Worn Soul

 I have a lot on my mind, but I can't seem to think. Life is some times rough, and then some times it's so wonderful. I've experienced both things in the last few days. The rough and the good. 

There was a Bible laying open to Psalm 56, so I just read it. It is such a good and comforting Psalm. Also, it's so relatable. I think Christians often try to hide how much they're going through because they're afraid of what other Christians will think. But, apparently, David wasn't afraid of sharing his heart and his troubles. 

"You have kept count of my tossings: put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?"

Psalm 56:8

You know how much I cry? A ton. And God sees those tears, He know the pain, and He holds me close. Through some of the darkest times of my life, I have felt the love of the Father most strong.

The next verse in Psalm 56 says, "Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me."

The world and Satan can be against me, but God is for me. He won't leave me. He's got His children in His care, so trust. It might look so dark right now, but believe. He is with you.

"For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life."

Psalm 56:13

A Whole Bunch of Color

 I looked around our bed room and found lots of color. Kind of boring I guess, but I love colorful things. 

A shawl of many colors

A little Chinese calendar on the window.

Shawl and toenails.

Seat cover

Some teddy bears on Lydia's desk. 

A mess of stuffed things on my bed. 

Paintings and pictures

Lots of people

One of Great-grandma's paintings.

Me

Pictures From Dad

 Below are several pictures that dad took while we were on our trip. 

Mom and Lydia with the Hodag in Rhinelander, WI. 

Lydia and me by Lake Superior.

Mom in the woods.

Quinn in the sand.

Us eating ice cream.

Freshmen entertaining Quinn.

Addison

He is one cool dude.

Addison and Gabriel

The little Witmer family

On our way home in the mountains.

Feeling Wonder

Picture by Bethany

Some times I think people lose the thrill and wonder of life when they get older. Maybe they see so much bad, so much death, so much sorrow, so much corruption they forget what it means to be in wonder. To be in wonder of a world full of life and color and light.

"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."

~Genesis 1:3

"I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars,
which thou hast ordained."
~Psalm 8:3

Sometimes I walk somewhere, anywhere, and I just see all the wonder of the world God has created, and I am just in awe. The little birds hopping about, singing to one another; the flowers, yellow, purple, and white, bobbing their heads in the wind; the clouds, puffy and blooming, floating in the sky above; the stars so far away, hanging like diamonds on a winter night. 

This is the feeling of wonder. 

Ice Cream

 

Ice cream is one of those things I really enjoy. Ice cream on a bench outside with cool people is something I super enjoy. 

Trip to the North

 One would think I love the north with how often I go up there. I do like some things--the people. And there are other great things, too. Anyway, the four of us North Carolinians drove up to KY, WI, and MN over the past week and a half. Not much to show for, but here you are. 

Some waterfall in Michigan.

Some cool girl I found.

The same girl.

Michigan is pretty beautiful in parts. 

        Some tall evergreens poking out of the forest. 

Our precious Quinny. 

I sure do love my niece.

Morning sun the day we left. 

                          

I couldn't decide which picture I liked better, so I just did both. This was somewhere on the TN--NC order in the mountains. 

Excuse the possible messiness of this post. I am trying to get used to the new way Blogger works ( I don't like it, but that's life).

I Don't Like This

 Apparently, I don't care for change sometimes. Blogger decided to change a lot of the stuff that I see when I am making posts and such. It's all weird and obnoxious. Before, it was pretty easy to navigate, but now it looks silly. 

I guess I'll get used to it after a bit, but sometimes I do wonder, Why change? Why can't things go on the way they always were? It's like that a lot in life though, isn't it? Things do change. We might not always like it, but in the end it will be OK. 

Right now I don't like this. It messes with me, what I'm used to and all, but after a while maybe it'll be fine.