Tuesday, April 19, 2011
and again...
i'm switching back to locomotionlloyds.blogspot.com since i just figured out how i can keep posting stuff without paying for more space...ggrrr...blogger is kinda making me nuts!
Saturday, April 16, 2011
made me think...
"Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, "Letters to a Young Poet
taxes never tasted so good
charlie helped his pops with his taxes and as a "thank you",
Mark Lloyd treated us to a scrumptious dinner
check out my lobs
if you're not licking the computer screen by now, then i don't know what's wrong with you}
surprise for mmmeee?
my sweet husband handed me a lovely present when
i came home from running errands today
what ever could it be?
certainly not the kate spade perfume, twirl, i've been obsessing about for months...
oh but it was!
(as a side note i got some new specs this week and i lurve 'dem)
holy moly was i excited
cheers for totally unexpected gifts
husband is good...husband is real good!
(never mind that he totally enables my addiction to fragrances...nbd)
next we spent our lunch time celebrating my sweet mom's birthday
she is the most beautiful person i know and i am so blessed to have her in my life.
time with fam...always a good thing!
Happy Birthday Mumsy!
Next my daddy-o gave Charlie and I an envelope with this picture of him
from his architecture school days.
Peep the cigar at the drafting table.
I love my father!
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
hitting home
I read this devotion from one of my daily reads and it was like the Holy Spirit was pin-pointing all of the ickiness in my heart. It was just what I needed to take it.
____________________
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,
And rely on horses,
And trust in chariots because they are many,
And in horsemen because they are very strong.
But do not look to the Holy One of Israel,
nor seek the Lord.
Isaiah 31:1 (NAS)
I had a hostess committee appointed to help me but I wanted to do it all by myself (because then I would be sure it was done right!). Do what? Prepare the Wednesday night family supper for forty or fifty people. I didn't point out to anyone that I thought it was a "one woman" job. "This is a delicious casserole!" Delicious! I did it and I loved that I did it!
Then we had a Church-wide festival with games, performers, finger foods, and everything else included. People offered to help me, but "I'm really getting along just fine. Thanks. I'll call you if I need help." Another "one-woman" job carried off successfully. Lots of praise. Lots of "how in the world did you get this all together by yourself?" Performance. It was in my blood. You could say it was my life. I lived to perform because I thrived on praise and good performance meant a lot of praise!
You perform all day - every day. There are two ways that you can do this, only two. You can depend on yourself, your wisdom, your talents, your ability, your intelligence, or you can trust Christ to live through you, to perform through you. [Romans 15:18]
If you choose to do it all by yourself, you can fail and have no one to blame but yourself - dust yourself off, get yourself up, and try all over again, and again, and again. Any failure is devastating. Every failure hurts! I know. And it takes a lot of successful performances to erase one tiny failure. So we just try harder so we never fail again! Success!
Oh, you can succeed, but it doesn't matter how successful you are, or how well known you are for your stellar performance, or how many righteous acts you have done. The Bible tells us explicitly what God thinks about our independence, our righteous acts. They are all like filthy rags. They are useless. They are dirty. They smell bad. [Isaiah 64:6b]
A person with performance patterns like mine is admired. She's appointed or volunteers for a lot of committees and asked to do some important jobs. Her friends utter in amazement, "Is there anything you can't do?"
But you see, don't you? Sheer willpower, energized by the need for acceptance from others and being able to accept myself, is driven by super-HUMAN strength, not SUPER-NATURAL strength. Super-natural strength comes from God. Super-human strength comes from a human who has mastered his strength. Performing. Performing well. My intelligence. My abilities. My way.Habakkuk 1:11 says: They will be held guilty, they whose strength is their god. "Guilty of what, please tell me?" Guilty of denying the presence and the power of God within me and depending instead on my strength.
(That meddling Habakkuk! "Dear, dear Praise Seeker, your strength is your God." He's the one who pointed it out to me. I guess he was the only one who dared tell me I was NOT doing it right!)
Why is God like that? Can we not do things by ourselves? Let me draw an analogy. When you have a child the main thing that child must know and respect is that you are his authority. You know what he should do and should not do. You are smarter that he is. You've "been around the block" a lot of times. As long as he recognizes you as his authority figure things are going to be just "peachy keen." Well, God is our authority figure. We are His children. He knows, unequivocally, what is best for us. Why? He is infinite! He sees forever into our past and our future. He knows exactly where we will be this hour, this moment, this second twelve years from now. [Psalm 139:16]
Dare we confront this infinite God and say, "But I want to do it my way. I really think my plan is better"? [Job 9:12] What audacity. He knows. We do not. And He knows that when we take over we can get into real trouble. So He says, "Please let Me do it all for you. I know precisely what should be done."
It is so hard for us to give someone else control. Even when that Someone has proven His love, His wisdom, His power over and over again. [Ephesians 3:17-19]
Well, here we go again. I keep hanging on for dear life! To what? And why? To my bag of "stuff" and all that is in it thinking MY way is the best way.
And rely on horses,
And trust in chariots because they are many,
And in horsemen because they are very strong.
But do not look to the Holy One of Israel,
nor seek the Lord.
Isaiah 31:1 (NAS)
I had a hostess committee appointed to help me but I wanted to do it all by myself (because then I would be sure it was done right!). Do what? Prepare the Wednesday night family supper for forty or fifty people. I didn't point out to anyone that I thought it was a "one woman" job. "This is a delicious casserole!" Delicious! I did it and I loved that I did it!
Then we had a Church-wide festival with games, performers, finger foods, and everything else included. People offered to help me, but "I'm really getting along just fine. Thanks. I'll call you if I need help." Another "one-woman" job carried off successfully. Lots of praise. Lots of "how in the world did you get this all together by yourself?" Performance. It was in my blood. You could say it was my life. I lived to perform because I thrived on praise and good performance meant a lot of praise!
