Musings of Melanie

I started something today that i think is going to be amazing. (OK well i started two things, but one a bit more fun than the other) At a conference this weekend i was given a great idea. Journal God's Word. Instantly i became excited by the prospect of having the whole bible in my handwriting. Not only will it be awesome to have a shelf dedicated to the notebooks that will be filled with the bible, but to know that i read, payed attention and wrote... amazing feeling. My plan was to start in Genesis and work my way thru, but i decided against that, cause I've had about all of Genesis i can take for at least a summer. So then began the decision making, where to start? There are so many passages and stories and thoughts and encouragements in the bible that i couldn't decide. Good thing i don't make most of my own decisions. In Sunday school it was my turn to teach the lesson, and the story was of Esther. (which just happens to be the book of the bible that kinda sorta changed the way i view my approach to life...) And decision made. Esther is such a wonderful book. I have read it many times, its always been my go to book when i pick up my bible for no reason.
And so, i found my self with a book and translation chosen and a notebook bought. I sat down on Sunday and started journaling the first couple verses, simply copying word for word, with occasional symbols drawn in and certain words emphasized... but after a few verses it felt wrong, i don't think i liked that translation very much... So today i opened MY bible to the well worn piece of ribbon marking the place and started new. I journaled 20 verses in what felt like mere seconds (but turned out to be like 30 minutes.) And something amazing happened. Already, not even one complete chapter into the book Ive read countless times i have noticed new things. Esther hasn't even entered the story yet, in fact Vashti hasn't even left, and already i am discovering new details. Writing the words that have become common and undemanding has made them come alive.

When i saw this today, it reminded me of a thought i have had many times, like almost every time someone asks about my desire to adopt. It would be so much easier to say its cause i can't have my own. I mean, don't get me wrong, my reasons for adoption are completely legit, but hard to explain. They are more passion and feeling then bullet points. There are so many children who NEED homes and need people to love them that i want to be the person that loves at one of them.

1. Granddaddy
2. Jael
3. Zooey Deschanel
4. Darren Wilson
5. Jesus
6. Francis Chan
7. Emmett Cullen
8. Dakota Fanning
9. Daddy
10. Kimberly

Anna's bridal Shower gift:

From Todays Post Secret. :)

So I'm starting a new project.
Everyday i am gonna post a picture of something that God has said to me that day. (well, hopefully everyday...)
Sometimes I'll explain.. sometimes i wont...

So lately i have been noticing God's Creation more and more. Driving down the road I find myself slowing down to look at the tree that is beside the road, I’ll take an extra long time walking to class, cause there’s so much to marvel at, I’ll be late to work cause I had to stop and take pictures of stuff along the way, I even found myself crying the other day because I suddenly realized just how stinkin’ creative this creator of this world was (and still is.) It kinda hurts me to realize how much I have not noticed it till now. I have been doing this for a couple weeks now, but it all kinda blindsided me a couple weeks ago when it snowed. Snow has always been one of my favorite things! Being a Georgia girl I don’t get to see that wonderful stuff to often. (It has always been a dream of mine to live somewhere that it snows all the time, but I wonder if my enchantment with it would go away if I saw it all the time?) But when I do see, I cry and squeal like a little girl. I get so caught in just watching it and thinking about its wonderful creator, I mean how crazy would you have to be to decide to make something like snow? Who would just decide one day, “I think ill freeze that rain (and don’t get me started on rain…) and make it into tiny tiny little pieces of white fluffy stuff that will fall to the earth and collect so that people can throw it at each other, make crazy things with it and freeze their butts off all at the same time?” A crazy AWESOME God, that’s who. Then I went to rock city in TN. AMAZING place! We spent like 4 hours just looking at all the creativeness of God. To think that all this was thought up and created by one being and that that being is an all powerful God that cares deeply for me is mind boggling. I don’t know how to wrap my head around that.