I Love This Picture ...

( Easton and Emma in the gator )

:) smile today
life is good

where is the love

what a day...
i have been thinking that everyone has just gone crazy
no one cares
nothing matters
the word love means nothing to anyone
yet i see this and i cannot stand it
it bugs me so much that people don't value life
that God doesn't matter to barely anyone
that we ask for something but if it comes in the wrong package we send it back
i can't believe how almost everyone shows no respect
how friends aren't real friends
how everyone thinks that being a mean is just a way of life
that swear words are used just like any other word
most Americans are pathetic
some days it just bugs me so much
no one gets that we have so much
we have an abundant amount to be grateful for
and still everyone complains
complains
that someone is not doing their share
that somethings to hard
that someones to mean
that they are to stupid
that it doesn't taste right
[ ugh ]
yet amongst all of this i am supposed to remember that we have and all loving all forgiving
God
in school where the "F" bomb is dropped every where i walk
but now here i am complaining i wish God had made it easier
but he didn't so i guess i am just going to have to live with it
i am trying to stand up for what i believe
trying to be optimistic
trying to see something brighter
but for some reason it is like the world is saying,
"oh that light at the end of the tunnel has been shut off for maintenance."
or maybe this is just the longest tunnel i have ever been in
so i am writing this as a statement to my readers that every time i feel overwhelmed and feel the weight of this world all around me i am going to remember that God loves me and i am going to let the words of my new favorite song ring through my head 24/7
here there are if you care to join me in this seemingly hopeless world that yet holds so much
L. O. V. E.
it's hidden in us, us Christians, all of God's never ending love
share it with me today...
i need it

Hold Us Together
Matt Maher
It don't have a job
Don't pay your bills
Won't buy you a home
In Beverly Hills

Won't fix your life
In five easy steps
Ain't the law of the land
Or the government

But as soon you needed...

Love will hold us together
Make us a shelter
to weather the storm
And I'll be my brothers keeper
So the whole world will know
That we´re not alone

It's waiting for you
Knockin' at your door!
Every moment of truth
When your heart hits the floor
When you're on your knees then...


Love will hold us together
Make us a shelter
to weather the storm

And I'll be my brothers keeper
So the whole world will know
That we're not alone

This is the first day of the rest of your life
This is the first day of the rest of your life
'Cause even in the dark you can still see the light
It's gonna be alright s´gonna be alright
This is the first day of the rest of your life
This is the first day of the rest of your life
'Cause even in the dark you can still see the light
It´s gonna be alright s´gonna be alright

Love will hold us together
Make us a shelter
to weather the storm

And I'll be my brothers keeper
So the whole world will know
That we´re not alone


Jesus loves me ...

Some days ...

Some days are days that I need to sit between my parents in our big blue suburban
rest my head on the uncomfortable middle seat
put my feet on the dashboard
let my face soak up the sun
and listen to my parents bicker back and forth about some small subject...


Some days are days when I just simply ask the men in the house to clean up their mess before I get home and mom gets back from work
but end up coming home to this anyway
and simply looking at it in despair but deciding to be optimistic and remember that this is what you get when there are people home and those people are my family
and that family is my love.

Some days you just have to open your hands to whatever comes
it may just change you...


and
some days are just to remember the things that you
opened your hands to
things you
loved
things you
did
and even the things that you
didn't
for it is those some days that you will never forget...