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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
I Say Its Love
OK so I, Emily, sort of had a blog on another website and I'm trying to delete it and get any posts I like over here. =) Here's one of the ones I liked!
The video is sooo good. I was not really a big SugarLand fan until this performance and then the lyrics are just really really good. It also makes me miss performing. More on that in the blog I wrote before =)
OK so the CMA awards. I'm watching them with Andrew a couple of months ago (which is always interesting bc 1) Andrew knows SO many people there 2) he gives such interesting perspective about how hard it is to make stuff look that awesome.) Sugarland comes up to sing a song and my first thought is "what the crap are you wearing??" bc she had changed out of her super cute outfit.. whatever.. anyway. I'm not a huge Sugarland fan because her voice is sometimes even too country for this country girl. Like it sounds forced.. but I was excited to hear it bc its they were singing a song I wasn't as familiar with. I'm trying to get the video to upload and its not working at the moment. They sang that song that I posted the lyrics for "Love." and I freaking bawled like a baby.. then and when I just downloaded it again.. I know, I know that's probably weird/lame whatever...but I digress.
The intensity of his playing, and her singing was almost as strong as a pulse or a heartbeat. I miss that intensity that's infectious on a stage.. the contagious energry that flows so deeply from your fingers to the keys and makes notes and words fly out of your mouth like they came from somewhere deep inside of you that you didn't know exsisted. Where you can't help but feel it in your blood and throughout your body.. its a closeness to Heaven that I yearn for... I miss that...
The words are SO good. I had a sweet conversation with my LR this morning. And I instantly thought of her. The chemistry when you're melting into someone. When you feel them missing you across roads, cities, and states. When your worship of God is more intense and tear-filled because you're overwhelmed with the way He's loving you through a person. Where you can't help but dance it out because you don't think your body can handle keeping the feelings inside of you anymore.
"Is it the face of a child
Is it the thrill of danger
Is it the kindness we see in the eyes of a stranger
Is is more than faith
Is is more than hope
Is is waiting for us at the end of our rope
I say, it's love
I say, it's love
Is it the one you call home
Is it the Holy Land
Is is standing right here holding your hand
Is it just like the movies
Is it rice and white lace
Is it the feeling I get when I wake to your face
I say its love.
Is it the first summer storm
Is it the colors of fall
Is it having so little
And yet having it all
Is it one in a million
Is it a change to belong
Is it standing right here singing this song
I say its love.
Is it a veil or a cross
Is it the poet's gift
Is it the face that has launched over thousands of ships
Is it making you laugh
Is it letting you cry
Is it where we believe that we go when we die
Is it how you were made
Is it your mother's ghost
Is it the wish that I'm wishing for you life, for your life, for your life the most"
The video is sooo good. I was not really a big SugarLand fan until this performance and then the lyrics are just really really good. It also makes me miss performing. More on that in the blog I wrote before =)
OK so the CMA awards. I'm watching them with Andrew a couple of months ago (which is always interesting bc 1) Andrew knows SO many people there 2) he gives such interesting perspective about how hard it is to make stuff look that awesome.) Sugarland comes up to sing a song and my first thought is "what the crap are you wearing??" bc she had changed out of her super cute outfit.. whatever.. anyway. I'm not a huge Sugarland fan because her voice is sometimes even too country for this country girl. Like it sounds forced.. but I was excited to hear it bc its they were singing a song I wasn't as familiar with. I'm trying to get the video to upload and its not working at the moment. They sang that song that I posted the lyrics for "Love." and I freaking bawled like a baby.. then and when I just downloaded it again.. I know, I know that's probably weird/lame whatever...but I digress.
The intensity of his playing, and her singing was almost as strong as a pulse or a heartbeat. I miss that intensity that's infectious on a stage.. the contagious energry that flows so deeply from your fingers to the keys and makes notes and words fly out of your mouth like they came from somewhere deep inside of you that you didn't know exsisted. Where you can't help but feel it in your blood and throughout your body.. its a closeness to Heaven that I yearn for... I miss that...
The words are SO good. I had a sweet conversation with my LR this morning. And I instantly thought of her. The chemistry when you're melting into someone. When you feel them missing you across roads, cities, and states. When your worship of God is more intense and tear-filled because you're overwhelmed with the way He's loving you through a person. Where you can't help but dance it out because you don't think your body can handle keeping the feelings inside of you anymore.
