The Vine and the Branches .

'I am the real vine. And my Father is the Farmer. He cuts off every branch of me that doesn't bear fruit. And every branch that is fruit-bearing He prunes, so that it'll bear even more. You are currently pruned back by the message that I have spoken. Live in me. Make your home in me, just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can't bear fruit by itself, but only by being joined to the vine, you can't bear fruit unless you are joined with me. I am the Vine. And you are the branches. When you're joined with me, and I with you, the relationship intimate and pure, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can't produce a thing. Anyone who separates from me is a deadwood, gathered up, and thrown out on the fire. But in you make yourself at home with me, and my words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon. This is how my father shows who He is. When you produce fruit, you mature as my disciples. I've loved you the way my Father has love me. Make yourself at home in my love. If you keep my commands, you'll remain intimately at home in my love. That's what I've done. Kept my fathers commands, and made myself at home in His love. You didn't choose me, remember? I chose you, and put you in the world to bear fruit. Fruit that won't spoil. But, never forget to LOVE ONE ANOTHER.'

falll (:

this just makes me so excited for fall. now don't get me wrong. i love summer. love it love it love it. but fall is also just AMAZING. if i had to pick one, i couldn't even decide.

so yes. as excited as i am for fall, i'm sad summer will be coming to a close. september is in 3 days, and then school... whoa. kinda not ready for school to start.. i mean i'm excited to see my friends. i'm excited for fall. i'm excited for what my freshman year'll bring. but after summer we have to wait 9 more months..

but i love fall. haha

life is beautyful .

just some pictures that make me so happppy . ahh . photography is amazing . and life is so great .

american honey.

i was just listening to lady antebellums 'american honey.' and it made me think about when i was little. and how easy life was. and how silly things were, and just all that. everything was so innocent when we were little. haha just running around and having no responsibilities and depending on our parents to do everything for us. but eventually we all have to learn to fly. but that doesn't mean we have to grow up. i know getting older means more responsibility and all that, but we don't have to change our outlook on life. i love still being stupid and just embracing life.

there's a wild wild whisper blowing in the wind,
calling out my name like a long lost friend.
oh how i miss those days as the years go by,
nothings sweeter than summertime.
and american honey..

she grew up good. she grew up slow. like american honey. 

thanks for the memories.

ahhhh. i just love summer so much. i just had one of the best weekends everr! i loved every minute of it. going up to the lake with my famm and best friend. it was so what i needed. and i just loved doing nothing. and relaxing, and skiing, and tubing, and EATING EATING EATING. ahh it was so wonderful. its one of those weekends i'll just look back on and smile. from getting up on skiis for the first time, to a JB freakout scream session down the highway, to sitting on the dock starring at the full moon just in awe of my Maker. i love life so much. and am so blessed to have who i have in it. summers almost over, and then school starts back up again. so i want to make these next few weeks count. and just pack as much in as i can, to finish this summer out having done everything i wanted to. i just love the time to do whatever i want. and relax. ahhhhh summer.

fireflies.

I've been thinking about fireflies . I saw them in a field earlier this summer and felt like I was in one of those princess fairy tale story books .. you know the ones where there's a field just filled with fireflies . and they always end up catching them in their jars and gazing at how beautiful they are . but what the storybook never mentioned was what a firefly really looks like up close . its this beautiful magical thing at a distance . but when you look at it closely you see thats just a regular ugly bug . it looks like a beetle with fire on its butt . I saw them that night and just wondered ... what do they look like up close? the story books never covered that part . and then I realized there just normal beetle bugs . I was thinking about the night I saw them today and realized something . fireflies are like so many things in life . there so beautiful far away .. and they look like the most magical amazing things ever . but when you get them upclose , your come to the realization that there just like everything else . in this life, the world makes some things look so amazing and beautiful . and you don't understand you've been fooled until you see it for it's true colors . But Jesus gives us something better than beauty far away . He gives us life to the fullest , and doesn't scam us for something terrible once your stuck with it . Thank the LORD that Christ died so we could live the life that He created us to . 1 Timothy 6:12 tells us to ' Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called . ' The true One doesn't go back on His promises of what our live is . He gives us life , and life eternally .

writing music all day.. it's just one of those days. where its dreary weather but inside the creativity is flowing. writing music is like my out from what is going on.. cause I just put it onto the paper and make it into something beautiful. music. even tho sometimes I hit a wall. and come up blank. but that's when I listen. and I always end up coming with my best songs out of those days. hmmm thank Jesus that He created music.