hope.

today was difficult for some reason. i woke up excited it was friday, yet as the day progressed, that excitement dimmed. i guess im just burned out. i have really been pushing myself hard with school. i am so motivated to crush it. i want to get an A in nursing, and i certainly am not getting it handed to me. but on the other hand, i have been getting more excited about being a nurse. i can't wait to just help people....

which leads to the hardest part of the day.

 

i saw my sweet libby tonight. i haven't seen her in so long because it is really really hard to see her with her being home trying to rest, and me being a full time high school senior and nursing student. but the lord has all of that figured out too.

but yeah. i was with my daddy, and he went with me to take libby and justin their dinner. Vietnamese noodles for justin and chick-fil-a soup for lib. when she opened the door, i wanted to cry. she looked exhausted. and sick. and utterly worn down. and all i wanted to do was scream, "Oh, God why!!!!!!" I wish i could have cancer instead of her. i wish i could help her. i wish i could actually do something to help her pain go away. but all i can do is stand back...i am utterly helpless. there isn't anything i can do.

but... my Father can do something.

so friends, please.... please pray for a miracle with me. pray that this awful cancer will flee from libby's body in the mighty Name of Jesus. pray that she will be completely healed. pray for justin....it's killing him to see his sweet wife battling this. and pray for hope. we all need hope.

i know and believe God can and will heal Libby. i believe that with all my heart. it's just really hard sometimes. but He knows. thank God i don't have to have all things figured out! and thank you for all your prayers and encouragement. means the world to me.

 

now off to watch a christmas movie and drink some hot peppermint tea! love ya'll.

 

And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.

Romans 5:2-5

Sweet Libby and her little dollie girl, Ava

www.libbyryder.blogspot.com

could there really be a place for me?

i think God is unbelievable. he allows my favorite story, the Chronicles of Narnia, to be made into amazing movies, the third of which is coming out this friday... and then my favorite musical artist end up doing a soundtrack for it!! AND i haven't related with a song so much in my life. wow. God...you are so good.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do, friends! :)

at peace.

so it's 10:02 pm on a monday night....and i'm exhausted beyond description. i think i'm running on 3 hours of sleep since friday. i have a huge nutrition test tomorrow and about a zillion other things i should be doing. oh, and don't even get me started on all my other school work. and yes, i am asking myself the same question: why am i blogging again???
i don't know. it just hit me.

i feel really happy right now.
strangely content.
peaceful.

praise be to God! if i weren't so tired, i would heave a giant sigh of relief. hehe however, like i said, it was a long weekend. i was at a young life camp doing work crew with about 50 other kids. we literally cleaned and worked from 10:30pm friday night to 2:30pm sunday afternoon...and i mean non stop. it was the most exhausting, rewarding, and amazing experience. i got to serve kids that they might know the Savior's love! i cannot express my joy.

and i just wanted to let ya'll know, if any of you have been praying for me...i think it's working. i am peaceful and trusting God. and it has been a long time since i have trusted Him completely, dear friends. in everything. the stress about college. the constant awareness of my own shortcomings. my worries of never being loved or never having someone want to cherish me. these things all just sap my joy and steal my enjoyment of God away from me. i don't want to live that way anymore.

so thank you. whoever you may be.thank you for your unseen support through these difficult seasons. thank you, if you are praying. it means more to me than i can even say. i don't even know who reads this blog and if it's even encouraging.but i want you to know that i pray for you daily!! i pray that the Lord speaks through me-a simple girl who needs her Savior day after day- and that you hear his "well done" and feel His love. He gives me these words. they aren't mine. i honestly wouldn't be able to just sit down and write like this if it weren't for Him.

so yes. i am thankful. thankful for you. thankful for Christmas. thankful for violin and piano and voice. thankful for the Word of God. thankful for hot cups of tea. thankful for running shoes and an ipod.thankful for country music. thankful for my parents and sisters. thankful for my Young Life family and friends.thankful for hope.....
and thankful for my flannel covered pillow that is calling my name.

love you guys.

you are my refuge...

Yes, my soul, find rest in God;

my hope comes from Him.

Truly He is my rock and my salvation;

he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.

My salvation and my honor depend on God;

He is my mighty rock, my refuge!

Trust in Him at all times, you people;

pour out your hearts to him,

for God is our refuge!

Merry Christmas Charlie Brown!

Welcome to the Hulme Family's favorite Christmas tradition...watching Charlie Brown's Christmas, dancing like crazy to the song "Linus and Lucy", and finally, putting up our very own, homemade, Charlie Brown Christmas characters! We have added quite a few characters since last year!! Excuse the picture quality...I took these in my pajamas, in the middle of the street, Sunday morning, with my cellphone! I'm silly I know. :)
Anyways, hope you enjoy them!

Snoopy

Schroder (my favorite!!)

Lucy and Charlie Brown

Pig Pen

Peppermint Patty and Linus

Sally

The Whole Gang!

Then Sings My Soul!!

It Shall Be Well With Him...

"Say to the righteous, that is shall be well with him." Isaiah 3:10

It is well with the righteous ALWAYS. If it had said, "Tell the righteous that it is well with him in his prosperity", we must have been thankful for so great a gift, for prosperity is an hour of peril, and it is a gift from heaven to be secured from its snares: or if it was written, "It is well with him when under persecution", we must have been thankful for so sustaining an assurance, for persecution is hard to bear; but when no time is mentioned, all time is included! God's "shalls" must be understood always in their largest sense.

From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, from the first gathering of evening shadows until the day-star shines, all all conditions and under all circumstances, it shall be well with the righteous! It is so well with him that we could not imagine it to be better...

For he is well fed--he feeds upon the flesh and blood of Jesus.  He is well clothed--he wears the imputed righteousness of Christ. He is well housed--he dwells in God. He is well married--his soul is knit in bonds of marriage union to Christ. He is well provided for-- for the Lord is his Shepherd. He is well endowed--for heaven is his inheritance.

It is well with the righteous....well upon divine authority! The mouth of God speaks this comforting assurance!

O beloved, if God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare things to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn! Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him!

It says in the Word, at all times things are well with the righteous--so beloved, if you cannot see it, let God's Word stand for you instead of sight! Yes, believe it on divine authority more confidently than if your eyes and your feelings told it to you. Whom God blesses is blessed indeed, and what His lips declare is truth most sure and steadfast! Praise be to God!

Morning And Evening-Charles Spurgeon