How You Live

Recorded by Point of Grace-2007

How You Live


Wake up to the sunlight with your windows open
Don't hold in your anger or leave things unspoken
Wear your red dress, use your good dishes
Make a big mess and make lots of wishes

And have what you want, but want what you have
And don't spend your life looking back

Turn up the music
Turn it up loud
Take a few chances and let it all out
'Cause you won't regret it
Looking back from where you have been
'Cause it's not who you knew
And it's not what you did
It's how you live

So go to the ballgames and go to the ballet
And go see your folks more than just on the holidays
Kiss all your children, dance with your wife
Tell your husband you love him every night

Don't run from the truth 'cause you can't get away, no
Face it and you'll be okay

(Chorus)

Oh, wherever you are and wherever you've been
Now is the time to begin
So give to the needy, and pray for the grieving
Even when you don't think that you can
'Cause all that you do is bound to come back to you
So think of your fellow man
And make peace with God, and make peace with yourself
'Cause in the end, there's nobody else

A few pictures

Here are a few pictures from my summer adventures :)




My daddy and I sitting on the edge of haycock head in Lubec, Maine.



Best Friends for life :) Boat ride and evening swim in Shediac.



Frank and I on Haycock Head...steps away from his family's cabin. This was the weekend of his mom's wedding. They were married right on the cliff. It was beautiful :)



Two of my favorite cousins. This was the weekend of the Doiron family reunion in PEI...always exciting ;)



One of the first mornings I stayed in my new apartment in Bangor. Love it :)




One of our many trips to Parlee beach this summer. I love these girls :)



Summer lubbing....hanging out with my PI girls :)



Frank and I went to see Third Day in MA and we spent the day at 6 Flags New England. Here, we had our picture taken with Flash and Robin....yes, we even bought capes haha



Moriah's 19th birthday weekend...a few friends came to Shediac and we stayed on Moriah's dad's boat...this is one of my favorite roomie pictures.



This moment was likely the highlight of my life...I will love Point of Grace for the rest of my life!

SPRING BREAK

Here are a few pictures from my spring break so far. I'm in Henderson KY with Frank until Sunday then it's back to school. Frank's dad and stepmom live here along with a foster child, MaKayla, who's living with them right now. It's been great so far getting to know them better. These pictures aren't the best but we have pretty much just been relaxing this far....the pictures will get more interesting today though..I promise! We're heading to Mammoth Cave...the biggest cave in the US! And then tomorrow we're going hiking at the national park in Henderson and maybe camping tomorrow night. So stay tuned!


Good morning! I love black and white pictures!



MaKayla took this one of us. Pretty good for a six year old huh?

Frank all ready to go for the day...me still in my pjs :) haha this is the way most mornings start. Good thing he is the most patient person I know!


Frank and MaKayla...she's so adorable...and he's not bad too I guess ;)

I have a few more pictures but I'll wait and put some more interesting ones on here tonight. Love you all!

Pictures from Christmas break...

Matching hoodies...
















aww cute















Me and Franky J ;)















hehe...comic book style

UPDATE!

So it's been a couple months since I've blogged...i guess sometimes I feel like my life isn't interesting enough to write about. So I guess I'll just be random for a few minutes....

I'm missing home. Never in my life have I been homesick, so I'm not really sure if that's what this is....but I'm definately missing being at home more than ever. I miss my family. I miss my house. I miss my bed. I miss my church. I miss my friends. I miss Frank. The end.

Some of you may know that I was planning to go to Zambia, Africa for the month of May. I'm not longer going on that trip. I was really excited about it and felt like the Lord definately brought that opportunity to me, but recently I felt the Lord was shutting that door. The more I pray about it the more I think it was a test of obedience. Africa is so close to my heart and I've wanted to go for some time now, so I was absolutely elated about going on this trip. But there were so many little things that I felt were red flags of warning concerning the trip. I won't get into the full length story, but I definately feel like this is God's will for me. To me, Africa isn't just a place I want to go and see...it's something a lot deeper that I feel for that country and specifically for the people suffering from the AIDS pandemic. Because my heart is so deeply tied to that place, I know God will open up more doors for me to go there and minister. So.....I have complete peace about not going to Zambia in May. If you want to hear the whole story, just ask next time we'er talking ;)

School is going pretty good. It's hard to stay motivated when I want to be home so badly. But my classes are good. I was in a economics night class, but I dropped it cause it was 3 hours long on Monday nights and it was just too much for a Monday....so I feel better now that I dropped that. I'm praying about where God wants me to be. I am not sure if I'm supposed to stay at this school or not, so that's been something I've been thinking a lot about too. We'll see what happens...

Frank and I are doing well. God is using him SO much at Orono to reach people there and I love hearing stories of how he's sharing his story and the gospel with the people around him. For spring break, we're going to his dad's house in Kentucky. Its about a 5 hour drive from here. Frank will be coming to get me the weekend of the...3rd? And then I'll be spending a week there with him. I'm really looking forward to meeting his step mom and getting to know his dad a little better. And it'll be really nice to just hang out, relax and not think about responsibility for a week!

That's my update for now....I'm gonna load a couple pictures Frank and I took over break. We used a photobooth thing on my friends computer, so they're kinda fun. I'll try and be a more faithful blogger from here on out...i promise!

More pictures from Thanksgiving break!

Here are some more pics of Franky and I over Thanksgiving break:

I don't know why I turned my head...can't decide if I like this one or not :S


Ok doesn't he have the best smile ever?


Choking is fun...haha


I think this one is my favorite...except that my
hair is in my face...oh well..


