By Lauren Ratliff on July 17, 2009
Mother Theresa has shared so much wisdom and has been one of the most quoted individuals in the world. I was cleaning/deleting a lot of documents from my computer today and came across this quote I saved a while back. It’s just too good not to share. What shes says is so true. It is [...]
Posted in Bible, church, Family | Tagged love, Mother Theresa, quotes
By Lauren Ratliff on June 6, 2009
Gosh, I have not been so great about updating my blog lately… I have been pretty busy with other things. Obviously from the title & photo, Brian and I are engaged! Wooohoo!! We’ve dated for about 2 years and are ready to get married. He proposed to me in the sanctuary of our church on [...]
Posted in church, Family, photos, wedding, weekend | Tagged engagement, Family, wedding
By Lauren Ratliff on March 9, 2009
What a perfect Sunday afternoon. Brian and I went to church, and since the weather was so nice- we packed a little picnic and headed up to Frisco. After our picnic, we set up the skeet shooting machine and shot skeet for a couple hours. It was so nice to “get away” and [...]
Posted in church, dog, Lauren Ratliff Photography, pets, photos, weather, weekend | Tagged country, dog, guns, shooting, skeet
By Lauren Ratliff on February 18, 2009
Phuket, Thailand 2005
No one stands in front of the waves of the ocean and thinks about how amazing they are, or their bench press number, or just how magnificent their company is. They catch their breath and thank the Lord. They are brought to their knees in awe.
This is worship.
I’ve been going through [...]
Posted in Bible, church, God, photos | Tagged creation, creator, faith, God, notes, ocean, rest
By Lauren Ratliff on January 16, 2009
I’m excited it’s Friday. This week has FLOWN by!! I’ve been so crazy busy at work during the day (I even forget to eat lunch- that’s just crazy) and I usually have several chores and errands to run afterwork, that I’m looking forward to a pretty laid back weekend. Even though I’ve been busy at [...]
Posted in Books, church, entertainment, Family, t.v., weekend | Tagged Books, friends, photographer, weekend
By Lauren Ratliff on December 4, 2008
To follow up with my most recent blog entry discussing Hank Hanegraaff’s “Heart of Christmas” 25 day devotional… I wanted to share today’s (Dec. 4) entry. I remember learning (then obviously forgetting) why it is that we celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 (because apparently that’s not Christ’s exact birthday), etc… and this devotional spells it [...]
Posted in Bible, Books, Christmas, church, God, Religion | Tagged blog, Christ, Christmas, December 25, devotional, Hank Hanegraaff, holiday
By Lauren Ratliff on December 3, 2008
My dad gave me the 25-day devotional, “The Heart of Christmas,” by Hank Hanegraaff (the “Bible answer man.”) This devotional helps us to focus on the true meaning of CHRISTMAS. It pulls from the scriptures and includes a carol or hymn for each day. I wanted to share today’s Christmas Carol “Joy to the World.” [...]
Posted in Bible, Books, Christmas, church, God, Poetry, Religion
By Lauren Ratliff on October 23, 2008
For some reason lately, God has put on my heart to recognize/ become aware of my hidden sin.
This is the sin that most of us tend to ignore/suppress on a daily basis for…years at a time. My pastor, Matt Chandler, at the Village Church, has talked about his experience with this. He explains that the [...]
Posted in Bible, church, God | Tagged Christ, forgiveness, God, hidden sin, pray, repent, sin, trust
By Lauren Ratliff on September 9, 2008
The past week there have been painters repainting my apartment building’s hallway. They do a really great detailed job, which takes them (two men) literally a day to complete a 40 feet width area of a wall area. But they use little equipment and take their time.. unlike me, I try to hurry and get [...]
Posted in Books, church, dog, entertainment, food, Movies, music, pets, weather, weekend | Tagged cooking, cowboys, door mat, farmers market, food, Movies, paint, produce, review, steal, weekend, write
By Lauren Ratliff on August 19, 2008
What a great birthday weekend! I got to celebrate my 23rd bday a couple wknds ago at the beach with my family, which was quite a treat. But this weekend was my actual 23rd bday. Brian made it pretty special!! Saturday we got to go look at golden retiever puppies in Rockwall, they were so [...]
Posted in church, dog, entertainment, Family, food, photos, weather, weekend | Tagged 23, birthday, cold stone, dessert, diamonds, Family, flowers, friends, presents, puppies, ruth's chris