage:
Waist:

Total Lost:
Pounds: 15.8
Inches: 19.5
Body Fat: 2.6%

Words that Drive. Pt 3

*Note: This is not a christian song, but it was playing on my Adele Pandora station and still struck me.


Arms by Christina Perri


I hope that You see right through my walls.
I hope that You catch me, because I'm already falling.
I'll never let a love get so close.
You put Your arms around me, and I'm home.

I tried my best to never let You in to see the truth, and I've never opened up.
I've never truly loved until You put Your arms around me.
And, I believe that it's easier for You to let me go.

• I've built up walls. I've got walls with my parents, my friends, my teachers, Shawn, and I'd say mostly with God. Granted, the walls with everyone, except God, are mostly demolished. I think that's because I feel like if I do something or say something wrong that they can't judge me because they've done or said something wrong at one point. Kind of a splinter/plank in the eye kind of mentality, I suppose. However, those walls with God seem to be reinforced with steel beams. I try not to let Him see the truth in the horrible things that I've ever done. I'm terrified that because God's perfect, He'll look down on me because of my mistakes. 
• I pray that God will catch me because I'm constantly falling.
• "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is Love." 1 John 4:8 Honestly, one can't love until they let love in. How am I supposed to love Shawn, if I can't let God love me?
• "You put Your arms around me, and I'm home." -- That finishing line sums it up. Although it is so easy for me to believe that God giving up on me would be easier than Him coming to my rescue every 5 seconds or so, I'm sure it seems to Him, I know that when He puts His loving, kind, and gracious arms around my weak and meager flesh, that I am home. I'm where I belong. I'm a daughter in the arms of my Father. 

Words that Drive. Pt 2

Let It Fade by Jeremy Camp

Have you been walking on a surface that's uncertain?
Have you helped yourself to everything that's empty?
You can't live this way too long.
There's more than this, more than this.


Have you been standing on your own feet too long?
Have you been looking for a place where you belong?
You can rest, you will find rest.
You can rest, you will find rest.


Have you been holding on to what this world has offered? 
Have you been giving in to all these masquerades?
It will be gone, forever gone.
It will be gone, it will be gone.


Are you carrying the weight too much?
Are you running from the call?

• I realized I started growing and falling back in love with God, and then *poof* it vanished. I suddenly felt like I was standing on my own feet on shaky ground and I was reaching out for anything and everything that would pull me out. But, you see. What happened was that I would pull and pull and pull but soon I realized that these ropes weren't attached to anything because I was pulling on the things of the world. All that effort was unyielding. Now, I'm reaching out and pulling and pulling and pulling, but this effort won't go unrewarded because it's God's coat tail that I'm tugging at. I'm asking, begging, and pleading for Him to pick me up. My legs are tired and it's getting difficult to support myself on such uncertain land...

Let this old life crumble; let it fade.
Let this new life offered be your saving grace. 
Let this old life crumble; let it fade.
Let it fade. 

• I'm done. I'm letting the old ways crumble into dust. Once it does, I've got a thing or two to say to Satan, "Eat. My. DUST!" The old me is going to crumble and fade away. I know I've been saved by His grace. It's about time I started living like it!