Crashing California

It's not often that you get that chance really. Can you think of the last time you did? Usually you meet someone, a friendship sparks and you grow ~ it grows. sometimes slowly through bonds of tea and long talks, sometimes quickly through circumstance or tragedy. But usually, I would wager almost always, you see & experience before you believe. Perhaps it wasn't necessarily just regarding Faith in Christ when Jesus told his disciples after his resurrection “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” Because it takes such faith to do so.  And sometimes believing in a Big and Gracious God is the easy part. What about believing in the love of others? Others who can, will and often do, let you down, because after all, we are all human I have been given the beautiful circumstance of loving people before I see them; with the revelation in January of my Father and his whole, rather large family . At first it did...

Galatians 5:22-25   22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. This mother's day our Pastor had asked us to read Galatians 5: 22-25 (the parts about the fruits of the spirit) and share a bit about our mother's, and how they exhibited one of those fruits. He had asked me to do the same but when I read it, something quite different stood out to me ~ Since we LIVE by the Spirit, let us keep in step with THE SPIRIT ... it reminded me of an old song my mom used to sing to me before bed. She would tuck me in and scratch my back and sing me one of three songs (or all of them, if I was particularly lucky that night). She would sing, Jesus Loves Me (ofcourse) Jesus Loves the Little Children, and ...

Our Anniversary Dessert at "Ruth's Chris" Restaurant Ahhh!!! A quick update =) April flew by, I was busy up the ying yang with freelance and other things ... our album was finally mastered (mid April) in New York City and is now complete and I am in the process of figuring out what's next, designing the album cover and graphics and such ... praying about what to do from here is strange and the process seems kind of anti-climactic at present. Work at JC has been a rollercoaster, they have fired our VP of Marketing (ofcourse, they didn't SAY that, but that's pretty much what happened) and also the VP of IT ... it's a strange time in the building and for our dept. -- we were basically told that if we can't turn the ship around in 90 days, it's going to be an interesting space ... so the dept. is on situation critical, lots of changes ... lots of agency meetings (which I am NOT invited too) lots of feeling like I"m really looking forward t...