New Year's Day on September 29th

A preview of New Year's Day floated across the screen of my life.

I was walking across my college campus, lifting my brand-new-used books like I was going to be the next governor of CA. I walked by the gym catching my reflection in the full-length windows (umm, yeah, maybe this year wasn't the best to run for governor).

Movement behind the reflection caught my attention and as I peered closer, I realized the gym was packed. It was 4:00 in the afternoon, and the gym could have been a mouse cage; treadmills circling non-stop, weight machines clanking, rock music... rocking?

You go people! (And if you keep going around mid-terms -kudos to you and cheers as well!)

Here's the part that the preview didn't show, though. And its the best. The King of All, creates each day, new. Because of Him each day is the start. I can keep hopping on that treadmill because I've never before made resolutions. Never before broken my resolutions. There never was a yesterday...

Time-out.

Let me introduce you to my two youngest siblings: K and G.

If there was such a thing as bubbly lights. These kids would be the bubbly lights of my life. Bright, adorable, sweet, mischievous, and wildly the best kiddos ever!




We spent their "cowboy kid" photo shoot laughing, giggling and riding ponies -everything a cowboy kids do best!

A song of love

I'm breaking my vow of silence -the one I never took. But I noticed, in the blogging world, that you're chill and "worth the read" if you take a vow of silence for so many days, weeks or months.
The only coolness I can claim, however, is in moving to a place with snail-paced internet, which makes it not only difficult to blog, but extremely annoying.

But today, I went to church. And at church, I sang songs with all the other church-goers and Jesus-freaks.

We sang "Jesus Loves Me." All of us did.

The kids, for the first time in the last half and hour didn't fidget. Those who silently mouth the words throughout the service could be heard several rows ahead. The holy-rockers raised their hands high. Everyone stood up. And emotion clogged my throat.

Each of us told the rest of us, with every pointed word in the song, that He was King. Jesus was King and Rescuer of our hearts.

He loves me. That is why I live.