"Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country."

- Proverbs 25:25

Safe in the Arms of Love

I might have performed this song when I was 16. I still love it, and I love how fabulously cheesy this video is. You can totally tell it was made in the 90s. I do love the circus theme, but wow she could have used a better editor.

Breakfast At Tiffany's

I absolutely love this movie. It is my go to anytime I need something fabulous to watch to take my mind off the world. It is beautiful.


(side note: I would never kiss someone while holding a cat. Cats are gross.)

Angry Conversations with God

I heard a speaker talk at my church on Sunday and I was both inspired and annoyed. She said a great deal of what I wish people would say about knowing God. Basically that it is hard work, the church is messing it up, and we have screwed-up ideas of God in our heads for a ton of reasons that have nothing to do with God. She had a lot of really great things to say about God and us.

The thing that annoyed me was that it was pitched a singles event and she was pitched as being angry with God because she was single longer than she wanted to be (note: she is now married).

To be honest I am often angry with God. But not for the reasons most people expect. I don't see God as a husband or a father. I have never had a husband and I have had God in my life, my entire life. So God is something else. I don't see God as my father. I love my dad, but he is clearly not God and I don't think the comparison is fair to either one of them. So to add to those statements I am not mad at God for failing to be the husband I want or the father I want. God is neither of those two things.

I get mad at God for not being the God I want. That is what I am working on right now with my relationship with God. You see I want a God that doesn't allow starvation, war, poverty, tragedy, sickness, loneliness, and pain to be so dominant in the world. I want a God that didn't think it was a good idea to allow sin to exist. I want a God that is God. In control and keeping all things Good. I want a God that never let sin happen. I am not mad at God because I am 28 and single. That is just ridiculous. I am mad at God because everyday I interact with people that have never felt loved.

BTW: I am a moody ridiculous creature, and probably will not be mad at God by the time this thing posts to my blog.

Here is the thing, I think God is relational. I think God can handle my anger and that if we don't fight every now and than we will simply stop talking to each other. I think God can handle conflict. More that that I am trusting God that God will handle it. Today God and I are getting along just fine, but I get mad pretty often. I used to be scared of my anger, but I am beginning to think it is a good thing. It is keeping me honest.

I may or may not read the book. I am leaning toward reading it (although I do think the book cover is terrible). I will say this woman is funny and you should check her out.

Globes

I saw this as part of a collection of photos of an amazingly decorated space on sfgirlbybay.
You can see more of Sarah's space here.

I kind of love both posts so I just had to share them, but really I had to share the image above because along with my other loves (birdcages and ships) I LOVE globes. I want a collection just like this one. I would love them to be from all sorts of times in history so I could have them all hanging out together reflecting how things change.

I miss traveling and seeing the world. There has to be an international flight in my future, there just has to be.

Something pretty for your Tuesday morning

(Photo taken by me of a flower growing on a fence on South Van Ness)

Seeing Beauty

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

My weekend was amazing, full of beauty and adventure. I loved every minute of it. I will be posting some pics later this week of the straw maze, and the light house. We also stopped off at Swanton Berry Farm (my fave!) and Davenport, a little town I adore. I really think my little adventures down the One are amazing, I want them to happen all the time.

I love that I played speed Uno until midnight while drinking red wine with 4 wonderful women. I love that is was so silent it was eerie, and that when the lights were out the darkness was black. (btw: I am a grown woman that is scared of the dark, I really believe I might die in the absence of light... well not really, but still it freaks be me out.) Nonetheless, it was really and truly lovely.