songbird

This precious girl goes to Baylor University and is only 20 (I think). She and her song are both equally enchanting and BEAUTIFUL. I am not quite sure how Chris (my husband) found her, but he invited her to open a couple of their shows and I wish she would play every show with them. She will also be playing with Sleeperstar on Friday, May 1st at the House Of Blues in Dallas. I would pay a $100 to listen to Jillian Edwards sing her songs and play her guitar.

Also, Sleeperstar will be playing on the big stage this year at the Taste of Addison. They just added them to the roster, so look for their info to be updated to the events page soon. They will play in the late afternoon sometime on Saturday, May 9th.



This Friday Sleeperstar is playing for a great cause. Come one, come all.



Happy listening,
KP

hardly mellow yellow

A ray of sunshine breaking through the clouds, the color of daffodils and the title of one of my favorite Coldplay songs, Yellow. Summer is just around the corner can you feel it? I can! Happy Friday! I am going on a girl excursion weekend and will post pictures upon my return. So fun.

Relaxation + Red wine = Yes, please.


1st Row: Oscar de la Renta dress
3rd Row: Anthropologie rug, Southern Living Room
4th Row: Kate Spade & Crane invite, flowers from Martha Stewart, Anthropologie Chair

Yes Dress

Bigger isn’t always better, but it certainly is in this case. Do you remember this 1000 layer Versace number SJP dawned? This dress is art. It is MAJOR drama in the best way possible. The palette of sea foam and grays is serious, and yet it is playful like a fairytale. Patricia Field is a GENIOUS and I can only imagine how pleased she was with how this look traslated on screen. If I owned this dress, I might not ever take it off which would eventually be awkward for everyone who knows me.

What a beautiful day...

Detachment

I am reading a book called, The Glorious Pursuit and the last chapter I read was about Detachment...so good:

It is one thing to be surrendered. It is another thing entirely to be detached. Surrender is an act of the will, accepting physical circumstances or situations God has ordained and looking for HIS good purpose in them. Detachment means we stop finding our meaning and security in people, things, positions, money, and power so they no longer lure us into actions we know are unwise or unprofitable.

I don't know if this has ever been spelled out for me before. My sin has mostly felt cyclical and I think that is why. I have a life saturated with surrender but at times void of detachment. Detachment requires me to not merely look at how I am acting out, but to really sit and search my heart for the root... to examine the craving...

When a Christian falls today, 99 percent of the spiritual effort is spent trying to control the "stumbling"—that is, we focus on outer strategies to help us avoid situations in which we sin. A young dating couple will be told never to be alone together; an alcoholic will be warned away from bars or liquor stores. If the heart is bent by the appetite that leads to sin, all the external discipline agreed upon in moments of strength will wilt in the heat of desire.

Iron will—external discipline that creates physical distance but not spiritual deliverance—will be met with only limited success. John on the Cross explains, "We are not discussing the mere lack of things; this lack will not divest the soul if it craves for all these objects. We are dealing with the denudation (stripping of) the soul’s appetites and gratifications. This is what leaves it free and empty of all things, even though it possesses them. Since the things of the world cannot enter the soul, they are not in themselves an encumbrance… rather, it is the will and appetite dwelling within that cause the damage when set on these things."

If you have been fighting sin unsuccessfully, in large part because while you offer up the action, you can’t stop the craving, then you need the virtue of detachment. This virtue begins when we turn our eyes from the created to the Creator.

This is a long and daunting process I think, for our hearts to be in a place where they aren't just ignoring or going without the desires that they are bent towards. What would it be like to no longer even have the craving and more so for those cravings to be turned into something righteous and holy? As long as there are cravings, there will be broken sinful actions and/or spiritual exhaution and possibly resentment. Legitimate needs will be met in illegitimate ways. This resonated with me because the reality that we can talk to each other until we are blue in the face, knowing we are not getting through to the ones we love, felt kind of hopeless. At the end of the day people (all of us) are going to try and alleviate the hunger pains of our cravings. We do what we want. I want to want different things, to have different longings. How do we posture our hearts in a way where God can change our appetite?

Charming Dress Tuesday

Can we say gorgeous? The soft whimsical styling’s of Luisa Beccaria are really tickling my fancy of late. I should like to wear this dress one day. I love the way it hugs her silhouette, so feminine. The bottom keeps it interesting without taking it over the top. And I will never get over the color black. It will never be replaced and I will always choose it first, loyal to the bitter end. Hope you enjoy her handiwork as much as I do.

Luisa Beccaria

taste of italy

I have been thinking happy thoughts today, all the beautiful ways I have gotten to see God over the last four years. Maybe you could use a little "macation" (make believe vacation) in your Monday? Enjoy...