The Beach Day #5

The Beach Day #4

The Family at the St. Augustine Pier


Pop and a happy daughter at Bruster's :)


My 71 year old grandfather riding the waves. Haha! I love it!



The Beautiful sun set

The Beach Day #3

The Beach Day #2

The Beach Day #1

My family is spending the week in St. Augustine with my moms dad and his wife and daughter in a condo. I’m SUPER excited not only that I get to spend time with my family but that I don’t have an hour drive to and from work every day. The condo is literally right across the street from Bruster’s! Yeah! Any ways… I thought I would post a couple pictures each day while we’re here! Enjoy!





I promise the girls put sun screen on! Every time they went under water they wiped their eyes off :/




I LOVE this one!

Girls Night Out

I’ve started taking my little sisters through the book, “Girl Talk” and tonight was our first little meeting. It started with Birthday shopping for my mom at Target then we headed to “Barnes & Nobles” to go over chapter one. First stop, we headed to the “Barnes & Nobles Café” and got us all a Strawberry and Cream Frappuchino. Mmm.... mmm….mmm….delicious! (but not the best idea :/) We then found a little corner in the back of the store to sit and chat. Little did I know that it would turn into a severe sugar rush and lots of giggles. Because of our little sugar rush we had to stop discussion numerous times for some pictures! Let’s just say the girls will be getting sugar free next time.

I’m really looking forward to the future discussions that we will have going through this book as sisters and the memories we will make (like having sugar rushes after drinking frappuchinos). I’m praying that God uses this as a tool to strengthen our relationships even more then they are now. Also, that He would give me much wisdom as I lead my little sisters through this book and that the Lord would use them to convict me of areas in my life that I need to grow in.

Our New Best Friend

Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’, keep those fingers moving’. Now stop… ok, ok I’m done, but seriously. Let me introduce you to our new best friend named, “Sortkwik®.”

Sortkwik® Fingertip Moisteners:

• Patented antimicrobial ingredient for more hygienic protection. Provides a positive grip for counting, filing, collating and sorting. Nontoxic, odorless and stainless.


• Greaseless and odorless, it won't ruin your cards or coins, and it won't leave a sticky residue on them like other products might

Licking fingers… Who does that??? These little jars of finger moistening compound allow one to roll a flyer without the paper slipping out of one’s hand. It’s amazing! Yes, when you spend a big part of your day rolling flyers, little things like “Sortkwik®” will begin to amuse you.

My dad got surgery today so all the Harrington girls and Joshua spent some time tonight trying to get ahead on some flyer rolling to surprise him for when he is able to get out of bed. Here are a few pictures… We had much fun!

Sortkwik®. “The easy way to get a grip.”

We Were Saved To Serve

This past weekend Jonathan, Annsley, and I all went to Orlando to spend the weekend with some friends there. On Sunday morning Jessee Phillips spoke a message out of James 2:14-26 on “serving” and it was outstanding!

Faith Without Works is Dead:

14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

18 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! 20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

The two points in his message were:

1. Serving is the proof that God saved us.
2. Serving is the reason God saved us.

Here are a few notes that I jotted down during his message:

*God saved me to lay down my life to serve.
*We should never view serving as an inconvenience.
*We need to be committed to serving the needs of others not our own needs.
*God saved me because He has things for me to do.
*Being a Christian mean being a servant.
*Christ was a suffering servant!

This is definitely something that I want to be working on. I find myself willing to serve but I often need to check the motives of my heart. I need to ask myself the questions, Am I laying down my life down to serve others? Does serving bring me joy? Am I committed to serving the needs of others or my own needs?

This morning I was reading in the Valley of Vision and I came across these words:

All I want in life is such circumstances
As may best enable me to serve thee in the world;
To this end I leave all my concerns in thy hand,
But let me not be discouraged,
Enable me to undertake some task for thee,
For this refreshed and animates my soul,
So that I could endure all hardships and labours,
And willingly suffer for thy name.
But, O what a death it is to strive and labour,
To be always in a hurry and yet do nothing!
Alas, time flies and I am of little use.
O that I could be a flame of fire in thy service,
Always burning out in one continual blaze.
Fit me for singular usefulness in this world.
Fit me to exult in distresses of every kind
If they but promote the advancement of thy kingdom.
Fit me to be totally resigned to the denial
Of pleasures I desire,
And to be content to spend my time with thee,
Fit me to pray with a sense of the joy
Of divine communion,
To find all times happy seasons to my soul,
To see my own nothingness,
And wonder that I am allowed to serve thee.
Fit me to enter the blessed world where no unclean thing is,
And to know thee with me always.

Deuteronomy 10:12- “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord you God with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Father I pray that You would grant me the grace to serve others with my whole heart and soul. Just as You sent Your son to lay down His life to suffer in my place, may I be one to do the same for others. May I serve You and You alone with gladness!