"Is it the face of a child
Is it the thrill of danger
Is it the kindness we see in the eyes of a stranger
Is is more than faith
Is is more than hope
Is is waiting for us at the end of our rope
I say, it's love
I say, it's love
Is it the one you call home
Is it the Holy Land
Is is standing right here holding your hand
Is it just like the movies
Is it rice and white lace
Is it the feeling I get when I wake to your face
I say its love.
Is it the first summer storm
Is it the colors of fall
Is it having so little
And yet having it all
Is it one in a million
Is it a change to belong
Is it standing right here singing this song
I say its love.
Is it a veil or a cross
Is it the poet's gift
Is it the face that has launched over thousands of ships
Is it making you laugh
Is it letting you cry
Is it where we believe that we go when we die
Is it how you were made
Is it your mother's ghost
Is it the wish that I'm wishing for you life, for your life, for your life the most"
A New Leaf!
Or maybe its a new page?
Anyway, take 2 for blogging. Thank you Tracy Ramsey for inspiring me to flipping GET ON IT! Of course I would choose probably the busiest time in my life to do this, but dadgumit it is something I think about ALL the time, so here we go!
Reader's Digest Update:
Andrew quit his job. That's a biggie. Its a really REALLY long story that he is much better at telling than I am, BUT the important thing is, it was the right thing to do AND we have felt God's constant support and leading and provision since then, which just re-affirms to us AGAIN that it was the right thing. Maybe if I have time later I'll say more about this. But what it all means is..
1) he's freelance again. So if anyone out there is in search of a photographer, videographer, video engineer, sound man, graphic designer, basically can read a manual and figure out anything you ever put in front of him guy, then leave a comment for us and we'll get you his e-mail!! He has honestly stayed pretty busy though thanks to some incredible connections he's made over the last couple of years. Praise God that He is still the "I Am" who rains down manna every day.
This picture is from a gig he worked last year in Virgina and I got to go visit! I ALSO was able to visit my favorite person on the planet Katie Batey! (aka Katie Von Kahle and sanity of my life.)
As for me... LOL.. I'm sorry I just need to laugh a second. "Dirty Pop" by N'SYNC just came on my Itunes...if you know anything about me and POP... please just laugh with me.
OK back to my life. Let's see. I'm currently sitting at the kitchen table of the Perry family thinking about what I should probably be working on while the cutest kid on the planet sleeps. Seen here...
And that's actually an old picture. I cannot believe she's almost 20 months! That's 4 months shy of her being 2 years old!!! WHOA. I started taking care of her when she was 4 months old and now she's almost 2 YEARS old. Good grief. Even more weird, Andrew and I are approaching our 2 year anniversary. That's right, kids. Two years. WHOA. And how much time have we actually spent together in the same place at the same time? Hm... I actually want to know. Please hold...OK just for this year, 2009, we've spent 89 out of 118.. which is actually pretty good in my opinion!! Let's go back to 2008.. this is so sick that I'm doing this, but Andrew and I were actually talking about it last night. I actually counted it up thanks to our google calendar. 218 days spent in the same city. So what is that? Divided by 30 (most months are 30 days) that's like 7.2 something. So around 7 months of the year 2008 together. Just a little further to go... 83 days in the portion of 2007 that we were married and that INCLUDES our wedding and honeymoon and that was out of 5.5 months. Geez. So our grand total of time in the same place since we've been married is... drumroll...390 days!!! HOLY CRAP! I'm so excited! I didn't think we had spent a year in the same place but apparently we have! One year and about a month! THAT'S SO EXCITING! So out of the 21 months we've been married, we've been together for 13 of them collectively. Wow.
OK I'll move on. The point is, its been interesting. God has been teaching us A LOT individually and together. I have felt like since he quit his job though (which was just a little over a month ago) God has been pushing us to learn how to truly live life together for the first time. Like I think we're having issues and discussions and experiences people normally have right after their honeymoon or maybe in their first few months. But I'm OK with that. I see God moving in Andrew in SO many ways and He is constantly providing for us.
