tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11802294988023630212024-02-18T23:09:13.583-08:00 hallie jo photographyHallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.comBlogger469125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-12444514964623930872016-09-01T11:04:00.002-07:002016-09-01T11:04:39.710-07:00amy & samson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My sister Amy showed her first animal at the fair this year - Samson,
the Boer goat. Both of them did so awesome, and I got to see them win
Grand Champion in Novice Showmanship! (I'm slightly jealous of Amy's
shiny belt buckle....)<br />
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(P.S. Remember you can keep up with my blog a lot better over at <a href="http://www.halliewrites.com/">Sehnsucht</a>, where I do the majority of my writing these days!)Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-64643240795533732722016-06-04T13:00:00.001-07:002016-06-04T13:00:44.601-07:00scenes from the road<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I spent a week in May on my first roadtrip ever. Well, my first real one
- the kind where you drive hours every day, covering thousands of miles
in just a week, bunking in hotels in random towns while seeing the
sights along the way. My dear sister-in-law Emily was kind enough to let
me join a leg of her huge loop around the United States, and it was
amazing.<br />
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See the rest of my pictures at my new blog: <a href="http://www.halliewrites.com/home//scenes-from-the-road-personal">http://www.halliewrites.com/home//scenes-from-the-road-personal</a>Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-8959040552319027652016-05-28T16:47:00.000-07:002016-05-28T16:47:21.689-07:00i'm still alive + an announcement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sorry this space has been so silent lately. I promise it's not for lack of things to say or photos to share! It's just that I've spent the month on the cusp of something new, something that I'm excited about - bittersweet as it is.<br />
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I've been blogging here for over six years now. It started out as a place to share my growing love of photography and has evolved into something far greater - a journal of sorts, a place that (public as it is) feels safe to speak what's really on my mind and heart.<br />
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But I think my purpose has finally grown a little bigger than this page can sensibly support, so I've decided to create a space that's a little more my own.<br />
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I don't intend to change too much about the content I share (notwithstanding the inevitable evolution of my beliefs and ideas as I get older and hopefully wiser). My photos will still be my go-to visual interest and my thoughts will still be centered on viewing life from a perspective of the truth. But I'm hoping to share things a little more in-depth - deeper explorations both of my own thoughts and of the Word of God.<br />
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I would like my new page to foster learning, growth, and discussion not just for me, but for any readers that may take an interest. So please head over to <a href="http://www.halliewrites.com/">Sehnsucht</a> and have a look around. :)<br />
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Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-1100587203229393592016-04-28T19:32:00.000-07:002016-04-28T19:32:07.810-07:00happy spring from my hummingbird friends<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been hanging out with these two in the evenings... Well, more like sitting very still for long periods of time, waiting till they grace me with their presence for a few seconds while I frantically adjust my manual focus. ;) My fingers get cold hovering ready to press the shutter when the sun starts to go down, but it's good to be out in the fresh springtime air hearing the chickadees sing their mating song and catching oh-so-brief glimpses of these little flying jewels.Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-37869961117432522182016-04-26T13:13:00.003-07:002016-04-26T13:13:49.602-07:00april thoughts in bullet points<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li>^ This is my favorite person. It was fun (and also very scary and stressful at times) helping him and his dad take a tree down by our carport over the weekend. I have been struck anew lately what a privilege marriage is.... a privilege and a responsibility that together we get to be a mini-model of God's love, honor, and grace toward us.</li>
<li>I used to think it was normal and right to refer to myself, as a Christian, as "a dirty, rotten sinner saved by grace." It didn't begin to occur to me until recent months and weeks what a flawed viewpoint that is. Yes, it's right to identify sin as what it is: sin, rebellion, unrighteousness, offense against the holiness of God Himself. But as a saved person it can't be right to identify <i>myself</i> with that sin any longer. I do not find Jesus or Paul or Peter or the other major characters of the New Testament referring to themselves and their followers as sinners - I find that they, almost without exception, use the word "saints" instead. I am not a dirty, rotten sinner saved by grace; <i>I am a saint</i> who, yes, still sins, but who is being perfected by the gracious hand of God every day. Can it be anything but damaging and wrong to look at myself differently than HE looks at me? Can I be so arrogant as to think I'm being super-righteous by getting more down on myself than God Himself does? Can His precious blood sacrifice possibly be "not enough" to WIPE AWAY my sin and change my identity completely?! I don't think so.</li>
<li>Speaking of being a saint who still sins... who is still in the process of being sanctified... sometimes this sanctification hurts. The breaking of pride hurts. I experienced this afresh last week and sometimes I would just rather say, "Nope, not going through this, God, not even for You." But I have found it true again that God draws near to humility, and that what is lost by the painful destruction of my pride is gained back tenfold in the way He picks me up from my epic fail and gifts me with His presence and closeness so much more richly. The Lord loves those He chastens! Hallelujah that He values His children enough to guide them to righteousness, even when it hurts.</li>
