Hey everyone! When time flies it soars and apparently I have been having way too much fun to post anything....I apologize! But then again I'm not a scheduled church service...I'm a vessel that He runs through so I really don't have any control of when I post.
Update
-Friday we finalized the adoption for Paisley Grace Jones and came home with a 2 year old
-Please keep me in your prayers! I'm going through a few trials and will need it!
-my mom got into a wreck a few weeks ago and is thankfully 100% fine and all intact...but her car was not... after a few weeks of waiting for it to get fixed it's as good as new! Thank the lord!
- I have raised all my funds for Europe and now I'm saving for my spending money! Yay!!!:) all those hard hours at chick-fil-a has paid off. Id like to thank most of you who contributed to my trip...y'all are a blessing and I don't know what I would do without you. I'm hoping to send a little surprise to you while on my trip! Also thanks to those who bought a raffle ticket to win a camaro....it helps a lot. And my lovely parents who helped me a ton! Thank you! You hanged in there...and so did I!
- last minute finishes to people to people stuff and then I depart June 23rd! Woohoo!
-school...is going and might be a little different for me next year! I'm excited!!!
- As some of you may know I have been going to the south campus at trinity instead of the north...I like to go to both to be honest! I love the people at the south and I love our youth pastor at the north! Hmm...looks like I'll be doing both for a while!lol
-work- I'm still working at chick fil a and I still enjoy it... To an extent! I mean I love register but I think my heart can only take so much of it at once...I did get to try the second drive the other day for 15 minutes! I loved it!
-I'm also very excited about some upcoming choreographing I'm doing....I just pray I can set a date with a place and get everything done with it, cause it's definitely gonna be cool!
My crazy life
Sometimes it makes me feel bad to write a message and say something and be going through it at the period that I say it. For example I was gonna write about relationships last month but.....sneaky Lucifer came along and tore all my relationships apart. To where I have family, a few close friends (only the newest ones)and my counselor. It's one of those seasons you would do just about anything to get out of. And yes I can say I practically lived that statement for a day, and that day will always be in my history and will always come back to me. My gracious and loving father in Heaven reminded me one night at church that He has always been there through all the pain, tears and suffering.
We were asked to close our eyes and visualize God and look at all the features He gives you. And I saw Him standing right in front of me, clean cut, in white, standing in the sand on a beach (similar to Bondi beach in Australia minus the buildings surrounded), we were half way between the water line and the dry sand line so we still felt a touch of water slip over our toes as we stood there and when He spoke I couldn't hear him but I could read His lips and know what He said to me. We were asked to ask God if He loves me? And He said yes and started to remind me how much from a time when I was little and I wondered what was outside of the universe and farther and farther and farther...I wondered if it had ever ended and that was how much He loved me....and what was funny was he told me all that before we were asked to ask Him how much. Then a second time we were asked to close our eyes and ask God where He was in the room and point. As we all sat in a circle and asked God ...I pointed toward the middle and glanced up for a second and what I saw was everyone pointing towards the middle. Wow, right?
I know that when trials come before me I'll always become stronger through it....but it is especially hard to see it that way in the middle of it. Almost like being in the eye of a hurricane and thinking your house will be stronger in the end when really the house your thinking about is gonna be crashed into tiny pieces and your new house will be bigger, more beautiful and everything you have ever wanted in a house...you just didn't realize that's what God was doing all along. I'm having to look at it this way right now.
Favorite childhood memory
May 3rd
Last night I was asked to tell about my favorite child hood memory. The first thing that came to my mind was:In 1st grade I'd ride the bus to my granny's house with my cousin Maggie. I always had gushers as my after school snack and that i always looked forward to after school.
Then I was asked to close my eyes and tell where Jesus was and what was His description.
He was my age sitting with me on the bus in a plaid striped button up collar shirt with nice jeans and nice squeaky clean shoes. As soon as I'd jump off the bus He would run to beat me to the door and give granny a big ole hug.
And had fun with us as He played with our imaginations in the kids room.
I think it's cool how you can ask your self one question like
"what's your favorite child hood memory?"
and He shows you that memory, how it was and then you ask
"where were You Jesus?"
and He will show you not only how it was, but Him in it.
I love my encounters with Him!
These are not moments that can happen only in church or in small group they are moments that can happen any where, anytime, with anyone or by yourself. Just let God lead you and you will see amazing things happen.
