More of You & less of me

Dear friends, 

No, I have not stopped blogging, nor have I stopped skimming all of your blogs! It’s been a crazy year, and I have much to process and say, so shortly, I will be back with you all! 

Much love during this season,

~J 

Wise words.

saucefactory:

rabidwerewolfie:

Good advice.

SAME GOES FOR WRITERS, TBH.

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Senior year motivation? I think so. Definitely. 

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This is written by my wonderful and beautiful friend, Aubrey :) 

Isn’t it beautiful? How the face of the sunflower follows the sun—pointing east in the morning and west at night? The sunflower knows the sun is the source for life and therefore finds warmth in the rays.

Now, think of the sun as love from others or grace from God and imagine you are the sunflower. Often times foliage can cover the face of the sunflower, which inhibits the flower’s ability to recognize the light and reap the benefits of a true, wholesome life. For us, this foliage can present itself as stress, sin, idols, fear, hurt, etc. and can hinder our ability to recognize the love that surrounds us or prevent us from embracing the graces of God. Once this foliage is cleared, we, too, can bask in the rays of love and grace. We are then able to recognize the love within and around us and feel peace. In opening ourselves to the graces of God and being willing to follow Him in His plan for us, just as the sunflower follows the sun, we are then able to experience life in the way it was meant to be enjoyed—at peace in love, warmth, and grace.

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I’m utterly amazed by You, how you love me ~Isaiah 40 

(“Amazed” Beth Moore) 

“[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.”

-C.S. Lewis 

I just like sharing the simple joys of my day with you because in the end, they are often what mean the most in this life. That’s all. 

:)