{Writing}

  Wrote another song today...Love worshiping my God through music...
 What if I posted the song I just wrote??? Would you listen? Yes? No?

Flour & A Rolling Pin...

Baking Valentine Cookies today...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you all are having a good Valentine's Day baking cookies and giving cards :)

God bless!

A Servant 4 Christ,

Lizzie

The Sweet Sound...

"I will also praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to You; my soul also, which You have redeemed..." Psalm 71:22-23 (ESV)

There is something so special and sacred about worshiping Jesus Christ through music...And in every way, I want to be a part of that way to worship my King...

Music is good for the soul. Relaxing to stressed people. But when your music is in tune with Jesus, a step closer to Jesus, a fingerprint of God's working hand in your life there is something deeper and more special to music.

When Christ is a part of your music you compose, it is healing for a broken heart. Rest for weary soul. Peace for a reckless life. God can speak through anything. And when He can be apart of your music, He can do powerful and awe striking things...

That is why I write music. That is why I sing my songs. I am just God's servant. I am just the paper to God's pen. Without Him, it would be impossible for me to even think of trying to write music. But through Him who strengthens me, I can and am doing it.

There is nothing more precious than the special time I have with my Best Friend Jesus when I sit down at the piano. There is nothing I desire more than those special moments me and my King have as I worship Him through music and singing my heart out to Him.

That is why He called me to write music. To worship Him and glorify Him through the key tones of the piano and the sound of my voice. He also called me to write music to bind the broken hearted through writing music. He called me to write music so He can move through me and bring rest to the weary soul. To bring healing to a shattered heart. To draw people to Himself...

Without Him, it would be impossible. It is all His doing. Praise His name. Glorify Him for what He has done and will do!

"Oh sing to the LORD a new song, for He has done marvelous things! His Right hand and His Holy arm have worked salvation for Him..." Psalm 98:1

 

What is your calling in life? What has God called you to do in life? If He hasn't shown you what He would like to do with your life yet, don't be embarrassed. Don't feel ashamed. He will show you. You just have to keep your eyes and ears wide open. He will show you the beautiful plan He has for your life only if you keep your full focus on Him...He longs to move in you. Let Him work and move in you...He knows best...

Blessings to you.

A Servant 4 Christ,

Lizzie

Winter Jam Concert 2013

So on Friday night I went to the Winter Jam Concert with some friends! It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed! There were a lot of great artists that came! Here are a few pictures I captured through the chaos of the evening.

We saw...

Capital Kings!!!! They're pretty neat! I enjoyed them!

Then we saw one of my favorite bands...

OBB!!!!!!!!!!!

(they are not that famous, but I loveee them! They're great!)

Three brothers who were home schooled :) Cool!!!

Then...

...Jason Castro,

then...

Royal Taylor.

then we saw...

Newsong,

Jamie Grace!!!!!

 

Matthew West!!!

and...

TobeyMac!

 

And a few other bands we saw (that I didn't take many pictures of) were:

SidewalkProphets, and Red (which I dislike strongly). So it overall was a pretty sweet concert! Enjoyed it!

Have you seen any of these guys in concert? Or have you been to Winter Jam before?! Who is your favorite band?! Write me a comment. Make my week with showing you still read my boring blog posts ;)

 

 

 

 

 

Dreaming of Spring...Rain...

Today it is raining out...there is no snow, just rain. It actually rained all last night. Anyway, before I start rambling about the weather I'll get to the point. :)
So today, like I said, it is raining. So I thought I would post about rain and how I adore rain boots (even if it's not raining I LOVE to wear my cute lil' gray rain boots!) and umbrellas! :)
Sometimes I kinda really like when it rains. Feels cozy in the house, you can hear the rain on the roof, and all the windows are wet with dripping water.


not my picture

Oh, I especially love warm spring rains! Where you can go out in your rain boots and grab an umbrella and go splash in the puddles. (loveee doing that!)


not my picture

But as I was looking for pictures of my own that I have taken of thunderstorms and rain and noticed I really haven't taken any rain pictures! So I need to really do that sometime I guess.

 

If you knew me well you would know that I'm a bit obsessed with rain boots ;) I don't know why, but I l.o.v.e rain boots! I could easily start collecting rain boots! I already have a gray pare (that I wear all.the.time). And I have one dark green "hunter's" rubber boots, (that I also love!). 

