Music & God – Creativity & God

Over the last year in particular, I’ve been grappling with what exactly I should be doing with this gift of music that God’s given me. I’ve dabbled in songwriting, but lately its been a frustrating effort for me as I am not involved in a community of music like I was when I wrote my [...]

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Religion

I was reading a fellow blogger’s post and it got me thinking about the term “religion”. Honestly, I hate the word. Particular in Western society, the word religion has connotations of rules, rote actions, and rites that don’t really carry any real meaning. To most, Religion is something people often use as a weapon to [...]

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Life is good….

Life is good…. It can be so easy to get caught up in the little annoying things of life to miss the huge ways that God has blessed us. I have been getting frustrated with work cause it hasn’t been terribly busy, so I am bored out of my mind. I’m one of those people [...]

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Life in the Valley of Death

Life in the Valley of Death http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7182113/?GT1=6305 Death Valley is normally a dry, barren wasteland, but with the right amount of rain and sun, the life that is hidden pops above the surface. What an amazing reminder of how God’s grace rained upon us gives our dead and barren souls eternal life!

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An attempt at brevity

An attempt at brevity I know, I know, it’s been forever since I last posted. You’re probably thinking I “took the plunge” and then disappeared off the face of the earth! haha. Well, here I am. I am going to try to briefly recap the past few months, but we’ll see how brief it actually [...]

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Taking the Plunge

Taking the Plunge Well, I have officially taken the plunge and I’ll be going through some changes in the next few weeks. I am just hoping that my relationships with family don’t suffer for it in the long run. Interestingly enough, last night God really spoke to me about trust during my devotional time. I [...]

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Beauty in the ordinary Yesterday, I headed in t…

Beauty in the ordinary Yesterday, I headed in the general direction of home after enjoying watching the sunset from the top of Elings Park off Las Positas. I realized that there is so much beauty in the ordinary things of life, yet so often we miss them. I almost feel as if that odd mood [...]

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Beauty in the ordinary

Beauty in the ordinary Yesterday, I headed in the general direction of home after enjoying watching the sunset from the top of Elings Park off Las Positas. I realized that there is so much beauty in the ordinary things of life, yet so often we miss them. I almost feel as if that odd mood [...]

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Comments on desire

Comments on desire The quote I posted below really struck me, because lately, my desire for music (writing, creating, singing, anything!) has been stirred up more and more lately, and I realized through some God moments, that those desires are in His plans. The direction my life has been taking the past couple of years [...]

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Self-confidence or God-confidence?

Self-confidence or God-confidence? 1 Corinthians 10:12 “Forget about self-confidence; it’s useless. Cultivate God-confidence.” The context surrounding this verse is one where Paul is warning the Corinthians of being too self-confident in themselves, but this verse in particular stuck out to me for a slightly different reason. In our culture being self-confidence and having good self-esteem [...]

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