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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Love Begins
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Keni
YOU ARE THE REASON
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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@aianekarla
A sample of the song I wrote and sang as a wedding gift surprise to my Kerwin after we exchanged our vows on our wedding day. It was the very first song I ever wrote for him and he was so surprised! This song (and many other original compositions) will be available for purchase on my online shop. Can't wait to blog about how this song came to be...and where it was recorded! I love you, Mr. Kerwin Reiswig
https://soundcloud.com/aianekarla/forever-his-song-sampler
Growing up, my parents always used to tell me and my sisters, "Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are. Always choose your friends wisely because they will have an influence on you." It may not have seemed "fun" to me and my sisters back then, but I am grateful for our parents' constant watchfulness. They didn't permit us to go to our friends' houses for sleepovers, but were happy to host sleepovers in our home so they could keep an eye on everything we did. Looking back, I value the fact that my parents told me "No". "No" doesn't always mean "strict". Many times, it means "I love you". Think about traffic lights for a second. Red lights exist to avoid head-on collisions. It's the same with the power to say "no" which God has entrusted to parents. Restrictions prevent head-on collisions with negative influences - no matter how harmless or innocent they may seem in the beginning. Parental foresight is a gift children may not always understand and appreciate at such a young age, but parents who fear the Lord are God's gifts to young, innocent and impressionable children. Boundaries and limits exist to protect and prevent evil, harm and danger. Now that I'm married, my husband and I appreciate the words of wisdom freely given to those who are willing to take the time to read and invest in the future and education of their families - both in the present and future. To my friends who love reading and are searching for inspiring books to read, Kerwin and I highly recommend "The Adventist Home" and "Child Guidance" by Ellen White. It's not just for people who are married and have families, it's practically for everyone! These books have helped us make so many changes in our courtship, marriage and home so we can make room for God and what truly matters in light of eternity. In the end, it's not about how "street-smart" we are, but how Biblically-wise we are as we wait for God's second coming. Here's a paragraph from my afternoon read: Guard the Associations—If parents desire their children to be pure, they must surround them with pure associations such as God can approve. [5] – {CG 114.2} With what care parents should guard their children from careless, loose, demoralizing habits! Fathers and mothers, do you realize the importance of the responsibility resting on you? Do you allow your children to associate with other children without being present to know what kind of education they are receiving? Do not allow them to be alone with other children. Give them your special care. Every evening know where they are and what they are doing. Are they pure in all their habits? Have you instructed them in the principles of moral purity? If you have neglected to teach them line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little, let not another day pass without confessing to them your neglect to do this. Then tell them that you mean now to do your God-appointed work. Ask them to take hold with you in the reform. [6] – {CG 114.3} Neighbors may permit their children to come to your house to spend the evening and the night with your children. Here is a trial and a choice for you, to run the risk of offending your neighbors by sending their children to their own home, or gratify them, and let them lodge with your children, and thus expose them to be instructed in that knowledge which would be a lifelong curse to them. To save my children from becoming corrupted, I have not allowed them to sleep in the same bed, or in the same room, with other boys, and have, as occasion has required, when traveling, made a scanty bed upon the floor for them, rather than have them lodge with others. I have tried to keep them from associating with rough, rude boys and have presented inducements before them to make their employment at home cheerful and happy. By keeping their minds and hands occupied, they have had but little time, or disposition, to play in the street with other boys and obtain a street education. [7] – {CG 114.4}
The Lord will not do for you that which He has left for you to do.
Ellen White, 1T 703
My homemade vegan biscuits and peach butter.
A chapter a day...at the crack of dawn. Read this book and your life (and view of the world) will never be the same. Such a life-changing book. #TheGreatControversy #EllenWhite #goodreads #devotional
This is my newest composition. It's a short one...but it's meant to be that way. It's part of my #musicdiary collection. This song expresses exactly how my musical heart hears the beauty of DAWN - richly imbued with its orange, pink, purple and blue hues. In the world of creativity, while photographers get to capture the beauty around them, composers get to capture the sky's majestic beauty and paint it on the black and white canvas of the piano. Forever captured. Forever remembered. Forever heard.
Ranunculus! God made such beautiful flowers!
Precious dahlia!
God colored my day with beautiful flowers today. This was one of them.
Happiness!
It has been exactly two months and nineteen days since I married my best friend. Our wedding day was the happiest day of our lives. Several days ago, I remembered a prayer I said years before I met my husband. I had just started more specifically praying for a God-fearing husband. One day, after asking for the Holy Spirit to grant me wisdom to know how to pray for God's chosen spouse for me, I found myself on my knees eager to offer up one of my most earnest prayers. It was one that didn't have any 'specifics' that were left up to me, but left all the results totally up to God.
Lord, I pray that you would grant me a husband and marriage that would help me have a deeper understanding of Your love for me. May he be one that not only hears the words of my mouth, but listens to the song in my heart.
That was it. Short and simple. My prayer journals began filling up with other specific prayers for my future husband, yet that prayer never ceased to leave my mind. I knew only God could help me best understand true love.
It's been a little over two months since I became a wife. Some days, I find myself wondering what I did to deserve my husband. I often find myself in overwhelmingly grateful and happy tears. The tears come when my husband sends me a text message right before leaving work, asking if I need anything from the grocery store. It happens when he comes home with herbs, spices and other ingredients for the dinner he knew I was making but didn't have all the ingredients for. Tears roll down my cheeks when he gladly sets up our Roland studio keyboard and recording equipment so I can get back to making music - a project I have been wanting to accomplish for years. I cry happy tears when he wakes up at 5am to help me prepare for an upcoming potluck that requires tedious food preparation...which usually means hours of varicose-forming standing at our "very purple kitchen" (as he likes to call it). When he spends hours on FaceTime with my parents and plans the details of our time together during their upcoming/next visit, my heart can't help but feel like bursting with joy as I realize love is not something we must deserve in order to receive.
Love is a GIFT from God.
Thoughtfully yours,
#sayitinsquares #quotes #JimElliot
“A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in His promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.”
John Piper
Be like the flower who even gives its fragrance to the hand that crushes it.
Imam Ali
My homemade steamed purple yam rice cakes!
Oh, dear! If there's anything I'm (very) quickly learning about myself during this move, it's that I have WAY more books than clothes. ...and I'm absolutely fine with that! ☺ A walk-in library would be much better than a walk-in closet. Books contain adventures, experiences, vivid verbal imagery (painted with the colorful strokes of words), words of wisdom and knowledge, testimonies, tear-jerking and life-changing stories that make you cry and laugh (sometimes both at the same time), instructions, admonitions (yes, lots of bitter medicine...but they're good for ya!), life lessons and gripping facts (and some old and forgotten ones) that challenge you into action. The pages of books contain worlds, countries and cities all ready to jump into action and existence the very moment you begin reading their pages! Books carry the fresh smell of local street food in a remote little town tucked in the mountains somewhere in Asia, the sound of children excitedly greeting a perfect stranger who just arrived to serve as a missionary in an African village, that chilling blow of the winter wind in the European mountains...the list goes on and on! Books may get old, worn and torn (just like shoes, purses and clothes), but the wealth of knowledge they give to those who take the time to read them outlast the fleeting satisfaction of having possessed and worn the latest of everything. And better yet? Books change lives and relationships! Guess which book is the BEST READ for everyone? (Hint: Book not in picture! ☺)
