Houses

There is not one ugly/normal house here in Girdwood!!!  OK, maybe one ;)  Here are some examples of the residential architecture here!  So up until the day before yesterday we've been having record warm weather between 20-40 degrees.  So let me tell you about negative degree weather:  frozen eyelashes!!!  Also, the moisture from your breath freezes onto whatever is close to it....hair, or scarf!  Though my eyelashes froze I was still super hot under all of my layers while walking around town and it was surprisingly enjoyable!!!

Inspired

So I currently do not have internet access at my new home.  Most would see this as a major inconvenience.  I suppose it can be in some ways.  However, I have found that I was kinda addicted to surfing the web, and have discovered my mind clearing up of all sorts of clutter.  So with this new open, relaxed state of mind I am finding that there is more and more room for my creativity to blossom and breath!!  I am greatly anticipating my first paycheck that I may visit the closet art store and invest in some canvases.  I have a feeling that our little top floor apartment is about to explode with beautiful things!!!  When I need internet I can always walk into town to the local coffee shop, which is about a 30min walk.  Not only is this great exercise, but I'm getting ample amounts of fresh, unpolluted air and being smacked in the eyeballs with ridiculous beauty every direction I look.  This is truly an inspiring place to be.  And when you do happen to show up at the coffee shop you never know when one of your friends will just randomly meander on in!!  Girdwood is a very small town of only 2,000 people and it's very common to run into people you know!  

So up above is my first Alaskan drawing!

Girdwood

My new stompin' grounds!!!  My first day out and about was in the 20's.  We took a walk all through town, but did not get too cold not once!  The days go by so much slower here....no need to rush...super chill and relaxed!  I'm lovin' it already!

Rainbow

Walking through God's promises at the Seattle airport....my last connecting flight to Alaska!!  Ohhhh yyyyyyyyyeeeeeeahhhhh!!!!!  My excitement continues to grow as I feel His presence with me stronger and stronger!

Reflections

Right now, I am in Florida.....tonight I'll be in Alaska!!!  Jesus is with me in a new, fresh way.  He is ever so close....closer than I have ever felt Him before!  He is giving me an entirely new sense of security I don't think I've ever experienced before.  All concerns, worries or cares revolving around this huge change in my life that's about to take place are fizzling in the light of His close companionship.  All of the promises He has been giving me in my journal the past few months about this move are unfolding before my eyes!!  New sense of being, new peace, fresh sense of life, new healing.  I have had many drastic life altering experiences the last two years.  These transformations all occurred within  me, but this life altering experience is happening outside of me AND within me!  I am realizing that these inner transformations took place to prepare me for what He had up ahead.....although in the moment I felt stuck in so many ways!  I have a fresh revelation of how He really does care about the details of my life and He REALLY IS working ALL things together for my good!!!!!  There was a time when I wasn't 100% sure of these things, but leaned on the scripture anyway....and meditated on it.....and now I see it's fruit!

Overtaken by Love

Sitting on the pier over the ocean my heart is overtaken with beauty and God's peace.  My heart expands, barely able to contain the love unfathomable that He is pouring straight into the depths of my soul.  I am overwhelmed in the greatest way possible.  Tiny waterfalls of overflowed love pour out of my eyes disguised as tears.  The happiest tears ever to stream down my cheeks.  I forever long to bask in the light of His eyes, the beauty of His greatness.  My innermost being swells and desires to burst and shine as a firework sharing all that has been miraculously and graciously given to me by Him......in hopes that others would come to know Him too!!!

Journey to Alaska

For 19 years of my life I have called Nashville, TN my home.  Now my journey to Alaska for the winter begins, starting with a stop in Cocoa Beach to visit my mom!!!  God has been using the warmth and beauty of the beach to speak to my heart.  My tension built up from the last few crazy weeks of preparation for moving my life thousands of miles away, has been effortlessly unraveling as each day goes by.....reminding me that my Creator has been carrying me through all along!!