Something I made....

This is a little something I made one rainy day...
Enjoy!

Fighting!
- Hannah

Thoughts

Picture from Google Images

Credit goes to Photographer

The quiet aroma of a latte; it feels slightly flat today.
The rain falls outside the window, a faint fog holds its breath.
Pointing out the sleepless night, tonight where I struggle with the shrinking pencil lead.
Over the radio, same old song, Do Re Mi Fa Sol Sol -
Yeah, I'm here now alone.
Of all days, of all days, above my head you fly around.
A flowing silence, cold wind blows, and it repeats again, every night, of all days.
And I think about you again, and as the sun turns to a glowing read, I pray again the prayer that you need most.
I'm walking on the top of the world, the top of the world, and and I want to know that you're well - and I'll pray the prayer that you need most.
Because He's faithful, I'll pray, though I miss you, top of the world.
I can't deny, yes, I keep crying, because everything's so beautiful, and you're eyes are closed to His creation.
There's so many of you out there that don't know - that don't understand Him - so that's why I close my eyes, and I pray the prayer that you need most.
I want you to know, that I love you, that I'll always pray, whoever you are, wherever you are. There's not much I can do, because I don't know you, I haven't met you - but I can pray, and I will.
You can't act like nothing's wrong, because in the end, everything will collapse around you, and even now I pray that I can one day hold your hand and show you Him. And I remember, I'm already holding your hand by praying.
Whoever you are, wherever you are, I pray the prayer that you need most.

 Something struck me. Something I had to do. I felt God prompting me, and as strange as it was, I obeyed. I closed my eyes, and began to pray for you.


Fighting.
- Hannah

(Early) Birthday Bash!

Yay! I'm back! WHOA! I. Am. Exhausted. 
Very much so.
I went on a MEGA fashion bash - Forever21, WetSeal, Plato's Closet - the whole shebang. And get this - all the above said stores had a load of stuff on sale! We got the BEST deals!
My day started at 5:30 when my alarm went off - like I said - to the sound of a digital bounce. I got up, showered, and got myself ready. (As you'll see in the pictures, my attire later changed, due to an adorable top that I couldn't wait to wear!)
Mom and I dropped my little sister off at my grandma's house at around 8:30, and we got there at about 9:30; first stop, StarBucks. I got a Caramel Macchiato and a double chocolate brownie - hadn't had my caffeine shot for the morning. ^.^ Mom and I sat around and chatted, enjoying some light hearted banter. Then we went to Barns and Noble - and spent about two hours without even knowing it! I got an AMAZING leather-bound journal with an awesome looking lock thing on it, and enjoyed browsing the other ceeeeewl stuff they had.
Then it was Mall time. We got there at around 12:00, and just went from one place to another. We ended up eating lunch at 4:30! (I'm not quite sure you can call that lunch...) We went to a Chinese restaurant, where mom commenced in eating disgusting looking crustaceans, and I forced myself to try two new things: squid, and fried banana. Neither of which I liked. :P
To top it off, we went to ColdStone Creamery and Plato's Closet last.
It was a wonderfully enjoyable day, to say the least, and when I got home, I got to gloat about it to my best friend, who found herself - rightfully - very, jealous. ^.^ (I love the girl - I told her that she could do the same to me when she goes on a shopping spree. =D)
Thanks, mom, for the great time!!! 

So - a very long day - and a very good one -
And now, I leave you to my loot, and I say goodbye.

Fighting!
- Hannah

 Aaaand... my clothes! And yes, I look very tired... there's a good reason for that. ^.^ Sorry I'm not smiling too much - I usually don't when I'm about to collapse!

The Big Day!

Tomorrow I go on my outing with mom - I'm excited!
Getting up at 5:30 to the sound of a digital bounce, and I'm going to enjoy myself immensely!
YES! This is going to be great - a day at the Mall on a shopping spree!

Today's been pretty chaotic - not quite one of those days where everything you touch (or look at!) is against you. Not quite. But, almost. :)

Last night I had an absolutely blissful dream... I woke up sad, though, because it wasn't real. It was a fun dream, and I remember laughing a lot because of the antics of the persons within. I was with my friends, friends in my dream, and I'd hug them, and it was so real. (Sticky sweat and all!) ^.^ Don't you just adore dreams like that? They're wonderful.

God is very good to me. I'm having to trust Him a lot lately. With friends, with family, with life. The other night I received a phone call at 1:00 AM from a friend in need. Even though it was so early in the morning, I was happy she called me - God was giving me a chance to talk to her. I prayed with her, and though we couldn't talk long because of the late hour, I called her first thing in the morning to discuss things with her.
God has called me to huge things - well, they're huge to me. Sometimes I don't know if I can live up to them. But it says in the Bible that He won't give us any more than we can handle. What a Lord we serve!
Once, my Best Friend wrote to me about how she felt overwhelmed, and that she saw things as being far to much she could handle, and then she said,
"I'll just have to raise - no - jump the bar that He's set for me."
It's very true. It's never too high to jump.
This is why we should always talk to Him, to know just how high He wants us to jump.

I was talking to a friend once, and I was telling her to "Pray in the morning! Pray in the evening! Pray throughout the day!" Her answer was one that I really never thought people asked: "How do I do that?" It puzzled me for a minute. How do you pray throughout the day? I searched for words, and remembered an example in a book I read - for instance: I pray while I'm washing dishes. What better time! I'm the one scrubbing scum from the plates, and I remember that Christ scrubbed the scum from me. I pray, I thank him! I pray throughout the day - especially when I have a quiet moment to myself. While I'm brushing my teeth in the morning, I'm looking at myself in the mirror, and I see who God created me to be - I pray.
And there's people I pray for. Real people, even if they seem so far away and distant. They're there, and I pray for them. My Best Friend, in a book she was writing, had a scene where the female character was kidnapped by an assassin - he was young, even handsome, but her life was in danger. As the Chevy Avalanche sped down cold roads, taking her farther from everything she knew, hands still tied, she looked over at him from the passenger seat, seeing his set face, deep eyes, all eerily handsome, and this is what happened, in a few simple words, this is what happened:
"Something struck her, something she had to do; she felt God prompting her, and as strange as it was, she obeyed. She closed her eyes, and began to pray for him."
After a very long, complicated plot line, in the end, her prayers were answered.
Somehow, my life seems to go along those lines. No, I haven't been kidnapped by an assassin, ^.^ but the quote is how it goes. This happens to me all of the time; especially with some people I know.

And yes, it's all, in a complicated plot line.

Whatever you do, wherever you are, pray. 

Fighting.
- Hannah

Tiny Life

Have you ever wondered about life? Look how tiny these two are...
This is a nest that's built in the rafters of our barn; it's amazing to watch the mama take care of them. They're so cute. ^.^

Life has been amazing lately. I love my family. Everyone has ups and downs... but I love my family. They're pretty crazy... just like me. =D
We've been pretty busy, so I'm sorry about not publishing often - we've just got a lot going on. This week, mom and I are going on our outing to the mall - YES! I'm so excited! We're going to have a great time. I can't believe this month I'll be 17! DAH! 0.0 But... life is good.

God is amazing - He's always faithful. I've been thinking about Him a lot lately.
In the mornings, I've been fetching me a mug of hot coffee, and sitting in my rocking chair, back and forth, back and forth, looking at the floor, thinking, praying. I've got so many people I'm praying for... it almost hurts my head! (In a good way, of course...)
And I know that He is always faithful - so, who can I fear, exactly?
Praise His name! Don't let the day begin without it, and don't let it end without it!


Fighting!
- Hannah

Fourth of July!!!

Happy Fourth of July!!!!
Yaaaayyy! Last night we had about thirty people here - chaotic bliss! - and we set off fireworks and had the best time ever!
The boys had their epic Army Men battle down in the pasture; they set up a fort, had paper houses, and used firecrackers, "jack rabbits", and missiles to explode everything... literally!
We had a big meal, and it was loud - lovely loud. Everybody was talking away, and it was - was.... GREAT! AH! *collapse*
I also had the best time doing a mini photoshoot with two of the boys at my church - the genra:
Charismatic.
Hopefully, I succeeded in that to an extent, with the help of my models! You can go to my photography blog and check out the results! I was going to do one with Caroline, but she forgot her appropriate attire - so, that didn't work. But it was still awesome!!! AH!
Thanks, you two, for posing for me, and thanks, Caroline, for hauling all of my stuff around! ^.^

Once it got dark, the show began - dad, Nathan and his friend were setting them off, so I meandered down there and was appointed flashlight holder for the ammo loaders. :)
It was fuuuuuunn!
Then, to wrap it up, we took some more cool pictures of our friend with his lightsaber - aaaaawwwwwesome pictures! EEK! (I went on a photo mania spree - can you tell?)

