The paths

Oh, there are so many roads to take. So many descions to make. And my heart just stops and my life can't go on. Be my map and show me the path that leads to you. I love you, Lord.

A Thousand Blessings

The sour taste of lemons on your tongue.
Flowers in your hair
A little cousin currled in on your lap
Old pictures
Memories of you first pet
Typing a blog post
Emailing with a pen pal (if you want to, I'm open to being your pen pal)
3 months until your 18th birthday
When you go to sleep listening to Andrew Peterson
Perfecting the movie star eye shadow look
Looking at engagement photos for your brother
Frozen Yougurt at twilight
your first day in a new house
Watching Princess Bride with a soul sister
Picking out a wedding dress for my future sister-in-law
Wearing your bridesmade dress for the first time
A thousand little lights
The feel when you touch his hand
 and coming back to this blog

Little blessings
life is full

Not for now

and after a few days of thought I feel like God wants me to continue with A Rose in Bloom.
So my photography blog will be the one deleted in a few days.
Tomorrow begins an epic amount of posting.
be ready
I'm back,
Maya

Of Vintage

It was a thurdsay morning when I and Emily and I decided to look up Vintage things.
The result was glorious and overall sadistfying.
You see Emily and I are the having such a fun time help planning Meg and Jeremy's wedding and "vintage" was the theme they wanted. We have so many good ideas....We'll need lot's of umbrella's and suitcases and a plain abundance of trinkets.

Oh, Glorious vintage....
I think I'll go thrifting.

New Year Blog Challenge: Jornaling

This was the guest post I posted for the New Years New Blog Challenge on Grace Anna's Blog Love Poured Out. Enjoy!

I was writing in my Journal yesterday when I realized someone reading those words would think I have a boring life. Just ramblings about friends, family, church, guys, and life. Yeah, typical stuff. Writing awkward moments and every conversation with my crush. Dreams. Failures.

Then I was like, is blogging the same way?

Do my followers think my life is ordinary?

But I don't have a boring life.

Someone who could have that thought that was wrong.

I don't have a boring life. It's my story. These people, events, these stories. They make me who I am. They shape me. Mold me into the women I am becoming. These friends are the girls I want to share me christian walk with. These men are the men I want to be the leaders in my church.

These times are the beginning of a story. The story of me. Every christian has a story like this with a glorious ending.

Even me. Even you.

So this is my story. My blog is filled with my words. My heart. My Savior.

It's a new Year, meaning new beginnings. A new school semester--my senior year. A first day. A new beginning. This morning I was writing prayers in my journal when I relaized how much God has taught me last month. I wondered what words I would be writing in my journal in the beginning of next month. What will he teach me then? What will I write beginning of next year? This time Next Year? It's so exicting to see how God changes us, matures, teaches us, beckons us, and calls us home.

Lately I've leanred to look back into my old blog posts and see how much I've grown since then. I can see the way the Lord has blessed me, grown my family, grown my writing skills, grown my love for sharing and expressing myself.

Blogging has overall changed me in a great way. I can see the Lord's hand in my life and the way blogging has helped me mature. Not just helped me but going back I can see the ways I'm differnt than I was then. It's like an online version of my journal...and my life story. I've changed so much. I'm a different person.

Yet I'm still me. 100% through.

I have never been shy to express my struggles on my blog because I know I will be able to look back one day and say I'm glad that's over.

I used to blog to give my sister updates on my life. Now I blog for me. To see myself change. To see myself scatch the surface of being a women of God. For to live for Him is all I wish.

And that's why I love to blog. And my blog will change as I do.

So as the same way journaling has helped me by helping me see my life story, blogging has too.

I would encourage you to keep a journal or/and a blog. So one day you can look back and say

I'm glad I've grown.

Soli Deo Gloria!

