Patience is a virtue

Traffic sucks. Especially when there is a huge wreck in front of you and you know your going to be stuck there for a while. Well, sometimes life is like that. God lets you sit in traffic for a while because He knows that there is a huge wreck ahead. I feel like right now God is teaching me patience. He knows that if He lets me speed forward into something I'm not ready for, I'm going to make a mess. But now I realize that He has me waiting for something amazing. I don't know what it is, but I'm willing to wait if it is from the King of Kings! He will do more than I could ever ask or imagine (Eph. 3:20). How cool is that. Well, I'm out like leather @ bike week!

The Dazed Drive

Well, let me just start this off by saying that this day has been BEAUTIFUL! I am on spring break and I am loving the gorgeous weather. Amid this beautiful weather I've really been thinking about how awesome God is. Yeah, I had one of those dazed drives where you get home and you've been thinking so much you don't even remember leaving the place you started. Anywho...even when you think you know what God's got in store for you, He blows you away with something you never expected. For example, lately I've asked God to show me ways that I can serve Him. Well, until today I didn't realize that there has been a service God has placed in front of my face for a long time. I had been working so hard to serve those around me at school and at church that I forgot about the family in Pickens that loves and supports me. After a pretty rough day with la familia I realized that God has been trying to show me for quite some time that I need to be willing to serve my family, too...not just those that I spend the majority of my time with. So, for the rest of spring break, I going to try my best to serve my family and allow God's love to shine through me. On that note...I'm out like hairy legs @ Woodstock!

Not so broken after all

It is amazing how God places people in your life for a reason--for a time-- and then allows them to stay in your life, or sees fit for your life to go on without them. God really brought this to my attention today. There was one MAJOR occurence today that just hit when God was truly trying to show me this. I had just met up with someone, my special friend, (I won't name names to protect the innocent) and he and I were going to meet my friend Tex--who dates my ex-boyfriend, Kevin. Wait, this is where I realize that a little background information needs to be recorded, just to make sure the story is clear. **Flashback, first semester of this school year** I had been dating Kevin for about 11 months around the end of September, I was really struggling to rekindle my walk with God and I was beginning to see that our relationship was keeping me from that. Then I met X...yes, if earlier blogs have been read, X is a familiar character who was not revealed as a person until now. X made me realize that there were Godly guys out there who would actually give me the time of day. This lead to that infamous day when I broke things off with Kevin. Two months down the road I was still spending time with X and Kevin was dating Tex. END OF FLASHBACK. Things really didn't go the way I had wanted them to with X, and today was the first time that I realized what that reason was. After I met up with my special friend, we walked over towards the guys dorms to meet Tex, who was walking Kevin to the gym before he left for baseball for the weekend. Well I was walking beside my friend when I looked up I saw Tex and Kevin talking and walking hand in hand, I then looked over Tex's shoulder I saw X walking. At the time I didn't realize the symbolism of this scene (as an English major, I'm really into all that symbolism jazz), but now I realize what God was trying to show me with just that little scene. God placed X in my life so that I would be able to let go of Kevin, and nothing more would ever become of the two of us. Tex and Kevin are together now and they are great together. AND now my friend is in my life for a reason also, which God really revealed to me as I was talking to my friend earlier this afternoon. I'm just astounded to see how God is working in my life. Even in the smallest ways that I may not recognize or be grateful for at the time. I asked Him to blow me away with His perfect plan for my life and I would have to say He is going that. Now I see that God has been paving the road ahead of me for quite sometimes...things are starting to look not so broken after all!

Wow

Wow...isn't it amazing how God will just blow you away with his will for your life?! Last night I was writing to God in my journal and I just called out to God to use me, it went a little something like this:
"Bless me with opportunities to minister, Lord. I want to be SOLD OUT for you, God. I want to be totally yours. I'm not holding back anything any more. I'm all about you God."
Then, tonight's FCA was absolutely incredible...God spoke volumns to my heart through Dustin Willis. I was praying for God to show me how He could use me and tonight, Dustin spoke about how Jesus met the people who didn't know Him where they were-in the community, in the places where most wouldn't go. God is calling me to meet the people where they are. There is a need on this campus, there is a need in the school where I am doing my field placement, there is a need with awesome kids I work with @ Ignite. God's calling me to "bring the cheese" is how Perry Noble, the pastor at NewSpring, put it yesterday at church. God called David to just take the bread and cheese to the battle front, but when he got there...he slew a giant. It starts out with small steps, but I can't wait to see how God is going to use me! Wow...I think that is all I can say tonight, just how GREAT is our God? On that, I'm out like pout w/o the "p"!