Copeland - Love Affair Acoustic

Somehow Copeland looked inside my heat and wrote a song about it.

Well done boys. :)

And I'll feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe

Saying goodbye was my Everest.

Can I just say that I adore Adam Young?

He captures it perfectly...

http://owlcityblog.com/2011/03/14/i-hate-goodbyes/

Encouragement from class notes

So I'm currently studying for an exam tomorrow and smack in the middle of the notes I come across this, "Open your heart up to love and it will find you. Try not to overthink the process"
What do you know. :)

Coronado

I know I’ve said this a thousand times but I absolutely adore the Hotel Del.

Today is the third day of spring break and I have nothing to do until 4:00! Amazing, isn’t it?

So guess where I am. Exactly. I’m sitting on a wooden bench outside the Del overlooking the soft sand and enchanting sea of Coronado. The shore sparkles and the waves politely introduce themselves and then shy away back into the vast ocean. Just 20 feet to my left there’s a first grade class practicing art by drawing the hotel.

I love this place.

I’m not sure why I’m so drawn to it. Sometimes I like to pretend I’m a guest and I’m entering the heavy wooden doorway for the first time after a long flight. As I walk in the chandelier that hangs from the ceiling sparkles with the excitement of being in a new place. Or I can imagine that I’m engaged to the love of my life, scoping out the hotel as a potential venue for our long awaited wedding. Or I can just be Felisha; a busy college student who wore her favorite dress along with a new pair of shoes and ventured to this serene setting to escape her life for a day. It’s not that I don’t like my life; it’s just something about coming here that allows me to step outside of it for a few hours and just enjoy the present. The birds even seem to know there’s something special about this place as they whisper sweet secrets to each other in the purple flower bed by the bench. The rush of the waves reminds me of time and I wish I could stay here forever. A polite breeze touches my cheek ever so kindly as if to say that things will be okay and we will meet again soon.

Until then,

Felisha

For Dad

This morning I woke up from a horrible nightmare and before I even thought of getting out of bed I called my dad. Do you ever have those dreams where they feel so real that you have to make sure the person is okay? This was definitely one of them. After a very loving conversation with dad, I’m still a little teary eyed but I’m okay.

Dear Dad,

I love you so much! I love the notes we used to write to each other. I loved our annual trips to Six Flags on my birthday. I love that you work so hard to take care of our family, and I love that because you are so incredible I’m having the hardest time with dating because almost none of the guys measure up to you. Thanks for loving me.

Love your little girl,

Felisha

Revelation in a Rocking Chair

So yesterday as I was sitting in our rocking chair watching Anastasia with my dear roommate pondering my life's direction and everything in between, someone gave me some valuable advice.

Maybe it will encourage you too. :)

“Take ownership of your life..your decisions..etc..and know that some of the best things come out of discomfort and a lot of people miss out on life because they are scared and they don't want to step out of their comfort zone

but for those of us who go for our dreams...for those of us who take leaps and who see the world for what it is...we are the ones who grow, and we are the ones who live."



Take Heart

In a few months I’ll be headed off to Rwanda for a three week mission trip.  My team has been meeting weekly since the beginning of February in preparation for this trip where we will be spending time working with churches around the area. Deciding to accept the invitation onto this team required so much courage and faith. I’m working and saving money, but there is no way that I can save it all myself, I have to depend on God as well. It’s a beautiful thing to be in complete reliance upon him like this.

Another challenge has been facing the responses from concerned family members about safety. It seems that when you risk your life in a different way than through usual daily activities, its value is suddenly apparent and somehow one is in more danger than before. There are so many factors that make this trip impossible and there are millions of reasons to fear, but no matter what oppositions I see I cannot rid my heart of this love. So, to better explain my heart and passion for working in Africa, I’ve gathered quotes from the past two months that I’ve collected as they’ve confirmed and encourage me…

He dared to trust God to do only what God could do. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do.

Romans 4

But if you embrace the way God does things, there are wonderful payoffs…God pays no attention to what others say (or what you think) about you. He makes up his own mind.

Romans 2

The person in right standing before God by trusting him really lives.

Romans 1:17

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

Rilke

Jesus left what was safe to do what he was meant to do.

Flood Church

I feel compelled to go to Jerusalem. I’m completely in the dark about what will happen when I get there. I do know that it won’t be any picnic, for the Holy Spirit has let me know repeatedly and clearly that there are hard times ahead. But that matters little. What matters most to me is to finish what God started: the job the master Jesus gave me of letting everyone I meet know all about this incredibly extravagant generosity of God.

Acts 20

Every conflict, no matter how hard, comes back to bless the protagonist if he will face his fate with courage. There is no conflict man can endure that will not produce a blessing.

Donald Miller

He said he didn’t think we should be afraid to embrace whimsy…He said whimsy is the nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.

Donald Miller

The great stories go to those who don’t give into fear.

Donald Miller

Keep it up, and don’t let anyone intimidate or silence you. No matter what happens, I’m with you and no one is going to be able to hurt you. You have no idea how many people I have on my side in this city.

Acts 18

It makes no difference who you are or where you’re from – if you want God and are ready to do as he says, the door is open.

Acts 10:35

But the master said, “Don’t argue, Go!” I have picked him as my personal representative to Gentiles and kings and Jews. And now I’m about to show him what he’s in for – the hard suffering that goes with this job.

Acts 9:14-15

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

Rob Bell

Breakfast with Train.

Maybe I like it best spending the morning alone listening to acoustic love songs, sipping coffee, gazing out the window daydreaming about life in love. Maybe I like living in the hope of something more than actually living in that something. Or maybe today, just today, I’m content in the paused circumstances; confident in my aloneness, and hopeful that the best is yet to come.