I want to read your blog/ I love December/ Battle cry

Hi loves! First, I want to take a minute to say thank you for all of the love you've shown me. I never imagined getting to meet so many neat and encouraging ladies when I started this blog up, but I love it! I love discovering each of your blogs.
It's so fun reading about your lives and getting to know you.

I try to check out your blogs, especially when I notice a new follower or recieve a sweet comment, but some links are not listed on profiles or are private.
So leave a comment with your blog link and I'd love to stop by and check it out.  :]
Also, feel free to email me anytime if you have any questions or just wanna chat! I'd love to hear from you and love emailing while I work!

1// Coffee date with my sweet Janna. 2// Adorable ring from heather. So sweet. 3// Spree candy cane! 4 & 5// brand new cute gloves from Goodwill. 6// Our house lights from Adam's view. 7,8,&9// Today.
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My last final was Wednesday and this semester is FINALLY over, longest semester of my life. I feel like I can truly enjoy every day now. I got my first C ever this semester and I cried. (silly baby) It was so frustrating.. I had a 98 in the class until I misread the syllabus and didn't take a Quiz and Test that were due dropping my grade to a 72. frus.tra.ting.

Oh well. I'm sure there are worst things in life.. I just couldn't think of one at that moment.
Anyways.. Yay, no school for a month! I'm going to stay up late watching Christmas movies, bake cookies and make peppermint bark!, enjoy all of the family time I can get - Tyler gets home Tuesday and I CAN NOT WAIT!!! I have 9 days off starting Wednesday!!
We get to spend a few sweet days with Adam's family right after Christmas and celebrate. - thrilled. Can't wait to hug everyone.
Today it snowed for the first time here! I bundled up and danced around in it for a second.. it's really just flurries and nothing accumulated, but I'll take it!
Everything is just so cheery and happy.
Oh, and soon I will upload our Christmas card pictures. ;]
They were so fun to make and send out.

Lately, I've really just been enjoying December. This is my favorite time of the year and I'm trying to make the most of it and soak in every moment. Each evening we have a fire going, (even in the 80 degree weather last week!) a Christmas movie or tv show playing, the puppies inside - curled up by our feet, and coffee brewing. We love just sitting inside soaking in all of the Christmasy-ness and each other's company. Last night we put on our comfiest sweats, cozy hats, grabbed some coffee, and headed out to look at Christmas lights. We listened to a Christmas Pandora station and sang along the whole time. It's one of my favorite traditions and never gets old. The place we look at lights is a pretty ritzy neighborhood inside a canyon, along a lake, so everyone goes all out and it's truly beautiful. Once you pass the bend in the road and start the descent into the canyon you see ALL of the lights, and it's the neatest most magical feeling ever! I'm so happy my husband loves Christmas just as much, if not more than me. It makes every little thing so fun. You know the verse about sharing each other's joy? He's the best at that. (and sorrow, too) When I'm happy, he is so happy with me! Christmas just brings about so much joy, multiplied!


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God has also been working on my heart big time. I feel like God is calling me to go to war against the sin in my life. I know it's not pleasing to him and it hurts my heart that I give sin any sort of place in my life.
Actually I was studying for my history final and I read a sentence that just stuck with me, "War is the midwife of reconstruction." I thought about it all day, and then in my quiet time it resurfaced. Everything I studied was about battle, and the song playing in my head and heart was a strong battle cry. I know that God wants to mend things together in my life, repair some broken things, and I feel a new season coming on - but war must happen first. Sorta scary.. but I know it will be worth it. The war will push along, create a perfect environment for, and nurture a complete change in my life. God is so good.
My prayer life has been much more active than usual, which I love, and I feel a constant tug on my heart to fight apathy, discontent, evil desires, and every sin that I'm faced with each day.
Praying God's kingdom falls down. I want to experience Him in a different way. The spiritual warfare in my life is hard, but beautiful. I know that the evil in my life and the goodness of God should not and can not coexist.
I've loved coming to God as a leader in Battle. I love that He fights my battles with me. I'm not alone in the fight; I'm far too weak for that. I have a picture of Him with black battle marks under his eyes, a fierceness about His face, and a bow strapped around Him. I've never before pictured my God like this, except while reading revelation, which is amazing, but not personally in my life. He listens to me pour out my heart, my desires, but then my prayers change from asking ..to something else. I command things to flee. I let them know they are not welcome in my life, house, and relationships. My God, ready for battle, is on my side. Whom shall I fear?
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God is beautiful.
December is beautiful.
Life is so very beautiful.

:: I'm perfecting my battle cry; bring on the reconstruction ::

reconstruction - fixing, repair, mend, mending, reparation, fix, fixture - the act of putting something in working order again,reassembly, refabrication, assembling again, re-formation, regeneration, (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting, rebuilding.