thoughts and heart

I haven't posted in some time.

Why, life changes. It truly does. God is beautiful beautiful beautiful.
I, for one, do not just happily enjoy change. Because life has been so grand and I have seen wonders, I admit I can be afraid of them leaving me.
Whether good times "leave me", what do I fear? More extravagant time are to come. & are here.

Sometimes I don't love life but I always love being alive.

I have discovered and am discovering that friendships get harder as you get older. I have to try a lot harder than I used to, because of certain circumstances and happenstances of my life. I'm okay with that. It just shows they're important to me. It doesn't mean it is fun or easy, but it definitely develops perseverance all taking part in my character growth.

I am not naturally a patient person but because situations in life have called for patience, I have acquired patience like nothing else. Every day, I have to work hard to not be waiting patiently but living and loving patiently.

I encourage you today..tomorrow..and forever..To never let situations keep you on the ground. God is faithful. He is victor. Love always wins. Whether it's days, minutes, or months of specific or any hardship, keep trying because God has never and will never give up on you.

Don't be too hard on yourself. Let your gifts work. Don't compare yourself.

hope your fall is lovely!

-Ashtyn Carrigan (:

In all attempted secrecy, oddity has developed. There may be a feel of eloquence in these words, but we all have the knowledge of what has occurred. Not in ten thousand years did I see such a time as this, but peace has overwhelmed me from the inside out. Where would be without the perfection of Him? Where! Such quitters are we whom know the hope and love of the One and yet we have given up? No! Stand up; Choose to be who you are. Because you have found Him, you have found yourself. Don't let times change you; you must change times. In the midst of destruction and deprivation, seemingly pretendence seems fitting. Keep on with who you are when the hard times hit and allow faithfulness to be who you are for the time being. Now, don't doubt your own, no matter the lack of faith or hope. Every moment is a fresh and new opportunity to grasp and choose to see the Light that will come. The Light will come.

Surrender

Times come that shake us up, shake us so hard we don't know why this is happening.
The thing is, we must surrender our "right" to understand.
Surrender it all.
I have realized that I hadn't surrendered everything in my life.
Ask yourself if you truly are surrendering everything that needs to be surrendered.
I am at the point of my life in which I have never had to trust this immensely.

We all have situations in our life, whether they're big or small, they're bad. They feel pointless, disappointing and draining. Be of good cheer friends, for my God is bigger than these "bad" situations. Choose to trust so vastly that your hands are in the air and your eyes are on the King.

Surrender leads to trust. Trust leads to hope.

Abby's Ringtone That Someone Heard A lot Today

"Oh lets get rich and buy our parents homes in the south of France
Lets get rich and give everybody nice sweaters and teach them how to dance
Lets get rich and build a house on a mountain making everybody look like ants
From way up there, you and I, you and I" -Ingrid Michaelson

What A Skype Conversation Will Do :)

when a girl talks to her best friend

as i gmail chatted with abby the other day i was typing & i felt like sharing..

i have realized. that my music, my blogs and my journaling makes up who i am.
when i write...type..listen...it slowly forms who i am.
i get to show the definition of me.
the wonders of the happy things. i enjoy taking it all in and giving it out...
that the happiness and optimisticness that I am comes out when I let my lame ol try to be creative writing write.
it helps that i express it to my best friend.
the loving the simple things in life like sweet tea and sunflowers.
smiling at the words like hi and love
exhilarated by the adventures that occur and will slowly and rapidly venture out of life.
being like this helps me know who I am.

like nothing else.

Also I love Jesus with all my heart.

I know that I ramble & put words together, but why not?