OK did I mention what I've been up to yet? I think what I've been up to is about to wake up..False Alarm. So Karleigh is a huge portion of my life. Which is.. hard? Good? Interesting? But let me just say on behalf of the parents out there that are thinking "I don't want someone else raising my kid.." that is NOT what happens around here. I learn things from this incredible family EVERY day. There is no mistaking who Mommy and Daddy are. I am "EM!" or "Miss EM!" and Andrew is "Doo! or Andoo!" We love Karleigh and she knows that we love her and truly care for her, but ever since I can remember we have actively talked about who Mommy and Daddy are. Kevin (Daddy) is here a lot anyway. A lot of the time he is working in his office downstairs or coming in and out between meetings, and he stops to love on her a bit, but she handles it SO well. She says "bye bye Daddy!" or like this morning she waved as her mom went out the door blew her kisses and said "see you soon!" Can you tell this child is ridiculously smart??? It amazes me every day. Thus why I feel like I am pushed and tried and shown new things about God every minute of every day. I think that might need to be a whole other blog too. About preparing for motherhood.. and just tales from "The Nanny Diaries" or something ;)Maybe (so that I don't get flipping sued for copyright infringement) it will be the Nanny Confessions or the Nanny blogs.. maybe.. ANOTHER DAY!
The other HUGELY important part of my life is my wedding business! That's right, courtesy of lots of pushing in the right direction from friends and family and a calling from God I started my business Simply Yours Weddings & Etc. last February. I just started a blog for that too. (see the blogs I follow!) I should probably stop blogging on this one and actually get some work done and get ready to make Karleigh's lunch. I cannot believe I spent all this time doing this.. then again.. I can. And I feel rather refreshed =)
Thought of the day:
"God means what He says, even when its bad news."- Beth Moore
Anyway, take 2 for blogging. Thank you Tracy Ramsey for inspiring me to flipping GET ON IT! Of course I would choose probably the busiest time in my life to do this, but dadgumit it is something I think about ALL the time, so here we go!
Reader's Digest Update:
Andrew quit his job. That's a biggie. Its a really REALLY long story that he is much better at telling than I am, BUT the important thing is, it was the right thing to do AND we have felt God's constant support and leading and provision since then, which just re-affirms to us AGAIN that it was the right thing. Maybe if I have time later I'll say more about this. But what it all means is..
1) he's freelance again. So if anyone out there is in search of a photographer, videographer, video engineer, sound man, graphic designer, basically can read a manual and figure out anything you ever put in front of him guy, then leave a comment for us and we'll get you his e-mail!! He has honestly stayed pretty busy though thanks to some incredible connections he's made over the last couple of years. Praise God that He is still the "I Am" who rains down manna every day.
This picture is from a gig he worked last year in Virgina and I got to go visit! I ALSO was able to visit my favorite person on the planet Katie Batey! (aka Katie Von Kahle and sanity of my life.)As for me... LOL.. I'm sorry I just need to laugh a second. "Dirty Pop" by N'SYNC just came on my Itunes...if you know anything about me and POP... please just laugh with me.
OK back to my life. Let's see. I'm currently sitting at the kitchen table of the Perry family thinking about what I should probably be working on while the cutest kid on the planet sleeps. Seen here...
And that's actually an old picture. I cannot believe she's almost 20 months! That's 4 months shy of her being 2 years old!!! WHOA. I started taking care of her when she was 4 months old and now she's almost 2 YEARS old. Good grief. Even more weird, Andrew and I are approaching our 2 year anniversary. That's right, kids. Two years. WHOA. And how much time have we actually spent together in the same place at the same time? Hm... I actually want to know. Please hold...OK just for this year, 2009, we've spent 89 out of 118.. which is actually pretty good in my opinion!! Let's go back to 2008.. this is so sick that I'm doing this, but Andrew and I were actually talking about it last night. I actually counted it up thanks to our google calendar. 218 days spent in the same city. So what is that? Divided by 30 (most months are 30 days) that's like 7.2 something. So around 7 months of the year 2008 together. Just a little further to go... 83 days in the portion of 2007 that we were married and that INCLUDES our wedding and honeymoon and that was out of 5.5 months. Geez. So our grand total of time in the same place since we've been married is... drumroll...390 days!!! HOLY CRAP! I'm so excited! I didn't think we had spent a year in the same place but apparently we have! One year and about a month! THAT'S SO EXCITING! So out of the 21 months we've been married, we've been together for 13 of them collectively. Wow.
