you are LOVED.

Hey my pretties,

As you all know, we attended the RL girl's event as a small group this past Friday night and it was AMAZING. God moved in a big way. If you weren't able to come, what you NEED to know from that night is that God... the God who made heaven and earth.. who reigns forever and is Holy and Perfect....  is crazy about [you]. You don't have to be someone else to get his attention. He doesn't need your advice or comfort... He doesn't require ANYTHING from you other than your heart.. and once he has your heart and you are able to accept His love.. He will help you make sense of the broken pieces of your life.. and hold you together like a loving father. He will ALWAYS be there.  This oughta stir up something inside of your heart... and if it doesn't, let's talk about it ;)

Love you all to pieces. xoxo

Also, becca looks amazing in this picture (i mean, all of us do, but look at becca.. she's fierce!)

john 16:33.....go read it ;)

hey girls.. i'm sitting here getting ready for life group tonight and i just read this on a blog that my good friend matt huber tweeted about (did you follow that explanation?) It's talking about going through pain (emotional/physical/whatev)  in our earthly lives:: 

"He (God) can bring light out of any darkness, hope out of any despair, healing out of any brokenness…bringing “beautiful things out of the dust; beautiful things out of us.” I don’t have to try to believe this with my brain; it’s deep in my bones. This is why I am still a Christian."

even better than trying to figure out why difficult things are happening in our lives and begging God to change our situation, is the miracle produced inside of us when we face the hard stuff, but know God's goodness well enough to have peace and joy anyway... we don't just know it to be true in our brains, because there are other things true about the world that could confuse us.. if we store "God is always good" in our brains right next to "marriages fail" or "my friend died from cancer"... the enemy might be able to rob us of our reassurance in the hope and promise of our God.  it is when we are so sure of God's goodness, deep down in the bones of who we are, and we know that the troubles of this world are light and momentary compared to an eternity with Jesus.. that we can't be shaken.. now THAT is God working a miracle in our lives.. never lose heart, beautiful girls...  

praying this for you..

Hey girls,

As I've been reading this week I keep coming back to this verse in Ephesians:

"I pray that out of His glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen."

And i wanted yall to know that I'm praying this for you this week. That the Lord will strengthen you with his POWER in your inner being.. strengthen you in your hearts and minds so that Christ can dwell there through your faith.. THINK about this:: the power of Christ dwelling in your inner being.. helping you understand how wide and long and high and deep His love for you is. if we could truly grasp that........ there would be no such thing as a bad day :)

Love yall xoxo

club... group... team

hi girls... we were talking at life group last night and we thought it might be cool to have a blog for our life group... ya know, so we can post stuff for you guys throughout the week if we have some encouragement for yall or maybe different scriptures that we think would be good for yall.. or cool thoughts or  just anything, really... mainly because we love you! anyway, and hopefully you guys can post some stuff too! 

you should know that: becca and i LOVE making video blogs.. and we crack ourselves up regularly. so we will not be offended if you don't think we are as funny as WE think we are. (yes, we will)..

enjoy!