So - Happy Fourth of July, everybody! I hope you all had a wonderful time - I did, and God is so good! Praise Him for the ones you love!


FIGHTING!
- Hannah


P.S. Happy 7th Birthday to my horse Belle as of yesterday! Love you, Bellie!

The Lightsaber!

 Him: "Explosives, explosives, explosives, explosives..."

 Fireworks! (If we only had Gandalf... ^.^)

Death of the Army Men...

He Made the Stars Also

Photo from Google Images

 I walked out into the starry night, sitting down in the middle of the wet grass, gazing up. 

How big it was...

Falling back into the grass, I continued to look up into the bright night. The summer breeze ran through the leafy trees, whispering in hushed tones. What were they saying to me?

Fireflies glowed all around me; they looked as if they were star dust, falling from the shining skies. 

Hands behind my head, mind in a trance, I gazed upward, quietly quoting Isaiah 55:8-11.

"For as high as the heavens are above the earth..." I repeated after the last line.

"Lord, Your ways are so much higher... and the God who made this," I scanned the massive skies and the glowing lights.

"The God that made this can surely do mighty things for me - for the people I pray for."

I went quiet, and then in a whisper, as if fearing it would break the moment, said,

"He made the stars, also." 

The crickets sang and filled the warm night air - I didn't want this to end. Music played through my mind. It was a moment that could only be explained in words that do not go... until whenever.

The night was so big... my God is so big. 

Starry skies, glowing fireflies - I keep cryin', I keep wonderin' - so far away, but oh, so close to my heart. An ocean lies before me, and I wonder, 'How do I get there?' . Nights are long, but I look up to the sky, and I see it all in my Heaven. I whisper, 'You're the one in my life', and I say a prayer. So far away, until whenever, and bright heavens that always glow.

I look up, and I remember,

"He made the stars also." 

You know my heart, will You wait? 

I look up, and my heart feels like it will cry, but the tears won't come. 

I look up, and I remember,

"For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so are My ways than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts."

So I remember, and so I look up, and I stand alone in darkness, surrounded by stars, and I smile, though my heart is sad, and I trust in my Lord - who made the stars, also.... 

*Sniff* *Sniff*

It's true...
I'm sick. :P I just woke up a little while ago from a three and a half hour "nap"!
I got up at seven this morning when mom woke me up, and felt horrid, so after breakfast, I told mom, "I'm gonna lay down for a little while."
Three and a half hours later, I woke up, saw that it was 12:00, didn't believe it, and came out to find mom cooking lunch.
Yipes! (When I feel bad, you. will. know. it. I never sleep that long unless I'm sick!"
But, nonetheless, here I am... and I can't wait to eat some of that chicken soup mom's fixing. I need it. :P
Blah! =.= Naturally, I HAVE to get sick before the Fourth when everybody's coming over... I'll have to find some hapless person to give it to. *evil laugh*

Anyway... I'm off to doctor my throat.
*attempts a "fighting!" but coughs instead*

Quite... goodbye!
- Hannah

P.S. Lots of pictures added to my photography blog - please go check it out!
www.hannah-leighphotography.blogspot.com

For Love of an Iris

When I see an iris, it is a quiet reminder.
A quiet remind to so many things.
To how a prayer journey began one May afternoon - to how things change, quietly, elusively, when we're not watching.
To the way a heart was moved to pray...
How it's still moved, and how it still cries quietly while looking at the vast skies.
To me, the iris is a sad flower, but a flower that shows hope in its deep veins - that, though it dies for a season, it always comes back. It means "paint brush flower" - it paints stories that we don't listen to... elusively, while we're not looking.

It is a love - a love for an iris.

As High as the Heavens