Revolution.

Heard two cool thoughts this weekend:

1.  A revolt is when people know what they are fighting against.
2.  A revolution is when people know what they are fighting for.

Moral of the story:  It's not enough to just know what you are fighting against, you have to know what you are fighting for.

So today, even though its Monday and even though we lost an hour of sleep, fight for peace, truth, righteousness and for your family. 

Be a part of the revolution not just the revolt.

Necklace.

I have been loving this necklace for several months now; isn't it just darling?

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I would LOVE to have this with 'Brad-Lanie Beth-Rowan' stamped on there.  So cute!  You really need to take a look at her website, she has tons of cute things. 

I even liked this leather cuff for Brad.  Thought about just putting 'Rowan' on there.  I have a feeling the print would be so small that he could have his manly bracelet (is there such a thing?) and still have a little sentiment of the family. 

Lots of sweet little things to represent personal triumphs, relationships or family.  I like them all and personally had a hard time choosing, but something about that little chandelier just did it for me.  Of course, I would love to have one of each...but I don't really see that happening.  Word on the street is that diapers are pretty pricey!  However, one would be quite the treat!

Boring.

It seems like every time I sit down to write this week either nothing comes to me or it's boring and I'm sure you wouldn't want to hear about my pretty mundane life.  Hence the massage post.  (Did I seriously do an entire post dedicated to me getting a massage?  This is bad, people, this is really bad.)  So please forgive me for my absence. I will be back soon with house pictures, baby updates as well as some (hopefully) cool thoughts about the Lord.

Hope you are doing well. I really really do!

Massages, Gloating and Tuesdays.

Today is a great day. You know why it's a great day? I get to have my first massage, ever. Isn’t that so fun? I am blessed to have a mother-in-law that is a neuromuscular massage therapist and is also very generous. So I am going today, 3:30pm to be exact, to get a prenatal massage. Woo-hoo!

That's really all I have for today. Yep, I posted for sheer gloating purposes. Isn’t that terrible of me? Haha. Sorry!

Hope you are having a great 'sneak peak of summer' Tuesday. 

(Did I mention I am going to get a massage this afternoon??)

Get a pen.

In my time with the Lord this morning, I realized that I had moved my journal from my stack of devotional things.  That doesn't normally happen but I had written a blog post in it the other day so I took it with me to type it out.  So needless to say, this morning I had no journal just a pen and the Word.

It hit me that without a journal or something to write on and a pen, whatever you prefer, it's almost as if you are positioning yourself to not hear anything from the Lord.  (Especially a note taker like myself)   Consciously or unconsciously you are telling the Lord and yourself that you don't expect to learn anything from your quiet time so why bother with a pen or a laptop.

Interesting, huh? 

So even though it feels trivial and a bit Starbucks-y to automatically get out something to write on and a pen, go ahead and do it as an act of obedience.  In doing so, we are telling the Lord that we want to learn, we want to hear from Him and we are ready to take notes whenever he is ready to talk to us. 

Who knew using writing utensils could be an act of obedience?