Category Archives: Life

“Your Song”

I don’t normally blog about personal stuff, I usually keep it based on whatever I’m discovering in my Bible for that week. But today I’m going to give myself a little plug…I am a singer/songwriter, and currently self recording and producing my own album. I will then send off my demo, and we’ll see if anyone is interested in picking it up. But for right now, I’m just using the good ol’ GarageBand on my Mac, and it produces a really decent sound. Sooo… I just released a single entitled “Your Song.” To purchase go to my music website: www.wix.com/ashleebest/music
Thanks so much for the support!


Quick words of inspiration…

No, I haven’t dropped off the face of the planet…just the face of reality! I’ve been on vacation, then finals week, then spring break. But I will be back to normal schedule soon and back to writing. For now, here are a few short quotes that I found inspiring.

 

“Embrace relational uncertainty. It’s called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It’s called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It’s called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It’s called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It’s called revelation.”
— Mark Batterson (In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars)

“Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.”
— Mark Batterson (Primal, pg. 150)

“The impact God has planned for us doesn’t occur when we’re pursuing impact. It occurs when we’re pursuing God.”
—Phil Vischer (qtd. by Mark Batterson, twitter)

Definitely recommend this book – so good!
Wild Goose Chase, Mark Batterson


Well, here we go…

Ever have those situations, where you tell yourself how you’re not going to do something and then you cave? Oh come on, we’ve all been there… you give into that extra piece of cake… you buy the new gadget that you really can’t afford… you wear a pair of skinny jeans… Well, I told myself that I wasn’t going to let myself write blogs, that I wasn’t going to allow myself to get addicted, and here we are.

I felt that I should do this blog, almost in the format of a public devotional journal. Confession: I’m terrible at reading my Bible consistently (yup, it’s true…don’t let the whole pastor’s daughter thing fool you). So, I would like to use this blog to share with you the things that I’m learning in my Bible, the ideas I have, what I discover in my reading, and honestly, to keep myself accountable to doing the reading! When I do sit down and read my Bible, I tend to discover incredible things, just like the Bible promises us will happen if we’ll just sit down and read it! So please hear me, this is not for me to brag about how much I know about my Bible, or for me to seem superior in any way, at all! I just want to put my ideas out there and hope that it might encourage someone who’s reading. And I’d love for you to leave comments and tell me what you think about my ideas and what your ideas are! So please read as you would like, this is not a strict daily devotional that I’m expecting to have some kind of following or anything… this is just me.

-Ash


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