The Polyvore Files!

Welcome to The Polyvore Files link up! The rules are simple, in that there are no rules. Just get as creative as possible on Polyvore and come link it up with either myself or Joni. We'd love to have you!

I am super excited to be blogging today, because I can finally say that I'm buying my dream bike. I seriously walk past it every time I'm in Target, and I just about die of cuteness every time. Well, after stepping on the scale earlier this week, I decided to venture out and try to keep myself a little better toned. Since I'm limited as to what I can do when working out, I knew a bike was my perfect option! The adorable bike is down below, and the dream outfit I'd be wearing on top of it is there too.

(Side note: Did yall know Vera Bradley sold hair accessories? I went in their store for a craft I'm hoping to post this week and just about lost my mind.)

Do yall ever bike? If so, where do you go? We have a little bike trail close by, but I think I'd use the little driving distance as an excuse not to just go around our block a time or two.

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Oceans

Today was just one of those days. I bet you know what I'm talking about. You wake up with a song in your head. You drive to your errands and play the song to get it out of your head. Then you turn on the radio, and the song is on. Then you get back in your car and the song is on again. Then you turn on Pandora and it's the first song played. Maybe you know the song I'm talking about? It's pretty great.

So finally after my third time hearing this song today, I just let myself get into the song. I just discovered it a few weeks ago, and as soon as I did, I played it on repeat for about 4 hours. I know it's been everywhere for the past year, and I've been apparently living under a rock. But I'm wondering if the reason I'm just now discovering it, and hearing it 19374189624 times a day is because of how badly I need this song these next few months.

It can be so easy to get caught up in the day to day monotony. Day in, day out: go to work, go to bed, repeat. Some days I just can't help but scream, "This isn't what God has planned for my life!" 

I've been struggling lately knowing what God has planned, and not even feeling close to achieving it. It's discouraging and heartbreaking and overwhelming and exhausting at times. That's why today, when I heard this song over and over again, I was so uplifted and encouraged to know that yes it's hard, but God is right there with me.

"When oceans rise, my soul will rest in Your embrace."
There is nothing more clear than that. Life gets hard and discouraging, but we have the upper hand.
We have God.

"We can only keep on going, after all, by the power of God who saved us in the first place and then called us to do His holy work. We had nothing to do with it. It was all His idea, a gift prepared for us in Jesus long before we knew anything about it. But we know it now." 

-2 Timothy 1:9-10(ish)

The Polyvore Files: If My Blog was an Outfit

Hello again, and welcome to The Polyvore Files link up! The rules are simple, in that there are no rules. Just get as creative as possible on Polyvore and come link it up with either myself or Joni. We'd love to have you!

I'm almost positive everyone and their mom has seen these posts going around this week. And you know you love it. It's such a cute idea, I couldn't pass it up!

Blog Outfit by kara-stone featuring a hair band headband

Feel free to come link up with us! Whether it be your own blog outfit, or whatever you'd like.

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