Everything Under the Sun

I love watching sunsets. I love watching what is under sunsets even more.

I love hearing the sweet girl across the street who practices her piano with the window open. I love the sound of my neighbor’s sprinklers. I love the planes that crawl across the sky. I love the people who laugh together as they walk past me. I love the Asian family that sits in their drive way together every evening to watch the sun slowly disappear.

Sunsets were made for people. God gave us the sunsets to help us understand him. He gave the sunsets to his people. Under the sun is a community of people, people that God cherishes and adores. Sunsets are simply a way of God showing his love for us.

Each sunset makes me think of his people and I love hearing their sounds at dusk.

I am my beloved's, and he is mine.

Song of Solomon paints a picture of a couple who desire each other and care for each other. The lover adores his beloved and treats her with respect and tenderness. He is sensitive to her and she responds to him with love. When she is treated with love, she eagerly desires to give herself wholly to her beloved. She desires to be possessed by her beloved as a response to his sensitivity.

In the same way, we respond to Christ. He has treated us with love and we then respond to him by giving ourselves wholly to him. Our obedience to him is a response to how we have been cared for and overflows from a deep and abiding love for him. How beautiful! We do not have to feel obligated to serve him--instead, let us long to give ourselves to him in obedience! Let us desire to be possessed by him because he has loved us so tenderly.

I will call out that I am my beloved's, and he is mine!

So this is pretty old..

I just realized that I have a blog. How convenient :)

I decided to start using this again because I have to get my thoughts out somewhere or I start lecturing people. So from here on out, this is going to be my outlet! So you (if anyone ever happens to read this haha) can peek into my mind and my heart without an accompanying lecture.

I really don't have anything profound to share yet. I haven't really been thinking much lately--at least not about anything important. What do you do when everything is just average? I'm not struggling with anything. I'm not overly pleased about anything. I'm rather apathetic, which is a miserable place to be. So how do I get out? Can you just go to lots of chapels or bible studies, and eventually maybe just wake up? I am not quite sure, but I will keep seeking His face.

So, I'll write once again when I start seeing His face!

Hawley is Graduated.

Well, my sister is officially graduated now. Come August she is moving to L.A. to attend biola. I"m not going to lie, its really sad. I'm having a hard time letting her go. The hard part is that i'm going to be gone for a month and half of the time that she is going to still be here! I cried at her graduation...

On a lighter note, there are only two weeks left until Sportsworld!! I'm basically ecstatic. I'm so excited about coaching! It's just so much fun to pour into all those little kids and every year i turn into a little mother hen with my 12 or so kids that i am responsible for. =P It's great. This morning i had a really awesome quiet time over the Heart of a Servant in preparation. I looked at Isaiah 49:1-6. You should definitely check it out!

Anyways, That is about all that is happening in my life right now, just thought i would update even though no one reads this. : )

Con Carino,
Garnett

I'm using this again!

Allright so, Here I am! Blogging again!

I decided that with summer coming up, this was a good way for you to keep in touch with me. So don't forget about me!

By the way, I'm a senior now!!!