You perform all day - every day. There are two ways that you can do this, only two. You can depend on yourself, your wisdom, your talents, your ability, your intelligence, or you can trust Christ to live through you, to perform through you. [Romans 15:18]
If you choose to do it all by yourself, you can fail and have no one to blame but yourself - dust yourself off, get yourself up, and try all over again, and again, and again. Any failure is devastating. Every failure hurts! I know. And it takes a lot of successful performances to erase one tiny failure. So we just try harder so we never fail again! Success!
Oh, you can succeed, but it doesn't matter how successful you are, or how well known you are for your stellar performance, or how many righteous acts you have done. The Bible tells us explicitly what God thinks about our independence, our righteous acts. They are all like filthy rags. They are useless. They are dirty. They smell bad. [Isaiah 64:6b]
A person with performance patterns like mine is admired. She's appointed or volunteers for a lot of committees and asked to do some important jobs. Her friends utter in amazement, "Is there anything you can't do?"
But you see, don't you? Sheer willpower, energized by the need for acceptance from others and being able to accept myself, is driven by super-HUMAN strength, not SUPER-NATURAL strength. Super-natural strength comes from God. Super-human strength comes from a human who has mastered his strength. Performing. Performing well. My intelligence. My abilities. My way.Habakkuk 1:11 says: They will be held guilty, they whose strength is their god. "Guilty of what, please tell me?" Guilty of denying the presence and the power of God within me and depending instead on my strength.
(That meddling Habakkuk! "Dear, dear Praise Seeker, your strength is your God." He's the one who pointed it out to me. I guess he was the only one who dared tell me I was NOT doing it right!)
Why is God like that? Can we not do things by ourselves? Let me draw an analogy. When you have a child the main thing that child must know and respect is that you are his authority. You know what he should do and should not do. You are smarter that he is. You've "been around the block" a lot of times. As long as he recognizes you as his authority figure things are going to be just "peachy keen." Well, God is our authority figure. We are His children. He knows, unequivocally, what is best for us. Why? He is infinite! He sees forever into our past and our future. He knows exactly where we will be this hour, this moment, this second twelve years from now. [Psalm 139:16]
Dare we confront this infinite God and say, "But I want to do it my way. I really think my plan is better"? [Job 9:12] What audacity. He knows. We do not. And He knows that when we take over we can get into real trouble. So He says, "Please let Me do it all for you. I know precisely what should be done."
It is so hard for us to give someone else control. Even when that Someone has proven His love, His wisdom, His power over and over again. [Ephesians 3:17-19]
Well, here we go again. I keep hanging on for dear life! To what? And why? To my bag of "stuff" and all that is in it thinking MY way is the best way.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
incase you need a pick me UP
National Geographic created a real life version of the floating house from the movie "UP!".
Not only is the little periwinkle-trimmed yellow cottage my dream home
but attach hundreds of colorful balloons to the roof and I'm in realestate heaven.
I mean, that stuff only happens in Pixar movies, right?!
National Geographic partnered with a team of scientists, engineers, and two world class balloon pilots to launch the house up into the air.
The 16' by 16', 18' tall house was held up by three-hundred 8' colored weather balloons when it was set off from a Los Angeles private airport.
This event even set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted.
pretty darn amazing!?
(Images 1 - 5 via National Geographic. Images 6-7 via Google)
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
he's my fav
I guess I do have a type...
he'll be tall, dark and handsome
and i'll be smitten...
hence my nuptuals to a one Charles Ashely Lloyd
who totally fits the said description.
Another fabulous specimen would also be
Shia LaBeouf..
take a gander
he'll be tall, dark and handsome
and i'll be smitten...
hence my nuptuals to a one Charles Ashely Lloyd
who totally fits the said description.
Another fabulous specimen would also be
Shia LaBeouf..
take a gander
keep on, keepin' on
The Dalai Lama
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
you will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need.
- sri nisargadatta maharaj via the native kee
Friday, April 8, 2011
princess
A man who treats his woman like a princess is proof that he has been born and raised in the arms of a queen.
— source unknown
never thought
There’s a saying that goes: ” you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. ” Truth is, you already knew what you had, you just never thought you’d lose it.
— Source unknown
the reason
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.
— Shapes by Emmanuel
Monday, March 28, 2011
when everyone else forgets...
my heart is still heavy for this terrible tragedy
it's easy for me to forget about Haiti/New Zealand/Japan
after they leave the media limelight
but i believe it's the time stretch after all the buzz has died down that those
countries need the most support
...
reminds me of the mat kearney song
"And when the smoke cleared, it took her breath away
She said she didn't believe 'it could happen to me'
I guess we're all one phone call from our knees ..."
She said she didn't believe 'it could happen to me'
I guess we're all one phone call from our knees ..."
Friday, March 25, 2011
Come One, Come All
I cannot wait for Water for Elephants to come out in April.
And to think...we're less than a month away!
Keeping with that spirit, here's a few fun themed wedding pictures.
Happy Friday!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
puppy love
Check out animal photographer Sharon Montrose
I am so jealous of all those sweet cuddles!
Could this be the best job ever?!
Yes. I do think so.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
go van gogh
Is it Thursday yet?
The boy and I are planning to meet up with some sweet peps
at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts to take in the
I can't wait to feast my eyes on some beautiful paintings.
Charlie's sentiments on this excursion?
"I’m excited about this, I love impressionists. My favorite is a good Christopher Walken impression. "
Charlie's sentiments on this excursion?
"I’m excited about this, I love impressionists. My favorite is a good Christopher Walken impression. "
...On a side note...
doesn't Vincent look like Jesse Tyler from Modern Family?
{brothas from otha mothas if you ask me}
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