From One Southern Girl to Another

One of my partners supports me through working on my car! (How great is that?!) Well the car place is in Chapel Hill and while I was get my car worked on I usually eat lunch and look in a few stores. Yesterday, I looked through a cute pottery store that always has unique items. I found these really cute tee shirts. The brand is called "Sweet Tea." The shirts have sayings like "I Swanee, " "Lawd, have mercy," "Hissy Fit," and "In a tizzy." They even have cute children and babies clothes. I just love the idea!

The story behind the tee shirts is great too. Two women from the North married Southern boys and got a kick out of their sayings! Check out the website: http://sweeteashirts.com/

I can't wait to order the "I Swanee" shirt. That is one of my favorite Southern sayings that I love to hear white haired ladies say!

Have a good one!

Depression Cooking with Clara

I saw this lady on the news last night! I was just too precious not to share. Clara is in her nineties and she tells stories about living through the Great Depression. She shows how to make the recipes that kept her family alive. The cool part is that her grandson taped her and created the website. She even has dvds for sale!
Check it out: http://www.greatdepressioncooking.com/Depression_Cooking/Welcome.html

Straight No Chaser

Hey y'all! Straight No Chaser is a men's acapella group from Indiana. My sister just told me about them today! It's a little late for the holidays but still worth checking out! http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kYEK-pxs_A&feature=channel

(I love the 5 golden rings part!)

I also like their: Sitcom Medley and Teen Sensation Medley! Check them out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMj1ZaWVc-8&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkerzEpY-PM&feature=channel

:)

something i realized today!

So I've been raising my partnership team this summer to go back and work in campus ministry at East Carolina. It has been an amazing ride and I have learned so much already just through 3 months of raising my team.

I am happy to say I am at 38% of my goal! The past two weeks I have been contacting businesses which has been great and totally stretched me. Well last night as I was making phone calls I had a peace. This is kind of not normal for me because I am usually so nervous making phone calls. I finally knew something in my heart that my head has known for years.... God is in control. I realized I can either be stressed out the rest of the summer or I can let God be in charge. I fell like God has been saying over the past few weeks that if I was faithful in doing my part (making phone calls and meeting with people) that He would finish my team for me! Well it has been great because today I felt the same peace while making phone calls.

God will bring the increase, I just need to wait and be faithful. It's amazing how when you let go of something that you have been holding onto so tightly, how much relief you feel. It takes effort to hold on tight to something you weren't meant to hold in the first place. God wants to bring us into a place where we just relax and let him do all the holding.

Chasing Lightning Bugs

Hey this is obviously my first blog! I just wanted somewhere out here in the internet world for my thoughts to be organized and compiled!