Sneak Peek: The Invitations!

Here is a little sneak peek of the invites! They turned out SO wonderful and I'm so excited to get them out!

Things are beginning to get in order. I made a billion flowers last night, and the bouquets are slowly coming together.

My biggest trouble is trying to figure out what to get/do for the favors. What is the coolest wedding favor you ever got at a wedding? Do people really care about those? Thoughts? Help?

HebrewsTree Defined.

My first tattoo was when I was 18 on the inside of my right ankle.

 (Trees grow hair...right?)

Whenever someone asks me what it means, I always ask them before sharing if they 1) really care and 2) have a few minutes. The tattoo wasn't "named" until a friend and mentor of mine, David Figge, decided I should start blogging only a few months after I got ink'd. We were trying to think up an "online identity" as he called it when he looked down at my tattoo and simply said,

Hebrews Tree.

I have been known as HebrewsTree (I decided it was better as a one-worder) ever since.

In fact, you may have discovered my original blog, HebrewsTree at www.hebrewstree.blogspot.com.

So, if you 1) really care and 2) have a few minutes, continue reading...

Living in a world that is majority run by the media and the true meaning of things like beauty and worth is exampled by how much money or fame or headlines your name is in or how tan you are or the brand of make-up you wear and the purses you carry, it is hard to place yourself anywhere else outside that without being told you have failed.
Living in a world where the first person you are told to serve is yourself and greed are more priority focuses than emptying yourself of yourself and giving more than you're taking, it is no wonder we are a world that lacks love.
Living in this world claiming you are a follower of Jesus even has a bad connotation. For many when you hear someone say they are a "Christian" the first word you deem synonym is "hypocrite". To be a "Christian" nowadays is just as bad as saying you are of this world in some circumstances.

Ever heard this phrase? "Christians" are fake and their only attempt at befriending a sinner is to get them to go to church." 

They are seen as the stereotypical little old ladies club after the service who is talking all sorts of nasty about the 20-something who wore knee-high boots.

HebrewsTree is an attempt to help change this.
To help teach love because of existence and no other reason.
To help teach Jesus.

HebrewsTree defined is merely this:

LOVE.
LOVE is the beginning of all things. To LOVE Him, is to live life. To live life for Him, is to LOVE life.
To LOVE those who are hard to LOVE.
To LOVE what He gives us.
To LOVE what He takes away.
Without LOVE, there is no life. Without God, there is no LOVE.

"Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we cannot see." Hebrews 11:1



Have faith that God's LOVE will overcome anything of this world.
LOVE others because they exist and for every one of their imperfections.
Be reminded and remind others that our God is a God who gives 2nd and 3rd and 4th chances.

Be a tree of life, who's branches are full of hearts that pour out selfless love, who's rooted by the faith in Jesus Christ because then will people begin to know HIM. People will know HIM by your LOVE.

HebrewsTree Videography

Introducing...

I'm so excited to unleash something I've been saying I wanted to do for a year now!

Help me share the website, and tell your friends, especially those getting married to check it out at:

www.hebrewstree.com

Right now, there is a discount going on until June 20th to get 20% off a selected package. You can find all the details on the webpage.

You Were Created to Fly, My Friend.

[an excerpt from one of my favorite books, The Shack, and the inspiration for my bird tattoo]




Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around.
You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around.
Living unloved is like clipping a birds wings and removing its ability to fly. Not something God wants for you.
Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.
And if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.
When three spoke themselves into human existence as the Son of God, they be became fully human. They also chose to embrace all the limitations that this entailed. Even though they have always been present in this created universe, they now became flesh and blood. It would be like a bird, whose nature is to fly, choosing only to walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly.
Although by nature he is fully God, Jesus is fully human and lives as such. While never loosing the innate ability to fly, he CHOOSES moment-by-moment God with us, or God with you, to be more precise.

This proves that Jesus is truly human.


God can fly, but humans cant. Jesus is fully human. Although he is also fully God, he has NEVER drawn upon his nature as God to do anything. He has only lived out of his relationship with God, living in the very same manner that God desire to be in relationship with every human being. He is just the first to do it the uttermost, the first to absolutely trust God's life within him, the first to believe in God's love and goodness without regard for appearance or consequence.
So when he healed the blind, He did so as a dependent, limited human being trusting in God's life and power to be at work within him and through him. Jesus, as a human being, had no power within himself to heal anyone.
So, when you look at Jesus and it appears the hes flying, he really is flying. But what you are actually seeing is God; God's life in him. That's how he lives and acts as a true human, how every human is designed to live out of God's life.


A birds not defined by being grounded but by his ability to fly.


Remember this, humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that God has for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in God's image.



 [end excerpt]

I strive to be truly human.

Why Not do Everything?

A couple posts ago, I mentioned how I really want to do a lot of things and my passions seem to change each week. I started thinking about everything I wanted to do, and I thought to myself, "Why not do just do everything?" My mom used to always tell me that I can't be excellent at anything if I'm doing everything. I think there's truth in that, but I also think that a lot of my passions center around a theme:

Creating & Communication. 

And I think I can do that. pretty well. So...I've started a project that I plan on being the hub where I can do all the things I love, specifically videography. I've been talking about doing wedding videography for probably a year now, and I've decided, I just need to freakin do it.

Come back to see the release of my new project soon!

Sneak Peek: Paper Flowers

I have fully committed. Our flowers are going to be AMAZING! Now, all we need to do is lock down a location. I'm still rather frustrated with that, so I'm going to save it for a later post.

Here's a sneak peek of one of the types of paper flowers I'll be putting in the bouquets:

Paper Flowers

I have gotten an itch to ditch the traditional flowers for the wedding. I have been dreading spending the money on something that is literally going to die a week or less after the wedding and then I came across the idea of

p a p e r

f l o w e r s

Here's a sneak peak of my paper flower brainstorm: