Really! I’m engaged! haha…I am so incredibly happy and excited. Logan popped the question on Sunday (Nov. 8th). Actually he didn’t pop the question…it was quite a process…an extremely romantic, heart melting process.

I’ll write out all the wonderful details soon…I have to go right now. But I just had to share!

AHHHH! Haha…I’m getting married!

*Sighs as she gazes at the ring on her finger*

Until the next update…

~R-E-L

You beckon to my heart,
you say let go; to let you in.
You say you want to open my eyes to your brightness as you heal
those fractured places and shattered faces in my soul.

I choose instead to hesitate and procrastinate until I miss your call…

I push and pull and rant and run away,
until I feel as if I can’t come to you any more.

Then I’m left standing still…

I can’t open my eyes because your presence is so bright.
I’m not worthy to come near,
so I will be content to hear;

Maybe this time I’ll make the right choice.

Just You                                                 

~ From One who is blind ~

Just a few pictures I’ve been editing since a photo shoot me and my friends had a couple months ago. Enjoy

As of today, mine and my families circumstances have been so altered, that things can never return to the way they were before.

Never

And it scares me.

I don’t think it has really sunk in yet, just how irrevocable this change is…and I am not looking forward to the day it does. My heart is hurting, and I keep asking God why this has to happen…why He can’t just DO something about it! Bu there, in the midst of my screaming and my anger, I hear a small whisper. It says

‘I am your hiding place.  I protect you from trouble.  I surround you with songs of victory.  I AM ENOUGH.’

So I will be still and Know that He is God…I don’t know why and I don’t how it’ll all turn out…but He is enough.

~Arielle

Getting all introspective again…I wonder if I am where I thought I would be as I looked toward this day so many years ago. In any case, I am where I am, and I like it. Well, that is all I suppose. Till I write again!

~Arielle

However you celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus…

I hope you have a grand time doing it.  Happy Easter Everyone!

~Arielle

Here’s the part where I get all introspective…

Lately, I haven’t been on such good terms with God. I’ve been ignoring Him, to say the least. The thing is, if you look close enough, you can tell. I go through all the motions & wear the mask expertly, so for a while, that works.  Then comes the little changes…

I start to get angry very easily & small, trivial things become huge, important things in my eyes.  The Joy and happiness that floats away, is replaced with sighs of discontentment and worry.

• In Arielle speak, that means I turn into one nasty piece of work. Just ask my mom.

Anyway, what I’m getting at is, Love is no longer a part of my anatomy when this change takes place. It fizzles out & dies a horrible death. This is the cool part though…God won’t leave me alone! He keeps poking at me & I can’t get annoyed & tell Him to cut it out because, well, He’s God! I read that quote and He woke me up & now it seems like everything comes back to that subject.

All that to say, I can’t get this one sentence out of my head…

“We should love, but we should love with a love that expects death.”

There it is. Not much, but for me? It’s a whole heck of a lot. It makes me ask,

Why do I love?

Is it only for the love I get in return?

 If someone refused me and spit in my face when all I had given was love, would I still give it?

Then it made me ask…

How often am I the one?

How many times do I spit in God’s face? 

 I can’t help but wonder why God loves me so much.

“Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or how breath comes to a tiny baby in it’s mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.” – Ecclesiastes 11:5

I guess I’m not supposed to know for sure…just know that He does.

♥Lord, keep on refining this flawed piece of silver.♥

~Arielle

It’s been a long time since I last wrote, and sadly not much has happened since then.  I would write about Peru, but I think I already told the stories to those who really wanted to know about it & showed them pictures etc.

It was amazing, incredible and the Lord really showed Himself in major ways. Over 200 people came to know Jesus as their personal Lord and Saviour. There is a return trip being planned for 2010, and I am seriously thinking about going…I feel a pull in my heart/spirit to be there. I kind of felt at home when I was there, even if it was new and scary at times. I would have to come up with over 2000$ this trip though. Costs have risen since we’ve been. If the Lord wants me there though, it’ll happen.

What else can I write about?

I am taking a math course at my local Community College, and I plan on taking a few CLEP courses for English, Science etc. to jump start my schooling even more. I plan on transferring to the larger college in my town when I am finished with all the math classes I need. Hopefully, I will be able to receive the scholarship I am eligible for so I don’t have to pay my whole way through…that would be so difficult!

Hmm…what else…Just this past week, I went skiing with a group of friends in Colorado! I love skiing…I wish we could have stayed longer than 4 days, but that’s life. It was a great time though, and lots of funny memories were made.

Well, that’s it for now. My days are filled with Work, school, family and friends…I guess you could say I’m doing really well. Actually, there’s no guessing involved =) Anyway, Until I write again! Oh! and I hope you enjoy the pics I uploaded…the first 3 are of Peru…the next 3 are of the Ski Trip…

~Arielle