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About Me

it is what it is.
so let it be.

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i shoot: www.flickr.com/photos/lauren_nicole / / laurennicolephotography.com
i twitter: @laurenlankford
i blog: laurennicolelove.blogspot.com
i make pretty things: laurennicolelove.etsy.com
 
grace + compassion + faith + joy = love.
 
god owns my heart. i am his and he is mine.
 
i believe in being silly.
i believe in being simple.
i believe in being crazy. and i believe in being crazy about someone.
i believe in not acting your age.
i believe in doing everything out of order.
i believe in making, not buying.
i believe in the quiet. and the deafening.
i believe in crayons.
i believe in laughing when its funny. and when its not.
i believe in not being practical.
i believe in outside.
i believe in giving things for no reason.
i believe in single flowers, not bouquets.
i believe in string cheese and lollipops.
i believe in way too many colors.
i believe in infatuation like middleschool.
i believe in infatuation, period.
i believe in one and only.
i believe in doing nothing.
i believe in pda.
i believe in cloud watching.
i believe in words. and the lack of them.
and i believe in a love i dont understand.
 
i revealed myself to those who did not ask for me and i was found by those who did not seek me. to a nation that did not call on me, or search for me, or work for me, i said, "here i am, here i am." all day long i have held out my hands.
 
"it was i who taught [her] to walk, taking her by the arms; but she did not realize it was I who healed her. i led her with cords of human kindness, and with ties of love; i lifted the weight from her neck and bent down to feed her." - hosea 11.3&4

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

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[ friends ]- people one knows, likes, and trusts

My Blog

+ easy money + senior photography available +

Senior Photos season is here!For every Senior that you refer that books a session, I'll give you $20 cash.Yep. That means if you've got 5 friends you just made the easiest $100 of your life.- - - Rate...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:34:00 GMT

writing blog | | the internal

we have a foundation that is immovable and runs deeper than bedrock. we have a strength that is comparable to none. we remain untouched despite the intensity of the dirtiest of wars that runs through ...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:00:00 GMT

PROSTITUTE

a prostitute came to me in wretched straits, homeless, sick, and unable to buy food for her two-year old daughter. through sobs and tears, she told me she had been renting out her daughter - two years...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:31:00 GMT

survey blog || my history

PART 1: THE BEGINNING__________________________________Were you a planned baby?'fraid so...Were you the first?yep.Were your parents married when you were born?i think so. What is your birth date?nov 1...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:15:00 GMT

writing blog | | you are a father to the fatherless

i don't pretend to be untouched. i don't pretend to be strong or stubborn. i don't even pretend to care more about myself than you. but i fear that silence equals the appearance of all these. i am a w...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:22:00 GMT

writing blog | | late summer thoughts

i apologize for keeping these to myself...i love my jesus. and i love the evolution of prayer...--- i still fight to understand. i still fight to be peace. but what have i to prove? i am made complete...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:49:00 GMT

writing blog | | perfectly

child close your eyesto all that you have seenlook now and see my scarsthey are the same that you have knowntogether we cry perfectlyperfectly, our hands clasped in painperfectly, our past is stainedp...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:47:00 GMT

writing blog | | take heart

only in a scandalwill the dead come bearing giftsto the angry men still graspingthe fatal knives in their jealous fistshere in the court of the shamedwill a man stand in her defensethe prostitute with...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:28:00 GMT

photo blog | | abby and meeee

*laugh* the random little girl i played with in the airportbut listen to this! well look at that!um...this is abby. when she meets her true personality.yes she's taking a picture of her fish, the drea...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:38:00 GMT

photo blog || innocence

myself and a little girl...
Posted by on Wed, 24 May 2006 18:47:00 GMT