I decided to make a list of things I'm looking forward to over Christmas break. (What else is there to do in a tiny airport when your flight is very very delayed?) SO, here goes...
1) not digging out my car multiple times a day
2) not working at Ruby Tuesday!!1 Two whole weeks - oh what bliss
3) seeing my wonderful friends and family
4) going to my home church(es)!
5) having a starbucks on every corner
6) not cooking (I use that term loosely)....or having to buy food for that matter
7) waking up late
8) catching up with friends I haven't seen in a long time....
9) Having time to catch up with people!
Things that I will miss - the muscles that I get from digging my car our all the time ;) lol. What else....friends. My roommate. hmm..... I'll miss my church in NY.
I'm coming home!!1 YAY :) Soon and very soon...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Quick Lesson (ok, quick-ish....)
I am a bad blogger in case you haven't noticed. Bad because there is absolutely no consistency in the frequency of when I write posts....sorry....
Anyways, its late at night so I'll make this quick.
Lesson of the week (and the lifetime):
God's goodness has absolutely nothing to do with us.
Yup.
We try and try to convince ourselves of how great our problems are, and there are times when our problems, failures, battles lost, horrific events, and Goliaths seem impossible for anyone to take on. But who are we kidding? Honestly.
Whatever it is, MY GOD is greater. It doesn't matter how big it is, how hopeless or impossible it seems: He IS bigger.
I've been struggling a lot with discouragement over issues that seem to never go away, or even improve a little bit. I'm told I have the power to overcome (and I technically do - well, Christ's spirit in me), and still I fail, frustrating. But thats not the point. And it never has been.
The fact that I have a God who has fought and still fights for me, AND has already won is what matters. He doesn't change at all. He doesn't fail at all. He already has overcome.
And even more amazingly, He promises to answer when we call! No matter how many times I've prayed the same prayers (and its been a lot of times...), He promises that He WILL answer.
And in the verse right before this one, Jesus tells the story of this guy whose friend visits him while he's in bed, because he needs stuff. At first the man says no, but because of the persistency of the man, he ends up answering the guy's request. Wow. I don't think I ever realized that we were encouraged to be that bold with our request to the Lord...
Personally, that kind of makes me want to be the most annoying, pestering, praying person coming to the Lord with my requests :D
Anyways, I don't know if anyone even reads this anymore, but I just need to write out this stuff, and typing is faster than journaling sometimes :)
Anyways, its late at night so I'll make this quick.
Lesson of the week (and the lifetime):
God's goodness has absolutely nothing to do with us.
Yup.
We try and try to convince ourselves of how great our problems are, and there are times when our problems, failures, battles lost, horrific events, and Goliaths seem impossible for anyone to take on. But who are we kidding? Honestly.
Whatever it is, MY GOD is greater. It doesn't matter how big it is, how hopeless or impossible it seems: He IS bigger.
I've been struggling a lot with discouragement over issues that seem to never go away, or even improve a little bit. I'm told I have the power to overcome (and I technically do - well, Christ's spirit in me), and still I fail, frustrating. But thats not the point. And it never has been.
The fact that I have a God who has fought and still fights for me, AND has already won is what matters. He doesn't change at all. He doesn't fail at all. He already has overcome.
And even more amazingly, He promises to answer when we call! No matter how many times I've prayed the same prayers (and its been a lot of times...), He promises that He WILL answer.
And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.Luke 11:9-10
And in the verse right before this one, Jesus tells the story of this guy whose friend visits him while he's in bed, because he needs stuff. At first the man says no, but because of the persistency of the man, he ends up answering the guy's request. Wow. I don't think I ever realized that we were encouraged to be that bold with our request to the Lord...
Personally, that kind of makes me want to be the most annoying, pestering, praying person coming to the Lord with my requests :D
Anyways, I don't know if anyone even reads this anymore, but I just need to write out this stuff, and typing is faster than journaling sometimes :)
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