Little Letters; Edition II

Dear Summer, I am so excited for you. I hope you're worth that wait, and are lovely, with heat to match the description of your season. *hint hint*

Dear Piano, I adore playing you so much, and I love that I can pick up a song and learn it. That's just awesome. (and I'm sorry I sometimes get frustrated, its the fingers' fault not yours)

Dear Followers, Thank you for visiting my blog even though I rarely post anymore. I'm sorry. I really am.

Dear Books, Can I just apologizes? I have sadly neglected you lately and i'm sorry. I will try better this month. I promise.  

Dear Clothing, you are so fun, especially when I find out that I can dress like the 50's even though it's not. My Oxfords are the most worn shoe in my closet.

Dear Drawing, Well aren't you exciting? Its been a blast finding out that I can do more than line-art. Though admittedly its nice easy..

Dear Pinterest, Stop it. Just stop.

Dear Narnia, after watching The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe again last night, I have completely fallen in love with you again. Thank you so much for being what you are.

Dear C.S Lewis, Thank you for creating Narnia.

Dear Life, You are so lovely and I have been so incredibly blessed that its overwhelming.

Dear Laziness, why do you have to be a part of me? You're so mean. I'm guessing I will be fighting you the rest of my life..

Dear Writing, Wow, you are amazing. Its so fun to see what I can create through words. Through simply different arrangements of 26 little letters. :)

Dear You, Do you have any requests or ideas for posts? If you do I would love to hear them!!

Dear Music, You are really amazing. But what really strikes me is that I can be humming a part of you when I go to sleep and wake up humming it still. *sigh* So much for the turning it off and turning it back on again method.

I do not like/listen to the band that wrote this song. In fact, I know barley anything about them. But I really like this song, and this cover is so well done!

Dear Busy-ness, As much as you can be overwhelming at times, I like you. Probably because my busy is a really lame and spoiled busy. Just don't go comparing it with other peoples. :) 

Dear Darkness, Do you know how many emotions come from you? Sun gets, for the most part, one emotion: happiness. But with you there's fear, respect, admiration, mystery, suspicion, loneliness, and so many more. Another thing that is interesting is that you can feel heavier and more dense on certain nights than others. You are not something that has weight, however, you are simply the absences of light. Nothing more. Yet you have so much power over emotions.

Dear Quotes, I love each on of you, but this has been my recent favorite:

Dear Tomorrow, I believe you are close so I better go to bed. :)

<3 Eva

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Tuesday Tune {JJ Heller}

Tuesday Tune has only visited this blog once; maybe it's because I haven't have songs to share, or maybe it's because whenever I think of one, I miss Tuesday. :) But finally have accomplished both. It's Tuesday and I have a tune.

The Boat Song, By JJ Heller

I find it sad that half the songs today are love songs about broken hearts, falling in love, running away, something along those lines. (and most of the time they aren't that appropriate to listen to)

So when I stumbled across this song (my sisters and mom found it actually) I was touched, and pleased to find it a cute, simple and sweet love song. A Christian artist singing about her love for her husband in a very pleasing manner. I just about melt every time I listen to it. 

So here it is. :)

Isn't her hair the cutest?

<3 Eva

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Perfect Love

Is there such thing as Perfect Love? In Christ, who came and died on the cross for our sins, there is. He set an example for us, when he did that; showing the definition of a Perfect Love. (For he is perfect in every way, thus his love is perfect.)

"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her."   -Ephesians 5:25 

We are humans {created by God}, we have a sinful nature and we will never reach perfect (we won't even come close to it). But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't strive for perfection, God set an example for us for a purpose. Look at theses verses, and look at the results of love:

"Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law." -Romans 13: 10

"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." -1 Peter 4:8

"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because He first loved us." -1 John 4:18-19

"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." -John 15:13

That is powerful love that drives out fear, covers a multitude of sins, does no harm to its neighbor, and even lays down his life for a friends. (As God did for us)

Throughout the Bible God repeatedly tells us to put on love, for it is the greatest of virtues:

"Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love." -Ephesians 4:2

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." -1 Corinthians 13:13

"...And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity." -Colossians 3:14

He also points out that love must be sincere, and that love comes from God: 

"Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." -1 John 4:8

"Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good." - Romans 12:9 

So keep in mind that in all things, do it in love. And as you spend time with your friends and family this Valentine's day (or even your 'One True Love') remember that that love originated from God. Like God, the depth of love is incomprehensible:

"Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails..." 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a

Happy Valentine's Day!! 

<3 Eva

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"Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, 

That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks 

Within his bending sickle's compass come; 

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, 

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

   If this be error and upon me proved,

   I never writ, nor no man ever loved." 
-Sonnet 116 {Shakespeare}