Video Blog Day 1.. What God is doing

I'm starting a new thing for a while... video blog! This way you guys can check up with me and see what's going down. I like it a little better considering it's more fun and exciting. I'll still be writing as well. This is day 1 :) Hope ya like!

Oh, how He loves us...

The greatest gift that was ever given to the world. We learn about it at Christmas time, Easter, often give thanks for Him at Thanksgiving.. yet still, the world has no clue the dynamic power that this Precious Gift has. God sent His only SON into the world to die for me. As I ponder that thought, I am awestruck at all that I was before I came to know Him. I was filthy, wretched, vile, unkempt, defiled. I was worth absolutely nothing and my life had no purpose. I was on the road to nowhere, and surprisingly I knew in my heart that it was true. Without the LORD, I felt lonely, I felt hopeless and unsure of my life. I had the love of family, yet I still yearned for way more than what I had ever had before.

The LORD is so good and so full of love for me. How can it be so? As I continue to seek His face I am daily reminded of the love He has for me. It never stopped, it never changed, it is constant. HE is forever, everlasting, constant. He loved me before the foundation of the world, and before I was even created. He not only loved me before it all began, but He loved YOU before it all began. God hasn't created one person and said, "Oh ok! Here you go, here's life..have fun" and then left us. His creation goes way beyond that. I was created for a specific purpose. My life has meaning, it has a plan. That meaning is JESUS. I'm not living in this world to gain possessions, or money, or popularity, or beauty. I'm here solely for the purpose of GOD. I am here to continue furthering His kingdom in heaven.

As I spent time with Him last night I came across Psalm 45. Girls, this is such a beautiful piece of scripture. Believe it or not, we are royal BRIDES to the KING! Not just any king, but the King of the universe. He loves us so much, He offered to be beaten, bruised and poured out for our lives. His blood was spilled for a remarkable beautiful covenant with us. Like many of us know of the marriage covenant, this is the unique marriage covenant He has created for us with HIM! In verse 13 it says,

"The royal daughter is all glorious within the palace; her clothing is woven with gold. She shall be brought to the King in robes of many colors; the virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to You. With gladness and rejoicing they shall be brought; they shall enter the King's palace." Psalm 45:13-15

Wow. Just as a groom awaits for his bride at the altar of a wedding... imagine us, as God's daughters, brides, being royal in HIS eyes.. being dressed in beautiful clothing as He awaits us. Ugh! So precious! I can't imagine that my beautiful LORD thinks of me as His royalty. There is truly nothing greater than that!! What love, what passion He has for me. And for you! He is waiting for you, dear daughter. He is praying, yearning that you leave all the wickedness behind, and follow after HIM who is the only One who truly knows 'love'. He doesn't just know it, He IS love. Love has a name...it's Jesus Christ.

Why should I not give my life away so freely? He has poured out everything for my life, for my sins, for little old me. He has saved me from drunkenness. He has saved me from being broken hearted. He has saved me from being miserable. He has saved me from being dependent on man, rather than HIM. I cannot understand how someone could not so freely give their life away to JESUS, who, for our lives, poured out His blood on a tree, to fulfill our destiny. It is simply something, I cannot fathom.

He loves us SO MUCH. We are His bride! His portion. His inheritance. So, what is He to us? Someone we simply spend two minutes with every other day? Someone we say that we love yet, when it comes to Christmas or Easter we are forced to sit in church? Someone we simply could careless about and just go about our business, KNOWING that something in our soul is missing? There is no way one can truly be happy without the love and forgiveness of JESUS. I was one of them. I tried filling the void with useless materialism. Yet, I knew deep down something more had to come out of this world. There was nothing this world could ever bring me to satisfy. Jesus Christ, the One who shed His blood for me, and created a beautiful covenant with me for the rest of my life, He saved me from myself, from darkness, and from the sin of the world. I am no longer in this world but a creation of GOD. I live for Him. Full out, 100% solely for His purpose. Nothing else, and nothing more. Slap me in the face if I think for one minute that I am anything apart from Him. Beat me down if for one second I think that I can do anything, be anyone, and accomplish anything apart from His strength and love.

I am no one. I will always be no one. Unworthy and fallen, yet I have a Savior who looks past all my faults. I have a King who doesn't see the dirt that I used to be. I have a Groom who chose me out of the world regardless of my shortcomings and faults. He loved me so much that He told me, "Come to me. I am Mighty to save." I have a Husband who chose to say, "There is no spot on you, My beloved." THAT is the love this world has, yet so rudely dismisses. Oh, that we would wake up and see the goodness, the fervency, the zeal of the LORD. His love for us! OH, how He loves us!!



"Listen, O daughter, Consider and incline your ear; forget your own people also, and your father's house; so the King will greatly desire your beauty; because He is your LORD, worship Him." Psalm 45:11


"Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end." John 13:1


"Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who would betray Him said, 'Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?' This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it. But JESUS said, "Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial. For the poor you have with you always, but ME you do not always have." John 12:3-8

all things Disney

Yes, pathetic I may be... but regardless, I am a Disney freak. I don't know how it happened, or when it happened, but I think it's because I grew up on classic Disney movies. Girls say that Disney is just a let down to women because "prince charming" doesn't exist. First of all, I think that's a LIE :) I believe that God has created a spouse for each & every one of us, but I don't want to digress. I'm not quite sure what happened to spark such a love for Disney but it's there.

And it's true. When I watch a Disney movie, I cry. When I look at pictures of Disney World, I cry. When I go to weddings and the bride dances to a Disney song, I cry. It's craziness!! Either way... I would love to share a few of my favorite Disney memories. I am in the process of collecting all the classic Disney movies on DVD. I just watched Beauty & the Beast last night and it never gets old! Here are some clips from my favorite Disney movies!! They are timeless. Young and old, the tears still come when watching them!

Beauty & the Beast..the part where I cry the most!



Who can forget the Little Mermaid? Under the Sea is where it's at ;)


Who could forget this timeless piece? Makes me cry everytime...


A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep...


These are just a few of my favorites. Oh Disney...timeless you are. No matter what anyone says, the Disney CLASSICS are way better than today's Disney. There is simply nothing like it :)