Carving Smiles

The Saturday before Halloween I was blessed to spend the day with my precious and handsome fellow, Dillon. So for a huge chunk of the day we carved pumpkins, which I haven't done in years.

If you carved pumpkins recently, you will know that it's not nearly as easy as it was when your parents were there helping you. Just the whole process of cleaning out the seeds and whatnot took me a good minute. 

After that the pumpkin design I decided to carve was without a doubt much harder than I had anticipated. I bought the cheap pumpkin carving kit at Walmart, which didn't really suffice for getting the job done of scraping away at the outer skin stuff. 

Regardless, I didn't give up! And so these are some moments that my delightful roomie captured for us.

Enjoy!

Small Town Escapes

This weekend was our much belated fall break, and let me tell you if it wasn't this weekend I'm not sure I'd still be alive. I know for a fact I was suffering from an overload of due dates, midterms, and examinations that fall break couldn't come soon enough.

But instead of spending my break tucked in bed and eating nothing but brownie batter, I drove four hours with my fantabulous roomie, Allie, to visit my old suitemate from my Knoxville dwelling days.

Cara is the girl who lead me to Christ. She is a true woman of God who changed my lifestyle for the better, she's always challenged me, and I appreciate her wisdom and honesty. Despite her intimidating good-looks, she is one of the most down to earth people  I know.

Cara lives in a small town outside Greenville, SC - and since there's nothing to do where she lives, we spent the entire Saturday roaming the streets of the incredible downtown of Greenville.

Oh. MY. I want so badly to buy an overpriced flat and live here for the rest of my life. Here's some moments I capture from this sunshiny visit.

Be transformed

Life has been such and interesting thing I'm swept up in recently. It's been a couple of days since I have posted in this, and in the midst of it all I've been a little bit overwhelmed. Between all my school work, work-work, and life there's just been a lot going on.

I think that the Lord has plans, and I am convinced he has something delightful ahead. That the struggles I will face are not just trials to show I trust God, but they are opportunities which are programed to set me off track. But, I am so lucky at how big God is because he is stronger than anything else.

On Sunday I had to open the sermon at church, and it was interesting to go up in front of the congregation after my printer refused to print my "script" and the internet wouldn't let it email it to myself. I really had to let the Lord lead, trust is vital to our relationship with Him.

We had a guest speaker who preached about witnessing, he was so good! He was funny, and you could tell he cherished every moment of life. He seized every moment with the world.

He talked about living for Christ while riding the elevator. His thought process is being stuck with them for a few floors could be enough to change lives. Beautiful.

Being in Christ means you can't be of this world, so what if we look weird? Do not conform to this world any longer, but be transformed.

Today's post is looking back at my visit to the farmers market with Dillon, and my best friend, Ashley and her hilarious boyfriend, Harrison. I might add how perfect they are for each other! It makes me so happy to see them happy.

Love is lovely. And so is fall, it's my favorite time of year. Yeah!

Shine throughout the world this week, share your light and don't let anything get away from you loving the Lord.