6/52

                                                                   Christian, Evan, and Ben

Sledding is the best, even when there's not tons of snow, just a lot of mud. that doesn't stop us. I wish you could see this picture close up because the looks on their faces are priceless. (click on it and it gets bigger...its worth it) This hill scares me... I'll go down but I'll scream unnecessarily all the way and think I'm dying, but these crazy kids were going down backwards and upside down and three at once and all sorts of ridiculous. But it makes me smile.

This week I:
made 34 cupcakes
played ghetto twister
knocked down a kitchen wall with a sledgehammer
had a snowball fight
singlehandedly ate a whole bag of chips, no regrets
ate pita chips and white bean basil hummus, SO much goodness
had a fantastic valentines day party with tons of loveeee all around
went sledding & walked across a frozen lake and saw swans (swans are beautiful, did you know?! if you were as close as we were to them, you would understand. they're so graceful. unlike me.)

Needless to say, it was an eventful week. There is nothing better than making everyday life extraordinary. I kind of have a running joke with myself about how nothing is simple or easy, everything is always such an ordeal for me... everything from parking my car to baking cupcakes to shoving salt down my dogs throat to make him throw up... just a normal day in the life of Emma Buchanan.
Sometimes I just want to sell everything I own and move to Africa and never wear shoes again and love boldly and worship truly and share God's love with everyone I meet and absolutely change the world. Yeah, maybe someday I will actually do those things. But there's something beautiful about growing and thriving where you are planted. I live a completely normal life, a privileged, sometimes naive American middle class life. But I believe God can work through even that! Radical transforming love can happen through things like doing laundry and saying hi to someone while walking the dog or smiling when you don't feel like it or giving encouraging words to a friend or just belly laughing. God doesn't let the limits of a so called ordinary life stop Him from doing amazing, beautiful, powerful things! He is so much more than we can imagine! We need to pray for our lives to be transformed right now, right where we are! That is my challenge for this coming week, the seventh week of 2013. Join me?
Pray for God to do more than you can ask or imagine, He does not disappoint when we pray for His name to be known & glorified.