It's Friday and I'm Feeling Inspired

I'm thinking these beauties are gonna get printed. I love them so much! 

K

Summertime Blues

Don't let Alan Jackson convince you there ain't no cure.

Here's some of my favorite things to do to shake up my summer. Blues be gone!

• CRAFT. 
• Omg I can't even tell you how many times during a summer I say, "I wanna paint stuff." I'm sure you have more than enough supplies to get you through your favorite Pinterest projects. (Check out my page!!) It can be as simple as spray painting some old bottles, or as detailed as designing your own bulletin board. Fewer things bring more joy to a twenty-something than the outcome of something newly crafted. And if you don't have the supplies, get on your game and head to Hobby Lobby. Because sometimes all you need is some Starbucks and some craft supplies to refuel your creative energy. Let the summer spark up some inspiration and get to crafting!

• DRIVE.
• That's right girl, road trip. Texas is THE PERFECT STATE for day tripping. Seriously. College Station feels like its just a few hours from everywhere. Which means this girl gets to pick any spot on the map and have a new adventure anytime I feel like it. Don't plan either! Be spontaneous! My favorite thing to do is eat. So I scour the internet for restaurant reviews, coffee shops, and bakeries that are worthy of a visit. I could spend all afternoon walking through a small town I've never seen before. Big cities like Austin, Houston, and San Antonio are great for day trips too. I swear I will never run out of things to do in Austin. Love love love it. Museums and pretty scenery galore. My happy place for sure. 

• INVEST.
• No not money. I'm in college, I don't have any of that. Invest in people.  With more free time on my hands than during the school year, I am able to reconnect with people I've met but may not have had the time to really get to know. Schedule coffee dates, bookstore visits, volleyball matches, movie nights! Anything to get you around the people you already know so that relationships can be deepened. God was so sweet to bless us with actual brothers and sisters in this Body of Christ. We're family, so its high time to start loving each other like we are! I am blown away by the incredible people I have met while in school. And the more time I spend with my dear brothers and sisters, the more wonderful they reveal themselves to be!

Bye bye blues!

Love

K

It's All in the Attitude

Early morning starts for summer school and long days cooped up in an office have really gotten me down this week.

I'm so exhausted I can't even stand it. I can't remember the last time I slept straight through the night. Forget about getting 8 hours! Haha. 

It feels like brutal payback for the laziest Spring semester on record.  Time is whizzing by and I want to enjoy it all but I can't help but feel the pressure from all the necessary deadlines. 

It's stressin me out and making me frustrated. 

Total wake up call: my baby sister is graduating from high school in 3 days. You know those things that you know in your head to be true but you really can't translate into reality? Then one day it's like BAM, EPIPHANY. 

Not only am I growing up, but the people closest to me are too. 

I don't have time to be all frustrated and impatient with people. I don't have time to complain. I don't have time to have a bad attitude. Couple that with my lack of quiet/Jesus time the last two weeks and I become a hollowed version of myself. I don't have time for that. 

So I find this on Pinterest today and it totally spoke to me. 

If I'm not taking the time to create beauty with my behavior and my actions, then I'm just wasting it all away. The countless moments of interaction I have with a friend or a family member or a coworker all exist so that I can create something beautiful. 

That something beautiful to me is this: 

A lasting impression that I am a joyful and loving human being because something exists within me that I cannot deny. I have the Spirit of Jesus who saved me from depravity welling up inside and empowering me to look beyond circa trance and situation and striving for the beautiful. 

Philippians 4:8 says that we are to think about whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent or praiseworthy. And not just think to keep those things in our heads but let them overflow into our words and our actions so that lives are transformed for the glory of God. That's beauty! And with the Spirit inside me, I can create it. Because the Creator of the Universe allows it to be. 

I really can say Happy Hump Day! Because things are looking absolutely beautiful to this girl! 

Love, 

K