Holidays Make It Better

Reese Peanut Butter Cups are delicious. They are always one of the top 5 on my rotating list of favorite candy. (Yes, it rotates, doesn't yours???) Anyway. I am that person that eats the chocolate edges first off of a normal round reese cup, saving the creamy peanut butter filling for the end, making that the lasting taste in my mouth. :) Now, around the holidays Reese Cups becomes my FAVORITE candy. All because of the shape you can buy it in. Reese Egg, Reese Christmas Tree, the Reese Heart, and right now the Reese Pumpkin... The chocolate peanut butter combo is amazing as is, but the limited holiday editions, in my opinion, are way better. They use more creamy peanut butter filling... "DOUBLE the peanut butter" as the package proclaims. Yes, one of the many reasons the holidays are so great!

The Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkin! :)

Anyway, if you have never had one, I encourage you to try one out. (They are 3/1.00 at Kroger this week. :)) Don't wait for the next holiday to try one! :)

A Bridge to Cross the Great Divide

So this weekend, me and a couple of girlfriends went to my favorite place in Kentucky - Red River Gorge. If is a beautiful place with lots of rocks, trees, and beautiful sights. There is one place there called "Natural Bridge." And, well, it is exactly what it says in it's name, a natural bridge. It is huge and high up, and breathtaking. So anyway. It was great. I want everyone to experience it's beauty... so here it is...

The view standing on top of Natural Bridge. God is an amazing artist.

and we are not as close as we look, promise

Fun rocks

From the other side - the Natural Bridge is in the background behind us

Now... one of my friends here has a love for Point of Grace and we sing the songs ALL THE TIME. I love it. And if you know Point of Grace, you know they have a song called "The Great Divide". Yes, we could not stop singing it and laughing at the thought that this is the literal natural bridge to cross a great divide. Yes, we are cheesy. But we couldn't resist doing this interpretive dance (?) with the bridge. :) (Please notice all the Asian people stopping to listen to us in the background... and then start talking again. It's great!)

The Biggest Pumpkin Ever!

I'm teaching my kids all about pumpkins... I read them The Biggest Pumpkin Ever. It made me think of this picture... and I couldn't resist bringing it in and showing them. It just makes me smile. :)

One Pure and Holy Passion

I used to hate this song with a passion. I'm not entirely sure, but I have a few guesses as to why.

Number 1. The first time I heard this song was in a high school chapel service and the guy leading the song was extremely fake and emotional. So... I tuned out and it turned me off to this song.

Number 2. When the song came out I was totally in the phase of not liking any worship song that had to do with me and did not specifically praise the character of God. (Somewhat legitimate, somewhat silly.)

Anyway. I recently was looking through my guitar songbook and rediscovered this song. Being one of the few songs I can play, I tried it out. As I played it, I realized how honest the song is, and how personal it is. I was wrong about it. It's a simple prayer from the heart. And I realized it is exactly what my heart is crying out to God about. I want my passion, my purpose, my joy to be God. Not my circumstance, not the events in my life... I want God to simply be my desire, and my purpose to love and glorify Him. I truly just want to know Him more. I'm learning more that this is really what Christian life is about. (Cliche? Yes. But there is always so much truth behind a cliche... that is how it became a cliche, right?)

Give me one pure and holy passion
Give me one magnificent obsession
Give me one glorious ambition for my life
To know and follow hard after You

Give me one pure and holy passion
Give me on magnificent obsession
Give me one glorious ambition for my life
To know and follow hard after You

To know and follow hard after you
To grow as your dicsiple in your truth
This world is empty, pale, and poor
Compared to knowing you, my Lord
Lead me on and I will run after you
Lead me on and I will run after you

Give me one pure and holy passion
Give me one magnificent obsession
Give me one glorious ambition for my life
To know and follow hard after you
To know and follow hard after you
To grow as your disciple in the truth
This world is empty, pale, and poor
Compared to knowing you my Lord
Lead me on and I will run after you

Lord to know and follow hard after you
And to grow as your disciple in your truth
This world is empty, pale, and poor
Compared to knowing you my Lord
Lead me on and I will run after you
Lead me on and I will run after you
Lead me on and I will run after you