A Prayer

Father,
I know that you blessed me with a creativity of words and getting my thoughts down in print, so why have I forsaken that blessing? I haven't touched pen to paper in over a year and my spirit feels the strain of it. I feared there was nothing left within me that was beautiful and glorious but tonight I saw a glimmer of hope. I lost myself, God, I lost myself. Can you take me back to where I stepped off and help me see your face again. When I daily sought you, simply spoke with you, there was a deepness of my soul that helped me through each day. I know you have blessed me in this life but I have always, since I was a little girl, felt a sorrow that I cannot explain and unless I am near to you I am almost overcome by that sorrow. I believe you placed that within me so that I would be able to understand other people who live with that sorrow and have faced hurt and confusion. You will bring these people into my life and I will befriend them and be there to hold them up in the dark times of their lives because I know how it is to feel that lowliness, that sorrow and hopelessness. But I also know what it is to feel the hope on the other side.
God, please awaken this sleeper's soul and water these withered roots, make this tree to grow and sprout green leaves of life once again. Deep in these dry branches there is life waiting to break free and sing songs of praise once again.


Break me free.

Housie Things

Unfortunately we were "outbid" by someone else on the house, only because they offered CASH! We were going to pay the full price - no underbidding - and someone comes along w/ a wad of CASH in their pocket. That's a LOT of cash! But I'm trying not to be sad. I'm telling myself that God has an even better house out there for us.

Movin' On

Mmmmm - slurping my morning cuppa.


It is Spring Break 2011 and I am soaking up every minute of it.  I DO have one English project to work on throughout the week but besides that I have all the time to myself. Drew's been in Houston since yesterday so I used that alone time to go shopping for my sister-in-law's baby shower coming up this Saturday.  It was so much fun!  I love baby stuff.


This time-change has really thrown a wrench in the works: I can't seem to wake up before 8:30.  I really don't like waking up late, it makes me feel like I've lost most of my day... Drew can attest to that.  He tells me that I constantly say, "My whole day is gone!" in utter dispair.  The only time I feel like I have actually enjoyed a FULL day is if I wake up around 6am.


It looks like hubs and I are moving to Houston.  Drew's Dad has been needing Drew full time  so he thought we should just move and if we do, we'll move in the Summer. We've found several houses we like but none as much as 7303 Open Oak Way.

The yard is GORGEOUS. I'll have to hire someone to keep

the flower beds or have someone teach me. :D

Beautiful kitchen. The cupboard is huge and the

cabinets are classy.  Plus, the drawers pull out so smoothly!!

Master bathroom.  I don't dig the wallpaper lining near

the ceiling but I can change that!

I love all this shelf space.  This would be Drew's office

and I have so many ideas for decorating.

Look at this backyard!  It's gorgeous.  We could have

people over for dinner.  I could host a ladies' bible study.

Easter's in this backyard would be great!

John 1.m4v

This is my Pastor, Justin Grace. I'm doing 21 Days of Change which is simply reading John chapters 1 thru 21 in 21 days. I'm looking forward to it. I always have trouble deciding what I should read when I sit down with my bible so I usually end up NOT reading it. Having this outline will help me stick to it.

Poll.

Lots O' Pictures

My nephew Jude is FREAKING adorable

My soon-to-be-adopted nephew, Jayden. Can't wait til he's a Rusch!

Flower girl and ring bearer chilling out with us.

Sweet, little Jude enthralled with something.

The wedding party, including the ushers.

Husband and Wife!

[Me, currently]

Sitting pretty with Jolie...

While my husband works out in the cold alongside some other guys, doing something for DuBounds Learning.

I think I'm extremely lucky to have this day off to spend with my husband. We left College Station around 7 o'clock and we are currently in Houston just off of 290.  Drew has been working for his Dad and Hank's company the past several weeks and he's really enjoyed it.

Tomorrow he leaves for CHINA. I'm not looking forward to his being gone for nearly 3 weeks but I'll just take it a day at a time. I'm sure I would have been able to go if not for school which I'm slightly bitter about. lol The only positive thing that will come of this separation is the reunion! Which I'm actually pretty excited about. It's all Drew focuses on when he talks about the trip - "Babe, when we see each other again it's going to be AWESOME."


Off to Barnes & Noble to study while Drew runs some more errands.