It's Times Like This That I LOVE My Major.

I just finished watching Inception for the second time. WHAT AN INCREDIBLE MOVIE. I just have to get this out now while the feeling is still fresh. There are very few movies that impact me so strongly, but this is definitely one of them. While I was watching it, I started thinking about what it was that affected me so strongly. Then I realized that I'm a Psychology major. The human mind, and all of its complexities is what I want to study for the rest of my life. And this movie is all about how incredibly built our minds truly are! WOW. The fact that someone could even sit down and write this whole story down and then make it into a movie is incredible enough. Then I started thinking about the One who created our minds in the first place! Oh, Lord! I'm sitting here just smiling away at the wonder of it all! If we, in our fallen imperfection, could imagine and create all of this, how much more can God imagine and create?? What a truly AWESOME God we serve! The verse that was brought to my mind is one that is repeated often. But it's repeated so often because of its simple truth. As you read this, meditate on the true and simple beauty of this:

"For You created my inmost being, You knit me together in my mother's womb. I PRAISE YOU BECAUSE I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be. HOW PRECIOUS TO ME ARE YOUR THOUGHTS, O GOD! HOW VAST IS THE SUM OF THEM! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with You. (Psalm 139:13-18)

Why I Want To Be A Marriage Counselor

"You've heard that children care more that their parents love each other than that they love them and this is the reason why. It's the assurance that there is something grand and good going on that doesn't rest on your shoulders, something that doesn't even culminate in you, but rather invites you up into it." -John Eldredge.

Delivered!

I ran out of gas today on the 805. While we were waiting for our rescuers to come and save the day, I found this verse that I absolutely ADORE. I love it a.) because it reassured me that God truly is in control and that He will save us, no matter the situation, and b.) because it just so happened to be raining when all of this happened. This verse gave me shivers and made me laugh, so here you all go!

"Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge Him. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth." -Hosea 6:3.

"Don't You Just Love New York In The Fall?"

I'm off to New York City in less than 24 hours! I cannot begin to describe how incredibly excited I am to visit this amazing city. My friends can all probably tell you how much I've been talking about this trip. I've never been before (a fact that still amazes me, as we practically live in Washington D.C. which is not that far away at all.) I made a New York City playlist (don't judge) and have been watching You've Got Mail like there is no tomorrow. That movie makes me so excited to visit New York in the fall! One of my favorite movie sequences of all time is the opening sequence when they walk down the streets of New York within feet of each other, and the Cranberries sing one of my favorite songs of all time in the background, and the beauty of New York in the fall is fully appreciated in the leaves on the trees. I decided to share that scene here, because it makes me so happy! Enjoy, dear reader, and think of me walking the streets the streets of New York in the autumn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ACWi-Jm-o