<li>I have been thinking about the concept of lament. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of examples of lament in the Bible; most of the Psalms fall into this category along with (obviously) the whole book of Lamentations. I wonder sometimes why we don't see more lament happening in our worship and prayer times in the church. We sing a lot of praise and joy, which is needed and right, but it is only a small facet of worship. Huge depths of spiritual truth and growth and understanding of God are found in the laments of the Bible, and when we act like coming to God from a place of pain isn't okay, I think we miss out on a whole aspect of His character. God isn't too small to handle our pain or our anger or our fear or our complaints. And I sometimes think He would rather we come to HIM with these ugly things than do what we normally do, which is (for me) take them out on other people or to the all-knowing Internet. God is ready and willing to hear our deepest hurt and offer His grace, comfort, and healing. And it's usually in these places of pain that we find ourselves softened to the truth of God's Word that can help redirect our perspective and set us free.</li>
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So yeah... that's a little tip-of-the-iceberg taste of what has been whirling around in my head lately. There is so much wisdom and knowledge and truth to be had from our God and it just makes me excited. :) What's been on your mind recently?</div>
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<i>A few Mt. Adams shots from my past couple visits home that had yet to make it to the blog.</i>Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-73550205267964416632016-04-01T08:00:00.000-07:002016-04-01T08:00:03.089-07:00easter at home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I got to spend Resurrection weekend with my family in Goldendale.... a place where the blue-sky dawn is ushered in under the yellow bellies of meadowlarks, and welcomed by the sound of their distinctive ballad. Just as the sun crests the eastern horizon, its pink light hits Mt. Adams in the west and makes it glow. The horses' breath mists from their nostrils in the still-frigid air and catches every ray of buttery light; the new calves begin to frisk and play "king of the hill" by the feed barn as the stillness of the world awakens to birdsong and breeze.</div>
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<i>Photos taken at Priest Point Park, Olympia, Washington.</i><br />
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It seems like winter has been eternal this year. If it had been a proper winter, with long stretches of frigid clear days and blankets of snow, I don't think it would have bothered me... but no, it was a western Washington winter, and not only that but the wettest western Washington winter in decades (at least). Rain and gray for months on end has worn me out.<br />
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But yesterday and the day before we got just a hint of springtime, with sunshine in patches and temperatures in the 60s. Sam and I hiked at Priest Point Park and strolled through downtown Olympia and worked in the yard and it was like I finally started to break free of a winter-long depressive state. It is time to make things new.<br />
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- <a href="http://www.halliejophotography.com/blog/2016/3/15/spring-cleaning-your-life">spring clean my life</a></div>
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- plant a lot of flowers</div>
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- get involved in women's ministry at church</div>
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- <a href="http://www.halliejophotography.com/">get my name out there</a></div>
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- go hiking as many weeks as there's sunshine to do so</div>
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- line edit my book</div>
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- actively love my church family</div>
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- listen to a hermeneutics/Bible lecture every day</div>
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- keep doing daily yoga</div>
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- balance my eating habits</div>
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- get a lot of fresh air and exercise</div>
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- get out of my comfort zone</div>
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There are so many ideas swirling in my brain, waiting to make it to a page, but they're still so clumsy and undeveloped, like baby birds fledged too soon. I sometimes hate this stage of mental processing, when there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to my thoughts and yet I <i>know </i>that somehow they all interconnect. But I have also begun to get used to it, begun to accustom myself to flailing a little, to taking the time to slow down and listen and breathe and wait for God to clarify and redirect. I have started to appreciate the in-between period when I can both see the hand of God in the process of working and wait expectantly to see the result.<br />
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God has been teaching me, and this place of learning is such a delightful and refreshing place to be. For awhile I thought I was utterly isolated, irredeemable; I know what it is to panic in the pitch-black and feel irrevocably lost. And I think that's what makes this awkward time of idea-fledging and humble re-learning so sweet: just being able to see again a shaft of light, and know that the Truth still reigns and that whatever I have been or failed to be, I am not alone.Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-3386839663207796032016-03-05T18:50:00.002-08:002016-03-05T18:50:55.930-08:00i am not as fine as i seem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm scrolling down my screen and it's filled with names. These are my friends, I'm told. Facebook points out which name has shared this and which name has liked that, as if I'm expected to care. But the more often I see a name typed across the screen in dark blue, it seems, the more fake and far away it becomes. These are not friends. These are not even people to me anymore. They are just names, just symbols of my popularity; I wait on their likes and comments because I think maybe that means they care, but I know that's not what my own likes usually mean. So why should I expect it of them? This social media phenomenon, this invention that was meant to draw people closer together, has become no more than what its name implies - a book of faces. Faces that mean less every time I scroll past them. Faces that hide stories and struggles and real lives, faces that overshadow souls and sins and the image of God. Faces that are more like facades.<br />
