New pictures in my flickr account! Go check them out!

Beauty.

Ok, I know this is a little after the fact, but I haven't had the chance to load up the pictures or anything...which some of which are up above. Anyways, there's a story I've got to tell you all. Last Saturday night was really cool. See, I had just led worship at the church and a lot of cool things were announced there. (i.e. the new mosaic stuff) Well anyways, I ended up going to muggswigz, but it was on the drive there that was so awesome. See, no matter what I looked at, the only thing I could see was beauty. I'd look at the most run down house in Canton, but somehow see the beauty of the vines all over it, or a street sign that just looked cool, or how about a field of dandelions...weeds nonetheless...but still strangely still enough to awe. It was awesome. Anyways, I just wanted to tell you that we live in a beautiful world...yeah we do, yeah we do...

Passion.

Well, for those of you who didn't know, the new Passion cd came out a couple weeks ago. I just finally broke down and bought it a couple days ago and it hasn't been out of my cd player yet. I like it. I love that everytime I get a new worship cd I fall into this awesome obsession with worship. Not that don't care at other times, but I just get so much more passionate (pun not intended) about it when I hear new stuff. I think for me, and a lot of other worship leaders out there, that sometimes it's not always good to only listen to worship stuff. I know for me, when that was all I listened to it became hard for me to worship because they just became "just another song" that I listened to all the time. So I guess all this to say that I love when new stuff comes out because it renews (ah...that's the better terminology to express it!) my passion for what I do....what I'm meant to do. Like the other day I was driving home from starbucks in a really awkward mood and I had one of the best worship times ever. In my car. Alone. With God. Amazing.

I know this sounds weird, but these past few weeks I've felt the power of Christ's resurrection so much. I think a lot of times it's easy to get too focused on studies and all that equally good stuff...but to miss the big picture. God. God REIGNS. Christ. Christ is ALIVE. Holy Spirit. Lives IN US. We have power over death...think about that...we have power, through Christ, over the one thing that can stop even the most talented, strong, athletic, rich, powerful, famous, and influential people in their tracks. We are alive. I am awestruck.

Flickr

Hey, just an FYI...I just put up some new pictures on my flickr account, so you should go check them out!

On a different note...today was really sweet. Jesus is awesome.

Baby!

Yesterday was the day! We joyfully welcomed little Hudson Andrew Snavely into the family at about 7:45 last night. I scurried over to the hospital right after class...but I had plenty of time before he decided to make the move, haha. But because I was sick (still am?) I couldn't really get to close or hold him because we didn't want to take the chance of getting him sick. Well, that was one family night to remember!

Hmmm.

It's been a while...over a week actually. That's because it's been one heck of a week. In the midst of everything that's been going on I also am managing to get sick...again. This is frustrating. I feel like things are just hitting me from all directions...like I can't rest anywhere. So, I thought this house-sitting thing would be cool that way I could spend some time by myself relaxing and kind of getting refreshed I guess...but to no prevail I've found that without people around I get kind of lonely.