The Power of Your Name

Hey all! Watch/listen to this Youtube video. I heard it this morning on the radio and it really spoke to me. It goes perfectly with a bible study I did this morning with my dear friend Allie. We are conduits for God's glory. We are created in His glory and for His glory. He wants to make Himself recognizable to us and through us. I pray that while I am in India my volunteer work may be for His glory alone, not mine. That He may be able to work through me and touch lives, mend hearts, and put smiles on children's faces.

"I will live to carry your compassion, to love a world that's broken, to be your hands and feet. And I will give with the life that I've been given, to go beyond religion, to see the world be changed by the power of your name."

The Power of Your Name - Lincoln Brewster and Darlene Zschech

Also, if you are interested in learning a bit more about my trip to India you can check out my India blog at http://supportlauren.blogspot.com. I just updated with my volunteer placement!

Have a blessed day,

Lauren

Dream Big, Laugh a Lot, Give it Everything You've Got

After a wonderful gathering/little reunion with a group of high school friends, it's awesome to look back on where we all met and how far we've come. There is so much ambition and it really is hard trying to keep track of what everyone hopes to do next in their life (some of us are even getting married!). We all have about a year left of undergrad and many of us have dreams of traveling the world. Whether it be on missions trips, medical trips, working a cruise liner, to explore different cultures... as a nutritionist, theatrical technician, working in fashion, in medicine, in sociology... you just never know where we will all end up. I'm really proud of everyone and I love that we can all just get together and have such a great time. Can't wait to see where we go next!

As usual, here's another great one. Take a listen:

The Rascals Have Returned- Trevor Hall

"Grab the sun and the moonlight

oh it's time to turn some heads
we're gonna dance to it all night"

-Lauren

I Suppose...

I had to share this with everyone. I love their style and passion and TALENT. I've been addicted to listening to them this summer. I also love the lyrics to this Karmin original.... have a listen

Karmin- I suppose

Have a beautiful Monday! :)

Lauren

Fast Forward

I'm so excited about life in the next 3 years, I kinda just want to fast forward to July 1st when it all begins :)

Also, here is a great song:

Passion Pit- Better Things

Sweet Dreams Bloggers,

Lauren

Eyes Closed...

I found this in my folder of random lyrics and writing on the computer. I need this back in my life. I forgot how much I love to put feelings into words...Let me know what you think!

Eyes closed. Slow, deep, intake of air. The essence of calm and bliss seeps into every muscle, bone, and marrow. Without effort the corners of my mouth turn up towards the soft sweeping sky showered in promises and lovers. Eyes open. My chin tilts toward a heaven made for you and me. A laugh bursts from my lips and I take a quick look around. No one notices. My hands shoot to my sides and then to the top of my head, I can’t contain the joy bubbling in my core. I want to run and laugh some more. So full of delight I become one with the very existence going on around me, I’m sure to be invisible. Lift onto my toes I gaze at the ground so far below. You can’t bring me down. I’m gone. Caught off guard by a sudden breeze, my heart jumps. But it’s all right. A brief chill and I gaze to the fumbling greens at my back. I had so often thought those climbs would never end. Up and down, up, then down again. I look back and yet, here I am. No place I’d rather be than filled with elation and escaping gravity. Eyes closed. Slow, deep, intake of air. The essence of calm and bliss seeps into every muscle, bone, and marrow. Without effort the corners of my mouth turn up towards the soft sweeping sky showered in promises and lovers. Eyes open. My chin tilts toward a heaven made for you and me. A laugh bursts from my lips as I fall to the ground. No one notices.

© 2009 Lauren Klapp

Have a joyful afternoon :)

Lauren

Friends!

First of all, how is it Friday already? Someone please explain.

Any who, I just wanted to touch on what's been on my mind lately. I've kind of put off writing this blog. I've thought about it many times...but it just seems a little bit of a downer to my usual posts. But since I cannot get it off the brain, here we go!

This post is to make sure all of my friends (and even friendly acquaintances! and blog readers!) know how much they mean to me. Friendship is always something that I have held dear. In the years of my elementary education, friends did not come in abundance. I always had the best friends that would inevitably end up moving away. Come sixth grade, I hardly had any friends at all. I'm not quite sure why. Maybe it was my rockin pink bifocals I loved and well, if you don't like them (how on earth could you not?) then I guess I didn't need you to like me anyways.

I'm getting beside myself here but what I am trying to lead up to is, we're in that period of life where having to move on from a past friendship isn't uncommon. It's that crazy shock when you realize your forever lasting high school friendships don't all last forever. To me it feels like an ending friendship means all those memories and good times are gone and put to waste. But you know... they really aren't. Those moments and memories helped make you what you are today. Whether they were good or bad, they helped mold you and guide you in another direction where you met many other amazing people and had amazing experiences. I've had to close the door on a few friendships in the past three years for reasons I don't fully understand and it's definitely been hard. But hey, I loved most every moment of it. I thank you for a wonderful time and I wish you the best.

To those awesome friends I still have today, that have stuck with me through the past 7 years since high school began or even these past 2 or 3 years of college, I want to say thank you. Thank you for being awesome. Thanks for making this a pretty darn good life. Thank you for dealing with my shenanigans, laughing with me, crying with me, being the wise one when I'm about to lose my head, and knowing I'm always there for you when you need it as well. I am truly blessed to call you friend and if there ever comes a period of time in which we haven't spoke, feel free to come slap me and I'll hit ya back. We can discuss why on earth we haven't heard from each other over some coffee and catch up on life ;)

Now listen to this awesome song!

YouTube - OneRepublic - Good Life

Thanks for making this a pretty darn good life,

Lauren