life.is.good.

*labor day weekend in maryland with brittni*new books make me very happy*100+ degree weather is out of control*i wanna undo it*chris will be home in less than a week*life.is.good.*

You're not shaken

i am trembling in the darkness of my own fear
all the questions with no answers
so grip me while i’m here
and i may never know why
oh i may not understand
but i will lift up my eyes,
and trust this is Your plan

when every little thing that i have dreamed would be just slips away like water through my hands
and when it seems the walls of my beliefs are crashing down like they’re all made of sand
i won’t let go of You now
because i know, oh, You’re not shaken

this weekend i....

-->played sweet games and ate tons of junk food with friends on friday
-->hung out with brittni and her fam on saturday before she officially moved to maryland
-->got coffee and caught up with david blanchard
-->skipped a trip to the beach and instead spent a lazy sunday afternoon hanging out with laura
-->painted my fingernails black :)

i'm thankful for such a fabulous weekend, because monday was no fun at all!


i'm a k-love listener and i'm not ashamed to admit that :) recently, i signed up to receive their "encouraging word" each day by email. it comes to my phone (around 330 am, i might add), but has reallly become something i look forward to each day. and these past few days of verses have been TOTALLY what k-love intended them to be - "encouraging words" - so i figured i'd share them with you!

"i cried out to the Lord, and he answered me from his holy mountain"
psalm 3:4
"spouting off before listening to the facts is both shameful and foolish"
proverbs 18:13
"for i am waiting for you, o Lord. you must answer for me, o Lord my God"
psalm 38:15
"for our present troubles are small and won't last very long. yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever"
2 corinthians 4:17
"don't let your hearts be troubled. trust in God, trust also in me"
john 14:1


*also* - i came across the blog post below, its a family who attends church with some friends of mine from college. definitely worth checking out.
http://trevkeva.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-god-prepared-me-for-hardest-day-of.html

wish i knew

maybe the hardest 7 months of my adult life...probably not maybe. i'd say change that to absolutely.

what are you preparing me for, Jesus? i know it has to be something big...

"i took my troubles to the Lord; i cried out to him, and he answered my prayer"
psalm 120:1

current playlist for today

glory to God - fee
desert song - hillsong
starry night - chris august
aware - salvador
majesty - delirious
the stand - hillsong


-coffee date with sara shill tonight! followed by lifegroup for the 1st time!!
-campus point lifegroup tomorrow eve!
-movie date thursday night with the best sister ever!
-beach this weekend!

sara pick showed me how to make the cutest blanket ever! i'm now addicted. so many more to come, i think! :)

sucked into the newest season of big brother already. and surprisingly, caring less and less about this season of the bachelorette.

boys are stupid...

but man, so are girls.

i think we have the best of intentions. and we want to think and believe the best about people, for the most part. but gosh, sometimes, we seem to be constantly setting ourselves up for disappointment.

it's like sometimes we can come across so naive or give ourselves such false hope, when really if we sit back and honestly view the situation it's easy to see what the right thing is or what is really going on.

and how often do we make things worse for ourselves? we ask questions and over-analyze and rethink the same things we've already been over 100 times. often, we already know the answers, but if we can get one response or action that seems even slightly different - we are going to read into it and skew it more than ever...just to give ourselves what is most often, more false hope.

i'm the worst at all of these things. being a girl - by definition, i believe - makes me ridiculous.

*keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life* proverbs 4:23

help me guard my heart, jesus. let me keep my eyes on You and not on the things of this world. only You can ever satisfy.

*hallelujah, He has found me - the One my soul so long has craved. Jesus satisfies all my longings; through His blood i now am saved*

in other news :)

-i got to see brittni last night now that she's back from honduras. tonight i get to see laura and shelley. and later -this week, i'll be hanging out with sara! what a fantastic week i have planned!
-starting point church has its first sunday morning preview services this weekend. 9am and 1030am at mission valley theater - you should come check it out!
-gum popping is a HUGE pet peeve of mine. i didn't know that until this weekend.
-i've got to go to the beach soon...i miss it. :(
-fb chat is awful and out of control.
-i say 'out of control' a lot lately.
-i think there's a skype date planned for tonight with chris hughes. yes!
-this past weekend was spent in pennsylvania visiting with family. riding in a car for 7 hours, each way, is not my idea of fun, but seeing my family each time is totally worth it! here's just a couple of fav. pics from the trip! :)

need a dog or cat? ;)

july 4th and 5th adopt a pet from the wake county spca for $17.76!!!

through july 3rd you can adopt a pet from the newly expanded wake county animal shelter for $25!!!

here's your chance to make some little furry friends life! :) click on the lines above (they are links :P) for more information!


i'm on twitter now. http://twitter.com/AshMac1101
i'm not one of those people who folds my napkin; i usually crinkle them up when i use them.
i really enjoy eating out alone sometimes.
the fam. is leaving tomorrow for pennsylvania for the 4th! :)

four men were killed in a car accident this morning. none of them that old. as if the story isn't sad enough, the comments people have made on it are even more sad and ridiculous. already people are making sarcastic remarks about "bad drivers" and how they killed their friends. or the suspicious reasons these men may or may not have been carrying their ID with them. they could've been "suspicious" characters and maybe the person driving did make some mistakes. even if that's the case, EVERYONE makes mistakes. what's most important is that four lives were lost today. four men - sons, possible brothers, husbands, or even dads. why is it so necessary that we overlook the really important stuff and immediately look to start pointing fingers and stating who made what mistakes. have we really become such an ignorant and heartless people? unbelievable.