Thanks and Gig'em

I went back to College Station this past weekend to go watch my Ags BTHO KU. While the results of the football game were quite disappointing, I was reminded yet again just how much I love my school. With all the traditions, friendly people, and a mindset of a time much simpler, it is such a safe haven in such an in-your-face world.

There really is no place quite like Texas A&M University and I am so thankful that it was in that place that the Lord placed me for my four years of college.

There is no real way for me to begin to describe what makes this place so special to so many. You just have experience it.

One small example that made me smile this weekend happened before the football game Saturday afternoon. One of the people that went down with us was someone's family member from Kansas. Decked out in his blue and red, Steven was very obviously a KU fan amongst the sea of maroon. And yet, rather than heckle him like so many other college campuses would have done, an old Ag who looked like he belonged to a class from the 1940's approached Steven and said, " Son, we're glad to have you here." I just looked on and smiled. With its down-home feel, Aggieland waits eagerly with open arms to welcome all who come to visit.

God bless Texas A&M and my Aggies. Thanks and gig'em. Whoop.

Streetsinger

Okay, first of all, I want to be able to sing like the girl in this video. I mean seriously...who wouldn't? She can straight up JAM and I feel as though the Lord created my soul with a huge desire to be able to do this.

But, until a voice like this magically appears, I will resign myself to jamming with Eden and pretending it's me singing like a Broadway rock star. Rock on, sister.

By the way, her name is Eden Espinosa and this is a song from the Broadway musical, Brooklyn. Eden is a believer living out her faith in the Broadway arena. You go girl.

Nashville

Okay, so I really want to live here. This city is just incredible. I have lived in Dallas my entire life, and with each passing day I become more and more aware of the fact that I really don't want to spend the rest of my life here. The world is far too vast, exciting, and diverse to spend one's entire life in the same place.

My sister lives in Nashville right now and I L O V E going to see her up there. The city is so exciting with all the live music, record labels, and incredibly strong churches. The one drawback is its distance from a beach, but I figure it isn't any farther than I am from a GOOD beach in Dallas.

I feel at home in Nashville. I don't know what it is about that city, but I love it. The prayer process has commenced on this topic, and will continue until I finish school. Then, we'll see where I'm led.

"And I whispered a prayer as I embraced a new day..." 'Remember', Watermark

Stillness

Well, I've never really thought of myself as a blogger. However, due to the influx of knowledge that I am receiving at school and really no proper outlet in which to express the things in which I am thinking, I decided I might go ahead and give this thing a try.

I'm calling it 'Solace in Stillness' because really, with how busy life is at the current juncture, stillness is a rare commodity, thus providing all the more solace, comfort, peace, etc.

What pushed me over the edge and made me decide to start this today is that I heard a song lyric this morning that I loved and wanted to share. It's from a Watermark song, which, if you know me at all, is pretty typical. I love Watermark. It's like Christy has read what is on my heart and in my mind and put those ideas and thoughts into songs for me. Perfect.

The lyric is from their song 'Still' off of the Constant album. This just might be my favorite song of theirs, although that is such a hard call to make. The first verse of the song goes like this:

"The more I get alone the more I see I need to get alone more
Cause just when I think that I'm alone Your Spirit calls out to me
And even silence has a song cause that's when You come sing over me."

How beautiful is that?! Christy, you're brilliant.

I love the idea of being still and being quiet and allowing the Lord to whisper sweetly to your soul. So often in our busy lives, we are constantly on the go with errands to run, people to see, and tasks to accomplish, that we don't take that time to be still and just simply BE in the presence of the Lord. What sweet and precious times we miss when that happens. I find that so much of the confusion and stress in my life comes when I don't take time to stop, sit, and allow the Spirit to wash over me, providing clarity in comfort in those challenging times. In essence, I think of myself as sufficient to handle the stress. How wrong I am. Basically, I agree with Christy. 'The more I get alone the more I see I need to get alone more.' It can't be said any better than that.

Solace in stillness is one of the many comforts our loving Father provides His children. What a precious gift.

"Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." -Psalm 46:10