Redemption

I don't understand how God works. I don't understand how he takes a broken world and infinitely broken people and makes lovely things. But nevertheless, there lie the beautiful things right among the broken.

The problem is that the broken still exists. And the broken can grab and pull and steal the glory if you let it. It can instill fear and cast shadows and one may begin to think it has the upper hand. But the sweet truth is that we were made to see beauty; to dwell with Beauty Himself. And we must not lose sight of Him. For the Beauty, Love, and Life that is Him wins. Redemption wins.

So I refuse to let fear seep into my heart. I refuse to let the twisted world distort my perspective. Redemption will be my song. And the Redeemer will be my defender. So sing my friends. Let the broken highlight the lovely and redeemed. See the beauty that He has brought us; His very Kingdom dwells with us.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27:13-14

Curtains are Scary

It may sound strange, but curtains scare me. I mean really. There are way to many options. Then you have the blank stares of each lonely pane looking at you expectantly. It's almost more than a girl can take!

So, our nasty inherited plastic blinds hung on the windows for far too long...far. too. long. I don't even know what color they were originally. I tried to clean them. I promise. But when it started creating mud I made the executive decision to take them down.

Then, there was the issue of curtain rods. I just couldn't bare spending money on them. So off into the woods we went to locate some semi-straight trees. Who needs Wal-Mart? Dannon is an excellent curtain rod locator. He won the game, which is fine with me, I got new curtain rods.

Second problem. I hate sewing. And I don't have a sewing machine. But mostly I hate sewing. So, any shortcut I can take, you better believe, I take it. I shouldn't use the word shortcut....I think I will use "innovative thinking". :)

All that to say, I am proud to announce that my house has curtains! I shall share them below.

(Thanks for humoring me on this one, I've only been a wife for 10 months. Gotta revel in the little things)

Living room curtains. Those beautiful curtain rods
were created by Michelle. Love them.

Dining Room Curtains. Dannon and I made these.

So these curtains are brilliant! No credit for myself,
I got the idea off of a blog. Those are just napkins, ya'll. 

Ok, so not exactly curtains. And I nailed them to the ceiling. Don't tell.

There you go friends! That was the most non-serious post ever. Thanks for caring.