When the rain comes.

This weekend was great. We went camping with my brother and his family. SO much fun. Although I really wouldn’t call it roughing it when you’re in a camper with AC, ha. To me, nothing beats a weekend where you’re just spending time with family, the ones you love, the people you do life with. 

I love my family. They are my rock. 

Yesterday we went out on the Gulf to go scalloping, spent some time on the water swimming, grilled out on the grill for lunch. Pretty much the day was perfection.

And then the rain came. 

Pretty much the day was beautiful and then we saw that the sky was getting dark so we decided it was time to head on in. But the rain had no mercy. We got caught in the rainstorm of the century. There was no staying dry as the rain was coming down hard and FAST and we scrambled to keep everything dry that needed to stay dry. We were all trying to take cover and huddled together and here we are out in the middle of the water and my poor brother trying to steer the boat when you can barely see ahead.

I was pretty sure this was going to be the next big flood and somebody forgot to build an Ark, ha!

It might have been one of those “you had to have been there” moments…. But all we could do was laugh though because at that moment that’s all you could do and memories were made.

I really wish I could have videoed the whole thing. It was quit comical. Later on, after we were all dry, My Mom proclaimed “Getting caught in that rainstorm was so awesome.”

I agree Mom, I so agree…Because as I sat there dripping wet with a towel over my head, I looked around I could only think when the rain comes, there’s no other people in the world I’d rather go through the storms of life with.

Your family are the people you need the most.

When the rain comes.

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~

I am.

• I am God’s child (John 1:12)
• I am Christ’s friend (John (15:15)
• I am united with the Lord (1 Cor. 6:17)
• I am bought with a price (1 Cor. 19-20)
• I am a saint (set apart for God). (Eph. 1:1)
• I am a personal witness of Christ (Acts 1:8)
• I am the salt & light of the earth (Matt. 5:13-14)
• I am a member of the body of Christ (1Cor 12:27)
• I am free forever from condemnation (Rom.8: 1-2)
• I am a citizen of Heaven. I am significant (Phil. 3:20)
• I am free from any charge against me (Rom. 8-31-34)
• I am a minister of reconciliation for God (2 Cor. 5-17-21)
• I have access to God through the Holy Spirit (Eph. 2:6)
• I cannot be separated from the love of God (Rom. 8:35-39)
• I am established, anointed, sealed by God (2 Cor. 1:21-22)
• I am assured all things work together for good (Rom. 8:28)
• I may approach God with freedom and confidence (Eph. 3:12)
• I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil. 4:13)
• I am the branch of the true vine, a channel of His life (John 15:1-5)
• I am God’s temple (1 Cor. 3:16)
• I am complete in Christ (Col. 2:10)
• I am hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3:3)
• I have been justified (Romans 5:1)
• I am God’s co-worker (1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor. 6:1)
• I am God’s workmanship (Eph. 2:10)
• I am confident that the good works God has begun in me will be perfected (Phil 1:5)
• I have been redeemed and forgiven (Col. 1:14)
• I have been adopted as God’s child (Eph 1:5)

I’ll be the first to admit, I forget who I am. Each and every day it’s easy to believe who this world says we are and what the enemy would like us to believe and somewhere in there the truth gets lost. 

Sometimes I feel like the Lord is constantly banging me up against the head and repeatedly asking “Don’t you get it, don’t you see who you are?”

Don’t you think he ever gets tired of that? Because he sees it so clearly in the midst of our obscured view.

I’m sure he does, but I’m so thankful that our God is a God of patience.

It’s like the great “I am” has all the time in the world to show me who I am.

Wordless Wednesday - Lucky Charms vs. Fruit Loops

I’m a firm believer that there are certain things you are never too old for.

Case in point:

I realize I could alternately title this “The post where I talk about cereal”…. Ha! But stick with me here.

I am 27 years old and still love Lucky Charms just as much as when I was a kid. I found myself snacking on these last night and mentioned something on Twitter and so many others were in agreement with me that you are just NEVER too old.

I still pick out the marshmallows, ha!

Don’t get me wrong, I realize there are some fruit loop lovers out there too:

So, which are you??? The beloved Lucky Charms or do you have a special place in your heart for Toucan Sam??? (and I seriously just had to google the name of the fruit loop bird, ha).

So yeah, I’ll probably be 80 years old and still eating these things and still picking out the marshmallows!

Never too old.

3 years.

I just realized that last month marked three years of blogging for me. July 5, 2008 I wrote my very first blog post.  I can’t adequately explain what the blogging journey has meant to me.

People might think the whole blogging thing is crazy. I say it’s completely awesome.

People might say it’s crazy to put yourself out there for the entire world to see. I say it’s an amazing outlet.

People might say it’s crazy to make friends with people over the internet. I say if they only realized I’ve meet a lot of people through the blog and they are some of the most amazing friendships.

I’m not going to lie, blogging can bring out insecurity. Easy to get caught up in the numbers.. who is reading, commenting, following, blah blah blah…

I would like to think that if that follower number read 0 that I’d be perfectly content. But the God’s honest truth is that this whole blogging experience has been so much better with each and EVERY single one of you in it. 

The emails I receive every now and then that you take the time to write speaking words of encouragement over me and letting me know that a particular blog post really resonated with you and the stories that you share with me… Now that, that is what it’s all about.

I feel like God has given me this blog for a reason. 

I want this blog to be all about him, and very little to do with me. If even one person has been blessed by this little corner of the internet, then I could shut this blog down and be a happy person. I honestly mean that.

I don’t know who all reads this blog, but my prayer is that this blog has somehow encouraged you all to allow God to walk with you through your own journey in life, and along the way you can finding great meaning that can only be found in having a relationship with him.

With that said, again, don’t know who all reads this blog and I know there are new readers. If you’re a reader and you’ve never commented, delurk for a minute would you and introduce yourself? Would love to “meet” you :-)

Happy Tuesday!!

Somewhere over the rainbow....

I was driving along this morning..... Watch this. (Don't mind my voice, ha).



Yes, I was that crazy person that pulled over into the parking lot of an office complex so I could video this, ha!!
 
It simply took my breath away.

On this Monday morning this just made my heart smile. I'm sure the tons of people driving by noticed it too, but I like to believe it was placed there just for me, ha! There's something comforting about a rainbow, don't you think?

God loves us so. 

Beautiful way to start a Monday!

“May God give you...For every storm a rainbow, for every tear a smile, for every care a promise and a blessing in each trial. For every problem life sends, a faithful friend to share, for every sigh a sweet song and an answer for each prayer.”

Wordless Wednesday

Ladies and gentlemen (if there are any of you out there).......

What you are about to see, there are no words.

I saw I got a comment on Facebook from my sister that was simply "bwahahahaha" on a picture I was tagged in. So I clicked and I was mortified.

This was a picture of me taken over the weekend! This is cropped.

Not my finest moment.

Just keeping it real around here!!!

I don't know what was going on here, but I promise you I do eat with my mouth closed and I don't talk with food in my mouth.

My Momma taught me manners!

PROMISE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clearly that day I win Miss Photogenic.

HOWEVER, this cutie pie of a niece DOES get the award, haha!!

Survey

We had a wonderful time celebrating my Mom's birthday this past weekend. She turned the big 50.

Here is Momma with her girls!! These are the two most important women in my life.

I do NOT think the woman looks 50 AT ALL.

What do you think??

Just go ahead and say no. She'll love that!! :)