If you have the Catholicism series, I'm jealous (don't worry, not envious...just jealous). If not, and you love the music as much as me, it's all on iTunes and Spotify. If you haven't seen or heard it, here's a taste for you!
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Nightly fix of beauty: Song recommendation XXXI
If you have the Catholicism series, I'm jealous (don't worry, not envious...just jealous). If not, and you love the music as much as me, it's all on iTunes and Spotify. If you haven't seen or heard it, here's a taste for you!
Thursday, June 20, 2013
The Worst Prison would be a Closed Heart
^^so said Blessed Pope John Paul II
I'm really needing some grateful in my life right now. So here's my grateful.
1. For the chance to spend time with family. Especially now that my brother is home. All 4 home at once hasn't happened in more than a year.
2. For the slower pace of summer. Time to do fun projects, like a puzzle, book (Three to Get Married at the moment...) and Pinterest craft items (made a skirt!).
3. For getting to see the fiance after almost a month.
4. For friends who've been keeping in touch and always give me a mood boost.
5. For Jeremiah 29:11.
6. For music that makes me want to go two-stepping. Or stand in the middle of a wheat field and soak up the sun. Especially this song when I was driving down the road with the windows rolled down today.
7. For a new used car. That tells me the direction I'm going (it's the little things, really...).
8. For milk shakes. And a mom who knows when I need to get out of the house and go for a drive with her to get one. And a hug.
9. For the Bible study I'm in this summer. A good spiritual exercise to keep me on track.
10. For her.
I'm really needing some grateful in my life right now. So here's my grateful.
1. For the chance to spend time with family. Especially now that my brother is home. All 4 home at once hasn't happened in more than a year.
2. For the slower pace of summer. Time to do fun projects, like a puzzle, book (Three to Get Married at the moment...) and Pinterest craft items (made a skirt!).
3. For getting to see the fiance after almost a month.
4. For friends who've been keeping in touch and always give me a mood boost.
5. For Jeremiah 29:11.
6. For music that makes me want to go two-stepping. Or stand in the middle of a wheat field and soak up the sun. Especially this song when I was driving down the road with the windows rolled down today.
7. For a new used car. That tells me the direction I'm going (it's the little things, really...).
8. For milk shakes. And a mom who knows when I need to get out of the house and go for a drive with her to get one. And a hug.
9. For the Bible study I'm in this summer. A good spiritual exercise to keep me on track.
10. For her.
Monday, June 10, 2013
Princess Kathleen Walker: Pro-Life Feature VII
Archduchess...gorgeous...fashionable...pro-life? I only recently learned about this beautiful woman, but she lit up the media last October. This American-born princess was a communications director with the American Life League, and with Catholic Charities in Arlington. I've always been more keen on keeping up with royalty than movie stars (yes, I google often for new pics of the Duchess of Cambridge's baby bump). So this just makes the pro-life activist in me happy. Here's a link to read up more: Archduchess Kathleen of Austria
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Still Waiting
I was hoping by this point in the summer that I could make a wonderful blog post about specific future plans and what I'm doing with my life.
Alas.
Things are still very vague on my end. I'm engaged...but I don't know when I'm getting married. I have a part-time, on-commission job...but I'm still looking for full-time employment. I've been accepted to school...but I still don't know if I can afford it.
It's interesting (and obnoxious) to tell people these details. One thing I've learned since graduation is that uncertain plans translate to failure in people's ears. Hoping to go to school half-way across the country even though you're engaged makes people raise their eyebrows and stare at you like you're mad. Get that girl a reality check.
I guess that's where my hopefulness about my part-time job comes in. It's working with Reditus Marketing...they work with local businesses to sponsor the Lighthouse CD displays in three local parishes, and in turn put their business ads on the displays (If any of you know some local businesses that would love to support this great ministry, let me know? Most of the responses I've received is that they've planned out their advertising budgets for the year. I guess I'm still learning the ropes here.). It really is a great opportunity...flexible working from home whenever I want, it'll be nice to either earn money for school or supplement my future full-time income, and since it's nation-wide I can take it wherever I go...either to school or wherever I find a job. The thing is, since I'm still just starting, I'm just at the making-calls phase...and hearing lots of "no". I know it's all in the numbers...the more calls I make, the closer I'll get to a "yes" to an appointment, and then to a "yes" to sponsor. But when it's the only thing I'm relying on right now, every "no" is more and more frustrating.
So life right now is about finding the beauty in the limbo. Finding blessing in waiting. Attempting not to feel like I'm a burden...I'm trying my best, but when the world tells you you have to be doing something, it's a little difficult to be content in any kind of wait-and-see phase. This is a tad cliche, but I know something will work out.
Alas.
Things are still very vague on my end. I'm engaged...but I don't know when I'm getting married. I have a part-time, on-commission job...but I'm still looking for full-time employment. I've been accepted to school...but I still don't know if I can afford it.
It's interesting (and obnoxious) to tell people these details. One thing I've learned since graduation is that uncertain plans translate to failure in people's ears. Hoping to go to school half-way across the country even though you're engaged makes people raise their eyebrows and stare at you like you're mad. Get that girl a reality check.
I guess that's where my hopefulness about my part-time job comes in. It's working with Reditus Marketing...they work with local businesses to sponsor the Lighthouse CD displays in three local parishes, and in turn put their business ads on the displays (If any of you know some local businesses that would love to support this great ministry, let me know? Most of the responses I've received is that they've planned out their advertising budgets for the year. I guess I'm still learning the ropes here.). It really is a great opportunity...flexible working from home whenever I want, it'll be nice to either earn money for school or supplement my future full-time income, and since it's nation-wide I can take it wherever I go...either to school or wherever I find a job. The thing is, since I'm still just starting, I'm just at the making-calls phase...and hearing lots of "no". I know it's all in the numbers...the more calls I make, the closer I'll get to a "yes" to an appointment, and then to a "yes" to sponsor. But when it's the only thing I'm relying on right now, every "no" is more and more frustrating.
So life right now is about finding the beauty in the limbo. Finding blessing in waiting. Attempting not to feel like I'm a burden...I'm trying my best, but when the world tells you you have to be doing something, it's a little difficult to be content in any kind of wait-and-see phase. This is a tad cliche, but I know something will work out.
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