Sooo many more photos to come. (: I love my girls.

So blessed to have these past beautiful days to take photos and relax. Although the blue sky and fluffy white clouds are always there — no matter how many photos I take of them, I am still amazed by them. God is genius. Pure genius. 

Reflecting back on these past few weeks, I have to say that I have had the most witty, comical, but nonetheless, delightful time of 2012 within these two weeks. I’ve been blessed with an abundance of love which surrounds me through people who continue to play a part in my growth; my family, my girls, my boyfriend, my God. Here I am, so little and selfish, but there are people who love me and teach me how to be selfless and strong. Why? and How? How does a person who fails God on a regular basis continuously get showered in love and blessing? I think that, ultimately, it is the grace of God that keeps me shaped and blessed. And as we often hear it: It is by grace that I have been saved.

My girls have played the biggest part in my spiritual growth over the years. I do not know how I would have become closer to God at such a young age without them. At first, because we were in the beginning stages of our teenage years, it may have been a game of follow the leader, but overtime; it’s apparent now that it was NEVER hard to see the love of God on my own. I saw how God worked through people and how people praised and loved Him. I wanted that, and so I went for it. We all went for it at our own pace, but together. We shared a togetherness all those years through the love of Christ. And I think that is what ties us so closely today; the togetherness that we share is bounded by Jesus Christ Himself. This to me is a million times more meaningful and promising than a friendship bounded by earthly things. I couldn’t be more grateful.

I captured a photo of the sky and a quarter of this tree about two weeks ago as James and I waited for my younger siblings to come out from the school building. We waited for about 20 minutes which allowed me to truly see the blue sky and appreciate it for what it is. I snapped so many photos, thinking that I needed to get the perfect shot — but by the time my younger sibs opened the car door, I realized that the sky is already perfect. It is one of the things that people cannot touch and make filthy. Yes, pollution exists and airplanes can fly through the clouds — but man cannot shape the clouds and the moon and the stars nor can they alter the color of the sky. Only God can. And so they are perfect; the sun, the moon, the stars, and the clouds. 

I’ve learned so much about myself and the people around me within the past two weeks. For one, I’ve had time to see that my girls are all equally weird in their own way, and I am probably the weirdest, but that is why I love them so much. They’re not perfect! None of us are. If one were, can you imagine the nasty jealousy that would go on between people? I love that people are unique in their own way. Weird, funny, smart, kind, beautiful, strange.. It doesn’t matter. People are unique in their own way because no one person is supposed to be alike. No one is supposed to be like another. That’s not how God made us. If he wanted clones, He would have made them. But He didn’t. We each serve our own purpose in this world because He has planned for us to do so. Our one true ALIKE and ultimate goal is to reach Him and live with Him in heaven for eternity. That is the only thing that we should strive for in unison; the promise of eternal life with Him. 

A gratified,

glo (: ♥

“Cause it’s you or loveless; I know what I’m fighting for, I know what I’m fighting for.”

♥//glo

love my girls. (: