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Thanksgiving moments

On November 27, 2012   /   Giving Back, Holidays, Personal   /   Leave a comment

Our Thanksgiving Day was a bit small this year. My brother Josh wasn’t able to make it down from college as he was the stay in RA, and John’s sister spent Thanksgiving with her in laws. It felt small but it was still lovely. We crowded around my mom’s little table and decorated a stack of sugar cookies in the blink of an eye. Which of course were absolutely delicious with that hint of almond. :)




Of course most of the afternoon consisted of making our Thanksgiving feast.. and then we all gathered in my mom’s apartment to enjoy it and be together.




Sometimes simple and small is beautiful.

The evening was spent in games and just being together as a family. How be it not the entire family.. but I’m just grateful we could be together at all. So many people can’t be together and so many people wouldn’t even have enough food to share around if they did. I hope I never lose perspective. :)



So many things to be thankful for..

John and I celebrated the day by giving the gift of hope to girls who have been rescued out of sex slavery.. to help them build a new life. I don’t ever want to lose sight of how I’ve been blessed so that I can bless in return. If you would like to join me in giving a future and hope to hurting children around the world, visit my gift catalog with World Vision by clicking HERE.

I hope you all had a very lovely Thanksgiving surrounded by the people you love. -Bethany

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Make a difference this Christmas

On November 24, 2012   /   Giving Back, Inspiration   /   Leave a comment

I want to invite you to join in my vision of making our world a better place for children – as simply as giving life changing gifts in the honor of friends or family for their Christmas gifts. Check it out!

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Autumn is a second spring..

On October 10, 2012   /   Beauty, Giving Back, High Dynamic Range Photography, Nature, Outdoors   /   Leave a comment

… when every leaf is a flower. -Albert Camus





To purchase these photos as artwork click HERE. 100% of profits go to help people in need through World Vision.

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Take me to the beach…

On October 4, 2012   /   Beauty, High Dynamic Range Photography, Nature, Outdoors, Travel   /   Leave a comment









To purchase these photos as artwork click HERE. 100% of the profits go to help people in need via World Vision.

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NY Trip {part two} lakeside..

On September 25, 2012   /   Beauty, Giving Back, High Dynamic Range Photography, Nature, Outdoors   /   Leave a comment








To purchase these photos as artwork click HERE. All profits go to help people in need through World Vision.

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The ancient skies above..

On April 11, 2012   /   Beauty, Giving Back, High Dynamic Range Photography, Nature, Outdoors, Urban   /   Leave a comment

Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth,
sing praise to the Lord,
to him who rides the ancient skies above,
who thunders with mighty voice.
Proclaim the power of God,
whose majesty is over Israel,
whose power is in the skies.
Psalm 68:32-34 TNIV

To purchase this photo in high resolution click HERE. 100% of the profits from this photo to go to help people in need through World Vision. -beth

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Give a gift. Change a life.

On April 10, 2012   /   Beauty, Birthdays, Giving Back, Inspiration   /   Leave a comment

Today is my birthday! And this year I’m asking for something a little different. Instead of presents, I’m asking for gifts for the children around the world through my gift catalog with World Vision. There’s a large variety of gifts to choose from: a goat, medicine, school books, fruit trees, clean water, a soccer ball… and the list goes on. If you feel lead to give towards my birthday catalog, please click HERE. Even if you don’t feel like this is the time or place for you to give personally, I have a request. Please share my gift catalog with your family and friends via Facebook, twitter, email, reblogging this or any other social media outlets. The more people who known about it, the more people who get a chance to give! This gifts are literally life changing and not just for the child who receives the gift, but for the whole community as well. It’s life changing for the giver, too.

“And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.” Matthew 25:40

-beth

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afterdark.

On March 5, 2012   /   Giving Back, High Dynamic Range Photography, Urban   /   3 Comments



i love doing pictures after dark. playing with light and long exposures. friday night we wandered around downtown mooresville with our cameras and {very heavy} tripods, capturing whatever we desired. john says the tripods are not heavy but i disagree. the air was cold and crisp and the sky looked like a storm was brewing. it was sorta adventurous. so here are my photos from the evening and i’m gonna try to convince john to post some of his.. (those awesome snowboarding pics he took back in january, i’m trying to convince him that you all still want to see them, too! so leave a comment asking him to post them if you don’t think it’s too late. haha.) -beth

To purchase these photos in high resolution click HERE. 100% of profits go to help people in need through World Vision.

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reading through 2012: week 8

On February 29, 2012   /   books, Inspiration   /   8 Comments

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

books! one of my new year’s goals was to read 52 books in 2012. that’s one a week. so far, i’m exactly on track. it’s week 8 and i just finished my 8th book. here’s what i’ve been reading since i last updated you guys.

The Return of the King. Being the third part of the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. i was reading through the entire Lord of the Rings series again, starting with The Hobbit. i had finished the other three last year so that’s why it looks like i was reading just the third. it was actually only the second time that i’ve read through the entire series. i don’t really have words to describe how wonderful they are. i’ve learned so much, been so inspired and my life has been changed by these books. and they’re the most incredible fantasy stories.. ever.

“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.” ― C.S. Lewis

The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Sterns . do you ever feel like something big is missing in your life.. something important? if you want to be staggered out of inward focused christianity, this is the book for you. i listened to it on audiobook and it held me in rapt attention. and i cried. a lot. written by the president of World Vision, its about the bleeding world around us. and how we can change it.

Crazy Love by Francis Chan. this book is about love. God’s crazy, radical love for us. our love for him. and those around us. it’s one of the most beautiful pictures of what love really is that i’ve ever seen. and how to really love. radically. tangibly.

Take Your Best Shot by Austin Gutwein. if you don’t think there’s any way a 9 year old boy can change the world by shooting free throws, think again. it’s about the boy who started Hoops of Hope to raise money for orphans caused by the AIDS pandemic. it’s about how God wants to use you, in whatever it is you are passionate about, to make a difference in the world.

so. do you guys have any book recommendations for me? i still have 44 to go before the end of the year! what are some of your favorite books? the ones you could read over and over?
-beth

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What I learned from my 30 hour famine..

On February 25, 2012   /   Giving Back   /   Leave a comment

As my famine has come to an end, I want to send you all a big thank you. For praying for me, for the people in need, for those of you who physically joined me on my famine, and of course to those of you who donated. I can’t express how incredibly much it means to me! And to think – you are heroes to those people facing another day without food! Your support meant the world to me.

Going into the famine I was doing it for 2 reasons. To raise awareness, and to raise money to help end global hunger. What I didn’t expect was how deeply it would change me. I got such a personal glimpse even if it was such a small one, of what so many people feel every day, all over the world. It felt so real. The pain. Yet I knew at the end of my famine that I could eat. I knew there was food in my pantry, and if there wasn’t, I could run over to the store and buy some. For thousands of people, none of those options are a reality. They went to bed hungry last night, and will again tonight. After searching desperately for food, for something to buy food with, or even for somewhere to buy it.
I know this sounds really silly and it’s okay if you laugh, but as I was preparing John’s dinner last night, the smell almost overpowered me. By then I had been without food since the night before and when I handed him his plate of steaming hot mexican, I literally had to fight tears. It smelled so good. And my stomach was growling ferociously. And I felt so tired, so little energy. That’s when it became so real to me.. that thousands of people go through this on a scale hundreds of times worse. I won’t ever really be the same.

I hope this made a difference in your lives, too. Reaching out to our family around the world who so desperately need us. So thank you again.. and the need is always there.

I don’t have a figure of how much I raised. I decided that wasn’t important.. for me to know how much came in. Because that’s not what mattered. What matters is that we looked beyond ourselves and helped change the world, one person at a time. Thank you for being that change.
-bethany

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