Love Worth Trying [Video]

I did some experimenting with iMovie and Photobooth on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. :)



Song by Audea.

Without Me With You

Adding together the time spent preparing, shooting, and editing, the total comes out to 12+ hours I spent making the video below. (I think I found my new passion.)
Song- "Without Me With You" by Audea.

[As if I haven't said it enough] check Audea out at:

http://facebook.com/audeamusic
http://twitter.com/audeamusic
http://reverbnation.com/audea

Enjoy the video and let me know what you think!



(I owe a huge, giant thank you to Eric for sending me the song.)

Mercy Is Yours

Take 5 minutes out of your day to watch this, and I guarantee you that you won't regret it.

I would love to sit here and write the longest post about this and why I love it so much. But unfortunately, I'm short on time and will leave you to watch it yourself.
There is not one word this guy says that I do not agree with. I find it so hard sometimes to organize all my thoughts about something and then I see videos like this, and think "That's exactly what I didn't know how to say."

The passage in the bible that he mentions has been one of my favorite stories for as long as I can remember.

This woman committed a sin worthy of murder. She broke one of God's commandments. She was dirty. She was wrong. And all the people around her were ready to kill her. But Jesus, the one who wrote the commandment, the one with full authority to say "Stone her," bent down, picked her up and told her she was forgiven. He didn't condemn her. He didn't judge her. He didn't kill her. He saw her heart. He saw her through the eyes of love. He saw who she was, not what she did. He didn't see her sin. He saw HER.

Every single time I screw up, this is the passage I think about. It doesn't only apply to adultery. It applies to every aspect of our lives. When we think we've done something unworthy of love, we beat ourselves up. When we sin, we feel horrible. We find ways to try and "make it up to God."

But God doesn't see it that way. God isn't waiting to throw the stone when we mess up. He's waiting to lift us back up and let us know that we're still loved.

"I love you. I accept you. Mercy is yours."

More powerful words have never been said.

Blur- Audea [VIDEO]

30 minutes of photo preparing. 1 hour of taking photos and shooting videos. 1 hour waiting for my camera to charge back up. 3+ hours of editing. And 10 minutes to publish. The result? The video below.

Don't forget to check out Audea at http://facebook.com/audeamusic 

How To Feel Alive

This is the newest video I've made and the one I'm most proud of.

This song is 'How To Feel Alive' by Audea.

This Summer I went down to Tampa twice to see this band perform. Truly some of the most talented guys I have ever had the pleasure of seeing perform and meeting. (Hopefully not the last.) The guys are very sweet, very down-to-earth and extremely incredible musicians. Soon after the first concert I went to, they released *THIS* live practice session video of a song called "How To Feel Alive." I hit replay on the video more than 50 times in the first day. I absolutely love this song. I couldn't help myself and had to make a video to it.

My absolute favorite part of this song is the bridge:

If we could see like the blind man, would it open our eyes?
If we could hear like the deaf, would we listen to the lies?
If we could sing with a mute tongue til the day we die, would we find how to feel alive?


No one writes lyrics quite like these guys. It's something I love about their songs. I think that a lot of the songs can be interpreted differently by different people.

My interpretation is as follows:

I think one of the biggest things we do in life, as humans, is to try and "feel alive." We try to find that one thing that makes us happy and excited to live. We try to find that one thing that gives us a "high" for life. And most of the time, we can't find it in the things we look for it in. It reminds me of getting a new toy when I was little (and still now.) When I first got that new toy I had been waiting for and asking for forever, I was SO happy. I would be completely elated and play with it for hours and hours. I had begged my parents for it for months and years and I would "never need anything else ever again." But then after a few weeks, this new toy would become an old toy and my "high" would be gone. I would normally move on and find something else to beg and hope for.

I think we're the same with life, no matter how old we get. We try to find new things to make us happy and satisfy ourselves. But even when we find those things, after awhile, the feeling we got when we first got them fade away. After awhile, we go back to our same unhappiness and our same dissatisfaction that we had before. Then, we try to find something new. It's a continuous never-ending cycle...

But there is ONE thing that will always make us feel alive, and that is the One who made us alive. We spend so much time trying to find things to give us that alive feeling and that high that we kind of miss the One who is always there to give us that feeling. I think it's those moments when we truly feel and realize the amazing love that God has for us and shows us that we really feel alive. It isn't a temporary high from a material item or a moment of happiness from an exciting event. It's a permanent feeling of overwhelming joy knowing that the God of everything has an unconditional crazy love for us.