I like this one too....look at that sunset!

I LOVE MY DAD!!!

I just have to say that my dad is awesome. I can't explain in a few words how wonderful he is, but I love him :) This picture was taken on Thanksgiving day and I like it a lot. My dad makes me laugh all the time...it's one of my favorite things about him. Anyone that knows him, knows he can always say something to crack everyone up. And also I have to say that a girl is never too old to sit on her daddy's lap or hold his hand. Although...haha...there have been times that I've been like " Dad, I'm gonna stop holding you're hand right now cause we're in Wal Mart and people are looking at us funny" haha...But besides those moments.....
Anyways....tribute to my dad....love ya!

Here are some pictures of Frank and I from Thanksgiving:


blurry, but I like it anyway ;)

cute

aww Frank and Mr Cuddles in Wal Mart ;)

On the front porch of my house...

My favorite pic of us....we stole those Santa hats...

Could you be satisfied?

"If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ was not there?"-John Piper



Found this quote this week and i've been thinking about it ever since. Just wanted to post it and hear some feedback on it. What are your thoughts?

More pics from Chicago....

Natalie, Me, and Liz after our night on the town...so much fun! I love these girls!



Me and AMAZING desert at an AMAZING rastaurant in Chicago!


I love this pic....those buildings are SO huge!


So here is the famous pic I've been telling everyone and their brother about. We went to see Blue Man Group and it was incredible. If you don't know what it is it's hard to explain, but it's a must see performance. They don't talk or smile, but they are HILARIOUS and they are amazing musicians. That's the best I can do. But anyways...I'm pretty proud of the fact that I made this blue man smile. I asked him for a blue man kiss and he couldn't keep the blank expression. I was pretty happy in this pic and it was probably the highlight of my weekend. So I'm in love. yep. that's it...So here it is:


This was at the Field's museum...Nat, Lizzy and Me. I have no idea what animal that is we are posing in front of and I have no idea why we are standing like that as if the camera can't get the full length of our bodies. Whatever. I like this picture anyway.

Chicago!!!

My perfect blue man kiss:



The beautiful city at night:


Me on steps of Fields Musem in Chicago:


Me and Natalie and Liz with Liz's mom and stepdad:

For the Rhynos...

This was at the Field's Museum in Chicago. I went for the long weekend with one of my wonderful friends Liz(to her house) and another good friend Natalie. It was an amazing weekend. I'll post more pics from the trip later and write about it a little more. But this is dedicated to the Rhyno's! It's a real stuffed Rhino from Africa! IT was SOOO BIG!!! Anyways, I immediately thought of you guys and knew I had to take a pic. I wish it turned out better. But I miss you guys and think of you all often :) Love you!

I AM NOCTURNAL!!!

It´s 530 am....I am on a computer in my dorm´s computer lab and my keyboard down here is a french one I think. Why the heck is there a french keyboard! So when I try to put a colon this is what happens Ñ....so I don´t know what that is but that´s a colon. This post may not make a whole lot of sense either, but I just had the urge to write.
I miss home...I´m not really homesick I guess, but I miss people. My friends especially....and my kitties...they are my best friends and I miss them SOOO much! And Rhynos...I miss you guys A LOT! And I think about you guys all the time. I hope you are doing well and that the kids are doing well in school and everything. I´m going to give you guys a call soon and catch up! Love you!
I´ve decided that I am nocturnal. No joke. I am. I´ve always been a night owl and anyone who knows me knows I am NOT a morning person. But this whole college experience really brought the two extremes out in me. I never sleep at night...like right now it´s 538 and I am just beginning to feel fatigued. Tomorrow morning I will want to die, but I will nap in between and during my classes. Haha just joking mom.....
So everything is going well here....I still love all my classes. New Testament is my favorite. The prof is amazing and I feel like he´s one of my friends. Hes just such a godly man and when I walk into his classroom the spirit of God immediately draws me. There have been several classes in which the Spritit of God falls so heavily on me through his annointed teaching of the Word that when he dismisses the class I am stunned. Several times I have stayed in my seat and cried because God used his words so directly. I am seriously considering going on a missions trip lead by him to Zambia Africa. I am in the application process right now. God has birthed in me a passion for helping the AIDS crisis in Africa. That is a whole other blog post that I will get to soon, but He has just put opportunities in my lap and lead me to people and things that have added fuel to this fire. I am so humbled by and in love with my God right now. I´ve grown more in the past 6 months than I ever have in my whole life. So that´s a mini spiritual update. I´ll fill you in on the whole Africa passion thing soon.
Well I miss you all so very very much...Rhyno´s, Erskines, and my family in PEI...been thinking about you all a lot lately. Stay in touch. I love yo

Majesty

Just the other day, I came out of a 7:50 class making my way back to my dorm to take a much needed nap. For those of you who know me, I am NOT a morning person, so I was intently focused on getting back to bed. As I was sleepily walking I began noticing that people were stopped all over the sidewalks dead in their tracks just staring up at the sky. I was confused as to why until I lifted my own head up to the sky. I quickly forgot about my nap and forgot that I was walking anywhere at all. I was amazed at the clouds in these pictures. I rarely realize the splendor of the Almighty in the way I did in that moment. He's huge. He's everywhere and in everything. He's majestic. And that's what I was staring at: The beauty and the majesty of the King. It's tornado season here in Indiana so I've seen some crazy storms, but this was the first time I saw clouds like this. Ever in my life. The pictures don't even come close to what it looked like to see the entire expanse of the sky like this, but I thought I would post a few pictures. It was absolutley incredible.