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I have one too. A facade. My profile picture is always smiling so you wouldn't know that behind it is a heart breaking with loneliness. I post Bible verses and pretty pictures and all the while I want to scream, "I am not as fine as I seem!" But that does not seem safe when I am surrounded by people as fake as myself.<br />
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I think my dad got social media right all along. He calls it Farcebook. And that's petty much exactly what it is.<br />
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Friendships aren't created or maintained on Facebook. Ministry isn't sustainable on Facebook. Discipleship is impossible on Facebook. A tenuous connection, yes, maybe that can survive; but in truth, the more time I spend among my 200-something virtual "friends," the more terribly alone and empty I feel.<br />
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But maybe it's not all Facebook's fault. Maybe it's mine... maybe, over time, this would have happened regardless of my social media presence. Maybe (gasp!) I am by nature a sinner, a selfish human being who wants to appear whole and righteous and desirable to those around her even when the cost is destroying herself with loneliness. Facebook was made to make connecting with people easier, but I think what it has truly made easy is the ability to <i>appear</i> connected while keeping everyone at an arm's length. Responsibilities like accountability and relational investment - which are nonnegotiables of functioning as a biblical part of the Church - are removed when you are able to erect a charade of virtual spirituality. Post enough selfies at a coffeeshop with an open Bible - #blessed - and you can deceive yourself, along with the believing community around you, that you're a healthy and fruitbearing branch that doesn't need training or equipping or the asking of hard questions. Post enough Bible verses and holy-sounding thoughts, and I can maintain a comfortable bubble of space between myself and the probing spiritual edification of those around me, who might discover in the end that (what!) I'm not perfect after all.<br />
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But the reality is... if I'm honest, the kind of relationship that comes with probing spiritual edification (even, and especially, the kind that knows me for what I really am) is exactly what I most intensely crave.Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-33269813065394488622016-02-11T10:25:00.002-08:002016-02-11T10:25:26.232-08:00i am a child of God<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been listening to this song on repeat over the past several weeks.<br />
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It is such an upending and mind-shattering truth - that we need no longer walk in fear, because we are walking with the God of the Universe.<br />
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Hallelujah.Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-24411297297960586242016-01-29T07:22:00.000-08:002016-01-29T07:22:09.044-08:00florida in kitties<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I ordered a couple new pieces of equipment not long before my trip in preparation for the 2016 business year (a 35mm lens and an 85mm lens) and took a huge leap of faith by taking <i>only </i>the 35mm with me. Every photo I took in Florida was with the brand new 35mm lens I had hardly even used before. But it turned out awesome. <a href="http://halliejophotography.blogspot.com/2016/01/one-foot-in-and-one-foot-back.html">Landscapes, flowers, cat pictures... </a>I have never been more thankful that I didn't haul around my whole 20+ pound lens entourage!</div>
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(The above kitten was a stray who showed up around dinnertime one night just begging for love. He hung around for like two days meowing nonstop and taking all the snuggles, food, and water we offered him!)Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-46191610526889334272016-01-26T10:57:00.001-08:002016-01-26T10:57:42.498-08:00one foot in and one foot back<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I went back to Florida this month.<br />
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Nearly two years I've been away, and coming up on three since I actually <i>lived</i> there, in the creamy golden twilight of Sebring.<br />
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I am glad that <a href="http://halliejophotography.blogspot.com/2014/04/sebring-light.html">the first return visit</a> was over, and the torrential emotions that came with it. Still, it was hard to be back, but not fully; to know that I only had a week to step back into the many relationships I formed there made it that much harder to jump in with both feet and set myself up for the inevitable pain of yet another goodbye.<br />
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But I did, as best I could... and as always, it was worth it.<br />
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I didn't know when I first moved to Florida three years ago that my sense of what is home would change so much. It's like my concept of a perfect home, that idealistic place I thought I had achieved as a child, completely shattered when I left it - and all the broken pieces were thrown to the four winds, never to be reassembled fully this side of heaven.</div>
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At first there was only pain, and I hated it. But it has become a part of me now, and in some ways, I like it. Whether I'm in Olympia or Goldendale or Martinsburg or Sebring, there is a constant pricking in my heart that I have grown to welcome - a reminder that I am only a visitor in a foreign land, waiting to be called back to my true native country.</div>
