"You,

I always seem to do the same thing. Run to God only when I'm heart broken, then allow Him heal my heart, only to run away again. Then I find myself sluggishly climbing back into His lap with tears on my face. 

It's been quite sometime since I've last ran to God, and now I'm been broken again but I can't seem to find God's lap. I don't even know if I truely want to find it. I'm obsessed with meeting you, my future husband. So much so that I forget the One who is going to lead me to you. How can you find the treasure without the map? Or at least the right treasure. Right now I need to stop searching for you, and start looking for the lap I so desperatly need to climb up on. 

Who knows, maybe God doesn't entend for me to be married, maybe you don't exist. But I hope you do because I love you already. 

Right now I'm saving my heart for that lap, keeping it safe in God's hands. I'm handing over the pen for Him to write my love story, to Him who wrote the most beautiful love story between a Savior and His people. I'm sure He can handle it."

-Anonymous 

busy busy.

Wow! I haven't posted in a while!
it's been a busy summer. Er... really I should say a slow summer with weeks of extreme business! 
The first part of the summer was busy in preparing for our Youth camp.
Ok so because of youth camps being so expensive, our church decided to put on our own. this year it was just our church but because it went so well we will most likely will have other churches joining us next year.
So the camp was... well amazing. I have never been to youth camp before... and this year I had the privilege of going as a  camp leader/counselor. I was also a bible study leader. I grew a lot closer to the youth in my group, and learned quite a bit from them. The theme of the week was what our soul craves (we went through Erwin McManus' book). I may post more about that week later


So next up is a mission trip to Conneticut. I am soo excited for this. I went last year (and it was my first mission trip) and it was such a blessing. the only thing I'm NOT so excited about is a 2-day Bus trip up there. day and night. with 30 people. but even though it might be cramped... it still should be fun.(:


and then... at the beginning of August I am going to a pre-teen camp, where I will be the photographer for the week, and a friend of mine the videographer. (:
Each night we put together a short video with pictures and clips of the day so that the kids can see themselves the next day. Then at the end of the week we make one of the whole week, and burn them on DVD's to give to each church group that came so that when they come home they have an already made video to show their church if they would like.
I did this last year, and I am so excited to see the kids that we got close to!


oh and in a few weeks our puppet group is doing a show at a library, and we only have two weeks to prepare! So needless to say my mother and I, have been busy writing and making all the props to a whole new show... pretty hectic!


well that's all for now, although I'm sure something else will be added to the list...
but I'm excited about what God has accomplished, and what he has in store!

Set Apart This Dream

by Flyleaf



Close your eyes little girl
You're a princess now
You own this world
Twirling in your twirly dress
You're the loveliest far above the rest
You build your castles in the skies
Stars reflecting off your eyes
And angels sing on silver clouds
And no one cries screams or shouts'

Ooohh set apart this dream
Set apart this dream for me
Set apart this dream
For me

Close your eyes pretty girl cause its easier when you brace yourself
Set your thoughts on a world far off
Where we only cry from joy

Ooohh set apart this dream
Set apart this dream for me
Set apart this dream
For me

Oh lovely and beautiful
Precious and priceless
You're so much more than you know
Heart of the purest gold
Pure clean and white as snow
Clothed in such splendor
Oh what a beauty for me.

Set apart this dream
Set apart this dream

Ooohh set apart this dream (set apart this dream)
Set apart this dream(set apart this dream for me)
Set apart this dream for me

Digital Re-decorating

Lately I have been pondering on re-decorating my room ( since I now actually have a room with four walls as opposed to having all my stuff in the dining room. :P ) and I think I have settled upon a design...

Here's the room now....

So I decided to take this picture and play around with ideas in Photoshop Elements
and here is what I have come up with...

more or less this is what I think I would like....
(please ignore the poor editing skills. :P )

I don't know if you guys remember, but a while back I made a R2-D2 cake for my nephews birthday. Well when I was in the process of making the cake, our five year old neighbor was over visiting, and before I had even iced the cake, he exclaimed "R2-D2!!". Ever since then he has gone on and about how for his 6th Birthday he wanted "Dantha" on make him an R2-D2 cake.
This weekend he had his 6th birthday party and he got his wish. He was so excited that everytime someone showed up he ran up to them and said, "Come look at my R2-D2 cake!!!"

Adding to the excitement of last weekend, I also received a whole new set of amazing cake decorating tools! :)

It's 40 things in a tool box for $40. I am soo excited and can't wait to try all the new tips and such.

Will surely be posting pictures of all my experiments :P

Sara Edwards

"They say there is a young lady in New Haven who is beloved of that Great Being who made and rules the world. They say that He fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight, and that she hardly cares for anything except to meditate on Him. If you present all the world to her, with the riches of its treasures, she disregards it. She is unmindful of any pain of affliction. She has a singular purity in her affections. You could not persuade her to compromise her true Love even if you would give her all the world. She possesses a wonderful sweetness, calmness, and kindness to those around her. She will sometimes go about from place to place, singing sweetly. She seems to be always full of joy and pleasure, and no on knows exactly why. She loves to be alone, walking in the fields and groves, and seems to have someone invisible always conversing with her."

This is written of Sara Edwards (my new role-model) by her future husband Jonathon Edwards.
My ultimate goal, is to have that radiating beauty she had by making Christ her first priority, her source for life.