Sometimes, music just hits you right where you are, ya know???

Everybody Needs a Musical Sometimes....

Amazon Prime + failure to sleep = I'm addicted

‪#‎SMASH‬

Long nights get shorter with song & dance ;)

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"Faithful One" ~Selah

"I Believe" ~ JJ Heller

"Still My God" ~ Avalon

"We Are The Reason" ~ Avalon

Haven't heard this song in forever!!! Still love it.....don't mind me, just having a li'l worship experience in the hospital room this morning.....& trying to pull a certain someone into it with me ;)

Moms. We can be so annoying. :P

‪#‎PrayForAshlyn‬

Music Speaks....

Hard day for my sunshine....in more ways than just physical. She thinks I'm playing some of my favorites on youtube for ME. The songs that bring peace to my heart & soothe my soul in the most painful of times, the words and truths of God set to music..... music often does things that words spoken in other ways can't. Mamas of teens, and mamas of teens who are faced with something that is so terrifying, have to have a few tricks up their sleeves sometimes.

This is where she finds out what kind of faith she has. This is where it gets real....

‪#‎PrayForAshlyn‬

Strength for the Weakness

Watching my girl who turns 16 in 20 days sleep on a couch nearby, drinking more coffee....and praying that she'll feel good on her 16th bday, a day she was planning to celebrate surrounded by her amazing friends at camp. If I could have hand-picked her friends, I would have picked the exact same ones she did. ♥ I don't even know what to plan for her :'( ....I was hoping when morning came, maybe ...it wouldn't be true. I don't want it to be..... I want to go to bed, pull the covers over my head and pretend it isn't. Come on coffee....do your thing so I can get movin' on another day.

"Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." Matthew 16:24

Can I PLEASE carry hers, too?? :'( :'( :'(

"But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Corinthians 12:19-11

Don't feel you have to comment on this one. Just showing I'm not as strong as everyone thinks I am.

HE is.

 

"Our Hope Endures" ~ Natalie Grant

♫ You would think only so much can go wrong
Calamity only strikes once
And you assume that this one has suffered her share
Life will be kinder from here...
Oh, but sometimes the sun stays hidden for years
Sometimes the sky rains night after night
When will it clear?
But our hope endures the worst of conditions
It's more than our optimism
Let the earth quake, our hope is unchanged
Emanuel, God is with us
El Shaddai, all sufficient
We never walk alone
And this is our hope ♫

"Broken Praise" ~Todd Smith

After more doctor appts, more tests, & a scheduled and cancelled surgery...I received a diagnosis for Ashlyn this afternoon. 

Another case of no words. But there's always a song for that....

Nasal Scope

Came to this appt w/ a girl who has a tear stained face. :'( Tears from fear & tears from the trauma & stress of everything else. This is the stoic one who I rarely get more from than a roll of the eyes, attitude, and a "it doesn't matter" when I push & pry. Wish I cld do this nasal scope for her. And struggling to keep the mama bear claws retracted over the rest....

Being a mama is hard. An...d heart wrenching. I want to fix everything in her world. And I can't. :/ Doing my best, but my best never seems good enough.

♫ I want to live above the world,
Though Satan’s darts at me are hurled;
For faith has caught the joyful sound,
The song of saints on higher ground.

I want to scale the utmost height
And catch a gleam of glory bright;
But still I’ll pray till rest I’ve found,
“Lord, lead me on to higher ground ♫

"Come To Jesus" ~ Chris Rice

Why's this song gotta come on the radio & make me cry??? Makes it kinda hard to see the work I'm trying to do. :'( Blaming it on the rain....that must be why....

"Carry Me To The Cross" ~ Kutless

"How Sweet The Sound" ~ Citizen Way

When there are no words....there's always music.

Running Shoes Are Made For Dancing....

I just got back from a walk/jog.....and stopped walking/jogging where the road meets the drive that leads to my house and with it being a long, private & isolated drive....with no one in sight....I proceeded to totally rock out & dance like no one was watching to Superchick & Carrie Underwood all the way.

 Until I reached the corner where I take a turn or head into the woods. It was then something caught my eye and I turned around. Behind me was a truck with 2 work men in it, laughing & grinning from ear to ear. Welcome to the comedy act that is my life....

 

It's a good thing I know how to laugh at myself :: A sense of humor is critical at times like this ;)

"Broken Hallelujah" ~ The Afters

Sometimes just the right song comes on at just the right time.....like when you're sitting in your vehicle waiting on your young-un, feeling exhausted & numb from a really hard afternoon, following a really hard weekend, following a really hard week...... :'(

"Worn" ~ Tenth Avenue North

"Whom Shall I Fear" ~ Chris Tomlin

"Unredeemed" ~ Selah

"I Can Just Be Me" ~Laura Story

Laura Story - I Can Just Be Me (Official Lyric Video) from laura-story on GodTube.