Ummm...This Needs To Be Me

Freakin' lovelovelove this look and feel. Cream coloring, silky dress mixed with cashmere cardigan, chunky necklace. YUMS.

Yes

Came across this on my newsfeed facebook when my friend (Emma) posted this on someone's wall, totally stalker-esqe I know. haha But it's good stuff and I just want to share this with all y'all.


“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.”
— Stephen Colbert




Let's learn to say yes to more things, yes? 


(Unless it's drugs or prostitution or something, the only thing growing from saying yes to those are debt and STDs, just sayin') 

Sympathy Vs. Compassion

"May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in."

- Mother Teresa

The one quality that i've always admired the most about Mother Teresa was her compassion for people. People are self indulgent and at most times, the most we can feel for one another is sympathy. With sympathy you are able to empathize with a person. Compassion is a whole other level of care, it's not only empathizing with a person but being able to share their pain as part of your own and doing something about it. Compassion comes from God's love. Compassion is this crazy love that our world could use. In today's world we are numb to each other's said and unsaid needs, the pains in each other lives. Abandoned children, single mothers, the bullied, the homeless, the neighbor with the daily bruises on her arm, the boy from the broken family, but i'm not saying that everyone must have an extreme case or a story, even a friend who holds this unshared shame in their heart, or the person who feels lonely or empty . Everyone has some sort of pain in their lives, we just don't take the time to care. We don't find the need to do so. We don't know how to love one other as God loves us.

The beautiful thing about compassion is that there is no hierarchy involved. It is pure love. I read this in a devotional I did awhile back and it really touched me. "God made His own Son 'to be sin' that He might make the sinner into a saint. It is revealed throughout the Bible that our Lord took on Himself the sin of the world through identification with us, not through sympathy for us. He deliberately took on His own shoulders, and endured in His own body, the complete, cumulative sin of the human race. 'He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us. . .' and by so doing He placed salvation for the entire human race solely on the basis of redemption."

Is that not beautiful? He did not feel sorry for us, but he wanted to identify with us. That's what made Jesus' death so meaningful, through him we are able to have a relationship with God because he died for our sins. As much as we want to feel unique and special in the world, we're ultimately looking for a connection. For someone to know what we're going through and not feel sorry for us, but to connect from it. We want someone to know who we are inside and out and still love us. God called us to be compassionate people. Compassion is not something you can learn or be taught. It's a heart matter. It's being transformed by God and living out His love in everyday life.

Mother Tersea is such an inspiration to me and I hope one day to have even a quarter of the compassion she had in her heart. 

Open the eyes of my heart Lord, break my heart for what breaks Yours.

Eyegasms

I am having so many eyegasms. I am loving EVERY single outfit in this video. 

Perfect For The Fall Transition Into Winter

I came across this in someone's fashion blog. And i'm in lovelovelove with this simple idea.

I want to wear this all day, everyday. I love pairing baggy sweaters with tight jeans or shorts with tights, but this looks fun. I mean I wouldn't choose a sweater with this many apparent holes in there, gotta leave something to the imagination nawmsayin? ;) hahaha but I love the fact she's wearing not jean but cloth shorts with a pair of knee high socks. It's the perfect amount of skin showing. And the whole thing just looks so damn comfy so that I could just lounge anywhere. Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeee it. 

Beauty Tips 101

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you will never walk alone

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed,

revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that

she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman

must be seen from in her eyes because that is the doorway to her

heart, the place where love resides."

Audrey Hepburn