God has really been encouraging me with:
1-2I run to you, God; I run for dear life. Don't let me down!
Update
-Friday we finalized the adoption for Paisley Grace Jones and came home with a 2 year old
-Please keep me in your prayers! I'm going through a few trials and will need it!
-my mom got into a wreck a few weeks ago and is thankfully 100% fine and all intact...but her car was not... after a few weeks of waiting for it to get fixed it's as good as new! Thank the lord!
- I have raised all my funds for Europe and now I'm saving for my spending money! Yay!!!:) all those hard hours at chick-fil-a has paid off. Id like to thank most of you who contributed to my trip...y'all are a blessing and I don't know what I would do without you. I'm hoping to send a little surprise to you while on my trip! Also thanks to those who bought a raffle ticket to win a camaro....it helps a lot. And my lovely parents who helped me a ton! Thank you! You hanged in there...and so did I!
- last minute finishes to people to people stuff and then I depart June 23rd! Woohoo!
-school...is going and might be a little different for me next year! I'm excited!!!
- As some of you may know I have been going to the south campus at trinity instead of the north...I like to go to both to be honest! I love the people at the south and I love our youth pastor at the north! Hmm...looks like I'll be doing both for a while!lol
-work- I'm still working at chick fil a and I still enjoy it... To an extent! I mean I love register but I think my heart can only take so much of it at once...I did get to try the second drive the other day for 15 minutes! I loved it!
-I'm also very excited about some upcoming choreographing I'm doing....I just pray I can set a date with a place and get everything done with it, cause it's definitely gonna be cool!
My crazy life
Sometimes it makes me feel bad to write a message and say something and be going through it at the period that I say it. For example I was gonna write about relationships last month but.....sneaky Lucifer came along and tore all my relationships apart. To where I have family, a few close friends (only the newest ones)and my counselor. It's one of those seasons you would do just about anything to get out of. And yes I can say I practically lived that statement for a day, and that day will always be in my history and will always come back to me. My gracious and loving father in Heaven reminded me one night at church that He has always been there through all the pain, tears and suffering.
We were asked to close our eyes and visualize God and look at all the features He gives you. And I saw Him standing right in front of me, clean cut, in white, standing in the sand on a beach (similar to Bondi beach in Australia minus the buildings surrounded), we were half way between the water line and the dry sand line so we still felt a touch of water slip over our toes as we stood there and when He spoke I couldn't hear him but I could read His lips and know what He said to me. We were asked to ask God if He loves me? And He said yes and started to remind me how much from a time when I was little and I wondered what was outside of the universe and farther and farther and farther...I wondered if it had ever ended and that was how much He loved me....and what was funny was he told me all that before we were asked to ask Him how much. Then a second time we were asked to close our eyes and ask God where He was in the room and point. As we all sat in a circle and asked God ...I pointed toward the middle and glanced up for a second and what I saw was everyone pointing towards the middle. Wow, right?
I know that when trials come before me I'll always become stronger through it....but it is especially hard to see it that way in the middle of it. Almost like being in the eye of a hurricane and thinking your house will be stronger in the end when really the house your thinking about is gonna be crashed into tiny pieces and your new house will be bigger, more beautiful and everything you have ever wanted in a house...you just didn't realize that's what God was doing all along. I'm having to look at it this way right now.
Favorite childhood memory
May 3rd
Last night I was asked to tell about my favorite child hood memory. The first thing that came to my mind was:In 1st grade I'd ride the bus to my granny's house with my cousin Maggie. I always had gushers as my after school snack and that i always looked forward to after school.
Then I was asked to close my eyes and tell where Jesus was and what was His description.
He was my age sitting with me on the bus in a plaid striped button up collar shirt with nice jeans and nice squeaky clean shoes. As soon as I'd jump off the bus He would run to beat me to the door and give granny a big ole hug.
And had fun with us as He played with our imaginations in the kids room.
I think it's cool how you can ask your self one question like
"what's your favorite child hood memory?"
and He shows you that memory, how it was and then you ask
"where were You Jesus?"
and He will show you not only how it was, but Him in it.
I love my encounters with Him!
These are not moments that can happen only in church or in small group they are moments that can happen any where, anytime, with anyone or by yourself. Just let God lead you and you will see amazing things happen.
God has really been encouraging me with:
