Our God

Water You turned into wine
Open the eyes of the blind
There’s no one like You
None like You
Into the darkness You shine
Out of the ashes we rise
There’s no one like You
None like You

Our God is GREATER, our God is STRONGER
God You are HIGHER than any other
Our God is HEALER, AWESOME in power
Our God, Our God…

Into the darkness you shining
Out of the ashes we Rise
There’s no One like You
None like You.

Our God is GREATER, our God is STRONGER
God You are HIGHER than any other
Our God is HEALER, AWESOME in power
Our God, Our God…
Our God is GREATER, our God is STRONGER
God You are HIGHER than any other
Our God is HEALER, AWESOME in power
Our God, Our God…

And if Our God is for us, then who could ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
And if Our God is for us, then who could ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
What can stand against?

Our God is GREATER, our God is STRONGER
God You are HIGHER than any other
Our God is HEALER, AWESOME in power
Our God, Our God…
Our God is GREATER, our God is STRONGER
God You are HIGHER than any other
Our God is HEALER, AWESOME in power
Our God, Our God…

And if Our God is for us, then who could ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
And if Our God is for us, then who can ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
Then what can stand against?
Then what can stand against?

Our God is GREATER, our God is STRONGER
God You are HIGHER than any other
Our God is HEALER, AWESOME in power
Our God, Our God…
Our God is GREATER, our God is STRONGER
God You are HIGHER than any other
Our God is HEALER, AWESOME in power
Our God, Our God…

Invasion

We the residents of Commons number *** have a problem on our hands. {No I can't tell you our room number silly!}

Crickets have invaded our apartment.

I even caught myself thinking that I would rather have rollie pollies, or grasshoppers, or ants (anything other than crickets) invade. At least those little pests wouldn't wake me up in the middle of the night or disturb my peaceful mornings!

Crickets are so LOUD!

They are smart little creatures too. And these buggers have found the tiniest cracks to call there home. Therefore, we have no way of killing them! I am not an aggressive person. Admittedly, I would love for them to just find the doorway and go back to where they came from. I know that won't happen so action must be taken.

Any suggestions?

Quality Over Quantity

The first day of classes for my senior year of college is officially over.

I'm all moved into my apartment.
The parking tag has been purchased.
A heap of books are ordered and on their way to me.
The pantry is stocked {for now}.
The walls are decorated {for the most part}.
Homework now waits patiently for me on my desk.

As you can tell, I have been quite busy these past few days.

Sunday night before I left for school my family had a little meeting. The goal of the meeting was to declare our aspirations for this new school year. We are all determined that this year will be lots better than last year.

If you know me personally, you know that I over analyze everything {maybe a good characteristic for an engineer, but not good for everyday life}. Over analyzing then turns in to worrying and stressing about everything. Reading the book "Eat the Cookie, Buy the Shoes" has really been helping me with this lately. So to help combat this problem I have decided that my motto for this semester is "Quality over Quantity".

For example:
When the weekend gets here and I travel to see my family and friends or they travel to see me, I often worry and stress because I only have two days to spend with them. Two days to catch up on everything, two days to see everyone, ..ect. Stressing and worrying about the amount of time I have only makes me in a bad mood. Then I don't enjoy myself.
Solution:
Well with my new motto in place, now I will make sure that the time I spend with them is good quality time. I now realize that there is nothing I can do about the amount of time I have so I mine as well make the most out of what I do have.

Another example:
My friends/roomates/partners-in-crime are only here for one more semester. I fret over not having them next semester and being lonely.. I fret over this being most likely the last time we will ever live in the same place.. I fret over us not getting to have these long venting sessions.. ect. Which in turn makes me depressed and sad.
Solution:
I am going to enjoy this semester to the fullest {make it quality time}. Celebrate and enjoy them while I have them here.

You get the point right? "Quality over Quantity" can go for anything including classes/studying.

Hopefully my new motto will help me get the most out of this year.

I'll leave ya with a picture of me and my friends at our 3+ hour long coffee date. We had a lot of catching up to do!



What is your motto or inspiration for this year? I would love for you to share!

I'm Gonna Miss This

I'm spending my days trying to soak up every ounce of family time I can. Four days left.. Four days until I leave to head back to friends and fun and classes. I'm ready to go back and see everyone...

Just not ready to leave this. Family.... Comfort.. Home

Project: Apartment

A week from today I will be moving into my apartment to finish up my last year of college. I get to live with my lovely friends that I have missed so much. We have so so much to catch up on!

Now that I am done with my internship I have had some time to get things ready for the new school year. I got new bedding that I am really excited about and some new dishes that are precious {another post to come about that}.

But most recently I have purchased some simple wooden frames that I have aspirations of turning into an awesome photo wall. Plain-jane-white-walled-apartments always need some color to lighten them up, so I decided I would spray paint these babies.



I picked out the color 'blue ocean breeze'. I LOVE IT!



The frames turned out PERFECT!!



I can't wait to see them hanging on my wall!