This life

"This life is yours and hope is rising as your glory fills our hearts.

LET LOVE TEAR DOWN THESE WALLS when creation will come back to you, 

its all for you." - Tear Down the Walls by Hillsong United

First of all: if you haven't listened to or bought the new Hillson CD yet, you are missing out big time.

Secondly: its titled, "A_Cross // The_Earth: Tear Down the Walls"

so, I was driving back from work today and it HIT me....

A wooden cross and our earth divided; tear down the walls.

Bring heaven to earth! Cool, Hillsong! way to play on words. Across the universe let LOVE tear down the walls between a cross and the earth!

Dear summer, 

you seem to have broken me a little bit in a beautiful way so far, but I'm pretty excited to see where everything is going to lead me. Just promise not to break me in a negative way. I want to be encouraged, in love, humbled, loved, forgiven, worth something. In my God, I have that, I am that, because of who He says He is. I have a faith proved of more worth than gold. Summer, there will be so much growth and joy in you. Hope is rising.

Sincerely, 

Samantha

sweetly broken.

I have nothing to say, but I want to write.

I have nothing to offer, but I want to live.

Despite this, I can and will write; I can and will live.

Bittersweet might possibly be the worst feeling ever.

"All of my life, in every season, you are still God. I have a reason to praise, I have a reason worship."

you. are. still. God.

I am who I am in my broken, dirty, sinfulness apart from you,

but you are still who you say you are. You are still God.

No matter what breaks, no matter who breaks, no matter when my heart is broken-

you are still God.

This summer, I will rest in that.

I'm starting to feel again. Hosanna!

Humbled.

I am so humbled. 

I was restless, and now I am at peace. Was blind, but now I see.

Amazing grace.

Off I go! day by day, I want to fall deeper in love with you, God. 

I want to constantly die to myself.

"Sam, turn around and face your savior. Tell Him the desires of your heart. Tell Him whats up."

God, you are tearing down walls all across the earth, and in my very heart.

I'm in for an awakening of my soul this summer and I can't contain myself!

Lord, USE ME! 

"Save me! I'm all yours! I look high and low for your words of wisdom!

The wicked lie in ambush to destroy me, but I'm concerned only with your plans for me.

I see the limits to everything human, but the horizons cannot contain your commands!"

Psalm 119: 89-96

I have nothing to give, for I know you satisfy. All I am is nothing.

So, here I go. I'm stepping into YOUR wealth and YOUR spirit to claim who I am

in you.

All glory and the power is yours, Amen!

Summer 2009: here I come!

Hosanna.

Today was a beautiful rollercoaster ride JUST to remind me: love is a verb.

I'm going to dive into John 17, and enjoy these next few weeks.

When all else fades, my soul with dance with you where the LOVE last forever.

Dear world, 

Goodnight for now. Maymester, consider yourself conquered! My heart will sleep in peace, genuinely through grace tonight. I'm preparing for the next few weeks of burying my heart so deep into a community of counselors on fire for our God, loving kids, and showing them love; love as a verb, then jumping into a week at the beach with my lovely small group ladies from athens, and then to rest in what will one day become my home in another country.

God, you are good. How great is our God.

Do not worry, in ALL of this we are more than conquerors. 

Love, Samantha.

You'll come.

Inhale.

My heart was so beautifully broken today. I won't be seeing any faces the rest of today I think. 

I want to sit, and listen, and just BE, and know that He is God.

I'm so excited for the next few days. I have a feeling that I will learn so much.

My discouragement is changing. I no longer will have an expectation from any earthly man, woman, or event. I'm trusting in the one who is holding me, the one who hold my soul, the one who calls me clean, beautiful; beloved. 

I am still running. 

I am seeking this out.

I am giving it up to YOU.

Shadow am I

Shadow am I.

Mewithoutyou, Oh how I have missed you.

I love this weekend :)

Today.

Words of affirmation.
Lord, thank you for them.

I once wrote, "Today, I took your advice and skipped down the halls."
Today, I'm altering this.

I love days like today where memories overlap and new memories take the places of old ones. Often, scars will become something to look back at and smile.
Days where I want to meet alone with my God, honor him with my schoolwork, dive into great music, read an even greater word, enjoy a cup of ethiopian coffee, and simply do the earthy works that I have to do in order to honor the heavenly works my father set for me long ago.
Today, I'm resting in Ephesians 2:10.
Today, I'll genuinely smile at the autumn sun in a Milledgeville summer sky. I will wear sweat pants...all day...and feel beautiful, I will get all that I need to get done, done, and Lord, I will be encouraged.

This is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it.

te envio un besito.

what a day.

Good love is on the way.

what else?

"Stars do not last forever. At the end of their life, they explode, or they fall apart. But, either way, they're emitting their energy into the very space they came from."
-Dr. Donovan Domingue

In Genesis God says to let the trees grow from the very seeds in which they were planted.

"What else are you going to live for except what is keeping you alive?"
-Dr. Donovan Domingue

What else can I do but worship?
what else can I do but bow?

This Astronomy class is creating an awesome movement if anything, in me, and I can't wait for these next few weeks.

"A lamp on a stand is what you've called us to be, but I desire to be a lighthouse."
-Brett James Shields

recent.

I'm learning to love pictures like this lately...

along with my obnoxious laugh, and lemon-lime gatorade.

I'm excited for these next few weeks.

one word: motion.

"You're sparkle is the reflection in my eye."

What we hate we make, what we hate we make.

There's no time for hatin'

'cause what we hate, we make.

Somethings about to change, 'cause I can feel it in my heart today

and I know its not the first time, but I bet it won't be the same

'cause you know I'm at an all time low,

so, heres a song just so you won't go. 

'Cause thats the only thing that I know.

waging war.

I AM winning .

Breathe

"I guess the answer is: don't do it in the first place."

-The Special Two by Missy Higgins

I'm loving Missy Higgins lately, and this new chapter beginning to be written.

Well, here we go!