The days have gotten long. “Lately” has been so full. … I realized today that I love the moments in life, when everything feels worth it. Those rare moments; the really good ones. The ones that make the long hard times feel like they meant something. They could be as small as a hello or goodbye or as simple as a smile from a favorite person. All I know is, is that there are days I wish the sun wouldn’t set, even though I love it when it does and I’m loving the feeling of oncoming summer quickly approaching!
Here’s a few songs I’ve been lovin’ in my “lately” also:
A Song for today maybe? (I think they have a sort of Band Perry Vibe. I like it).
Good ol’ Toby! (I heard this song while driving in my car really late the other night and I think it’s a good’n!)
This weekend I was driving in my car after realizing I had to face something I’d been gearing up to face for a while now. I was on my way just then to face it. Unsure. Anxious. …Then I put on an old “last summer’s CD” and I gladly heard the words, “I see you smilin’ at the unknown.” And I smiled. “lift your head up.” it went on. And I did. There was somthing about that line, “smiling at the unknown.”I got that feeling I used to get when I’d see an awesome play happen in my head in a basketball game before it’d happen. That feeling when you are gonna give something a shot. It could go really wrong OR it could go really right. It’s just an unknown! It’s that feeling you get when you choose to charge something big. It’s a thrill. And instead of being anxious, my heart turned to smiling… smiling at the Unknown. And that’s a lot better than being afraid of it. I’m so glad we have an Unchanging God who also smiles at our “unknowns”… they’re not unknowns to Him.
Sometimes life can be a chalky gray. The kind you find in puffs of smoke that even the look of makes it hard to breathe. But other times life can be those silky pink and blue colors. The ones that make you think of softer, kinder things; like waves and sky and twilights and sunrises.
I hope today is colorful and pretty for you.
Here’s some link love for you
My pinterest (I go in spurts of LOVING to find cool pins and I can’t stop!)
These are my top two music videos right now. I know I was a little late on the Ok Go boat. But I’m sort of addicted to their music videos. They’re so creative! … I’m waiting around to go to work and just needed some good ol’ music videos to watch today.
You really just can’t beat Chris Martin in an elephant suit and Ok Go dancing around a park.
(Oh and on a side note, the airport scene in Paradise- the guy in the yellow vest will be me today. That’s my job alright. I see airports everywhere now).
“Visible illusion
Where it starts it ends
Love like a sunset”
I don’t know what other people do when they’re upset- but I like to go for a drive when I am. I like to turn the radio up and roll the windows down and just drive anywhere that’s pretty. Luckily Oregon is beautiful and almost any direction you go will usually be scenic. The other night was a day like that; a day when I needed to go for a drive. My heart felt so heavy, anything pretty or encouraging seemed to find it’s way right down into it, like scraps for a hungry soul. That’s when I saw the sunset. It found it’s way through the clouds and between the mountains and touched my heart in such a way. It made my eyes fill with tears and caused me to smile at the same moment. I love beautiful sunsets.
I think I felt the Lord speak to me just then. I felt Him tell me something so sweet and lovely. I heard Him say: ”Lindsay, that’s the same kind of pleasure you give me.”
And I felt stunned. Is that true? I almost laughed to myself. Could the Lord enjoy me in the same way I enjoyed that sunset? It was such a sweet and lovely thought but deep down in my heart I knew it was true and it was the best sort of encouragement ever. To think that the whole time I’d been crying and talking to Him, He’d been delighted with me; smiling at me, enjoying me. The sunset seemed then almost a mirror He’d given me, to show me how He had been looking at me. When I’d felt like such a mess.
I know that I’m nothing compared to a sunset – but to think that God sees me as sweet and lovely as one…that’s amazing! ….And maybe this whole lovely thought doesn’t make any sense? But if you enjoy sunsets and sunrises as much as me, maybe you’ll understand how wonderful it feels to be enjoyed by someone in the same way. God is so good. He’s so good I don’t understand Him. But I do understand that He loves me. And boy do I love Him back for it! Thank God for sunsets and for love like sunsets.
“I’ve tasted and seen of the sweetest of loves. Where my heart becomes free and my shame is undone – Your presence Lord. Holy spirit you are welcome here. Come flood this place and fill the atmosphere. Your glory God is what our hearts long for. To be overcome by Your presence Lord.”
Today was a lovely Easter Sunday. And nothin’ beats designing Easter art on the driveway with chalk. I don’t know why chalk and Easter go so well together but they do. They really do.
Ah, these are the days; the type of days that remind me of just how good God is. I’m so thankful for them. And yet, sweetest of all is His presence itself. It’s so nice to know His presence within each day. That’s what really makes each day beautiful.
Speaking of His presence… I’ve been listenin’ to this on repeat.