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And even while I wait here on earth, my heart is fuller. My circle is bigger. My support system is stronger. My God is greater.</div>
Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-15832004927295930692016-01-09T10:05:00.002-08:002016-01-09T10:05:26.405-08:00happy birthday to me + snow dayThis is at least my fourth or fifth attempt to write a birthday blog post this week.<br />
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I wanted to share something meaningful or profound or deeply authentic... but sometimes I guess you can't rush those kinds of things, and I'm still not sure of the words I want to say. So while I let them mull a bit longer, here are some fun pictures from last week when it snowed. :)<br />
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The beginning of a new year is always a pensive transition, a time of mulling and imagining, of ruminating on the year past and hoping for the year to come. This time around, the hope and imagination seem to have come a bit slow - not that I feel hopeless by any means, but that this hope has been slow to take a tangible form. I am not quite sure what I'm looking for on the horizon of this new year... but I have a few ideas.</div>
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abiding and surrendered</div>
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bold and genuine</div>
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German</div>
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self-defense and shooting</div>
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better music, acting, photography, and other arts</div>
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to stop apologizing</div>
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visit Florida</div>
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commit my business ventures to God</div>
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move forward with my manuscript</div>
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savor His grace and truth</div>
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His people, the Church</div>
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january</h2>
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Trip to PA // <i>Sight & Sound </i>in Lancaster with the Sterns // the beginning of Sam's fire academy</div>
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february</h2>
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Sam's academy graduation // the kittens turn one // ballet class recital</div>
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april</h2>
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photographing Laura's wedding // home for Amy's birthday // finishing up teaching at the gym</div>
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june</h2>
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Stephen & Andrea's wedding // Hannah's graduation // the J-Walker reunion</div>
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july</h2>
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the whole family home for the Fourth of July // family trip to The Lake</div>
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august</h2>
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roadtrip to Montana // day trip to Sequim</div>
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september</h2>
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family beach vacation // home for Hannah's birthday // new headshots</div>
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october</h2>
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girl trip to Sunriver // roadtrip to Poulsbo // Mom and Amy's visit</div>
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november</h2>
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the first frost // roadtrip to Goldendale with Julie // epic tree removal // my new job</div>
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december</h2>
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One Holy Night play performances // a visit from Ashlie // Christmas in Goldendale // finishing my book</div>
Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-78206024938996483582015-12-22T20:00:00.000-08:002015-12-22T20:01:02.234-08:00december, a list<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong>eating:</strong><br />
ice cream. all the ice cream.</div>
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<strong>loving:</strong><br />
precious time spent reading the
Bible and praying with my husband.</div>
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<strong>reading:</strong><br />
the second draft of my “book,”
which I finished at last a few weeks ago.</div>
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<strong>listening to:</strong><br />
rain on the skylight nearly
every hour of every day.</div>
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<strong>watching:</strong><br />
<em>NCIS</em> and lately
re-watching <em>Downton Abbey</em> in preparation for the new season in
January.</div>
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<strong>exercising:</strong><br />
almost exclusively with weights,
and gosh it makes me hungry.</div>
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<strong>making:</strong><br />
<strong></strong>scotcheroos for Christmas. I can’t
believe it’s coming so soon.</div>
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<strong>waiting:</strong></div>
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for snow. where are you, snow?</div>
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<strong>missing:</strong><br />
the sense of being home. I never
thought I’d lose that permanently when I moved away to Florida three years
ago.</div>
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<strong>working on:</strong><br />
a whole lot of personal growth
and a list of things I want to learn in 2016.</div>
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<strong>thankful:</strong><br />
that God gives us a picture of
Himself in His Word. That He didn’t leave us with a textbook or a history book
or a novel, but with a self-portrait of His character.</div>
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<strong>praying:</strong><br />
for the wisdom to discern between
grace and laziness, between truth and harshness, between sound debate and
meaningless division.</div>
