These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things: June 2014 || Grateful Days 160-171

Oh boy oh boy. Between online classes, interning, birthdays and moving June was a pretty busy month (hence the lack of blog posts this month!) But over all June was a fantastic month!!! So here are a few of my favourite moments, blogs and doodads of June! RainMy first favourite of the month is a blog! So if you haven’t heard of Rend Collective then you definitely should give them a listen, or read this and you’ll hear a couple of their tunes! Anyhow, one of the guys is married to a woman who writes a blog and her name is Gabriella. I don’t remember how exactly I found her blog but I sure am glad I did. She is one of those bloggers who writes so beautifully and so full of life. I also love that she takes everything she does back to God. Even if she doesn’t outright say in a post anything about the Lord I can just feel how inspired she is for her love for the Lord and it serves as a great reminder for me that all I do is meant to please the Lord and nothing I do is for myself. So if you fancy a read you can check out her space here. It has been such a blessing to me and if you give it a read I hope it blesses you as well!Processed with VSCOcam with g3 preset Another one of my favourites from June (extending in to July) is the World Cup! Oh my goodness!! I love the World Cup so much! I am extremely invested in the whole tournament, more so I was/am extremely invested in the US Men’s National Team!! My friends and I would get together and watch the US Men’s Team play and we would stand for the National Anthem (I’m not kidding we really stood and sang!) and we would cheer! Then when we lost to Belgium we cried (I just got really emotional and tried not to cry). But I love the World Cup because it unites nations and the world! It’s also a great time for people to just hang out and get together to watch a sport!! It’s fun!!20140611-135215-49935983.jpgI also started interning in June which was so fun!! I’ve been at my internship for almost a month and I’ve learned so much! It’s been such a fun time of learning a new trade and getting real experience in the field I’ve been studying for the past 4 years!! Its been really tiring at times but its been so worth it because I’ve learned, and am continuing to learn, so much!!Processed with VSCOcam with f2 presetThen of course I loved the birthdays!! Between my birthday, my dad’s birthday and my roommates birthday it has been a month full of celebration!! My birthday is the only time I’ll let people pay lots of attention to and celebrate me because well, it’s my birthday!!! I love that I have the same birthday month as my daddy because it means there are lots of birthday celebrations in one month!! I enjoyed this years month of celebrations because I’ve learned to appreciate my family and friends so much more and this year I spent my actual birthday with my friends and momma then went home and hung out with my family! It’s was great to be able to celebrate with the people in my life who I spend the most time with. I also loved being able to celebrate all the awesome ways I have been blessed with the people I have been blessed by the most. Then celebrating my daddy’s birthday was just awesome because he’s been on the earth for 50 years and it’s awesome!

All in all, June was a great month of life moments. Even though I didn’t blog a lot of it, I’ve learned that a lot of times some moments just need to be lived. No pictures, no tweets and no blogs. Some moments are best remembered by living them and I lived June in all the ways I could think. I celebrated, I cheered and I cried but June was good to me!

2 hours 46 minutes (Grateful Days 136-138)

Processed with VSCOcam with f2 presetHere I sit, on the eve of my birthday thinking about the fact that in 2 hours 46 minutes I will have rotated around the sun 22 times. In 22 years I have experienced life in all the ways only I can.

I get older as the clock ticks away, and yet I cannot find ways to describe how I feel about being 22. My life isn’t a compilation of Taylor Swift tunes so I can’t dance around saying I feel 22, because I don’t know what 22 feels like. I barely know what 21 feels like! But I do know that 21 treated me well.

21 treated me the way I should be treated. It treated me with love and kindness; even in the hard times. 21 gifted me with a beautiful niece and it taught me the art of living.

21 showed me that the change I fear so much, is necessary. Without change, there would be no growth and that’s just not fair. 21 showed me with each new season new change comes. After all without April showers May would have no flowers.

21 taught  me even when I have little faith my Abba is faithful. When I was weak and had no where to turn, 21 showed me that my Abba is strong and carries me. When I was filled to the brim with joy, 21 showed me that my Abba rejoiced with me. Even when my heart wanders, 21 showed me that my Abba is a faithful friend and is always waiting for me.

21 taught me the art of friendship and 21 was kind enough to show me the beauty of my friendships. At 21 I saw and understood the depth of my friendships with each of my friends. I felt the sting of distance and I feel the upcoming sadness of goodbyes. But 21 showed me the art of learning to communicate in new ways and helped me see that sometimes there is beauty in goodbye.

21 showed me the depth of the love of my family. 21 showed me the grace of my mother and the gentle heart of my father. 21 showed me the beauty of sisterhood and introduced me to the joy of being an aunt. 21 also reminded me that my parents and sisters get older with me and 21 reminded me to tell my loved ones those three words no matter the circumstance.

21 taught me the joy of life and showed me the sorrows and the hurts. Mostly 21 taught me how to live life in only the way I can live it. 21 showed me the beauty of each new day and 21 introduced me to myself.

As I sit here, I begin to say goodbye to 21. 21 is introducing me to 22 in the way a gentleman introduces his lady to his mom – with love and tenderness. 21 was kind and taught me so much. It’s strange to say goodbye to 21 because we’ve spent so much time together.

2 hours 46 minutes later I say goodbye to 21 and hello to 22.