Mantra #2

monday mantra...

This week I feel like relaxing and putting my feet up.  Maybe it's because of this gorgeous weather!

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I believe in trying to eat healthily!  Unless you give me Starbucks, Ben & Jerry's, or bread.  Other than that, I'm on a health kick!

I'm addicted to Frank Sinatra.  If he were still alive, I'd kind of be a groupie (but the clean, happy, non-crazy kind).

I wish I could dress like my grandmother did at my age.  Gloves, pumps, pearls, and a dress = Jackie O = classic and chic.  I was born in the wrong era.  

I'm jealous of all of you mommy bloggers.  I have had the baby fever since I was 2, and it's never gone away.  It's not time for that yet, but I'll keep being jealous until I have my own baby in my arms.

Soundtrack/Mantra for the week: People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. (Maya Angelou)

Short and Sweet

This week's sentence:

(and something I'm working on this week)

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

-Rabindranath Tagore

Don't Pretend

You see and recognize what is right but refuse to act on it.  You hear with your ears, but you do not really listen. (Isaiah 42:20)

I was reading from Isaiah this morning, and the truth of this verse really hit me.  Immediately, another verse jumped out of the recesses of my mind and grabbed the hand of the first verse and added even more conviction:

Don't just pretend to love others.  Really love them.  Hate what is wrong.  Hold tightly to what is good. (Romans 12:9)

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I have this verse written on multiple index cards (if you don't use them to write verses on, you should!) and I certainly love the way it says exactly what it means.  But what we all really took this to heart?  What if I let the first verse plant itself in my motives so that I begin to act on the truth that I read in the second verse?
Loving others.  Really loving others.  Not discriminating.  And loving to the fullest.  Loving those I like, those I don't like (you have them too) and those in need, everywhere.  If I truly love others, sacrificing is nothing.  Sacrificing my money for the poor, my time for the lost and confused, and my emotions for the needy is worth all of the pain or frustration because I know the truth and it says to really love and I refuse to listen but not hear, see and not act.

Wish I lived....

In Detroit!  It's Friday, and I'm in love with Epic Motion, a wedding videography company in Michigan (which is why I wish I lived there... Don't get me wrong, I adore SC).  I loved them before my wedding, and if there would have been a way to get them here, I would have tried.  They do an amazing job, and I have never seen wedding videos like this before!  I fell in love with their work a while ago, and can't believe I've never blogged about them.
I'm like a creepy stalker, because I follow them on twitter and watch all of their new videos on the Epic Motion Blog.

Here is my favorite video so far:

Kate + Mike: The Trailer {re-mix} from Ryan Koral on Vimeo.

Alright, so I'm already married, and shouldn't be looking into wedding stuff, but who doesn't love a good love story?  Or a good wedding video?  I'll always be a hopeless romantic... 

Happy Friday, friends!

Remedy?

I went to the beach yesterday, which is why there was no post.  It's also why the back of my legs are fried to a crisp (well, part of the reason is that I think I missed them with the sun-block).
Anyway, I'm feeling just awful.  Does anybody have any wonderful remedy besides:

for the fever

&

for the burn!

Does anyone else have any other remedy?  Please?