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Merry Christmas to all.</div>
Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-41961863884583748482015-12-06T15:19:00.001-08:002015-12-06T15:20:11.741-08:00even now, in death<br />
“Even now, in death, You open doors for life to enter; You are winter.” – Nichole Nordeman, “Every Season”<br />
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<br />Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-43641734488127621932015-11-21T11:12:00.001-08:002015-11-21T11:12:39.910-08:00the first frost<p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MgAYpzkuBSw/VlDCECx46pI/AAAAAAAAU6E/mH9OXJ6qIzk/s1600-h/Frost%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Frost" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Frost" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9wQqvPi4Jdf2LKwNdn5lHl163hiMgK1LtpSNzLEJSGKCW-plD4g6z34KN09rhV0ib7ak4cElru4toQHG_QSqrFT3MdWMxqNgCzAiJPkQWD1mCzCd4SbN6MQNL0NsOUAQTdJZv2Tv4pIM/?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pgZN1zmLSX4/VlDCE6A3E_I/AAAAAAAAU6Q/U7OFTXepn7U/s1600-h/Frost2%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Frost2" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Frost2" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SEiYQZiMqJ8/VlDCFJf1TvI/AAAAAAAAU6U/xfq1ZnZ217k/Frost2_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="513"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_INB4hFHbHQ/VlDCFlCTwZI/AAAAAAAAU6Y/yXm1w-pCq8A/s1600-h/Frost6%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Frost6" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Frost6" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rp8BqhkvIgA/VlDCF617WkI/AAAAAAAAU6c/LoHQqF_KFoQ/Frost6_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="513"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Crv8QnkEe5k/VlDCGJNP0bI/AAAAAAAAU6g/G-3Y8-pxpTM/s1600-h/Frost3%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Frost3" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Frost3" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m8QKtkSAR9w/VlDCGtAXZbI/AAAAAAAAU6o/IQUcknycCGk/Frost3_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="457"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8qS28l2oOnA/VlDCHIZ-YxI/AAAAAAAAU6s/20_-z2zjvAc/s1600-h/Frost4%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Frost4" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Frost4" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s_njYRNB27A/VlDCHXjDhuI/AAAAAAAAU6w/3GGne7OrnxI/Frost4_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="437"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jZbzbaVvURw/VlDCHtBuy_I/AAAAAAAAU64/--vpaxS5XhU/s1600-h/Frost9%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Frost9" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Frost9" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LinkOZOyqF0/VlDCIBkJv7I/AAAAAAAAU68/B5EVwt5zIM0/Frost9_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-73hJN489_Oo/VlDCIaZh0RI/AAAAAAAAU7A/0kJIoDfvcvo/s1600-h/Frost10%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Frost10" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Frost10" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mv_YqhFoST4/VlDCIzPeV5I/AAAAAAAAU7E/C45b0IqFuws/Frost10_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="1034"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TZKnwTZ_gME/VlDCJRuXVKI/AAAAAAAAU7I/So_WvOksgpg/s1600-h/Frost11%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Frost11" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Frost11" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W7m14qmpFNw/VlDCJhjSzEI/AAAAAAAAU7Q/T4NXzhbLnsI/Frost11_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a></p> <p>Last night was our first real frost. It’s strange to me, not having a frost until so late in the year. In Goldendale this would have happened weeks ago.</p> <p>Nevertheless, with the world adorned in diamond-dust I could not refrain from going out into the chill to take pictures, struck by how the hand of death can look so icily beautiful until the sunlight hits it.</p> <p>I’ve been absent lately. Not just from this page but also mentally, somehow. I’m always thinking, but these days my thoughts seem shaky and disorganized, and there are so many things calling for my attention that it’s hard to grab hold of any real mental study. I am almost finished with the second draft of my writing project, but these last thousand words or so have been twice as hard to pin down as the 40,000 that precede them. Like climbing Mt. Adams, the most frustrating and mentally excruciating part of the climb seems to be the very end, when the finish is so close you can almost taste it.</p> <p>I have been convicted, too, of the many unwarranted places I’ve been putting my energy. No one who knows me will be surprised that these places are called Worry, Stress, Perfectionism, and Fear. Reading the first few chapters of Leviticus brought me to the appalling realization that very little in my life do I consciously dedicate to the Lord, let alone publicly; that my prayers of thanks ring hollow because I distrust God’s ability to provide in the future the way He has in the past and the present. When I walk to the doorway of the tent of meeting with my sacrifice, it’s a small and stingy one reflective of a closed-fisted heart, and I am too proud to lay my hand on its head and and let go.</p> <p>My cosmos blooms are not the only thing held in the vice-grip of the frost.</p> Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-4126019318589108312015-10-29T10:44:00.001-07:002015-10-29T10:44:14.421-07:00hard words<p> </p> <p>I came across this passage in my reading last night, and they are words that pierce. I’m still trying to mull over their incredible gravity, so I’m afraid I don’t have much to say today… sometimes I think His words are enough.</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iJ22-250GkE/VjJa5zMAfPI/AAAAAAAAU5Y/DrdG7KPOEqk/s1600-h/Cosmos%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Cosmos" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Cosmos" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T_EPqylsd8w/VjJa6fvdQEI/AAAAAAAAU5c/dai9zsC9CTc/Cosmos_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IYOTOJ4uCfU/VjJa6-kuw1I/AAAAAAAAU5k/5yq1Lq_KD1s/s1600-h/Cosmos2%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Cosmos2" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Cosmos2" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SyrN_gV5RwI/VjJa7Q-kkPI/AAAAAAAAU5s/jFv_oQtiVP4/Cosmos2_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a></p> <blockquote> <p><em>“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and <strong>you are unwilling to come to Me</strong> so that you may have life. I do not receive glory from men; but I know you, that <strong>you do not have the love of God in yourselves.