and, we're back..

We are back in our hot, humid and holy motel room at the mariner, for 2 nights. We got back today, and it's hotter than ever! We are really excited to catch up with all of the students and hear how their time has been for the last 3 weeks...but we are exhausted. one thing we always do before leaving home for a few days is complete a few last minute projects around the house like...oh, hanging a back door or reorganizing my grandmother's fine china. soo, we went to be around 3 and had to leave the house by 8 today. I am just excited to be down here again and to wrap things up! One thing i've realized about myself lately is how much my flesh craves stability with circumstance. every time we're at home i always want to stay and nest a while. But then i am beginning to realize more and more how even though we don't have the stability of being in one location much, we do have the stability of the Word and the Lord's affections for me are always there. Please pray for me that i'll believe that daily when i get discouraged.

One of my all time favorite singer/songwriters is Bebo Norman. If youve heard him, he's good. AND he's a PC grad. i'll leave ya with a quote by him and a link to one of my favorite songs by Bebo. I listened to this song every day when i was struggling through seasonal depression on a summer trip to south africa in 2007.

Bebo admits, “I have silently walked the last four years with a building and recently diagnosed struggle with anxiety. If I’m honest, it’s something that I’ve found a bit of shame in, and the irony is that it involves singing the songs I so dearly love to sing . . . It seems the older I get, the less I understand about this life, about faith and the struggles that come with it. But more importantly, I’m being shown that the older I get, the less I need to understand. ‘Pull Me Out’ is about learning more every day that what I really need to do in this life and in this world is to simply trust in a God who is indeed completely in control.”

In Your Hands

I didn't know I would love you when I looked into your eyes
But now I have a heart I cannot keep
And the greatest of fear is that you'll leave me here
Stranded in this water so deep

So don't you turn away from me
Because my heart and my hopes, they're in your hands
If I don't seem certain
It's just a common fear from a common man
But I am in your hands

Just so you know, I have never done this sort of thing before
I've never given up my very soul
But I have heard a voice like none I've heard before
And it's a voice that never grows old

Don't you turn away from me
Because my heart and my hopes, they're in your hands
And if I don't seem certain
It's just a common fear from a common man
But I am in your hands
I am in your hands
I know…I am in your hands

Drummer Can't Contain the Rock

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Home again...finally.

Jake tiled the black and white tiles at the top!! It looks awesome!
My earring hanger from TJ.
The door Jake made for our crawl space.
My first home made peach pie ;)
My flower boxes :)! To fill it with flowers, i bought a pot of mixed flowers from Home Depot for 10.00 and it filled the whole box!
Us after we ran the Peachtree Road Race
Jake and I at Isle of Palms
Wow, i haven't updated on here in a few weeks!! We have been gone from the Leadership Project for about two weeks now, and it has really flown by. Last week, Jake and I went on vacation with my family at Isle of Palms. I loved going on a shopping spree with my sisters, going to a fun place for dinner every night, and just being lazy ;). It was soo fun to be w my sisters since we're best friends!! One thing we love to do every vacation is read a "beach read". I read The Wedding Machine, which was entertaining and hilarious, and it was supposedly a "women of faith" novel, but...definitely did not mention a thing about Jesus or anything. hmm...Anywho, Jake and I decided on a whim to visit with his aunt and grandmother in Atlanta and run the Peachtree Road Race on July 4th. It was soo fun!! If you know me, you know how i hate competition and even delight to fail at sports because i hate the idea of competing. But be proud to know that I didn't walk once during the race. By God's common grace, the weather was great and i was barely sweating until mile 4. We had so much fun running it together, i really think we could run a half marathon. So we finally got home on Monday night after a quick stop in Gainesville to see Emily, Jakes youngest sister, and watch some fireworks. We'll be home for about a week and a half or so, and we have lots of tasks to get done. Not gonna lie, one of the hardest things about spending the summer at Myrtle is that we inevitably return home to dead bugs and dead plants. I wouldn't change it for the world, i love what we do, but when we're here we make a checklist and get to work. Here's what we completed today:
Jake tiled the top of the shower it looks so good, i am so impressed that he knew how!
Jake hung flower boxes under the windows and i planted some flowers!
I got this awesome jewelry hanger from TJ Maxx!