The snow is falling,
falling,
falling.

Gently whispering,
sweetly kissing the ground.

Wet spots on dark windows,
piles of white outside doors.

Shimmering, sparkling
in the light.

Glowing, glistening,
on foggy winter windows.



Lit like gleaming glitter
under lights in the night sky.

Slipping,
falling,
trudging.

A trail of prints,
leaving our mark in the pure, white snow.

Jesus is Greater than Religion

I really have nothing to add, this video says it all. Just click on the link below the image and please, pretty please, watch it.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY

Snow

A layer of perfection, white sprinkled over every surface. Shimmering in the street lights, sparkling on the roads.

Love, Jesus

Come to Me for rest and refreshment.  The journey has been too much for you and you are bone weary.  Do Not be ashamed of your exhaustion.  Instead see it as an opportunity for Me to take charge of your life.
Remember that I can fit everything into a pattern for good, Including the things you wish were different.  Start with where you are, in this time and space, accepting that this is where I intend you to be.  You will get through today one step, one moment at a time. Your main responsibility is to remain attentive to Me, letting Me guide you through he many choices along your pathway.

This sounds like an easy assignment, but it is not. Your desire to live in My Presence
goes against the grain of "the world, the flesh, and the devil".  Much of your weariness results from your constant battle against these opponents.  However, you are on the path of My choosing, so do not give up! Hope in Me for you will again praise Me for the help of My Presence.

Here and Now

It's really great to be back. The mountains are so beautiful, as always. Sunsets are infinitely more spectacular, sunrises equally awe-inspiring. The air in Colorado is crisp, fresh. It feels more alive. The past days have been unbelievably warm for winter, and today the first snow of 2012 graced Denver's bare wintry trees and eager earth.

The best part of being back, though, is friends. A few nights ago we spent hours sitting on the floor of someone's room, watching New Girl, various music videos, taking quizzes to ascertain which house in Hogwarts we would have been sorted to, looking up the history of hipsters, and rating our own varying levels of hipster-ness. Last night we all watched Lord of the Rings and sat around making immature jokes and laughing to the point of tears. I haven't laughed that well in a long time.

I love my friends, floormates, suitemates, and most of all my dearest roommate-and-best-friend-in-the-world. They are people around whom I can be fully myself, there is no worrying about what people think of me. I'm completely accepted for who I am, which is one of the most freeing experiences in the world.

It's so good to be home.

My Top Ten Photos (for now)

My favorite photos change so often, but here are 10 of my favorites for now. It was so hard to pick!

A Bit of School

So in addition to my normal ramblings, I'm also going to be using this blog for my Photo Portfolio class. I'll just be posting artist statement/what I'm doing type stuff, as well as more photos. Yay! Pictures!

For starters, here's the starting point for my project. The whole class is built on forming one portfolio, so we'll be working on one project the whole quarter. I'm really excited! I'm trying to keep it pretty broad right now, that way I can take a huge variety of photos and narrow it down later in the quarter. . .

"To say we live in a broken world is true, but that we live in a beautiful world is truer still. I deeply believe this, that we live in a beautiful world. But I fear that many people don't realize this. They can't see the beauty in the brokenness, the joy in the tears. My project will seek to help others really see the world, not just look at with a passive eye, but see the beauty in the imperfection and brokenness of our world."

In addition to this, I want to explore broken glass, lights, shadows, feathers, and close-up portraits. Hopefully figuring out a good way to combine all of these things, but we'll see! It'll be an adventure!