2012

I dont have the words for this post.
I dont have the words to explain the loss, the hope, the love, the abandonment, and the joy that this year has contained.
There are scars, there are sweet, sweet memories with wonderful people.
I have no words to convey this year.
Not yet, anyway.
But there is the hope, promise of redemption, the thought that You make beautiful stories out of wretched and dark situations.
There is today. There is the hope of tomorrow. And there is the hope and impending almost-promise of 2012.
A year to make a change? A year for New Year's Resolutions? A year for healing?
No, a year for You. Your year, whatever You have in store.
Blessed be Your name.
When you gave, when you took away, when it was dark and scary outside and inside. When I thought I had experienced the best moment of my life and that my life could never contain any more happiness then what I had experienced.
You are good even then.
You are gracious and You are faithful. And I will walk in that today, and tomorrow, and 2012 if you choose to give us those days.
Go forth and Live, ya'll. There is no time like today.
xoxo Lyd

im in love

go forth and LIVE.
Lyd

marsha marsha marsha

word up, readaaaas.
Merry Christmas!!
I have long struggled with what forgiveness really is, what is looks like, and what it is not. (In addition to my struggle with fine, lifeless hair and chia-pet eyebrows) 

I am not a die-hard Mark Driscoll fanatic, although I am sure he is great, but I found this and it is one of the best explanations of forgiveness I have heard. 

With Christmas here among us, it's insane to think Jesus came to save us, to reconcile us to God, to FORGIVE US.

Unbelievable.  And I sit here and think I can pick and choose who I forgive and don't. Unbelievably arrogant.

go forth and live.
xoxo Lyd

so close

I have half of a final left and these are the things I wish I was doing, in no particular order

1. hitting the surf laying on the nasty sand of Galveston.
2. watching shark week
3. going on vacation with my crew.
4. talking for a long time with some old friends
5. or new friends, i'm not overly particular
6. time traveling. to relish a few magical moments.
7. curling up with my two sweet Labrador puppies dogs roughly the size of bears
8. walking around silver dollar city with my family...i am shamelessly wishing I was in Branson.

hope your focus is better then mine.
go forth and live! Lyd

blessedness

"I do know this: that there is a blessedness from waiting with the Lord. There is an intimacy...that comes from walking through that valley."

Go forth and live!
xoxo Lyd