</strong> I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him. <strong>How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God?”</strong> - John 5:39-44</em></p></blockquote> Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-10488891225300867082015-10-19T13:07:00.001-07:002015-10-19T13:07:04.249-07:00yoda and paul on purpose<p> </p> <p>If you know me, you should know that I love Star Wars. It’s pretty much been my favorite trilogy for as long as I can remember… even before the prequels came out. Sam and I watched <em>The Empire Strikes Back</em> last night, and in the scene when Luke first meets Yoda in the Dagobah System, one of my favorite Yoda quotes again struck a chord with me…</p> <blockquote> <p><em>“Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph! Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless!”</em></p></blockquote> <p>So what does a curmudgeon of a Jedi Master have to do with the apostle Paul?</p> <p>Maybe nothing to you. But an hour or two after the movie ended, as I was lying in bed reading my Bible, I came across these words from Colossians:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ. For this purpose I also labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me. - Colossians 1:28-29</em></p></blockquote> <p>And in light of these two very different quotes from two very different sources, I am convicted.</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N-GVCpmkuq8/ViVNV5MwLGI/AAAAAAAAU4I/hIqcFOWDlnA/s1600-h/Oregon%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Oregon" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Oregon" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FmSwcQu41RY/ViVNWZg9nFI/AAAAAAAAU4M/w_j1wo2iBjc/Oregon_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JxI7WWUGNKQ/ViVNXCZVPiI/AAAAAAAAU4U/9uB4xDsjPYA/s1600-h/Oregon3%252520reszied%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Oregon3 reszied" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Oregon3 reszied" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZKkTFQQC15Q/ViVNXq6KNnI/AAAAAAAAU4c/9ZwEyUzT3h0/Oregon3%252520reszied_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="457"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nOcgQTeGv00/ViVNYMJHHAI/AAAAAAAAU4k/--c2ul9uknA/s1600-h/Oregon4%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Oregon4" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Oregon4" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tsgo4Lh08ro/ViVNYqr4TUI/AAAAAAAAU4s/Wk58fCFb1Ks/Oregon4_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MmD4HkANyzQ/ViVNZFQU9JI/AAAAAAAAU40/fC2C6GDwpz4/s1600-h/Oregon5%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Oregon5" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Oregon5" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VmR7F_rR9iQ/ViVNZqHP0eI/AAAAAAAAU48/AUTZBVRHAlE/Oregon5_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a></p> <p>When it comes to my life, my “purpose” or whatever it is that this millennial generation seems to idolize, I’m Luke Skywalker. Always looking off to the distance, looking for something bigger and better; mind absent from the here and now because it’s not big enough, not radical enough, not exotic enough. Because other people don’t recognize and applaud those who are faithful HERE and faithful NOW in boring small ways. We are inspired by the seekers and strivers who are never satisfied where they are, who are constantly reaching for something bigger and brighter, who are traveling the world in the name of Jesus and who seem so much more “spiritual” because of it.</p> <p>But Paul poured his labor into a purpose that can <em>only</em> be done here and now. It can <em>only</em> be accomplished by investing into where God has placed me and who God has placed in my life. And what higher purpose can I wish for than to proclaim Jesus Christ, and train up disciples who are complete in Him?</p> <p>This can (and must) be done in my home. How would my life be different if my mom had been staring off at a bigger, better horizon instead of training me up in the knowledge of Christ during my growing up years?</p> <p>It can (and must) be done in my church. Would my year of Bible school have yielded the same fruit if not for the incredible investment that Grace Church of Sebring made in me?</p> <p>This labor, this purpose is not optional. But it can’t be done if we insist on passing it by for something “glamorous” or “radical” instead. And it won’t be done if we don’t consider it important enough to pour our whole life’s labor into, like Paul did.</p> <p>Adventure? Heh! Excitement? Heh! A disciple of Christ craves not these things.</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal. - John 6:27</em></p></blockquote> Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-21481463016910721052015-10-09T10:47:00.001-07:002015-10-09T10:47:51.379-07:00miss amy<p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KY2Jwj9WGSM/Vhf9T9OfB_I/AAAAAAAAUzM/AoO7_-TcXpg/s1600-h/Amy3%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy3" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy3" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FnrX1ZfirYg/Vhf9UmiU65I/AAAAAAAAUzQ/nlBWuxqseMM/Amy3_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="695" height="1042"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JKbi4h46x8o/Vhf9VUyUVlI/AAAAAAAAUzY/1YW1tRBVv_U/s1600-h/Amy4%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy4" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy4" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PfCtt3acVpA/Vhf9V-fwOZI/AAAAAAAAUzg/1RL3eIP4i74/Amy4_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AK35ZFkRh04/Vhf9WocmuFI/AAAAAAAAUzo/_kofZB8gcIk/s1600-h/Amy7%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy7" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy7" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YlJ00EBOF1k/Vhf9XJnpOmI/AAAAAAAAUzs/H7qnxRcbUFc/Amy7_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="513"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oK4wVurRKck/Vhf9Xu3ve0I/AAAAAAAAUz4/kI-dQVA_80U/s1600-h/Amy8%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy8" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy8" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Al-CtZQV9Cg/Vhf9XzeqoOI/AAAAAAAAU0A/qtjgpKuFFBA/Amy8_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="513"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PAUZzOiqhTc/Vhf9Yajgd8I/AAAAAAAAU0I/DmhJh2HIGiU/s1600-h/Amy9a%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy9a" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy9a" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PJCo4xz5hv8/Vhf9jaD_AoI/AAAAAAAAU0U/pON-AAnHNNI/Amy9a_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="510"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m_Jz_sadN5M/Vhf9j9JZNVI/AAAAAAAAU0Y/fPds8sLkGEg/s1600-h/Amy18a%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy18a" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy18a" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5nYjhZb65TE/Vhf9kfezuoI/AAAAAAAAU0g/hn2N7H0YXUk/Amy18a_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="510"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oI-qVNiIKUc/Vhf9lBMoDaI/AAAAAAAAU0s/y-w5Aom9U3o/s1600-h/Amy14%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy14" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy14" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JusLrSTkQNU/Vhf9l47zJUI/AAAAAAAAU0w/PW6UEkQev-E/Amy14_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OsNgBTGWPdo/Vhf9mefG-3I/AAAAAAAAU04/uT6C-ObOhw0/s1600-h/Amy15%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy15" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy15" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xp5TjyMQeIM/Vhf9m3D1cBI/AAAAAAAAU1A/slx-WGQFh2E/Amy15_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uTQxO1O9Iyc/Vhf9nfMC3JI/AAAAAAAAU1I/Dv3OP7jolwg/s1600-h/Amy16%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy16" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy16" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T1FQvFmiw64/Vhf9n-etPqI/AAAAAAAAU1Q/emharW-eM4w/Amy16_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zOOlr6cFKPU/Vhf9oVXhBpI/AAAAAAAAU1Y/7epbq857WlE/s1600-h/Amy19%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy19" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy19" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fvqefuP0s5g/Vhf9pIjcw-I/AAAAAAAAU1g/1pbrW3jwwEc/Amy19_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="513"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eXR3bSUoas8/Vhf9pvGJ0sI/AAAAAAAAU1o/niemn8pvIZs/s1600-h/Amy20%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy20" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy20" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fY9ViRoW6dM/Vhf9qBIA6mI/AAAAAAAAU1w/Yi8HFU7CpBY/Amy20_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="513"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wBvQzAo-y4M/Vhf9qooBOVI/AAAAAAAAU14/kkyghYeBPLw/s1600-h/Amy24a%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy24a" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy24a" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LAddBIJa5xo/Vhf9rQ8wbfI/AAAAAAAAU2A/wEJgVUVA5Kk/Amy24a_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="513"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1vcSPqGwbbwl30vEcTZ0M-xXGtJMMGMCjubXchX59xQJrmJ8A_1sMPL4LBmGV90qnV_41Wx2gX2pFP6k7kOFvC8BhLL077ACVDxq3A68O7BLdkIcaKpwJYMw13OOjt3wlDeXTHGxQQNo/s1600-h/Amy25%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy25" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy25" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sxNsKFr2U8s/Vhf9sTvpJlI/AAAAAAAAU2Q/kBRnTRUaF80/Amy25_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="510"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p-mVpQNGsv0/Vhf9tM0yzrI/AAAAAAAAU2Y/y_BsaFio7B0/s1600-h/Amy31%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy31" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy31" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MQEO2Xc8tiE/Vhf9thb3meI/AAAAAAAAU2g/-HDJ-gFWl48/Amy31_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8EG8xnBkLJc/Vhf9uBDLV2I/AAAAAAAAU2o/YzfCg0pNIxc/s1600-h/Amy27%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy27" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy27" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FW6vBfp2aWg/Vhf9u-NRvII/AAAAAAAAU2w/JTCUT0_6z_w/Amy27_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="513"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KhhMGWI8v1g/Vhf9vXfAWyI/AAAAAAAAU24/u9MzDeE5OqY/s1600-h/Amy28%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy28" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy28" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7szsMiogCdY/Vhf9wOx9h4I/AAAAAAAAU3A/iujD5W2jN5Y/Amy28_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="513"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0LPSOnwasc0/Vhf9wqfJg-I/AAAAAAAAU3M/YMrXOvcg4Sc/s1600-h/Amy33%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Amy33" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Amy33" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r6TCmmtI8Q0/Vhf9xRPqYhI/AAAAAAAAU3Q/v5b3RAISA_I/Amy33_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a></p> <p>This is my not-so-little littlest sister and best riding buddy. Drem and I have been teaching her to ride for the past few years, and it’s crazy to see her get more confident and do so well on her own! Also, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing when she asked if I could do her fifth grade pictures. Fifth grade? Already?!