Initial Inspiration

Blogging is genius.  I've realized many express more easily through writing rather than actual speech.  When we write we have time to collect our thoughts.  I know often when I start to speak my mind is jumbled and then I concentrate on how jumbled my mind has become.  I have found myself exploring blogs and enjoying them.  They have become an artistic, real playground through words and I've fallen in love. 
I'm jumping on the bandwagon.  I don't have a theme.  I'm not uniquely creative or makeup my own recipes but everyone has something to offer.  I'm here to offer something that I don't know that I have...yet. :) 

 Recent musings...

I have been listening to the Regina Spektor station on Pandora and it instantly makes me feel like I'm the single, spontaneous ingenue in the latest chick flick just around the corner from meeting the man of my dreams at any moment.  I feel whimsical and captivated.  Check it out!  It's free!

I love to read.  I am currently reading Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot.  Each page has so much application.  Her husband was one of the five missionary men who was martyred by the Auca tribe in the jungles of Ecuador.  Nate Saint, the pilot of the group stated a beautiful spiritual illustration:

"When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to the present to the Lord."  

The weight of this statement is overwhelming to me.  The tangible things of this world are fleeting.  Here one minute gone the next.  No matter how great or strong they are at first.  What a reminder that nothing of this world needs to resonate with more power than the love the Lord has given us.  Aaron and I have been doing our best living more simply knowing that nothing we hold in our hands weighs against our relationships, investment in travel to see more of God's people, and using our talents to the best of our abilities.  I suppose this was my initial inspiration to blog and share.  Thoughts, musings, and real feelings are intangible and I'm yearning to embrace them more.   

Nicole