All is calm...all is dim and bright

It's early Christmas morning and everything is all calm and unusually quiet.

It just dawned on me that aside from today, there are 5 more days left of this year. Looking back on this year, through the ups and downs, I can honestly say 2008 has been a good year. I started it off with being infused with a great group of friends that have become rather close. I never saw it coming but it's been filled with blessings in disguise. I've been through the fire where God is constantly molding me into the woman He wants me to be. I'm left wondering why are we so bounded and limited by time? I believe we measure our lives in years, sorting out the good and the bad instead of taking each and everyday as one day. It ties back to the concept of us believing we are guaranteed another day. Even though we are bounded by the frame of time, in our minds, we are infinite. Shouldn't it be the other way? In other words, shouldn't we live framed lives in our minds? Taking in one day at a time and be infinite in that day with our actions and words? I find often times in life, so many things are reversed.

As for a music update, I'm finishing a song today. These past days have been a whirlwind of inspiration and a constant stream of writing flowing and fitting thoughts. It's amazing how certain facets of our lives surface in due time. Even my photography is showing a part of me that surfaces through the thin ice layered over my head called winter.

'The green comes from the frozen ground and everything will be made new again...like freedom in Spring.' -Golden (Switchfoot)

Currently listening to: Brooke Waggoner
M. Ward
Paper Route
Molly Jenson
The Honey Trees
Lydia
Vedera
Andrew Smith
Jon Foreman
Joy Yetton
Ryan Baxley
The Daylights
This Holiday Life

Check them out...they're a different stream of music and sure to inspire such souls :)


Merry Christmas everyone. Remember why we celebrate Christmas. The Birth of Christ. Heaven's love reaching down to save the world. Beautiful Son of God, Servant King...who came to be here with us, to save us and set us apart for His glory. To separate us from the horrible and wretched sin we are guilty of everyday. He loves you not in spite of, but just because.

Be blessed.

Jesus loves you...for serious.