thoughts*

"you love me enough to hurt me,
you love me enought to chase me"

*I am out in a desperate quest to save my own life, not willing to lose it.
*Giving your life to the Lord is not something you do once, but everyday.
*There is joy in the realization that I'm not meant to live for myself. joy!

this is gooood. :)

mmmm.

pretty much it.

:)

little girls with pigtails.

Love songs keep coming out of me & I don't know where from.

I really have not gotten the hang of my nikon. I've become aware of the fact that I can still take better pictures with my four megapixille point&shoot.







That is my (new) ukulele. Nat & I made a wonderful barter and now it is mine. I am very happy with it. I love insturments. I am thinking about getting a djembe (um...for Christmas :)
Somehow Bethany & Joe have become the best c.d. makers I know of.

The Ascent was this weekend & it was amazing!! I LOVE hour long rides in a full fifteen-passenger van! I came back having this immense peace and fullness. I felt like it was a time to just sit before the Lord and enjoy Him. He enjoys it.
There was one moment during one of the two-hour Brandon Willet worship sessions when I saw this little five-year-old-looking girl with brown pig-tails and a tiny little back pack. She was waving a little silver banner around and she reminded me of me & who I want to be. I want to trust like a child. I want to know my Father. Anyways, enjoying the fluttering of her beautiful little banner she ran in one big circle around the entire room with a huge grin on her face. It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my life.
I want to be like that. honest before him. not being ditracted. worshiping him WHOLEHEARTEDLY. ah!

I have a hope and a future. WAHOO!!!
:)

& I will leave you with this...

"lights that flicker, like the hope in the hearts of the bitter
you and I both know that it's only a wisper
but it gives me chills like a scream in the night
or your cheap bought thrills that creep in and squeeze your will tight.
I think we both know the way it goes
I think we've both seen the way that it goes
when you let it."

I have been listening to Jon Foreman for the past three hours. mmm.

Amy Winehouse & Photography

I was watching interviews of John Mark McMillan & that is how I found this. :)

www.Amywinehouse.com
watch the video at the bottom right.
I don't know why i love it, but it do.

yep. & the ascent is tonight, i'm super excited. And maybe Natalie will finally give me her ukulele. I'm thinking about buying a djembe and harmonica too. :)

It was so foggy and amazing this morning. mmm.
I need to go do geometry. goodbye you.

Sunglasses&boots

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?itemdescription=true&itemCount=10&startValue=11&selectedProductColor=&sortby=&id=14680755&parentid=W_ACC_SUNGLASSES&sortProperties=+product.marketingPriority,-product.startDate&navCount=21&navAction=poppushpush&color=



Somehow I just know you want to buy these sunglasses for me. :)
(in navy blue)

p.s. they're $7

"oh, you are good and you do more than I ever could- ask you for, all your ways are just and true, every thing you do is in love "

I was writing today :)

It wouldn't let me remove this picture from my blog, so enjoy. pretty amazing, huh?

How interesting and exciting is this blog post? Let me tell you, it's ridiculous. :))

-jasminemarie

The problem with michael soto and canoes

Mmmm. John Mark McMillan music. :)
All of his songs are so well put together, it seems, he's worked hard at perfecting his trade.
I love how his music is so definite, it is really him and not very much of anyone else.
& It's frustrating when I listen to a c.d and I can't tell the songs apart because it all one blur of electric guitars and rhymes. You know what I mean?

So, Laci lea is coming home soon. I am excited...yes, I am!

I let my heart worry so much, I want to be quiet. I want to rest & to know that God's okay with me. What he really thinks of me, I am blind.

(p.s. I really desire to be more tender & gentle, really.)

Number one.
He touches my heart in ways that no one else knows how.

I'm not sure what it is with me and blogs, but I really like to talk about Jesus!

I wrote something I really liked the other day. It has been hard for me to write recently.
Sarah Atwood needs to write more songs, because I love them.

So, I'm thinking for my birthday (January- but I could have it some other, warmer, month) I want to have tons of people over at night and have a fire in my backyard and roast things & have guitars, canoes, talking & games. I think it would be amazing to go canoeing in the dark- though I am afraid of what michael soto would do in the dark with a canoe. ;) I don't want people ramming into each other in the dark when the water is freezing! That would actually be pretty horrible...
All this to say: i want your ideas!
(p.s. it is my sixteenth, it needs to be special!)

jasminemarie

Jackets from France.

So, i think my $300 lens is broken. yippie.
I was with Sarah & I pretty much dropped it from three whole inches off the ground, who knew? but I still took this wonderful picture today. :)

You know how I am usually happy? Well, i am not happy right now.
heh, i think that Lord is trying to teach me to trust him not just in my heart with seasons but with this kinda stuff. it hurts.

I am SO thankful that the camera itself is not broken though.


-but enough of that.


I had several good conversations today. Yes, they made my heart smile.
& Melody is amazing.




"Cool jackets from France are attractive"
-s.a.