I have an obsession with wedding photos. Of random people. On random websites. Literally love them. All the brides are so radiant and the grooms so enraptured. And don't even get me started on the colors and the flowers and the lights and just how it all looks like their absolute perfect day. Hooray!

Told you I'm obsessed.

like a lion.

Let love explode and bring the dead to life.

A love so bold

To see a revolution somehow.

Let love explode and bring the dead to life.

A love so bold

To bring a revolution somehow.

Now I'm lost in your freedom

This world I'll overcome.

My God is not dead,

He's surely alive.

He's living on the inside,

Roaring like a lion.

Let hope arise and make the darkness hide.

My faith is dead,

I need a resurrection somehow.

Let Heaven roar and fire fall.

Come shake the ground

With the sound of revival.

sunset.

life is so colorful.

this picture doesn't even show it all.

crazy how it never does.

man, He's good.

kitty kat.

Happy birthday to my best friend slash roommate Kathryn! I LOVE YOU KATH, you rock my world.

four square.

Alright, last night we played 4 square in the parking lot of our house and I had a few thoughts:

1. Was I ever REALLY good? I mean really, I thought I was good. Maybe it was cuz I went to a private school.
2. How is Bo so good. He is always king.
3. I can't remember what cherry bombing is. I always say no cherry bombing though.
4. Why do I always lose.
5. I think it's sad I can't think of US city names quickly off the top of my head. There are 19,354. Yep, just looked it up.
6. How come the serve has to bounce in the King's square before another's.
7. Why do I always lose.
8. Do you have to be athletic to be good at this game.
9. I really like the acronym CLOAS. CLOAS for life.
10. I'm really bad at 4 square....yet I keep playing...
11. Boys always gang up on the girls. I don't know why though, we are the worst anyways.
12. Holy crap a ginormous ant just ran across my computer.
13. I really like luaus. And 4 square. And moo moos. And food.

Lauren's party was definitely a success. Even though I kept losing at 4 square.

the gift of singleness.

So I'm listening to this podcast by Ben Stuart called the "gift of singleness" and I realize that I have been looking at this whole "single" thing all wrong! I've been allowing my hopes and dreams be a driving factor in my life, not giving them to the Lord and focusing on His plan for my life.

God has given me the gift of singleness so that I can promote an understanding of the reality that God is calling people out of the dark and one day it will be over. One day He will come. In 1 Corinthians 7, Paul talks about how singleness is a gift to secure anundistracted devotion for our Lord. Basically, the Lord wants to give us a new mindset about life and He wants to give it to us in a time where we are undistracted. And let's face it, dating is distracting.

I have have been given time. How am I gonna use this time? God has blessed me with the time I have had to glorify Him. God gave me a reality check today. HELLO KAMBLY, I DIDN'T MAKE YOU JUST TO GET MARRIED! Woah, duh. And I'm sitting there thinking but that's what I've always wanted! Well, not anymore Kambly. Jeremiah 29:11- "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord.  I need to trust that the Lord is good and use singleness while I've got it! So obvious right?

The thing is, God has an awesome plan for my life and I so easily get distracted with looking behind me and not straining forward to the feast that He has prepared for me in the future. It's like this verse:

"But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead." -Phillippians 3:13

So, He has given singleness to us that we would live life right, that we would know Him deeply, make Him known and take into our marriage a lifestyle that is chasing after the King for His glory. God is faithful. And I always have to be reminded of that.

open happiness.

Most people know that I have a love for Coke. More like an obsession, really. I love literally everything about it. I mean everything. From the red background and white cursive letters, to the "joy" commercials, right down to the delectable taste. Coke, to me, isn't just a caffeine fix, it's a LIFESTYLE. Seriously. I could be having a miserable day and if someone brought me a fountain Coke I would immediately feel better. And if you're thinking, "wow, she has replaced Jesus with Coke," please read previous posts and you will see this is obviously not true. No other soda can compare to the sweet sugar rush you get when coca cola is drank. I will argue this point to no end. My absolute favorite Coca Cola commercial is the one where the dude with the terrible voice goes around his party and passes out cokes to all his "friends" singing "joyyyyy enough to go roundddd!" Ah, I love it. So real. So joyful.

Well now you know my obsession. I recently gave up soda for lent and my friends can attest to how hard it was for me not to have my beloved. It was a good break but I'm back on the drank and I have no regrets. If you ever want to go to happy hour at sonic, it's my favorite pastime so hit me up! Shout out to Bo and our love for our sodas. Peace and Blessins.