a love story book I am writing based on the 1997 film
She walked forward, her heart beating softly for the first time in her life. So happy and glad she had come. The quiet lapping of the waves against the ship’s sides was all that could be heard in that moment. She saw the smile on his face and she didn’t mind it any more, not this time. Didn’t mind the way he looked at her, in fact, she liked it, loved it. Loved him, so very, very much. Her hair blew with the breeze and she smiled too, at the words she had said just a minute ago, which brought a peaceful freedom in her soul. Turning, she saw the sunset, its rays of orange and pink reflecting again on the waves of the Atlantic, the Titanic lit up with light. Then back to him. He held out his hand, his jacket moving with the wind, a welcoming expression on his face. There was no hesitation in her motions this time and she didn’t care about anything, her old life that nagged her to return to it, her mother and fiancee that would be upset if she did. It was time to say good- bye and accept his invitation. To forget and forsake, never to return. Longing for more of this, she took his hand and trusted, taking the leap of faith. This time letting him lead her into a new world......
read the book to find out what happens... coming to print soon.
Okay..... life is busy right now.... getting ready to go back to school... planning for new lessons in ballet and piano... fun times with friends... unexpected 2 week trips to faraway cities... now this morning it's slowed a little bit. And I need to remember... need to open my Bible.. meditate on the words.. not just breeze through because I'm in a hurry to check email or get on to something more important.. spend some time praying for the lost... listen for God's voice in the quietness. 7am, why am I awake now? I don't know why.... sometimes I'm just excited about life.. it's so interesting and in the mornings I find a freshness... an eagerness to live, breathe, and explore this world. But I have to remind myself... don't be so busy, so caught up in today and now, that you forget to look... look from the comfort and entertainment of reading google plus on your screen... the enjoyment of lazy rainy mornings watching little house .... and look to him. He's here. Jesus is with me and he wants to talk... wants to commune and hear my thoughts and troubles... help, advise, and discipline me. Oh I know this... yes and I'm eager to learn. But I'm more eager to shut my Bible, turn the light on and climb down the ladder in a hurried" Well, I prayed for 1 minute and read my bible for 5 minutes so I"m okay." way. Today, I need to remember.. go back to Jesus's words... he wants devotion and love and if I'm losing this love, I should stop... think... repent.. ask for it back pray diligently. If I would only ask.. oh.. what I could see... ask Jesus to open the eyes of my heart.. I'll see him there... for real.. standing where he always does in my bedroom.. on the rug by my closet.. in his white robe and sandals.. with an inviting smile... " Come, Drink, be filled." he says. He holds out his hand and I want to willingly accept.. today.. now.. this moment. Because life is for him and because of him and I don't want to run on empty.. I want each and every day to be with him and for him.
This just reminded me of a great song by bethany dillon that encourages me so much. enjoy;)
Hey guys what's up? Just wanted to post this hilarious, so- true video about stupid stuff people do on the iterate by Jordan Taylor who makes tons of videos about homeschooling, God, and other stuff. IT is great and " Foodies" the one part at 6:45 reminds me so of myself I crack up so hard! Hope you all enjoy!
Hey everyone, I'm so sorry it has been such a long time since I wrote. Wow! The last time I blogged was two months ago! Life has been crazy this summer, filled with little trips and changes I'd never imagined possible. I will do my best to try to sum them all up for you. First, my grandma is getting married again! I am really happy for her yet very much surprised. I never expected it to happen, it has been a long time since my grandpa died, 7 years but I remember it well. I know how lonely my Grandma has been without him but she's kept herself busy and found healing over the grief. She wasn't looking for love but it came to her in the form of a kind, understanding man named Tom. I like him very much and I'm soooooooo excited that he is going to be my future grandfather. He is so sweet and affectionate and easy to talk to. On one occasion a few days after I'd first met him I went with Gramma to his house for dinner. We had the most heavenly time eating shrimp over the most interesting conversations and playing bochie. I made some pumpkin bars for dessert and we left about a dozen for Tom. Well, the next day his son came over and was eating a lot of them( apparently he liked them) and Tom said to him," Hey, don't eat all of those. Rosie made them for me." ( Rosie is the nickname he gave me.. because I told him I despised being called Lys which is what my family calls me). He is such a dear! So their wedding is going to be September 5th, I AM BEYOND EXCITED... I am exuberant with delight! Secondly, our life and home have been up in the air up until the moment we'd found out God was telling us to WAIT.. wait on moving to Kansas City. For the past two years, we've lived here in Ohio with no fellowship or close friends and no directive for the church of kent that we thought could be rebuilt. So we looked for houses in KC whenever we traveled down there and prayed all the more, finding it harder than we thought when it came to looking for the right house. So right now we're here up in Ohio and this lesson is teaching me a new lesson in life... to learn to be content with whatever God has planned for me... to accept his will even if I don't want too. Cause' when dad first talked about moving to KC, i was like, " No Way! I love it here, I have a few good friend, my family's here, we have a nice house everything's perfecT! And I don't way to live in KC!" but God changed my attitude