If we were blind and couldn't see, God would still make us feel alive. If we were deaf and couldn't hear, God would still make us feel alive. If we were mute and couldn't speak, God would still make us feel alive. If we couldn't hear, see, or talk then would we finally realize that feeling alive doesn't come from possessions, clothes, successes, people, moments, or anything else in this world?

The love that God has deeply embedded into our hearts and the over-powering joy that comes with that love is what gives us that high. Realizing that love will truly show us how to feel alive.

Check out Audea at facebook.com/audeamusic.

Below are pictures I got with the guys at both of the concerts. :)

Jordan, my best friend Alex, Will, me, and Eric :)

Who Says? (Videos)

I was experimenting the other day, and made this video. The song has such a great message and I really love it. The video was a lot of fun to make and I thought I would share it.

Song: "Who Says" by Selena Gomez & The Scene

You can see my second video here: http://yfrog.com/2olluz (Since I can't seem to get it to upload on here.)

Not Sure How To Title This

Yeah... Um...

Saying "sorry" won't cut it... so I'm just going to cover my face in shame for not posting in FOREVER... literally.
Sooo... I'm sitting here thinking of what to post and since I've had a lot going on... (Sort of), I'll just post some movies I've seen, songs I've heard, videos I've watched, etc. to... share a little tiny bit of my life for the past few months.

First of all,
I finally saw 'The Blind Side' when it came out on DVD... and it is absolutely one of my new favorite movies of all time. I always love Sandra Bullock, and throughout this whole movie, I just kept saying "Wow, I love her character" over and over again. I'm sure I was driving my family crazy as I shared my amazement throughout the whole film. Her character was one of the most selfless characters I've ever seen in a movie, but yet, she was so funny. She had an attitude and didn't like to be recognized for her "good deeds" but her heart was SO big... and you could see it. The way her and her family interacted in the movie was also incredible. The whole movie was just great. It definitely deserved the academy award that it won. The actors were amazing, the plot was great, [especially since it was based on a true story] and most of all, the personalities of the characters was just beyond words. I absolutely loved it....

In one scene, Leanne says something that I'll never forget.
Her friend is looking at Big Mike and how much he has changed since Leanne and her family have taken him in... and she says "You're really changing that boy's life."
and Leanne (Sandra Bullock) looks away and smiles and says, "No, he's changing mine."

I will always remember this because it meant something to me. Sometimes, whether we know it or not, we may change someone's life or have an impact on someone... maybe something we say or something we do can impact someone deep enough to change them... but the beauty in this isn't in "us changing the other person" but... the change that comes inside of US when we can impact someone else's life. Leanne was completely changing Big Mike's life. She had given him home, family, hope, and goals.... but in the end, she was the one being changed by him.

I encourage everyone to go see this movie. You'll DEFINITELY laugh, you might shed a tear, you'll smile, you'll "awww" and you won't waste your time. This movie is worth watching. Click *HERE* for trailer.

NEXT, I wanted to share this website that I "stumbled upon" recently... this month actually, thanks to my lovely twitter friends.

Operation Beautiful

The main goal/mission or point of this website is to help the way girls see themselves... "one post-it note at a time." So, basically anyone that's contributed to the website has put a post-it note or some kind of note somewhere out in the world with a positive message on it. Usually something like, "you are beautiful."
It's so interesting and fun to go through all of the posts and see where all these notes are stuck around the world... in bathrooms, on beaches, books, clothing stores, schools, walls, windows, diet medicines, doors, etc.

Their mission is to spread positivity, by showing/telling girls that they are beautiful just for being themselves. Not just by appearance, but also by inward beauty... to boost self confidence and end "self-hate."

I fell in love with this website because I can just imagine some random girl walking around and finding a note with a positive message on it that says "you are beautiful" or "you are loved." Those are the kinds of messages that girls need to hear everyday, and need to learn to tell themselves. It's amazing to think how one small post-it note could change lives around the world. Just 3 simple words, or more, written on a piece of paper could impact someone's life so greatly.

Anyways, it's really neat to check out the website and all the different people that have contributed to it and look at all the pictures. :)


And finally, I found a really cool video recently that is definitely worth checking out.

'Sunday's Coming' ("Movie Trailer")

I think I may have watched this video close to ten times and I laugh every time. I quote it day and night.... it's hilarious... It makes me laugh so hard... but I think the funniest part of this whole video is how true it is. This video is the most accurate, clear description of a "mega-church" today and how we have strayed SO far away from displaying any sort of relationship with Christ in an organized institution.Our church is a rock concert with speakers.

The funniest part of this video may be the most pathetic.

Sooo... there's a few links and thoughts for now....
and I think I'll put a little more effort into posting more than every 2 months ;)

**Amy