christi southern

mom, musician, provider of love, hopeful, lover of the flavours of life, present.

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

Not a great picture, but if you could smell them. These are old-fashioned peonies. Exquisite and fragrant! Just thought I’d share...
#peonies
#fragrant
#garden
#gardenista
#pink https://t.co/yvIDs72Pmz

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

Moon over the ocean earlier tonight.
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This picture is such a hollow attempt at capturing the extraordinary beauty of what I actually stood in awe of for quite awhile earlier tonight.
I… https://t.co/OK6KjYFCJ8

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

CCM United - Music, Moments & Memories - https://t.co/OFVZqlsH2B

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

I tend to keep a couple of books in the hopper at a time...
1. Elisabeth Elliot who was born in Belgium to Missionary parents would grow up and marry Jim Elliot, who would shortly… https://t.co/mKTPLxLSOR

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

When we must make decisions, we should bring to bear on them scriptural principles, prayer, and all the intelligence God has dealt put to us. Then we must go on quietly in faith, knowing that the results of our obedience are God’s responsibility, not ours. -elisabethelliot

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

Thanks to all who came last night! It was a joy and blessing to fellowship with you. Merriest Christmas to you each one. https://t.co/ZJgEPO8vmm

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

College Et al.
Christmas ˈɡaT͟H(ə)riNG:
Tonight 8-10, college and beyond. If you are home for the Holidays, please come by.
Food and drinks provided.
A time for fellowship and… https://t.co/oW7JGhjtUk

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

Christmas arrangements with my mom.
#Christmastime
#arrangements
#flowerarrangements
#orchids
#silverpunchbowl
#helpingmom @ Kernersville, North Carolina https://t.co/V6feZzRKqO

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

This beauty is in my neighbors yard so I get to see it every time I leave and return home!
#fallcolors
#tree
#red
#itsallhis
#nature
#beauty @ Winston-Salem, North Carolina https://t.co/VSVxZC1SDW

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

Be who you needed, when you were younger.

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

Corner of San Jacinto and 3rd, Austin, Texas.
#Vinceyoungsteakhouse
#dinner
#streetactivity
#austin
#austintexas https://t.co/86jZomjYUn

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

Morning.
Moon over water.
#water
#lake
#morning
#moon
#nofilter
#foglifting
#reflection
#beautyinnature
#onlyGod @ Troutman, North Carolina https://t.co/pV0qFW2nuU

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

Just bc you do something differently than me, does not make me wrong. Makes you judgemental whether you realize it or not. #goodreads #truth

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

Gardenia.
This single flower has so much scent.
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#gardenia
#flowers
#flowersthatsmellgood
#whiteflowers
#delicate
#beauty
#morning https://t.co/lj8cSo6W7B

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

If you are not faithful in the little, small, seemingly insignificant things.. how can you be trusted with the big stuff?

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

It’s that time of year again when my hydrangea are just completely showing off.
#nofilter
#hydrangea
#flowers
#green #blue #chartreuse #rust #purple
#frommygarden https://t.co/rinjo4xak4

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

It is not my productivity that God desires, it is my heart. Why is that a leason I must learn over and over again?

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

2/2: compassion means going directly to those people and places we are suffering is most acute and building a home there. -Henri Nouwen
#wellsaid

[christi southern @embracetheworld]

1/2:Compassion is not a bending toward the underprivileged from the privileged position; it is not a reaching out from on high to those who are less fortunate below; it is not a gesture of sympathy or pity for those who fail to make it in the upward pull. On the contrary,