hey friends!  happy may day, eh!

i got some exciting news!  well, exciting for me anyways... i have created a new blog!  still under the weebly domain, because, well, it's free... haha

so if you would like to continue following me on this journey called life, i'll be blogging over there from now on!
i'm a bit sentimental about leaving this blog..  it's been so good to me!


i'm still, and always will be, after His heart, but only on a different blog (:

click here:

>>> alexiblogshere.weebly.com <<<



godspeed. (:

dear english paper,
why can'tchya just write yourself?  do i have to do all the work around here? (;

dear mom and dad,
you're in chicago.  that's pretty cool, i guess.  except wanna take me with next time?  please??

dear becca and ariel,
you two are my favorite sun-chasers!  i find it so darn wonderful that i have friends who will not only gush about the sun with me, but even encourage it!

dear words,
i'm always amazed what you can do and all that you can communicate and how much even one or two of you can touch my heart.

dear popcorn,
what i would give to have a bag of you right now..

dear hannah,
didjya know getting to spend so much time with you yesterday made my day?  well, it did.

dear yellow,
i love you really a lot.  i'm so glad you're a color.  you might even be my favorite, but don't tell pink i said that.

dear rachel,
your beauty of heart blesses me time and time again!  you inspire me and have reminded me that God is my dear Father.  i wish so much that you went to school here...

dear intervarsity men,
you do a really good job at honoring and respecting your sisters!  you sure made us all feel special.  thank you!

dear davies,
thanks for the big whales and octopi hangin around these days!  and those decorative blown up sterile gloves! mhmm!  always keepin things spicy around here! (; thanks for celebrating earth week!

dear oh hellos,
i wonder if i'll ever get sick of you?

dear friends,
each one of you have hearts that blow me away!  it's my great honor to know you and be known by you.  a daily adventure!

dear reader,
create something today!

dear emily,
i miss you.

dear God,
thanks for knowing my heart and hearing my cries and filling me and teaching me and disciplining me.  i am Yours and it's my delight to be!

"on a bloody friday filled with nails and wood and a man who would do what God only could.
arms open wide to die for the very people who hung Him out and bled Him dry
on a dark friday.  a shout to the sky, a spear to the side, two marys start to cry
as angry earth trembles and black clouds swell.
quietly Jesus goes through hell
dying in our place.
how is it that a day of such evil and pain ever got the word 'good' in its name?
this day of infamy, human villainy. 
when the world showed off it's most evil face
because there, in that blood-stained place, when they pulled the body down like seed to ground
the author of life sprouted roots of grace
that would once and for all save the human race.
this victory death. 
a complete surprise
as demons and devils with fear in their eyes
realize
that once a perfect man died
the law was finally satisfied
the man who lived the way we should
died the way only God could
and that's why we call this friday good.

the day Christ fell
is the day mercy stood."

^^(from this spoken word)^^

"He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
    and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him,
    nothing in his appearance that we should desire Him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
like one from whom people hide their faces
    He was despised, and we held Him in low esteem.
4 Surely He took up our pain and bore our suffering,
yet we considered Him punished by God,
    stricken by Him, and afflicted.
5 But He was pierced for our transgressions,
    He was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on Him,
    and by His wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
    each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us."

isaiah 53:1-6

on tuesday one of my best friends turned twenty-two.  i could tell you all about how beautiful she lives and how much of a gift her life is, ooorrrr you could watch this video and see how well she loves and how well se lives.  the lives that are impacted around her are evidence of Christ within her and it's beautiful.

nou renmen ou, coral <3

(why yes, i did google translate that :))

you should click>> THIS <<and be inspired by my friend, isaac.  today is beautiful.



"then jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "surely the LORD is in this place, and i wasn't even aware of it!" genesis 28:16

"the art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible."

this quote came to my mind in the middle of the day yesterday.  wednesdays are usually hard days for me.  i'm not sure why.  they just usually aren't my favorite.  but when this quote came to mind (likely not from my own mustering.. hmm..ehem, *God*), i decided that for the rest of the day, my eyes would see things deeply.

deep seeing:

like unoccupied benches in the wilderness to read in weather that lets you
like hibbard's brilliant orange against the sky's brilliant blue
like stumbling upon jazz night in the cabin
like meeting with friends in the middle of the day at a public university to read and ruminate on God's word
like yui, with his sunglasses inside like a diva (:
like lynette, a caf worker who stands in the same spot every day and remembers my name
like windows that let in the golden hour light in the hibbard penthouse
like friends standing for freedom
like the lyrics "Your name is like honey on my lips, Your Spirit like water to my soul"
like night class getting out early and walking up the hill in light

i am no expert at deep seeing.  if anything, most of the time my eyes are bent towards whining.  but would you, along with me, ask God for eyes that see deeply today, friend? 

deep seeing makes gratitude possible.
deep seeing makes gratitude possible.

// because my professor said "no class" and i said "it's time for an adventure!" (:

today, i was inspired by the daily, ordinary, rainy.
we live in a beautiful world.


i am learning so much to stop and look around and see these days.