to where I was cool either way. I cheerfully tried to find the positives of both. IN KC I have older good friends and the familiar excitement of going back and forth between Ohio and Missiouri is fun. Ok so now we're here and I'm content. Life is very good right now. I just became a teenager and there is so many exciting new things going on.. I'm learning new things.. experiencing new things.. it's great. Okay... so some of the great things that happened this summer included: 1: Grady and Paula Gamble, two or our best friends came with their adorable crew of four kids. Let me just tell you: they are the bomb! They're both wholeheartedly in love with Jesus and do workouts and eat healthy! They always encourage us when they're around. They stayed for two weeks... the two most heavenly weeks of my entire summer! Filled with a crazy fun day at Cedar point, watching little house on my laptop in the mornings while munching cereal together with the kids, crazy campouts watching star wars till 1am with their little kids, playing superheroes, going to Spiderman 4, my lord it was like YEAH baby! It was soo great. And I'm afraid I just have to tell you this hilarious story that went along with it... okay here it is.... the most stressful, exhilarating experience at a movie EVER! K, Dad and Grady took us to see the new spiderman. The craziness begins here. Six kids, two dads crammed into a van( now I loved this!). We arrive at the theater after sitting all of us in the back seat leaning over to watch little house on my laptop. We hop out and of all wonders... guess what? Naomi and Zac forgot their shoes! Yippee skippey! So.. ok Naomi finds hers but Zac's forced to go tramping in wearing nothing BUT A SUPERMAN OUTFIT.... the hems hanging over his feet! We've must have looked like quite the party... Elisha( Grady's oldest son) wearing a batman outfit.. Zac wearing superman.. two dads, two girls nervously watching to see if we got caught, and Noah the only one keeping his peace. We enter... suspicions are raised.. but the movie crewman overlooks Zac as he sneaks through the doors.. in we go.. we're late.. 5 minutes hurry! Me and Naomi have to go to the bathroom... we rush in.. oh joy of wonders..// I forget the 3D glasses! Dad fixes me with an angry glare as I rush back and FINALLY we take our seats. AT least the movie was great and there was no interruptions.. nothing that is save swapping popcorn the whole time.. Dad getting up 10 times... and me and Naomi switching seats three times. We exit and begin the quiet ride home... am I nuts to say this? It was crazy.... Dad and Grady having an important involving conversation on who knows what and in the back.... , Elisha, James, and Noah ARE..... sprawled out on the floor of the car wrestling! But it's ok because in our car kids do whatever they want! Dad and grady are too caught up in their conversation to notice or care. Not to mention the fact that Noah came up with some new brilliant joke to make the others burst out laughing Don't judge me for sarcasm( JK) but it was the most funny moving experience ever... I laugh just thinking of it! K, so done with that. The 2nd greatest thing the summer was: writing my book. I had the most stressful, heavenly, romantic, fun time writing it ever!! K, so it's about the 1997 movie Titanic, the love movie I spoke about earlier and the BEST Romantic movie ever in the history of mankind, not a joke in my opinion. I won't go into detail on this one, you'll have to read it yourself. but, hey I felt so professieniel when my dad gave me a deadline and I worked for it for hours, weeks, months, stayed up late, every spare second going into my dream to someday get it published. Not to mention the fact that I got to do this while the gambles were visiting! WHAT COULD MORE EXCITING than the adrenaline of work and play every day? Living with them for two weeks was heaven... even if we weren't doing some extraordinary fun thing. Normal life.... chores.. sleeping... meals.. playing outside... swimming until we turn in water logs... drinking Paula's amazingly great smoothies... watching another part of a little house episode while propped up against the swing set on a cloudy morning... watching cartoons in pjs... cracking up on a Thursday night while watching Stuart Little while Paula and grady go on a date... sleeping from 3- 7pm after an exhausting but fun fireworks show and night before when we stayed up till 2am watching Narnia; prince caspian... talking and joking about videos and our favorite scenes from the New spiderman... the list goes on and on. Those were the most amazing 2 weeks my whole summer! Tada! Summed up for the greatness of this summer.. Dreams while bringing back the mail... imagining delightful things about Jack and Rose... dreaming in bed while listening to Jewel lullabies and the frogs croak outside my window... staying out in the dark till 10pm on the swing by the waterfall while working on my romance novel... watching my brothers play... listening to James ideas about life and football... sitting in chairs at football practice where believe or not, my brothers are attired in helmets and playing hard... watching the rain fall while rushing to finish a crazy scene in my book.. eating pizza and watching Sport's center.. cleaning bathrooms and doing cooking lessons with Mom... watching the boys play with their new friend from football Mckaven.. staying up to 11pm to finally complete my book while listening to parts of Messy mondays... bursting out laughing in the middle of the night when I think of a hilarious scene from Napeleon dynamite... reading the most amazing verses in the Bible during quiet time... hearing Jesus tell me he loves me while watching the water turn on the lake.. reading Anne shirley while propped up on two pillows outside.. amazing fun times with friends at a water slide park. Not to say that they're wasn't some bad days too. But these are the good things LIFE IS GREAT and I'm thankful for it.
oh and by the way...... this is one of the reasons going to the movie theater CAN be stressful. I said can, not every time.
