So far this has been just a lovely break.
Lots of hot tea.
Lots of sleeping in.
Lots of cooking from scratch.
Lots of love.

Anywho, I wanted to share just a few photos of the goodness...

Here you see human replicas of the original Candyland game pieces at the Austin Trail of Lights.

Meet Tex. He's a friend's new Australian Shepherd puppy that we got to watch for a few days. Such fun!

This is the back porch. I got to just sit on the porch. So good.

I'll leave you with the lyrics of a hymn that made my heart happy yesterday.

Would you be free from your burden of sin?
There's pow'r in the blood, pow'r in the blood;
Would you o'er evil a victory win?
There's wonderful pow'r in the blood.
Ther is pow'r pow'r, wonderworking pow'r
In the blood of the Lamb;
There is pow'r pow'r, wonder-working pow'r
In the precious blood of the Lamb.

It is true. Have a lighthearted day friends because you can rest in the pow'r of Jesus.

p.s. I'm leaving for California tomorrow! Prayers, stow-a-ways and travel tips welcome.

Labels: California, San Marcos

Have you ever noticed that it can be hard to live right now? It's difficult to exist in full awareness of the moment. Perhaps we get overwhelmed sometimes and think it's easier to tune out most of life. However, I'm finding that being fully present in each moment is where the joy is.

We all want to find peace, happiness, joy, purpose, meaning and contentment. I'm pretty sure I haven't found any of those things when I'm tuning out reality. Sounds funny to say doesn't it? Nobody wants to admit they check out of reality. That makes you sound like a bit of a psychology case, but we all do it.

However, every time I just soak up life around me, I'm overjoyed or overwhelmed to the point I pray with more gumption than I knew I had and then God gives me joy in even terrible looking circumstances.

I'm learning to live right here, right now. Little moments and big moments make up my life. I don't want to miss them anymore.

I snapped this shot because I thought the tree looked like the shape of the Scottish Spires and I liked it.

Labels: everyday art, San Marcos