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!