All of my life, In every season, You are still God.

Right now, I will make the choice to go watch this past Saturday's episode of Saturday Night Live instead of working on the essay that I have due in first period tomorrow.

"Safety is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of God."

Oh my, I hate when people call me Jil.

Procrastination is the name of the game.

It's not until nine o'clock when I start to regret going to the beach instead of doing the essay that I was assigned today, due tomorrow. I have not learned my lesson though, and plan on seeing more of this in the future.

If I weren't allergic to bees, bee keeping would be a definite possible career choice of mine. Maybe just for a little, I think it'd be interesting. Just the minor setback that's keeping me from pursuing this one.

II

I

Summer

doesn't 

end.

"When people's steps follow the Lord, 

God is pleased with their ways. 
If they stumble, they will not fall,
 because the Lord holds their hand."

Psalm 37:24-25

My mistakes are just reminders as to why God is God, and I am not.

mmm things like this, most definitely my favorite thing to ponder.

Aurora

I went to a fundraising dinner the other night with my mom for a lady who runs an orphanage in Kenya who's dying of cancer. The lady who organized the dinner was talking to me about my trip to Ecuador and repeatedly said, "I'm so amazed by the ways that God broke you through your experience" and kept insisting that I'm a broken person now because of it. I got pretty irritated by her because who wants to be told that they're a broken person? I guess she's right in the sense that an experience like that sort of leaves you an open wound to the world.

So thrilled by this video.

But Jesus spoke to them at once. "Don't be afraid,"

 he said. "Take courage. 

I am here!"

Matthew 14:27

Before I left for Ecuador I googled all of the places that we were going just to get a better image of where we were going to be and such. I googled "Shandia, Ecuador" and pictures of kids came up, which then, didn't have that much significance. Missing Ecuador, I googled it again this morning and the same pictures came up. Those kids are the same ones that my team and I lived with for a week and fell in love with. The thing that breaks my heart is that they are wearing the same clothes that they wore everyday when I was there in those pictures that were taken in 2008.

You, my friend and reader, I hope you're having a lovely day. It's a lovely day to have.

Mornin' spiderwebs.

I think that vocabulary determines to what extent you're able to express yourself.  I can't wait until one day I find someone who loves vocabulary just as much as I do, then we could be entertained simply by conversation for mass amounts of time.

You are holy, great and mighty. The moon and the stars, declare who you are. I’m so unworthy, but still you love me. Forever my heart will sing of how great you are.

Love does not

keep a record of wrongs.  If God doesn't even remember my sins, the least I can do is make an effort to move on from them myself.

It's a broken Hallelujah

O Praise Him!

When God believes in you, your situation is never hopeless. When He walks with you, you are never alone. When God is on your side, you can never, ever lose. So don't be afraid of tomorrow-
God is already there. 

--Barbara Johnson