This Is How We Roll

Here is a little glimpse of what my family (and Ryan) have been up to over the last week. My dad has recently started up a lawn care/pool cleaning/landscaping/pressure washing business all in one. It’s become a family project daily to roll as many flyers as we can in our free time to throw out in different neighborhoods. It’s been quite fun! It’s been great to talk about different things as a family, poke fun and laugh at each other, (something that my dad is VERY good at) and even going as far as racing each other to see who can roll the most in different time frames. 7,500 have been rolled so far and I think my dad has another 10,000 coming.
Woo Hoo =)

At The Foot of The Cross

Yesterday as Church we sang the song below and I was very moved by a particular line:

Beneath the Cross of Jesus
Lord I would spend my days
In the shadow of the One
Who ransomed me
May I not become familiar
With its marvelous good news
But live my life with it
Always in my view

At the foot of the Cross
Lord I bow down and worship
Overcome by so great a love
At the foot of the Cross
I will cherish all Your mercy
All Your goodness
Your wisdom Your power
At the foot of the Cross

Upon the Cross of Jesus
Lord I would fix my eyes
For it always will remind me
Of these truths
My iniquity seems endless
Yet greater still Your grace
And I will glory in the Cross
Throughout the ages

I had to ask myself the question, “Do I become too familiar with its marvelous good news? Do I live with it always in my view? Are there other things in my life that I’m more passionate about than the cross?” I need to remind myself daily of the cross and what Christ accomplished on it for me. If I don’t remind myself of that good news daily I become self-sufficient and it’s very evident in my life. I need to be diligent to be in the Word daily to remind myself of His truths! This song makes me realize just how much more I need a Savior!

Give me a tender, wakeful conscience that
Can smite and torment me when I sin.
May I be consistent in conversation and conduct
The same alone as in company,
In prosperity and adversity,
Accepting all thy commandments as right,
And hating every false way.
May I never be satisfied with my present
Spiritual progress,
But to faith add virtue, knowledge, temperance,
godliness, brotherly kindness, charity.
May I never neglect
What is necessary to constitute Christian character,
and needful to complete it.
May I cultivate the expedient,
Develop the lovely, adorn the gospel,
Recommend the religion of Jesus,
Accommodate myself to thy providence.
-Valley Of Vission

Galatians 2:20-“I have been crucified with Christ. It is not longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

Preach the Gospel to Yourself

The single girls (and a couple married :D) in my Church are going through the book, “The Discipline of Grace” by Jerry Bridges and this morning we went over chapter 3 titled, “Preach The Gospel to Yourself” and it was an outstanding chapter!

He expounded on Romans 3:19-26 and verses 23-24 really stuck out to me, “For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.”

He sums these verses up as, “all who put their Faith in Jesus Christ are justified freely by God’s Grace”

He states, “We must keep in mind that our justification by God is based solely on the meritorious work of Christ and our union with Christ that what He did, we did when He lived a life of perfect obedience. When He died on the cross to satisfy the just demands of God’s law, it is just as if we had died on that cross. Christ stood in our place as our representative, both in His sin-bearing death.

“Grace, as we have already observed, is the undeserved favor of God shown to those who deserve His wrath. Grace presupposes guilt on our part. By definition, it is sovereign grace; that is, God is under no obligation to grant to any of us such undeserved favor. The decision to grant such favor to us originated solely within His own goodness.”

“To preach the gospel to yourself, then, means that you continually face up to your own sinfulness and then flee to Jesus through faith in His shed blood and righteous life. It means that you appropriate, again by faith, the fact that Jesus fully satisfied the law of God, that He is your propitiation, and that God’s holy wrath is no longer directed toward you. To preach the gospel to yourself means that you take at face value the precious words of Romans 4:7-8-“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”

“To live by the gospel, then, means that we firmly grasp the fact that Christ’s life and death are ours by virtue of our union with Him. What He did, we did.”

What truth! Thank you, Lord for once again revealing to me, how little I am and how big you are!

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.

Delighting in God’s Commandments

Today I was reading in Psalm 119 and came across Verses 47-48, “For I find my delight in your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.”

I was convicted… I had to ask myself the question, “Do I delight in God’s commandments? Or do I complain about God’s commandments?”

Exodus 12:13-“The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and Keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.”

These verses do not say to choose when I will delight in God’s commandments or ask me what commandments I would like to delight in. They clearly state that we are to obey God’s commandments for they are “the whole duty of man.” I know there are many days that I don’t thank God for the commandments He has set for us. His commandments are not “burdensome” They are for, “everyone who has been born of God” and “it is the duty of man to delight in His commandments!”

1 John 5:3-“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.”

Father, forgive me for the times I have failed to delight in your precious commandments! May I be one to, “Lift up my hands to your commandments and delight in your statutes.”

A Fun Weekend!

Here are some pictures from the weekend!










Also, things are slowly getting better at work. As I stated in my previous post, things hadn’t been going very well. It was a hard process of going in the store to take over everything for my grandfather. It was also very hard to see him so upset. God has been kind to give me much grace to get through my days. He has also provided much wisdom to my dad and I on how to handle the situation. Thank you for all your prayers!