awaken love.

Is it ok that I still read bridal magazines? #cantgetenough #canirepeatmywedding (Taken with instagram)

3 weeks ago -

Work hard. Play hard. (Taken with Instagram at Boomers!)

1 month ago -

Look what Ryan & the Schallbergers made me for my birthday!! (Taken with instagram)

3 months ago -

Roomie reunion!!! :) (Taken with instagram)

3 months ago -

It’s a coffee shop kind of day :) (Taken with instagram)

4 months ago -

We have to know what you think about us God. We have to know how you really think of us. Come show us. Come tell us. Let us in on the secrets of Your heart. We just want to know how you feel God when You look at us…because it would change everything if we really knew how You feel. It would change everything if we really knew what You’re thinking when You look at us. We wouldn’t be the same. Come with a wave of love; Your powerful strong love, cause it breaks lies, Your voice. Come speak Lord.

Your children

4 months ago -

On pirates @ Disneyland! :) (Taken with Instagram at Pirates of the Caribbean)

4 months ago -

Out to lunch with my new sista! (Taken with Instagram at California Pizza Kitchen)

4 months ago -

… being justified freely by His grace … —Romans 3:24

The gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equally intense resentment, because the truth that it reveals is not palatable or easy to swallow. There is a certain pride in people that causes them to give and give, but to come and accept a gift is another thing. I will give my life to martyrdom; I will dedicate my life to service— I will do anything. But do not humiliate me to the level of the most hell-deserving sinner and tell me that all I have to do is accept the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ.

We have to realize that we cannot earn or win anything from God through our own efforts. We must either receive it as a gift or do without it. The greatest spiritual blessing we receive is when we come to the knowledge that we are destitute. Until we get there, our Lord is powerless. He can do nothing for us as long as we think we are sufficient in and of ourselves. We must enter into His kingdom through the door of destitution. As long as we are “rich,” particularly in the area of pride or independence, God can do nothing for us. It is only when we get hungry spiritually that we receive the Holy Spirit. The gift of the essential nature of God is placed and made effective in us by the Holy Spirit. He imparts to us the quickening life of Jesus, making us truly alive. He takes that which was “beyond” us and places it “within” us. And immediately, once “the beyond” has come “within,” it rises up to “the above,” and we are lifted into the kingdom where Jesus lives and reigns (see John 3:5).

My Utmost for His Highest

6 months ago -

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My Thanksgiving Day

Woke up at 7am.
Made orange cranberry scones.
Went to Ryan’s parents.
Watched everyone play football at Biola.
Went to help Ryan’s mom bake.
Went on a walk with her & their pup.
Dropped my brother off at the train station.
Went to twilight with Ryan & his sister.
Went to his aunts fro delicious food.
Played wii fit. Ryan won the Hulu hoop division & we won a prize.
Drove to my parents.
Talked & watched planet earth.
Realized I don’t think I want to eat shrimp anymore.
Drove to home.
Met friends at Cerritos mall.
Shopped till we dropped.

The End. Obvi.

6 months ago -