Surrounded by Uncertainty

 Originally uploaded to Flickr by Allison Imagining.

I am Free!

Through you the darkness flees!

Through you my heart screams "I am free!"

I am free to run

I am free to dance

I am free to live for you

I am free, 

Yes! I am free!

(Picture posted on Flickr by bella - Music by The Newsboys)

God's Grandeur

This is a gorgeous poem that I feel just radiates beauty and truth with literary clarity. I encourage you to read through it more than once and read it out loud at least once. I just heard it at our Fall Faculty Retreat and it captured me.

God's Grandeur

Gerard Manley Hopkins

THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.

It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

Oh, morning, at the brown bring eastward, springs --

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

World broods with warm breat and with ah! bright wings.

I Want to Go to There!!!

Photo posted on Flickr by dedge555 on July 3, 2009.

In Woodburn, Oregon for five weeks during the spring the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm has a festival. I REALLY want to go...and wear a pair of wooden shoes when I do! Anyone else in?

Beautiful Bubbles

I love blowing bubbles!

originally uploaded by SaylaMarz on Flickr.

Explore - Dream - Discover

LOVE THIS!!! (from kindovermatter)

157|365 ||| explore, originally uploaded by .bella..

New Artist Records at my House!

*Photograph by Kristi Michelle Witek*

Bethany Smith...aMAZing lyricist and song writer...recorded at my house this weekend! Not everything is up yet, but you can check out a few of her rough mixes on PureVolume and she's got her website up and running with bio, news, photos, etc.

Beautiful girl, great songs - she makes a sister proud!

Free to Feel

This photograph was shared on a blog - KindOverMatter. I think it's lovely!

(Thanks for the tip, Heather!)