Live a holy life

"It is quite true to say - 'I cannot live a holy life', but you can decide to let Jesus Christ make you holy."

-Oswald Chambers-

"The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the 'real' living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow."

-Elisabeth Elliot-

"I have a vision of people who embrace the significance of our small words, knowing that whether they're spoken into microphones or near microwaves, they are all sacred when said in the power of the Spirit."

-Emily Freeman-

So much to find out about

"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive - it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination, then, would there?"

-Anne of Green Gables-

When fall comes around, I find myself pulling out my quote notebook and pulling out all of my Anne quotes which seem to perfectly describe the wonders of this season.

Also, I bought a new camera!!! It's a Nikon D5300, and it's my first dslr. It was the perfect thing to come home to today. I'm still trying to decide on a name. Any suggestions?

Much that is fair

"Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?"
"A man may do both," sad Aragorn. "For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time."

The Two Towers

"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or the other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable."

C.S. Lewis

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

The Fellowship of the Ring

"God does not ask us to do the things that are easy to us naturally; He only asks us to do the things we are perfectly fitted to do by His grace, and the cross will come along that line always."

My Utmost for His Highest

"Don't you think compassion can show strength?"

Merlin in BBC's "Merlin"

"I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you."

Scarlet

Just some photos and quotes I've been loving recently. Also, that last quote comes from a book in the series The Lunar Chronicles. Read them. They're so, so good.

Life is good. Lots of homework, but that is to be expected. Playing Candy Crush every night before I go to bed. Sitting down by the pond on beautiful fall evenings. 

How have you all been?

Delight 365 // Days 145 - 152

Day 145

"Well, dear, you must remember this, when you're going to fret and be low about any thing - An anxious mind is never a holy mind."

Margaret in Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

Day 146

"Look at other people through lenses of Love; see them from God's perspective."

Jesus Calling by Sarah Young

Day 147

"But on you will go

though the weather be foul.

On you will go

though your enemies prowl.

On you will go

though the Hakken-Kraks howl.

Onward up many

a frightening creek,

though you arms may get sore

and your sneakers may leak. 

On and on you will hike.

And I know you'll hike far

and face up to your problems

whatever they are."

Oh, the Places You Will Go by Dr Seuss

Day 148

"For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,

And as a root out of dry ground.

He has no form or comeliness,

And when we see Him,

There is no beauty that we should desire Him."

Isaiah 53:2

Day 149

"There's too many things I haven't done yet,

Too many sunsets I haven't seen.

You can't waste the day wishing it'd slow down.

You would've thought by now

I'd have learned something."

"Many the Miles" by Sara Bareilles

Day 150

"Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones."

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Day 151

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."

C.S. Lewis

Day 152

"We love others best when we love God most."

Kyle Idleman

Delight 365 // days 125-134

I am ashamed. I am just now starting to read Lord of the Rings. It's one of those books that I've always wanted to read but never have. When it comes to big books, though, I like to own them instead of returning them to the library before I can finish them. So, when I saw a copy of Fellowship of the Rings at Goodwill for only $0.50, I just had to pick it up. Expect to see more quotes from it as I continue reading because it is chock full of good quotes. 

Day 125

"Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly."

Susan Cain

Day 126

"Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self portrait. Everything is a diary."

Chuck Palahniuk

Day 128

"In your hearts set apart Christ as Lord."

1 Peter 3:15

Day 129

"They seem a bit above my likes and dislikes, so to speak," answered Sam slowly. "It don't seem to matter what I think about them. They are quite different from what I expected - so old and young, and so gay and sad, as it were."

The Fellowship of the Ring

Day 130

"Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow."

The Secret Garden 

Day 131

"The more he gave away, the more delighted he became."

The Rainbow Fish by Marcis Pfister

Day 133

"I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong."

Northanger Abbey

Day 134

"I feel that as long as the shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable; I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again."

Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring

Delight 365 // Days 81-88

March has just not been the best month so far as my 365 project. I've had busy days and not much color outside, but hopefully the approaching spring will give me more things to photograph. 

I think the last time I saw green grass was last October...but anyway, on to the photos that I do have.

Day 81

Last weekend, I attended a teen retreat in Canada, and this is a picture from a photo challenge that we did. In the Northeast, we figure we might as well have snow camp if it's going to stick around in March.

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

Albert Camus

Day 83

"I smile because you smile." 

Frank Churchill in Emma.

Day 84

"God never gives guidance for two steps at a time. I must take one step, and then I get light for the next. This keeps the heart in abiding dependence upon God."

C.H. Mackintosh

Day 86

"Oh! yes, I must be there; I could not refuse; and I will keep as much awake as I can; but I would rather be at home."

Mr. Knightley in Emma.

Day 87

"Sometimes I have to remind myself that I don't have to do what everyone else is doing."

Day 88

“People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.”

Augustus Waters in The Fault in Our Stars

Delight 365 // days 63-72

I am participating in the Delight 365 challenge. The goal is to take a photo every day for a whole year, and some days have a word/theme. I've missed a few days, but oh, well. Life gets busy sometimes.

Day 63

"Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. But perhaps I'll learn the secret some day if I keep trying."

Anne of Avonlea

Day 64

"Sow for yourselves righteousness;

Reap in mercy;

Break up your fallow ground,

For it is time to seek the LORD,

Till He comes and rains righteousness on you."

Hosea 10:12

Day 65

“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.”

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Day 66

Word: daring

"Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have a such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it."

Claude Monet

Day 67

"A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference."

A.A. Milne

Day 68

"The most creative people have this childlike facility to play."

John Cleese

Sometimes, we play red light, green light in our living room.

Day 69

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."

John Burroughs

Day 70

"We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone."

Ronald Reagan

Day 72

Word: tiny

"Let us spend our lives chasing the tiny moments of grace that hide in borrowed breaths, stolen glances, and the last instant before smiling lips come to rest."

Tyler Knott Gregson

Delight 365 // days 41-49

Day 41

"The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring."

The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery

Day 42

"Life was delightful, growing richer every hour, like an unfolding rose."

Emily of New Moon of L.M. Montgomery

Day 43

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."

Corrie ten Boom

Day 44

"Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us, and see the beauty in ordinary things."

Thomas Merton

Day 45

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

Les Miserables

Day 46

"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes."

Winston Churchill

Day 47

"Praise the LORD, all you Gentiles!

Laud Him, all you peoples!

For His merciful kindness is great toward us,

And the truth of the LORD endures forever."

Psalm 117:1-2

Day 48

But the LORD said to me, "Do not say 'I am a youth', for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you," says the LORD.

Jeremiah 1:7-8

Day 49

For thus says the LORD God: "Indeed, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out."

Ezekiel 34:11

Lately, I've been enjoying my school vacation which is full of baking, knitting. The Book Thief, and Pride and Prejudice. What have you been enjoying lately?