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 Remember when you pinkie swore you would be best friends forever?
I think we've all done it. Giggling children unable to see how we could ever be separated. we promised I promised. I have promised before. I have stopped promising. Best Friends Forever. That phrase has a lot of weight in it.. Sadly not as much now as it did then. Probably because of the lack of faith that it holds. There is no belief. We don't have the same amount of trust in that phrase any more. The words "Best Friend" can mean very little when we have been abandoned by many, left for someone who gave them what they wanted, or just simply because we grew apart. Just like a person who grew up without a father. How can the word Father have any meaning when they have no standard to hold it to? How can the words Best Friends Forever have any meaning to us when we forever look for the standard & are met with lacking expectations. There are quotes that touch us moments that scar us, & people who rest in our hearts forever. But it's hard to have a best friend forever in the adult world. It seems to me that life has a way of throwing certain people together for key times in life, & then when its over....when you have either learned the lesson or chosen to ignore it....you find yourself torn apart. Though painful sometimes, I believe fully that most of these unions & desertions are for our benefit. We would not fully rely on The One who saves us if we had a person to go to for every problem. I love my husband & call him my best friend often. However....He can not compare to the real lover of my soul. The Friend who is always there. I can call on him at 3 am. I can talk to him in the shower, He doesn't need me to give him anything but my time, & since there is no place or time he won't agree to meet me. . . I have no excuse but to respond. No excuse not to try No excuse not to give him my heart. No excuse to tell him all my deepest feelings No reason not to commit- to the true best friendship I have ever encountered. To him....I would promise...Best Friends Forever. Peace, Love, and Blessings -Jessica Here are a few of my favorite items on etsy right now! The artists below have some AMAZINGLY quirky characters drawn on all kinds of clothing articles. I WANT THEM ALL. no seriously. I would wear all of these. ZIB* features the work of Inga Priedite and Irena Andrejeva. They are two young Latvian textile artists. "We put a little art into everyday clothing." In my own opinion it is not a little art, but the entire article is ART. I LOVE THEM. In another group of photos in the slideshow below, there are the rest of my LOVES from etsy this week! Im putting links embedded in the photos so feel free to click and see the webpages for these specific items!
 Festival Season is hard upon us! If you are planning on visiting any of the MANY festivals across North America, you want to make sure you are ready to head out for the day! 
whether you plan an all day trip or a weekend getaway. Having a place to sit inside out of the sun can mean the difference between sweating your makeup off or staying fabulously good looking. Free people has a tent that is amazing both in looks and in color! At it's steep price for a two person sleeping area, its relatively small for what you get. But come on, how many tents have you seen with adorable flowers on the outside and could possibly provide tons of photographic opportunities for years of summers to come? As a photographer i don't know if i could pass this up. I looked up tutorials of examples to see if anyone has tried this before, but online came up with NOTHING Grrrr. I'm all for making cheaper versions of things but it looks like your stuck with the original unless i find a 10$ tent for sale and attempt my best at the flower replicas.
Another thing to be sure to invest in, although at a greatly lesser price range.Is a festival survival kit. Free People has one that includes many necessary items. 
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The fest survival kit includes a dry shampoo powder, and a sea salt hair spray. A bandanna that has been hand bleached, and two unique hair-ties A lanyard to hold all your goodies and a temporary feather tattoo. And it all comes in a hand dyed bag UNIQUE with every purchase!
 You know who that person is....it's the one, who when you come to work and see that they are there you sigh..... LOUDLY. This person challenges you daily. (& by challenges you I of course mean that they push your buttons until you feel like you are about to scream at them) Around this person you find yourself tensing up, hair on your neck raising, & your mind wheels begin turning with all the horrible things you could do if you wouldn't lose your job. Or maybe you just really want to tell them off. You've had a rough week, there are so many more important things going on in YOUR life....why does the joy sucker even think you care? But your work day ends just in time thankfully, leaving you looking like the calm radiant example. I have a Joy Sucker in my workplace In fact I was praying about this joy sucker yesterday.... walking through my workday realizing I was getting overwhelmed and upset way too easily. so I took a minute as I filled a bowl of soup and prayed. "Dear LORD JESUS CHRIST, please help me today, my patience is thin, & I am getting overly upset with the joy sucker. I can not take much more. " NOW. there are a few flaws in my prayer. first, there's my attitude towards said person. second, my exasperation towards my Jesus. third, "I can not take much more". I can admit, that there are times when I take God's name and put far too bad an emphasis behind it. I can admit that I get frustrated with my situations. I can even admit that I NEVER have to handle things alone. Too often though, I choose to try. What I found hard to admit.....was what that still small voice put into my thoughts at that moment. YOU ....are the joy sucker. My anger flashing, my mind reeling, I dismissed the thought. Me the JOY SUCKER ha ha PRICELESS, I thought to myself. But I revisited the thought as I sat in the salon chair later that day. I let my entire attitude at work just overwhelm me. I felt horrible, I was rude, I was short, I was unjustifiable, I was complaining, I was unhappy. I really was the Joy Sucker. DEAR GOD NO! Not me....I was in reality the bane of my very existence, I had become the very person I despised. I felt guilt ridden for the rest of the afternoon. Until I spoke with my husband who made me realize I could let go. He made me think about this verse..... because I all too often fight God for control. I all too often think I know what is best. 2 Corinthians 12:9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. Comparison really is the thief of joy they don't say who's joy is being stolen. The reason being I think, because in reality I was taking not only my joy....by looking at what the other person was doing, but I was sucking my own joy. & everyone else's, with how angry I had become. I am so happy that God blessed me by teaching me a lesson about this yesterday. Because I needed a kick in the pants, I needed to get back to being a joy giver. JOY be given to YOU and YOURS through HIM! Jessica Smith Wallace   I've been playing the new One Republic album Native over & over today.
The song "You've Got Something I Need" has been stuck in my head, mostly because it's so true. There are so many things that we need, not just anyone can give them to us either. Every single person on this earth is different than me, We walk in different circles, we live different styles of life. We may have similarities, but still.....those similarities can create any range of diversity. You may be many of these things.... you might be Straight, Gay, Christian, Atheist, Asian, African -American, coach seat buyers, only first class fliers, dr. pepper sippers, coca-cola drinkers, alcoholics, druggies, high all the time, sober as a stone, pro- abortion, pro-choice, liberal, conservative, glass half full, glass half empty, pro-bama, no-bama, guns are good, or guns are bad....there is something we can all learn from one another. We all hold special gifts & talents, you all know how to do things that I don't & you all have seen life through your own pair of eyes. You have something I need. This is why it is so vital that we share, fellowship, & talk with one another. We share experiences, life stories, different quotes, laughter, sadness, lessons we have learned.... & whether we want to or not....we are always giving things to others. I am constantly giving you things whether I realize it or not. If I share my smile, I give you a reason to smile back. I share hardships & I give you a decision.... will you take it as a reason to work on compassion or selfishness? A friend walks up & is having a hard day, do you take the time necessary to build up & encourage that friend or do you begin talking about your own life & how things are going great for you? All it takes is a little awareness. I hope i have given you some of that today. I hope that I had something you need... "If we only die once, I want to die with you. I know that we are not the same, but I'm so damn glad that we made it to this time." -one republic Happy Easter | 
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