Jonny

I want to share something with you. If you haven't had the chance to listen to my favorite worship leader, here he is. His name is Jon Thurlow. He loves Jesus, a lot! His worship allows me to enter into a place with my King like nothing else does. I hope it blesses you.


In The Face Of Messiah

Glory

John the Baptist

For my girl

I don't know why things happen the way they do. I seek my G-d daily to understand and know Him better. But at the end of the day, He is still bigger, greater and too lofty for me to ever understand. His ways and thoughts are higher than mine...for everyone, not just me.

It amazes me that He can love my friends, family and my patients so much infinitely greater than I ever can imagine. I love deeply, sometimes so much it hurts. He told me recently that He made me "to love and let go."  I've learned that sometimes that means losing a friend to another state or country or even just less time together. Sometimes it means letting go until I see them in the world to come. Whatever it means I feel like the L-rd has blessed me to know His heart of love in a way that also causes me to hurt when I have to let go.

I am blessed! Some days I feel this road is harder to walk than others, but, I don't want to turn back, I don't want a different road. I want to love. I want to love with everything in me.

I am blessed to do a job that not everyone is called to do. I get to spend my days getting paid to love and help families fight for the lives of their children. I get to wake up at 2:30 in the morning because the dad of one of my patients requested that I be called when things aren't looking good. I get to stand by their side and love them and their little ones.

I don't know His ways, I don't know why He calls little ones home so soon. HE IS FAITHFUL. I will always love Him more than I could ever love anyone else. I love that He loves and made me to love. I love my Daddy!

May everything I do bring Him glory, may I be a good representation of Him everyday of my life, may I continue to learn how to love like the Father.



I may speak the tongues of men, even angels
but if I lack love, I have become merely
blaring brass or a cymbal clanging.

I may have the gift of prophecy,
I may fathom all mysteries, know all things,
have all faith - enough to move mountains;
but if I lack love, I am nothing.

Love is patient and kind, not jealous, not boastful
not proud, rude or selfish, not easily angered,
and it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not gloat over other people's sins
but takes its delight in the truth.
Love always bears up, always trusts, always hopes, always endures.

Love never ends; but prophecies will pass,
tongues will cease, knowledge will pass.
For our knowledge is partial, and our prophecy partial,
but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child,
thought like a child, argued like a child;
now that I have become a man,
I have finished with childish ways.

For now we see obscurely in a mirror,
but then it will be face to face.
Now I know partly; then I will know fully,
just as G-d has fully known me.

But for now, three things last -
trust, hope, love;
and the greatest of these is love.

Pursue love!

Just Because

These are people I love

POTD - September

Lots going on these days...here's the pics to prove it.

Check tab Month 9 photos for the big versions.

Enjoy!

Back to the blogs

I just want to let all you blog authors out there know that somehow I went on a blog reading break. I guess I kept posting cause I didn't want to get top backed up with the POTD and all, but I missed all of you. I love knowing what's going on in your lives. So although somehow I forgot that, I'm back now. Thanks for being faithful posters and I'm looking forward to getting re-blogosphere connected.

Cake time with little Cass

I love spending time with little Cass. She is always so loving and she's just plain amazing. We had a date night on the 22nd, we made vanilla cupcakes with strawberry mascarpone filling and chocolate icing. Oh they were yummy! And here's some proof of our good time.

First I made a p b and j for her...she told me exactly how to do it. She said it wasn't very hard. When I was finished she said "Jess you made my peanut butter and jelly greatly." Yep she sure did. She's such an encourager. I love it, it was one of the highlights of my night.

 Getting ready...aprons and all

 Of course she liked licking the mixers...I think that was her favorite part. She kept wanting to put everything in her mouth. It was pretty funny.

 Oh they are so yummy.

 Here's our finished cupcakes fresh out of the oven.

 Next we squeezed in the mascarpone filling. That was the tough part, especially when you can't see how much you're squeezing in. ;)

 Here's some filled cupcakes

 Then we iced them and put the strawberry on top. Can you believe it?

 Perfect, in their butterfly paper

 The yummy filling. Maas said she could drink the stuff...it was pretty good.

 She was sooo excited about all the cupcakes

 Look how many we made!

 It was so fun getting to share with Maas. Of course she choose one that little Cass iced. Good choice Maas.

We had a great time. I told her I had a lovely time with her and she said "I had a lovely time with you too Jess...a very lovely time." How can you not love her?

You can't.

On another note, you may have noticed on POTD 8-23-11 that I am starting a new adventure. I love baking so this was bound to happen sometime. It was stimulated by my baking time with Cassie Faith.

If you want to follow my project I'll post my thoughts and adventures on Making Taste Buds Happy

Thanks for tuning in.

Jess

POTD - August

Here's the latest POTD photos. Please enjoy them and let me know if you want a copy of something. The full sized version is posted under the tab at the top labeled Month 8 photos

Thanks for staying tuned!

POTD - July

I decided to go ahead and post my pictures for July. My dilemma is that if someone wants a copy of a picture, I would like to be the one to give it to them. I am looking for a more permanent solution for the future, however for now, I can't lock my pictures on this site. So please ask if you would like a copy of a photo and I will, most likely, be more than happy to share it with you. Bigger versions are under the tab Month 7 photos, at the top of this page.

Thanks, and I hope you enjoy.

Honesty

• I haven't really read blogs in about 2 months, probably because I haven't really sat down without something specific to do in about 2 months...I do want to catch up.
• There's a lot going on in my life right now, I don't feel very pretty on the inside.
• My passport has expired, I need to get a new one relatively quickly.
• I'm thankful the L-rd exposes yuck stuff in my life, but I'm at a crossroads, I have to do my part now and that seems awfully hard. I'm trying to muster up some courage to continue on.
• I like several of the Dodge body styles, Chevy too for that matter I just wish they had Honda parts underneath the hood.
• I have good friends, but I don't know how to be a good friend. I wish I loved people more and was way less selfish.
• I love my camera! Thank you dear L-rd for such a good gift.
• My photos are my art....I want them to bless people, however, well, there's just a lot attached there....maybe someday I'll explain. But you might just have to ask if you want to know more. For now, my photos are on hold.
• I realized, thanks to a good friend, that there is a reward to giving. When I want to give a gift to someone but it gets taken from me before I can give it, I feel robbed. I have to learn to sacrifice that one, and just get the reward in heaven. I'm not there yet.
• I don't know who I am. I don't know what I want to be. I don't know why I'm here or what I have to offer anyone else. I hope I get some answers soon.
• I don't do a good job of honoring the Sabbath. Today was an incredible one. I feel like it was a gift from the L-rd. Something to create a hunger in me so I would long to obey His command. How good is that? Sorry L-rd I haven't been consistent in obeying that one before. Thank you for being gracious with me.
• All my lessons are around identity. I know that lesson will never be over, but I feel like I'm real close to the climax, and it's getting messier before it's going to get cleaner.
• If you're reading this I most likely love you. Thanks for everything.

POTD - June

Here's the photos from June. Hard to believe the year is half over. Check the tab at the top "month 6 photos" for bigger versions of these.

POTD - May

Here's May's photos, check out the page at the top that says "Month 5 photos" for bigger versions of these as well as a caption for each photo. I way behind on all my photos, there will be more to come, watch for additional pages, the tabs at the top of the blog. Enjoy these for now!

POTD - April

April was a 5 week month so it's been a long time since a POTD post. Thanks for being excited and wanting to see the pics. Check out the Month 4 photo tab at the top for bigger size replicas of each photo, as well as a more detailed description to why it made the cut.

Enjoy!