But I really, really want a pare of bright red rain boots. Like ya know, the traditional red rain boots?! I think they are so adorable! So I'm saving up for one more pare of rain boots. Bright red. Then, I will be content :) Now, seriously, it's not a life and death situation that if I didn't get my red rain boots I would just die! No! I rather spend my money on useful things and use it on giving gifts to others. But you know, I can dream I guess, right?! So, I dream of getting a pare of red rain boots :)

Have you ever splashed around in puddles or played around in Spring rain?! If you haven't, you need to do both at least one time in your life :) It is so fun! haha, I know, I'm kinda lame ;) but come on! I delight in simple things! Like the smell of fresh flowers, catching snow flakes on my tongue, seeing the grass start to turn green in the Spring, running in big fields, listening and watching little birds fly around and perch themselves on branches in trees, splashing in puddles in the rain, ect...

All these simple but sweet things that I take delight in make me feel like a little innocent girl again.

 A girl that use to run in the forests imagining she's on a big draft horse galloping through the country side.

A little girl who dreamed big dreams without letting people steal her joy away.

A little fearless girl who didn't have a care in the world what people thought of her as she sat at the top of a big trees with her siblings at her side.

 

A little girl who would lay in the big field of violets and not have the slightest care if there was little creeping spiders in the long grass.

 

 Yep...those were the good old days of my childhood life...

Anyway, now that I just took you down a rambling memory lane, I think I shall end this post before you find this post is too long to read and decide to skip over my blog. lol.

Comment and feel free to make my day!!! God bless!

A Servant 4 Christ,

Lizzie

Blizzard 2013

Yesterday, January 20th I got back from my youth group's annual winter retreat called "Blizzard".

I cannot believe Blizzard 2013 is over. I have to wait a whole year to go to it again. It is so fun.

We go to an awesome camp up North and we stay there for three days and have sessions every hour and we meet in the Chapel and listen to the awesome speaker and have games, worship and fellowship. On free time you can ice skate, go tubing down a huge hill, horse back riding (which I didn't do this year. :/ My allergies were wayy to bad. FYI: I'm allergic to horses :{), walks, broom-ball, hockey, and so much more!

 

Not my picture. (didn't take but like two pictures up there).

 It was a great time. The whole day Saturday we had a biggg game of Nerf war. It was all day and we had names of specific people we had to shoot to make the game longer than a half an hour. I got about four people out until a leader I had nooo idea had me came up and shot me with a Nerf bullet :/ It was awesome while it lasted though!! 

 

 

It was so beautiful up there! The trees full of snow. Even though surprisingly there was that much snow. There was enough to make it beautiful though ;) The stars at night were incredible, twinkling brightly through the tippy tops of the tress! The moon was just as pretty and bright lighting the trail with shadows through the trees at night.

 

 On Saturday night we had a Torch Walk! Where you hang onto a huge torch and walk on the lake! There were only a few torches, so not everyone got to hold one, which was alright, but it was a lot of fun and I always love it! It was superrrr cold that night too!

After the Torch Walk some of us (about 12 of us, including about four leaders) enjoyed the walk so much we wanted to go on another! We decided to walk on the tree line of the lake (which was a steep hill). It was quite the adventure. No, seriously. I'm quite the adventure girl, and loveeee adventures, but this one...? This one was a rough one. I was a bit freaked out some of the way because at times it was a lil' dangerous. But we all were fine and got through it without a broken bone ;) It total darkness only with the light of the moon we went. It was about 11:30 at night. Our "get back time" was suppose to be 12:00 but we ended up getting back at 12:30am. (Oops!) It was a lot of fun, stress, exhaustion, fear, and sweat. lol.

Though it was the coldest night of the year we were sweating too much to think about the cold, from the hard walk. We walked on the side of a steeeeep hill along the lake. It was icy and if you didn't grab the trunk of a tree as you went along you would have slipped down the rest of the hill. It was a bit scary but awesome and quite the memory! We call it our "Expedition" ;)

One of the only pictures I took while up there.

Anyway. It was a great time. Met a lot of new kids from the two other Churches that came up for the retreat too from around here that we partner up with a lot for big events. It was a great time. Good fellowship with everyone. Great messages I heard and good time with my Jesus, great worship to my King and so much more.
Hope you had an awesome weekend! Comment and tell me what ya think!!! Blessings to you!
A Servant 4 Christ,
Lizzie
 

Crayons Inspire Me...

I don't know about you, but I loveee crayons! Their bright colors make me so happy! So I thought I would do a little photo shoot of them today ;) Here is just a few photographs I snapped :) Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

Tell me what ya think! God bless! :)

A Servant 4 Christ,

Lizzie