I already have everything else.
The reason I am chasing after you
is because your eyes are too simple to see the brilliance that I polished you with that day in the darkness
your ears too dull to hear the waterfall I poured into your mouth
your hands too rough with the world to feel the love that you yourself possess
because I loved you first.
Stop chasing after these mad answers,
and quit trying to understand ME.
What you need to know Ive already told you
what you need to see I paint for you everyday
in the sky
on the grass
under the depths
through the waves of sound you encompass
and everything is evident that I do not wish to conceal.
During these 27 months inside of you
I see you’ve begun to realize the expanse of my emotions.
Sometimes I cry too.
You notice my rain when your siblings don’t and you ask my opinion like a true daughter;
dont think I cant see your motives, though.
I know you want to change, I can feel it
you want to feel, I can help you change
you want to blossom too quickly yet
just be patient.
Everything is under control, just wait.
Your motives are pure and your dreams are mine
but your wish for a lack of time is disgusting.
I will always love you and I will always be here waiting for you to turn your head back towards the sky and smile and cry at the sight of my face.
I will always want you and listen to your thoughts without judging you because I made you, after all, and your mind is the most precious pattern I wove, after your delicate soul.
You will never understand, nor will you catch even a short whiff of the fragrance I am deeply breathing inside of you.
I’ve never seen the crossing close around these parts. Reminds me of home #littlemoments #midwest #railroads
Being challenged and calling each other higher spiritually! I love these times with my best friend and marathon partner. Let’s make it to the finish line! #Hebrews12 📖📜📚
One of the things I love about him is when he spontaneously asks to slow dance. In the museum, in the butterfly garden, waiting for the train, saying goodbye–it always catches me off guard and is infrequent enough to be so, so special. He’s a hopeless romantic ☺️
PRAISE GOD!!! All thanks to HIM:
- The institutionalized oppression, systemic racism, and pessimism surrounding my success as a black, female student has crumbled
- My future children now have a better chance of graduating both high school and college
- God has blessed me with graduating honors, Magna Cum Laude
- Probably best of all, God has graciously and completely undeservingly allowed my graduation to be a fulfillment of Matthew 6:25-34:
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
To all my fellow graduates of the Class of 2015, both Music Therapy Candidates and otherwise, CONGRATS!
To God, my best friend, THANK YOU! I quite literally could not do it without You!
Okay… Not only did she win the Scoreathon contest, but not days later ALSO just won the Contemporary Writing and Production Web Design Contest! Sadie, the Lord is looking out for you!!! #doublewin #whatsnext #glorytoGod!
Celebrating Sadie’s AMAZING 1st place win of the Berklee Scoreathon Contest!!! And to think she wasn’t even going to submit at first… Girl, you playin! #miracles #Godgiventalent #YAY! 👏👏👏
*Whom have I in heaven but You? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my
portion forever.*
What happened to my heart, man? It’s crazy how quickly a few days, months,
years can change my sinful human heart from desiring God alone to desiring
the things of this world. I miss undivided devotion. God, please help me to
get back to that, and even deeper! This new phase of my life is a quest for
patience, undivided devotion, and surrender to God’s beautiful, perfect
plan. There is nothing better than a lifetime with the Lord. There is
nothing better than the unfathomable peace I will finally encounter when I
see Jesus Christ face to face in heaven. THIS is the hope I need and so
desperately want to place my security in. This is the hope written about in
the letter to the Hebrews; give me my anchor, Lord!
*We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure (Hebrews
6:19).*
My prayer for today: for God to make my heart like David’s!
*But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into
the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and
clothing, we will be content with that.*
Each day the sun leans gently over the horizon, beckoning earth’s sleepy citizens arise. And so they do, surging (especially in these bustling United States) to the day’s demands. The sun, meanwhile, takes his time as he meanders thoughtfully across the great vault of the heavens. He’s in no rush. He’s done this before. After about eight hours, he reaches his destination, and earth’s inhabitants scurry to find shelter from the shadow that swiftly swallows their cities, towns, and villages. Another day, another dollar.
But consider this.
The sun is a ferocious furnace of flaming gasses, literally (yes, literally) 100 times larger than the earth, suspended over NOTHING. Its radiance provides the energy for every organism on the face of this planet. One way or another, your body runs on the sun. His rising and setting is merely an illusion caused by the rotation of the earth, which is spinning at a bark-stripping speed of 1000 miles per hour (more than five times faster than the highest recorded hurricane winds). Meanwhile - if that weren’t enough - the earth is careening around the sun at a startling 67,000 miles per hour - or 18.5 miles per second (snap your fingers twice - you’ve run more than three marathons). And consider that this process is so meticulously fine-tuned that you would never even suspect the violence involved in the rising of the sun.
Just another day, huh?
First night ever in NYC (for me)! 😍 Here we go… #letitsnow #arrivedjustintime #bffs
In 6 days, He made us meet our goal. In 16 days, He SURPASSED that goal by 20%. I’m so confused, but moreso intrigued to see what He will do in the next 8 days!
Ephesians 3:20-21:
“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”
#immeasurablymore #thanweevenIMAGINE #soconfused #inawe
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1712748946/midnight-lantern-the-album
Nbd… my best friend @jeremyminsk just made me a SECRET BOOK VAULT NBDDDD #secretwill #secretinheritance #secrettreasure #bffs