OK I'll move on. The point is, its been interesting. God has been teaching us A LOT individually and together. I have felt like since he quit his job though (which was just a little over a month ago) God has been pushing us to learn how to truly live life together for the first time. Like I think we're having issues and discussions and experiences people normally have right after their honeymoon or maybe in their first few months. But I'm OK with that. I see God moving in Andrew in SO many ways and He is constantly providing for us.
OK did I mention what I've been up to yet? I think what I've been up to is about to wake up..False Alarm. So Karleigh is a huge portion of my life. Which is.. hard? Good? Interesting? But let me just say on behalf of the parents out there that are thinking "I don't want someone else raising my kid.." that is NOT what happens around here. I learn things from this incredible family EVERY day. There is no mistaking who Mommy and Daddy are. I am "EM!" or "Miss EM!" and Andrew is "Doo! or Andoo!" We love Karleigh and she knows that we love her and truly care for her, but ever since I can remember we have actively talked about who Mommy and Daddy are. Kevin (Daddy) is here a lot anyway. A lot of the time he is working in his office downstairs or coming in and out between meetings, and he stops to love on her a bit, but she handles it SO well. She says "bye bye Daddy!" or like this morning she waved as her mom went out the door blew her kisses and said "see you soon!" Can you tell this child is ridiculously smart??? It amazes me every day. Thus why I feel like I am pushed and tried and shown new things about God every minute of every day. I think that might need to be a whole other blog too. About preparing for motherhood.. and just tales from "The Nanny Diaries" or something ;)Maybe (so that I don't get flipping sued for copyright infringement) it will be the Nanny Confessions or the Nanny blogs.. maybe.. ANOTHER DAY!
The other HUGELY important part of my life is my wedding business! That's right, courtesy of lots of pushing in the right direction from friends and family and a calling from God I started my business Simply Yours Weddings & Etc. last February. I just started a blog for that too. (see the blogs I follow!) I should probably stop blogging on this one and actually get some work done and get ready to make Karleigh's lunch. I cannot believe I spent all this time doing this.. then again.. I can. And I feel rather refreshed =)
Thought of the day:
"God means what He says, even when its bad news."- Beth Moore
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
How He Loves...
He is jealous for me
Love's like a hurricane, I am a tree
Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy
When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory
and I realize just how beautiful You are and how great your affections are for me.
Oh, how He loves us so
Oh, how He loves us
How He loves us so.
Yeah, He loves us
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves.
So we are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes
If grace is an ocean we're all sinking
So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss and my heart turns violently inside of my chest
I don't have time to maintain these regrets when I think about the way
That he loves us,
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves
Well, I thought about You the day Stephen died and You met me between my breaking
I know that I still love You, God, despite the agony
...they want to tell me You're cruel
But if Stephen could sing, he'd say it's not true, cause...
Cause He loves us,
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves
*If you want to hear this song, you can watch the live version of it on this video:
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Its a little more weird for me than normal... but I can't help it.
Wish I could explain how it applies to my heart... but that's just to dang personal and controversial for me to post bc I'm still getting used to this whole blogging online thing...
Wish I could explain how it applies to my heart... but that's just to dang personal and controversial for me to post bc I'm still getting used to this whole blogging online thing...
Thursday, July 17, 2008
its never rained this hard before
Strange how hard it rains now
Rows and rows of big dark clouds
When I'm holding on underneath this shroud
Rain
Its hard to know when to give up the fight
Two things you want will just never be right
Its never rained like it has to night before
Now I don't wanna beg you baby
For something maybe you could never give
I'm not looking for the rest of your life
I just want another chance to live
Patty Griffin, "Rain"
I've never been so conflicted, hurt, frustrated, and utterly lonely in my whole life... i just want it to be over. can a new season start already???
Rows and rows of big dark clouds
When I'm holding on underneath this shroud
Rain
Its hard to know when to give up the fight
Two things you want will just never be right
Its never rained like it has to night before
Now I don't wanna beg you baby
For something maybe you could never give
I'm not looking for the rest of your life
I just want another chance to live
Patty Griffin, "Rain"
I've never been so conflicted, hurt, frustrated, and utterly lonely in my whole life... i just want it to be over. can a new season start already???
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