I Wonder

I wonder.
I wonder what the world is like. I wonder about the trees. I wonder if every animal knows who they are going to be. I wonder where all the people in big cities are a-going. I wonder if that homeless man on the street ever had "someone." I wonder if that one guy likes that one girl. I wonder what my husbands name is. I wonder about the galaxies. I wonder about the "pefect" heros in history.  I wonder about silent nights. I wonder why lions roar. I wonder why snow falls. I wonder if Forever and ever exsits. I wonder if love is real. I wonder if He really is in love. I wonder if perfect exsits. I wonder if forever is forever. I wonder if why the flowers bloom in the spring. I wonder how the baby sea turtles find a way home. I wonder how cold the coldest place in the world is. I wonder how many stars are in the sky. I wonder if God really knows the number of every grain of sand. I wonder if music can unite us all. I wonder when the world shall end. I wonder when I will die. I wonder what my kids names are going to be. I wonder if He hears all my prayers. I wonder like a child. I wonder. I wonder. I cannot ever cease the wondering of my heart, which seeks for anwsers. Lately I've had to realize I must seek for anwsers from the Lord or wait and see.
I wonder like a little girl and ask a lot of questions.  Yet there are 3 answers to all of my wonders.
(1) God created it and made it perfect
(2) wait and you'll know in God's perfect time
(3) You don't need that anwser.
 

I wonder about the beauty.

There is one thing I know. He is Lord. God shall reign. And knows every anwser. Blessed by the name of the Lord!


He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein

random obessions

Note: I realized that I didn't mention when my give-away ended. It will end January 14th
Current Obessions:

Old black and white movies and caramel corn

Cherry Blossoms

 Photography...obviously so

The Titanic. Enough said here.

Fishing

Writing Long posts and never finishing them (my first dream 2012 post is almost done!)

Hosting give-aways

This:

These Books:

 

Coldplay. Chris Martin. Again Enough said.

Piano music

And that's it for the present second.

More serious, life, kinda stuff later.

Maya

Perfection

The rain was falling slowly as I picked up a piece of paper to write but no words would come out. Nothing could. Downstairs Rachel was baking and Jeremy playing the piano. Twilight was slowly coming and the cloudy sky was getting darker. My sweater was cozy and I was in my own perfect world for just a moment. Life is simple and perfect. Life is beautiful and I pass by the winter breeze everyday without thinking about the loviness. The Joy.
I love dreaming and my One Word for 2012 is dream. I want to dream big and live hard. I want to do things with my life that honor God. I want to concurer the world today and write about it tomorrow.

{Via Pintrest}
That is why I, Maya Moore, am hosting a project for my blog and life in 2012 called Dream 2012
It's a challenge for girls to really dream and breathe and live life loud.
here's the deal:
There will be more posts on dreaming over here...and change.
For example to start the sha-bang tomorrow lies a give-away over here.
There is going to be tons of guest posts (email me if your interested)
My goal is just to get a bunch of dreaming girls to write posts on life goals.
So write up your 2012 dream , add the button to your blog, and then link below.
More link-ups will be  every month this year!
So Link the first one and join the dreamers (girls who link get a extra entry in tomorrows give-away)

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As I wait

I wait for love I wonder if somewhere in the city lights, in the powerdery january snow there is someone waiting for me too. I wonder what his name is, what color eyes he has, if he likes sweet tea and watching The Notebook. I wonder if he plays the guitar, sends emails, writes, explores, or even has another girlfriend. I wish I could tell him it wasn't going to work.
I know because all this time I've been waiting...for him.
And I know all he wondering has one anwser and that is me.

So dear beloved, whether I've known you forever, simply glanced, or have never met your eyes I will wait for you. I am never ever going to kiss anyone else and stay perfectly pure for you. I don't know if your here where I love now, or where we are going to move in a couple of weeks, in nashville, or in england but O woll wait.
Love, me

And by the way I hope he doesn't nodice me until God wants him to nodice :)

Arriving Glory

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. --Betty Smith

















"all of this creation is just a sneak peek of the arrivng glory that God shall reveal"
--Me

The 2012 bucket list

 

First, I'll show you last years bucket list:
2011:

• learn how to ski
• start a blog
• visit mexico
• take a roadtrip with Jeremy (my older brother)
• get a driver's liscene
• visit new orleans
• get a facebook
• get a twitter (I don't post anymore)
• go to a circus
• get high-lights
• read 130 books

I have to say I did pretty well!
Well here's to 2012:

• buy a used car
• Learn HTML
• start a design blog
• go bowling
• move...to another state
• graduate highschool
• get 100 followers
• sleep all night on a trampoline
• go to homeschool prom
• win a photo challenge
• get a new haircut
• see Titianic in theatres
• memorize the tangled soundtrack

My heart will go on



{via}


Every night in my dreams
I see you, I feel you
That is how I know you
go on
Far across the distance
And spaces Between us
You have come to show you
go on
I love that song. I love pretty much anything about the Titianic movie. I mean I would recommend watching it on clearplay but it's my favorite movie and I can't believe I have never even mentioned in on my blog!
Well I cry everytime I see it and I could watch it a thousand times. And it's coming to theatres! In 3D!



