H.e.r.o.

he·ro
n. pl. he·roes
A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life


Three people became heroes July 5th.

Three heroes acted that day.

Three heroes cared.

Three heroes acted.

Three heroes saved a life.

A man died that day. he died a hero. 

My sister said, " I guess heaven needed another hero."

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12762940#

Mr Richard was a second father to my two older sisters and I.

His daughter, like a sister. 

His family like my family.

We called him R Diddy. :)

We all had insider jokes.  

We were all tight like that. :)

Mr Richard was a man to be respected.

Small in stature. But a giant in spirit.

He was a spiritual giant. He loved.

He cared.

That day, he took action.

He gave his life.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Pastor-Sunday-prayers-sent-Good-Samaritan-to-drowning-site-97903984.html

There's "R Diddy" One of the greatest men I've ever known. 

{Risk}

.Bold.

.Courage.

.Strength.

.Impact. 

.Risk.

Some of the most beautiful words, to me. 

Why? God keeps pushing me to the limit. 

He keeps showing me, "Hey you, I have a bigger plan for you."

So I'm trying to listen. So I can be bold in what He wants me to say.

So I can have courage to step out on a limb.

So I can have the strength to carry His word.

So I can make the impact in just one person's life.

I'll have to risk all to do all this. 

But if I risk. I'll lose nothing. 

I'll need to give Him everything. 

I know He won't let me fail.

I stole this quote from my sister's blog.

To Risk

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out is to risk involvement,
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and
dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To live is to risk dying,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because
the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing,
has nothing, is nothing.

– William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)

Beautiful. It sure is. I read that and it inspired me incredibly much.

Then I found this verse on a friends facebook the other day. This verse. My oh my, it inspired me even more.

Will YOU be one of "These that have turned the world upside down.."—Acts 17:6?

Will I be one of them?

Will I change the world?

I wanna turn it upside down.

But to do that, I need to risk.

I'll need to give up everything.

Let it all go.

Then God will do His perfect work.

{Summertime}

Ohh my, it's summertime already again. :) This excites me.

Summertime means: picnics, swimming, tans, snowcones...yeahh, I love summer. :) 

It's my favorite time ever. 

Plus, country summers are even better.

:)

I bought some new running shoes. :) 

And I love them so much. So much, that I want to go running all the time.

I've already showed them off on facebook. 

I'd like the whole world to be aware of my new shoes. ;)

:)

Ahhh, excuse my ramblings, I'm just out of things to blog these days.

Sooo, guess that means I'm done here for today...

Ohhhh myy myy myyy. I haven't blogged in foreverrr...quite obviously...there's reason. At least for the last two weeks...I was in Dallas visiting my sister, and didn't really have much computer access at all... and before that...I'm as lame as a blonde joke in the excuse department...

Anyways...I need something interesting to say...do I not? Oh yes I do...
So I've told everybody and their pet birdie, that I'm going to basketball camp next week. And I'm just a little more than excited. Ok. I'm super excited. I can't wait. It's gonna be so hardcore. Let's hope I don't die of suicides. Oh my, that's the only thing I really dread...

On another basketballin' note. Celtics tied up the series by winning game four last night. So the Celtics and Lakers are tied in the NBA playoffs finals... Oh yeah. You could probably care less. So I usually don't talk to people about it, but that excites me too. :) Ohh yeahh. Cause all along, from the very beginning...I've been cheering those Celtics like no one's business. So yeahh buddy. Thanks for listening to my basketball ramblings...I'll go on to things you think bigger and better...

Hmmmm, so our family is finally going on vacation again. :) excitement much. We're going to some countrified water park hotel in Missouri. With lots and lots of entertainment. Oh yeah. haha. We're even going to a country comedy show. Ha! It's gonna be good.

So Whit showed me this hilarious video on youtube. It cracks me up..it's call Jessica's Daily Affirmation. This little girl is great. Ha. She cracks me up. I should be as positive as her in the mornings...

Anyways...I will be blogging more often. I will... :)

"Are You Jesus?"

:) My friend posted this on facebook. I find this story absolutely beautiful. It really makes me think. 




A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples.

Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding.

ALL BUT ONE !!!

He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and
experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned. He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor.

He was glad he did.

The 16 year old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears
running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly
groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.

The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.


When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl,
"Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?" She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we
didn't spoil your day too badly."

As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?"

He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: "Are you Jesus?"

Do people mistake you for Jesus? That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.

If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would.

Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to
church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.

You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.

Beautiful right? Right. Very beautiful I think. :) 

We should be showing so much love, people think we're like Jesus.