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Through good and bad, sadness and joy, my heart lies with showing the goodness of God in all seasons. Especially the messy ones.

Pain.

There is purpose behind the

Beauty

There is                  in the chaos,

Mess,

there is meaning in the

Every day society tells us that life has to be perfect and orderly to be beautiful. Our day-to-day should be a nothing less than perfect. We need a flawless aesthetic, a five year plan and perfectly curated social media. There's nothing glamorous about disorder and uncertainty. It's not "normal" to struggle. 

But God wants to use those ugly parts, too. Those broken memories, those hidden struggles, and those less than beautiful moments. 

God wants to use the ugly stuff, too...

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder… I have always agreed with this quote. Beauty is found in the simplest of things. Sure, there are things-people even-that you look at and automatically you think, “Wow! They are beautiful..” Ahem. For instance, I think Matthew Maconahay is one of the most beautiful men, well ever. […]

Lifestyle, Random Things

January 21, 2011

“Beauty…”

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I realize I’m pretty behind on showing off the rest of our photos from our cross country trip, so today thanks to my lack of creativity for a more original post I thought I would show you the remainder of our photos from Seattle. So there ya’ go! We didn’t get a chance to make […]

Military Life, Random Things

January 20, 2011

Seattle, WA

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Today is going to be one of those list posts. The ones I tend to try to avoid, but on occasion just need to lay out there. I’m not going to bore you with my almost empty because I don’t have a house or a kitchen grocery list or with more reasons why I am […]

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January 19, 2011

Because I can’t think of a title…

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I’m still having issues with my photo blog allowing me to post, so I am going to do another “photography” post here on this blog. Hope you guys don’t mind…if I keep having issues with my photo blog, I’m likely to delete it and just do my photography posts here. That would mean two posts […]

Random Things

January 17, 2011

Winter Wonderland

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That seems to be the motto of our lives right now. It seems like we had to “hurry up and wait” to find out where we were going. Then we had to wait for the husband to graduate school and get home. And then we had to wait to actually leave Alabama to head to […]

Military Life

January 17, 2011

Hurry Up & Wait

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Well…if I can’t say anything else about our travels over the past few weeks, I can say this: this blog has been written all over the place. I’ve blogged in Florida, I’ve blogged in Alabama, Tennessee, Nebraska, Missouri, Seattle, and now I’m blogging in Alaska [which will be a pretty prevalent thing for the next […]

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January 14, 2011

Alaskan Arrival Recap

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Despite how much I love my son, he drives me insane. To say that my child never did anything wrong, would be insane…and an outright lie. To pretend that it doesn’t annoy the you-know-what out of me when my son throws a tantrum would also be a lie. So. Rather than pretending any of the […]

Family, Lifestyle, Motherhood, Random Things

January 13, 2011

Confessions of a Toddler Parent

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Tomorrow we leave behind the “Lower 48” and head to our new home in Alaska. Tomorrow we get to see how well our little guy handles air travel. Tomorrow we have to try to haul 3 suitcases, 1 garment bag, 1 Sea Bag, a backpack, a computer bag, a purse, and two kiddie backpacks into […]

Random Things, Uncategorized

January 12, 2011

Tomorrow

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My lovely, lovely friend Jhen of From Here to Eternity has started up her own photo hop and [though I’m a day late] I wanted to join in and play along! I am hoping to get caught up on photos and life in general at some point this century so that I can get back […]

Random Things

January 12, 2011

“In Love”

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Whew. This post is coming to you from Seattle, Washington! We have finally reached our final “lower 48” destination and are scheduled to fly to our new home on Thursday! The journey has been amazing! The sights were beautiful and the scenery was beyond words! I know that I’m several days behind on letting you […]

Military Life, Random Things

January 11, 2011

Cross Country Travels

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Courtney Kirkland is a Southeast Alabama Writer & Designer. Since 2011,, Courtney has passionately provided beautiful, intentional design to small businesses & bloggers and encouraged thousands to walk in a rich faith in any situation.

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