{Via}



Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart and
My heart will go on and on
well if you haven't see the movie it's about a rich girl named Rose who is engaged to a guy simply to get money. She tries to commit suicide while on The Titianic but is persudued not to by a poor guy named Jack who "believes life is a gift" and doesn't want to waste it. She slowly falls in love with him and has the best few days of her life. Which soon are drowned when the ship hits a ice burg .

{via}

It's one of the best loves stories and simply an amazing film. It's not the cleanist film but holds a feel of true love.

Love can touch us one time
And last for a lifetime
And never let go 'til
we're gone
Love was when I loved you
One true time I hold to
In my life we'll always
go on


Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart and
My heart will go on and on



You're here, there's nothing I fear
And I know that my heart will go on
We'll stay forever this way
You are safe in my heart and
My heart will go on and on

JACK: I don’t know about you, but I intend to write a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all this. She laughs weakly, but it sounds more like a gasp of fear. Rose finds his eyes in the dim light.
ROSE: I love you, Jack.
JACK: No...don’t say your goodbyes, Rose. Don’t you give up. Don’t do it.
ROSE: I’m so cold.
JACK: You’re going to get out of this...you’re going to go on and you’re going to make babies and watch them grow and you’re going to die an old lady, warm in your bed. Not here...Not this night. Do you understand me?
ROSE: I can’t feel my body.
JACK: Rose, listen to me. Winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Jack is having trouble getting the breath to speak.
JACK: It brought me to you. And I’m thankful, Rose. I’m thankful.
His voice is trembling with the cold which is working its way to his heart. But his eyes are unwavering.
JACK: You must do me this honor...promise me you will survive....that you will never give up...not matter what happens...no matter how hopeless...promise me now, and never let go of that promise.
ROSE: I promise.
JACK: Never let go.
ROSE: I promise. I will never let go, Jack. I’ll never let go.

Photo Challenge

I choose this picture because I love the color in it.

Goodbye memories

"What happened to happily ever after?"
These were the very words a friend told me after a break-up with "the only amazing guy in the world!"
That was the past....maybe.
Relationships, life, people, schools, jobs. They all become the past. The present becomes the past.
I've had some rough moments in my life, I'll say that. I've endured funreals, fought tears, and grown up. I've moved all over the planet and just recently moved to North Carolina.
But my heart lies with my old home. i will always be an island girl.

I'm ready to move on form my past tears and my past life.

{via}

Quick Note

In honor of 2012, A rose in bloom will be hosting a blog Giveaway!
Email me or comment of you are interested in being a sponser,
I am pretty much looking for someone who is interested in giving away homeade idems or etsy idems.
You will be responsible for shipping your product to the winner.
you will get a sponser spot on my blog for a month or 2

New Blog, New Year

Dearest blogging friends,
If you would have asked me a year ago I would've said I write for others. Now I realize more than anything in the world I write for my own sake.
Because how many harsh emails I recieve or as many follwers stop following I won't get heartbroken anymore.
I am not going to blog because of you guys, I blog becasue I need to express myself to the world.
And this new year is going to be a large new step in the world in of blogging. Anna Grace hosted a new year, new blog challenge on her blog and I am proud to say I was one of the guest posters! Check it out with the link above!
Trying to be perfect is no longer what I strive. I strive to be a woman of the lord, a friend, one day a mother, and a loving daughter. I will never be perfect and I have never met a perfect blogger. We all mess up, grow up, take breaks, and move on. Through my first year of blogging there has been no blogger who has not grow up. Girls, I'm proud of you. All my blogging buddies have slowly been turning into women of the Lord and this makes me happy. Yet I have seen a few of my dear friends go astray. I don't like those moments.

As a blogger, this is going to be a new year. A new me. Of course my dear blog is not going to change but I am. I want to share more with you and I have finally decided on a new name for my dear blog. You'll find that out soon....

{Via}

 I am ready for a new year. A new blogging step. I can't wait to see what the Lord has in store for 2012.
God has me in his arms and I hope I can not only blog because I need to in order to express myself, like some girls write songs, but because I am his diciple. A fisher of man and I am going to lead the stray sheep to our shephard.

Much Love,
Maya Moore
January 2nd, 2012