Home. Inspired by a good friend.

Inspired by Quiana of “After Eden.” Read her post “You can never go home, again.“

May 30th marked the one year anniversary of my move to Atlanta. Having moved so many times in my life I took for granted “home” being my parents’ house. Three years ago they moved out of the home I grew up in (mostly) and when I read the email listing their new address, something in me changed. Home is not an address to a house in a city in a state. Home is truly where those you love live. That means “home” can be right here where my family lives and simultaneously across the country behind the front doors of each of my family members and close friends.

Forgot something.

Apparently my wine-brain thought these pics were attached to my last post. NOPE!

So, if you’re actually reading this… these go with the post about VDAY.

Diamonds are my second best friend. Jewelry from hubs.One of his balloons. Cupcake! ha!

Vday – Italian style

No, no, neither of us are Italian, however, we decided to celebrate V-Day (that’s V for Valentine, not  V for Virgin) with heart-shaped pizza.

I will let the next few pictures speak for themselves, but for the record, we used a healthy pita-type flatbread for the pizza. Yuck. It was dry and tasteless, but I told myself it was better than having more sugar and fat in regular pizza dough.

Flatbread. Brush with olive oil. 350 degrees 7 min.

My wonderful (WONDERFUL!) husband took me to the jewelry store and told me to pick out whatever I wanted. I chose a beautiful diamond and heart necklace and bracelet set. He then surprised me with flowers when I returned home from work. I got him some artwork for his man cave, a sick lamp similar to one from IKEA, and a new PS3 game. Then I brought home V-day balloons, including one of a cupcake. It was love at first lick.

Adding homemade pesto to pizza sauce.Cheese.

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Showing off the necklace and bracelet from hubs.

Moving (again)

Tomorrow we are moving to our very first apartment in Atlanta!  (There! I told you where I live, and nothing bad happened… No lightning strike, no murderer busted through the window!)
I am excited to move closer to the city, and to have found such a beautiful place to live.

More details to come… Maybe I’ll include some pictures, too.

Have a safe and fun weekend!

CD

MUST SEE: JESUS > RELIGION

A must see video. Please see the YouTube page for proper specs. (Truth is I have had nothing to do with the production of this video!)

I will say that I believe we should all be fighting false-religion, not necessarily religion itself. This video is not aimed at anyone particular person or religion, just a mind-opening perspective of the church.

Powerful; I dare you to pass it on.

CD

God is love

An incredible excerpt from the Bible,

“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgement, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We know because he first loved us.”

- John 4:16-19

An incredible excerpt from the “He Is” reading plan in the “True Identity” Bible by Zondervan (italics are from the author of this blog):

He is love: “How appropriate that John, the disciple Jesus loved (see John 20:2), reveals the simple yet profound truth that God is love. God sent humanity the greatest love letter ever written, the Bible. He demonstrated his love by dying for those he loved. It is his very nature to love. Because God is love, we too are learning to love- not because it’s our nature, for human love is fickle and failing, but because he loved us first. Because God is love, he commands us to love our brothers and sisters, neighbors and friends, and even our enemies- those people we find hardest to love.”

May we go and spread the love Jesus designed for us to have. Let us first hold it in our hearts and then let it dwell in us as we lift our eyes in freedom to our God. Let the love we have from Jesus stir in us and spill over like a river.

With love,
CD