Just A Little Joy

“The battle in your life is against your joy.” – John Eldredge, Walking with God

 

 

Look for it. Seek it out. Remind yourself, every single day, in those rare moments when your world is filled with golden light and all of your senses drink in its warmth, that the joy is out there, and it is yours for the taking. 

Remember that you will win that battle.

This Path I'm On

Last week we took another road trip (I know - we're crazy!) back home to see my sister get married.  And it was one of those weeks.

No, not a bad week - a good week! One of those weeks when everything just goes right and your heart wants to burst with joy and life is all rainbows and butterflies and unicorns.

Seriously.

The kids did great in the car. (Only a couple of screamfests, and they were brief.)

Family, family, family.

We got to play, play, play in the country.

Little Girl got to ride a horse.

She got to be a flower girl.

Little Dude has been walking - and dancing - all over the place.

I took some gorgeous bridal pics of my gorgeous sister.

And it was a gorgeous wedding.

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. That’s what life has been lately.

And now we’re back and approaching my favorite time of year.

So, sorry, but I just feel like gushing.

I haven’t been doing much writing, but I’ve been doing a lot of living, and also a lot of thinking about what the future holds...

I'm grateful and looking forward to it all.

Favorite Photo From August

So I decided to enter this photo in the Click It Up A Notch contest for August. I was really happy with some of my straight-out-of-the-camera pics from our beach vacation, and I'm trying to take more time to learn and practice photo editing a little more, so I thought it would be great to get a little feedback. It was hard to choose just one, but I thought this was a fun pic to work with:

 

 

I know I broke the horizon rule (it's not level), but that just makes it quirky, which I like. And I love that the seaweed colors match what she's wearing.