engulf

"you slowly lifted your head from your hands
you said "i just don't think that you'll understand
you'll never look at me that way again
if you knew what i did"

and so your tears fell and melted the snow
you told me secrets nobody had known
but i never loved you more, even though
now i knew what you did

oh, my dear, ill wait for you
grace tonight will pull us through
until the tears have left your eyes
until the fear can sleep at night
until the demons that you're scared of
disappear inside
until the scale begins to crack
and the weight falls from your back...
oh, my dear, ill keep you in my arms tonight."
-tenth avenue north: oh, my dear

i'm in love with this song.

engulf: to submerge, to plunge or immerse, envelop, bury, inundate, deluge, swamp, to swallow up or overwhelm by or as if by overflowing and enclosing, consume

i love the fact that i'm covered. i am drenched in an embrace...i exist under a waterfall of love...i'm enveloped in this hold...all the time...and when i question...i'm covered in the One who knows all the answers and all the mysteries...whether He decides to let me in on them or not...i can trust He's the one who engulfs me...grace will pull me through.

summertimeee:)

i love flowers.
and i also love miss karly marie.
she is the essence of sweetness :)
yep.

so it begins...

^presenting: snalphonzeez and daisapple :)^

first days of summer:
botanical garden walk
superheroes
breaking-in
graduation
ambush
adventure.land
party
sleeping in :)

summer has officially started and it is going quite well. i've decided not to waste this summer, and i'm looking forward to what the Lord has in store...

a tribute

^onething '09^

^onething '09^

^onething '09^

^onething '08^

"oh my Lord, to suffer like You do;

it would be a lie to run away."
-jon foreman

this post=tribute to

my notebook

yes, i am officially on my last page.

it's kind of bitter-sweet. i have had this notebook since july 7, 2008, so that makes this thing almost two years old, and yet it contains so much of my life. i have grown so much in the Lord since that first entry. i love looking back over everything that's happened, prophetic words i've received, words from the Lord's heart, and messages that have impacted me. i love the tea tabs. i love the packed pocket in the back. i love the notes from friends. i love being able to say i have the same notebook as osa. i will probably continue to carry it around for now, but for now the search for a notebook that can take this one's place...which will be a hard thing to replace ;)

and so the hunt begins.

puting my mind on a page.

"that’s what we as musicians walk around every day looking for. the feeling. with me it usually starts in my fingertips and shoots straight to my heart. it takes over and for a second i don’t know what to do. it’s an explosion. sometimes i want to throw my guitar down and crush it to death. sometimes i cry my eyes out. sometimes i just look over at one of my friends and smile. because they feel it too. i know they do.

it doesn’t only happen with music either. you never know what’s going to make it happen or when it will happen, you just love it when it does. i think it’s the best when it happens in a song, of course. i love that it doesn’t happen all the time. it makes you work harder.

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i feel really uncomfortable and unbelievably nervous standing on stage in front of any amount of people, but you put a guitar on me and i could care less if there are 100,000 people out there. i don’t care if i hit a bad note. i don’t care if my guitar is out of tune. i can’t really explain it, but when i’m playing guitar it’s like i feel so powerful. i feel like i’m (slightly) in control (but incredibly out of control) of something that is so much bigger than i could ever be. like i’ve tapped into this other world."

-james duke (john mark mcmillan's lead guitarist)

he just explained two of the hardest things to explain for me as a musician...

go james duke!

p.s. he is in a band called all the bright lights. i think you would like it. you should go listen :)

click here.