VACATION 1

Hi guys, this is Vevy. :D (okay...duh)
Well, I have 5 minutes to say hi on here and then i hafta go...I'm using a library computer.
We're on VACATION!
We left our house sunday at 4, and we had safe travels to my grandparents house in South Carolina. We're driving 2 rental cars, one bright blue, one white, Jeep Patriots. We're just hanging out with cousins and grandparents. Please pray for my grandparents, cause my grandad has a lot of health issues, but my great-grandmother also lives with them, and she's 90 and has developing Alzheimers, so my Grandma has the weight of taking care of both of them. We're all helping out how we can, but the situation can use a lot of prayer. It's hard to see my Great-Grandmother (granny) like this. Her mind's always been very sharp and she always had great stories to tell about growing up in the depression and WWII and factory work and lots of family history, but now she can barely remember names.

I miss you guys all a ton, I'll ttys!
Bye!

Tale of a blessing

Let me preface this post by saying that I love Emily Dickinson's poetry, its rythm is very pleasing, and much of it is deep and I love how she says things with very precise words that go perfectly in the verse. :D

So the other day I went up to a theatre nearby to get my ticket to go see The Dark Knight. (for Saturday) My dad let me drive up there (I have my permit now), but once we got there at about 9:45 AM we went in and found that the box office doesn't actually open until 10:30. Thankfully there is a Barnes and Noble nearby and so we hopped back in the car and drove on over there. I walked in and paused next to a table loaded with Barnes and Noble's signature collection of hardback classics. What should my hand pause on? Why it's a book of the collected poems of Emily Dickinson!!! How exciting. I flip through it happily, when suddenly the fact comes to my attention that these books are all on a table because they are all on sale! So i pop open the cover to see the price there inscribed: $7.95. Ooh, this is actually cheap for a book! I realized. Then I looked at the sales percentage. 30% off, with a subtext of 10% off for members. Providentially my dad happens to be a member of this illustrious store. :D So I hopped over to where my dad was, and showed him the very good price on the book i'd found and added "She's my favorite poet!", along with some pleading eyes that i'm sure completely won him over, because he smiled and said, sure, you can get it. We weren't leaving right away and as I browsed--book tightly clutched in hand--it occurred to me that I had a Barnes & Noble card in my wallet...although i didn't know the balance on said card. So i gave it to my dad as ahe stood in the checkout line. He came an handed me my book, and said that there had been $5 on it. Pretty much exactly what i needed to pay for the remnant of my book. :D Praise God for free Emily Dickinson books! :D

Here are 2 of my favorite poems of hers.

LXXXIII

Not one by Heaven defrauded stay

Although He seem to steal,

He restitutes in some sweet way.

Secreted in His will.

XXXII

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That couold abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

Praise to Jesus Christ

This is my favorite chapel song from School. :D
I really wish i could find the chords to it. :P



You were left, despised, forsaken
man of sorrows, grief unspoken
to the cross our sins you carried
struck by God so it was finished there

Pierced alone for our transgressions
crushed for our iniquities
we like sheep have gone astray
for our debt the price you paid

Praise to Jesus Christ in heaven
you in love for us were given
God's great mercy coming through you
Lamb of God who takes away our sins

Holy God was pleased to crush you
as the guiltless sacrifice
raised in power you give salvation
God's good pleasure prospers in your hand

Final Lord of all creation
heaven and earth will sing your praises
Lion of Judah, lamb of slaughter
of your worthy name we'll always sing

Friend Photoshoot

A few weeks ago my good friends Esther, Rachel and Charis came over from their homes about 2 hours away, to stay with me for the week because Esther's brother, and Charis' dad were taking the Summerim class at the Seminary. The first day we all did our makeup and hair and then i took a photoshoot of the girls. :) Photography is one of my favorite things, and this was a very fun shoot. Here are a few of my favorites from the shoot.