Soldiers in this battle.

Heard some devastating news about friends on Sunday. Its hard to endure death and its even harder when a whole family is involved. My heart and mind keep wandering back to the family and praying God will give them comfort and grace through all of this. I literally can't even imagine my mother being gone. Maranatha

In light of that, this week has been heavy, but also a good refocusing week. God is helping me to focus on the things that matter, and open my eyes to see He is all I need. Its a huge refining processing going on continually, and everyday I think God has to peel my little attention span off this world and everything that's fighting for my time and mind. I hope He fights hard for me, nothing else matters. God doesn't grab our hearts in the quiet, easy, comfortable moments of life, He uses the painful, exhausting, unknown moments where we finally reach out to find Him and He's been there all along wanting our love and affection. I've been so distracted by the most trivial of things and I need to get my eyes on the truth. What will sustain me but the truth and the light of the world? No house, career, friends, or stuff will fill me up and give me sustaining joy the way only Jesus Christ can. I just get easily unfocused and need to fight harder, we are soldiers in fact and this is a serious battle we are in. The greatest battle of all time.

Today's thought.

I have two coworkers that I think should get married.

Curt is probably mid 60s, white hair, glasses. He lives alone, takes bike rides and sports a mustache. He is a southern boy with the sweetest of manners and always puts the ladies first. He holds onto jokes as long as he can and says hi to any passing person. He likes movies, and adores spending time with his grandkids and his own kids. He goes on dates with his grand daughter to Cafe Rio, because she won't go anywhere else. He likes Twilight and pixar movies. Basically he is a big teddy bear.

Terrilyn is a brunette, maybe in her mid 50s. She is always exercising, lifting weights while on the phone and walking briskly everywhere. She wears her headset most places, even on her lunch. She's been divorced, and it was very ugly. She states she didn't even know the man she married. She's in a world of her own, but constantly making sure you're okay and giving you a beautiful smile. She has wide, black rimmed glasses and always wears pink lipstick and stretchpants.


I think they should get married. I've seen them flirting.

Today as I was driving to work, I was staring at the cloud crested mountains covered in a gloomy day, looking so inviting to me. I wish I could spend today climbing to the top of a rainy mountain and stay up there until the night falls. Its the perfect day to take a journey to the top of a mountain. In reality my journey for today looks very different, its not quite as tangible as climbing to the top. Its a bit more elusive and less grandeur. But its my journey for today. Maybe tomorrow I'll climb my mountain top.

Weekend time.

Made it! Made it to Friday. Its been a long journey, including Rocky Mountain Shakes, watching a football movie, eating baked ziti at life group, a good bike ride, and lots of time on hold listening to psychedelic tunes. Overall a successful week.
Tonight we're making shakes for nice friend's birthdays after church. Caleb and I are playing an acoustic set at church tonight, we're a bit rusty, but all in God's grace.
Caleb had an interview for a new job yesterday, its a big jump in the company, so we'll see. He did really well, but the manager is basically looking for perfection. So its all up to God at this point.
I'm thinking about getting CNA training. hmmm.
Have a wonderful weekend, I hope to. Make sure to celebrate your wonderful mother!

Tuesdays

I'm longing for the weekend already.Longing to be in bed reading a good book. God, give me some extra strength this week, I think I'm gonna need it.

Grateful

Caleb and I had our one year anniversary this past Friday. Man, does time fly! I'm so grateful to have such a strong, compassionate, hilarious, hardworking, godly husband. God has blessed me beyond I could ever imagine.
We went to dinner at Ginger's Cafe in Springville to celebrate. It was delicious and healthy too! We'll definitely be going back. Then we decided to end the night was a dance party in our own kitchen with all the songs from our wedding. It so awesome to have such a rad husband willing to do things like that.
We've both grow so much in the past year, and had a lot of changes including living in a one room apartment, then living in my parent's basement, then buying a house and fixing it up, getting a puppy and obviously learning to be married. It has been a good year.
Job changes are looming in the near future. I think both of us have the itch for a change or two. Nothing is set in stone and we're just exploring the options right now, but it'd definitely be nice for a bit of a change in pace.
Our 5k training hasn't been going super well. We've been out about 4 days a week, but mostly on bikes. This week we're gonna hit the trail hard. (:
Hope you all have a lovely Monday.