I've always wanted to blog and I feel like now is the perfect time because God is teaching me so much about myself and others. This summer I decided to skip a discipleship training opportunity at First Baptist in Russellville and stay home one last summer because, hopefully, I'll get to be in Africa for most of next summer! (Cross your fingers!) So I started reading Lady in Waiting and Its Not About Me to fill all the extra time.. & they turned my world upside down! They were reminders everyday that nothing is ever promised. I was challenged to set aside every desire and give those to God instead of assuming they'll come. Lady in Waiting really pushed me to realize that I have to give up the assumption that a perfect Christian marriage with 2.5 kids will follow college. Its Not About Me made me realize that if I don't get those things Ive always expected, it'll be because God has things 73,000 times better for me and I'll be better for giving them up. But that's easier said than done.
So that leads to Fields of Grace. Every time I fail to see everything God has planned and slip back in to waiting around for all those things and rushing my time away, God brings me back to grace. One of my very favorite passages that God continuously brings me back to is in 2 Corinthians 12, "But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong." I constantly have to be reminded of this! God's grace is so good! This blog is to constantly remind myself of how gracious the Lord has been to me and to share with you his new blessings everyday! Hope you keep reading! Have a beautiful day! Love Love Love.
August 30, 2010
Another New Beginning..
I've always wanted to blog and I feel like now is the perfect time because God is teaching me so much about myself and others. This summer I decided to skip a discipleship training opportunity at First Baptist in Russellville and stay home one last summer because, hopefully, I'll get to be in Africa for most of next summer! (Cross your fingers!) So I started reading Lady in Waiting and Its Not About Me to fill all the extra time.. & they turned my world upside down! They were reminders everyday that nothing is ever promised. I was challenged to set aside every desire and give those to God instead of assuming they'll come. Lady in Waiting really pushed me to realize that I have to give up the assumption that a perfect Christian marriage with 2.5 kids will follow college. Its Not About Me made me realize that if I don't get those things Ive always expected, it'll be because God has things 73,000 times better for me and I'll be better for giving them up. But that's easier said than done.
So that leads to Fields of Grace. Every time I fail to see everything God has planned and slip back in to waiting around for all those things and rushing my time away, God brings me back to grace. One of my very favorite passages that God continuously brings me back to is in 2 Corinthians 12, "But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong." I constantly have to be reminded of this! God's grace is so good! This blog is to constantly remind myself of how gracious the Lord has been to me and to share with you his new blessings everyday! Hope you keep reading! Have a beautiful day! Love Love Love.
So that leads to Fields of Grace. Every time I fail to see everything God has planned and slip back in to waiting around for all those things and rushing my time away, God brings me back to grace. One of my very favorite passages that God continuously brings me back to is in 2 Corinthians 12, "But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong." I constantly have to be reminded of this! God's grace is so good! This blog is to constantly remind myself of how gracious the Lord has been to me and to share with you his new blessings everyday! Hope you keep reading! Have a beautiful day! Love Love Love.
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