</p> Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-38011434191531869362015-09-04T17:54:00.001-07:002015-09-04T17:54:24.768-07:00the page that doesn’t belong in your Bible<p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H6HBgyyzAMI/Veo9PUuP5PI/AAAAAAAAUyk/rYccNuopIyA/s1600-h/Bible2%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="Bible2" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Bible2" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zOtG_u5Pcp4/Veo9P-PtHnI/AAAAAAAAUyo/HEINgmy-FiE/Bible2_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="488"></a> <p>A professing Christian said something to day that deeply disturbed me: “Either you follow Jesus and love everyone, or you follow the Old Testament, discriminate against gay people, and refuse to eat pork.” When our own fellow Christians are speaking in such a way about the Word of God, it is time to dig in and search for what tremendous gaps there must be in our communication of the Bible’s foundational truths. One thing that might be of benefit is to tear a certain page out of our Bibles completely: that mostly-blank one about two-thirds of the way through which simply says, “NEW TESTAMENT.” <p>To suggest that the Old and New Testaments are mutually exclusive is to negate not just one, but both. Both testaments declare that God is changeless (Hebrews 13:8, Malachi 3:6, Revelations 1:9, James 1:17), yet I'm hearing it suggested that Jesus is somehow the new and improved "God 2.0" with a more amiable personality and a softer stance on sin (which, by the way, should be a terror and not a comfort - if there ARE variations and shifting shadows in our God, who is to say His change will be to our liking next time around?). Can we possibly think that if God had stopped taking sin seriously, He would have put His own Son through a brutal Roman execution because of it? <p>Furthermore, 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (which happens to be in the New Testament) declares that ALL Scripture is useful for me to know and implement in my life - not just the parts written in red ink. Yes, “Love one another” is a vitally important command for all believers - because it is the glue that bonds Christians together in unity (Colossians 3:14). Yet I am seeing it used time and again as a point of contention to drive us apart, uniting us instead to the cause of sin. Clumsily wielding this one command as the single answer to all sin issues is a cop-out, not an act of courage (1 Corinthians 5). <p>What can we do then to prevent such scandalously unbiblical doctrines and strategies from taking root in the body of Christ? We can come to know our (changeless) God from beginning to end - from Genesis to Revelation. We can become skilled handlers of the Truth (2 Timothy 2:15). We can learn His whole heart, rather than just bits and pieces of His words. <p>And we will be amazed by Him. <blockquote> <p><em>Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship Him. <br>Exodus 34:6-8</em></p></blockquote> Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1180229498802363021.post-31060823055366778142015-08-22T10:52:00.001-07:002015-08-22T10:52:57.448-07:00on time<p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cRBYFy-37NM/Vdi248VWdEI/AAAAAAAAUww/SWSji5geKIM/s1600-h/MT5%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="MT5" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="MT5" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ch-ruiP6mB8/Vdi25drqpxI/AAAAAAAAUw4/R0n8R6zP8ko/MT5_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UBhbi5F_MRA/Vdi25_nOD7I/AAAAAAAAUxA/uQDSeuVyZtk/s1600-h/MT6%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="MT6" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="MT6" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TyfDdvWG-mY/Vdi26X_r7FI/AAAAAAAAUxE/CXEx3rUnqp0/MT6_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6SkuXi9PtJE/Vdi26noSf6I/AAAAAAAAUxQ/uFQS6sWQTzk/s1600-h/MT7%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="MT7" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="MT7" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--swfEGOUKgU/Vdi27Hz5JJI/AAAAAAAAUxY/zTXKzFj6xfM/MT7_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="457"></a></p> <p>Have you ever watched <em>The Dark Knight Rises</em>? If you have, I’m sure you remember the near-unbearable suspense climax as our favorite heroes fight desperately to disable a time-sensitive nuclear bomb. One moment too late, and an entire city could be wiped out. It is a race against the tirelessly ticking clock.</p> <p>I just pulled up the clock app on my phone and watched the second hand go by for a full minute. Quite literally, I saw an entire minute of my life disappear—lost forever. Irredeemable. And I thought how odd it is that we do not respond to life’s ticking clock the same way we respond to a Hollywood time bomb.</p> <p>Think: our lives are forever ticking by. Seconds pass on a tireless rhythm, and with them pass hours and days and weeks. Time is like a gun to our backs, pushing us closer and closer to the End—an End which history tells us we must inevitably reach, be it by death or Rapture. No act of genius or heroism can stop the ultimate Clock.</p> <p>So where is our urgency?</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SfVCAs6j708/Vdi27nRcUTI/AAAAAAAAUxc/GsDZgHrUYBo/s1600-h/MT12%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="MT12" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="MT12" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j6hKsZv53AE/Vdi28KraHlI/AAAAAAAAUxk/fN2AGJio-bE/MT12_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kCcr2Q8FQJw/Vdi28Zr3JlI/AAAAAAAAUxs/29TO56IqEXo/s1600-h/MT15%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="MT15" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="MT15" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q7lbA_kMOAU/Vdi289lhtaI/AAAAAAAAUx4/b8WCIYGT_Gc/MT15_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XtexQUdvHtU/Vdi29pMPvGI/AAAAAAAAUx8/_tGkmVENSV4/s1600-h/MT18%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="MT18" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="MT18" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zqdbygVNDHw/Vdi2-FGmNTI/AAAAAAAAUyE/HcqRkIYZ96s/MT18_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="454"></a></p> <p>Why are we lounging in our lazyboy recliners instead of perched rigid on the edge of our seats?</p> <p>The only difference between our lives and the peril of Gotham City is that we have absolutely no idea when it might all stop. Shouldn’t that sharpen our senses rather than dull them?</p> <p>People say it all the time: “Oh, sorry, I’m just so busy right now. I don’t have time. Maybe later, okay?” It’s the ageless excuse to avoid things that are hard, things that are unpleasant, things that just don’t seem like a priority. <em>I just don’t have time.</em></p> <p>Liar.</p> <p>Don’t you understand? If you are honest with yourself, time is <em>all</em> you have. The plot twist is that you have no idea how much. So spend it wisely.</p> <blockquote> <p><em>For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief; for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. - 1 Thessalonians 5:2-6</em></p></blockquote> Hallie Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260566713529838458noreply@blogger.com0