let your roots grow deep in Him

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.

~Colossians 2:6–8 (NLT)

legacy

I'm reading through a book my grandma gave to me. Last year I had her fill out "A Grandparent's Legacy" after I realized that she was my only living grandparent and by not doing this earlier, I'd missed out on SOO many stories, memories, and great pieces of advice.

I love reading about all the stories of her childhood. Trying to imagine life with out running water, electricity, phones and school buses is almost impossible for me - but the thing I love the most, is how she ties a Bible verse into almost every scenario. And it's not like she is writing on a topic and goes to a concordance to find a verse on that topic... no, she writes out her story and advice and a bible verse just naturally flows out of it. I don't even know some of them are verses until she lists the passage at the end. It's so precious and I desire that to be my heart.

Why is it that I feel my life is so much more complicated than hers is? Why do I think that I have so much less time to read and memorize scripture than she did? Why do I sometimes think of the Bible as being outdated and not as necessary? She has SO many great lessons in here and continually is pressing into my heart how absolutely important God's Word is. He wrote that to me... She keeps telling stories of times which were tough. I read them, I see the outcomes, I see how she was faithful to the Lord, I see how the Lord was faithful to her. It's an incredible testimony and I'm becoming jealous that it isn't mine. I pray that I never become too lazy to be faithful to the Lord. What better legacy could I leave to my children and grandchildren?

Smitten Kitchen

If anything inspires me to cook - it's this blog... SMITTEN KITCHEN.

I don't know if it's her personality, the photos she posts, or what - but there are amazing things in here that I just love to try. She makes it seem so ... possible.

Don't forget to make use of the "surprise me!" feature on the left column whenever you are bored... it'll take up a lot of time!

and my house was a bulb of garlic

My roommate likes to cook. No really. Last night she started dinner for tonight. When I woke up this morning I thought I was waking up inside a gigantic garlic bulb. Gotta love it.

commercials

You know - those things you don't watch anymore because of the amazing invention of DVR... Yeah, those. I make those. I really don't care if you don't watch them though, I get paid either way =)

I started with this job of producing commercials almost exactly a year ago. I am still so thankful for the job. I am so blessed to have it. It's rough at times but when I think of how great it's been for me - teaching me to interact with local businessmen/women, learning 'technical' tricks, force my creativity, learning the community, getting involved in the community...just a lot of good things =) This definitely isn't what I want to do for the rest of my life but for now - I guess it's great!

I embedded the videos below but I'm not sure if that's just the first one or not. HERE IS THE LINK to all of the ones I've worked on and uploaded.