Sorry I really have nothing interesting to write about but I figured I should post. So school has been crazy busy but I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel!! I had a great Spring Break and spent most of my time in the Spring Break hot spot of Heber Springs! I am moving to a new apartment with most likely a new roommate. I am really excited but sad to be leaving my current roommate. This apartment is a little nicer and it has a catch-and-release fishing pond so I can brush up on my skills! Those trout in the Little Red better watch out!! :)
I have about 3,000 dollars towards my Africa trip and am amazed at how giving God's people are! I am getting nervous about going. I am scared that I will not be good enough to impact people's lives but I just have to learn to trust in God that He will take care and use me. That is the hardest lesson for me to learn... giving my anxieties to God. However, through this trip that is something that I will be able to work on.
I have decided that this is the year that everyone is getting married. It is crazy to think that I am getting to the age to actually be married!!!! Do not worry though...marriage IS NOT in my near future!! However, I will have an amazing wedding because I will be getting a lot of ideas from a gazillion weddings in this year alone and since I do not plan on getting married for at least another 15 years I will more wedding experience then I will know what to do with!
Well I better go get my beauty sleep...I sure need a lot! ha ha
Monday, April 14, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
SOUTH AFRICA HERE I COME!!!
So as some of you know, I was going to go on a two month trip to the Bronx through AIM. Unfourtunatly the trip got cancelled due to not enough people on the team. I was bummed but more upset because I already have over half my money for the trip and I did not know how to tell the people that donated so generously that I was not going. Thankfullly there was space on other teams for other trips. So I am now going to Jeffery's Bay South Africa for a month. This is a set deal and I am already getting to know my team members. They are great! I am so excited to be working with the children over there and can not wait to see what God has in store for me. I do have to raise an extra thousand dollars but I know I will get it. God has already blessed me with a lot of financial support by using those around me and I know He will continue to provide! Now I am going to go enjoy the rest of my SNOW DAY!!!
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Catching Up
Yes, I am alive! I thought this thing was gone but someone informed me it was not so I figured I would start this up again. Hopefully, not everyone has given up on me and will check this thing! Wow it has been along time let me think what has happened...
well I had the best Christmas of my life. Why you ask? Because I got this thing...
Yes, you are seeing right it is a Kitchenaid mixer. I did not ask for one but have always wanted one! I know its not on the typical college students wish list but what can I say...
Lets see...school is going pretty good this year. One more year until Grad school! After looking at some options, I have decided to stay here at UCA for Grad school.
I am also looking forward to this summer! I am going on a mission trip with Adventures in Missions. My first choice was to go on a two month trip to the Bronx. However, there have been some people who have dropped out so I am now looking at going somewhere outside of the country for a month. So far, AIM has been a great organization and I can not wait to know for sure where I am headed to. I have already started raising money and am shocked to see the work of God's people. I am blessed to have such great support from those around me!
One of my cousins has been seriuosly burned and has had to undergo skin grafts. Please keep him in your prayers! You can read more about it on my Uncle Doug's blog. I have offered to help in anyway that they need me to so hopefully they will take me up on the offer (cough, cough)! you are all in my prayers and I hope you feel better soon Anthony!
I really can not think of anything else that has happened...well besides meeting this guy :)
well I had the best Christmas of my life. Why you ask? Because I got this thing...
Yes, you are seeing right it is a Kitchenaid mixer. I did not ask for one but have always wanted one! I know its not on the typical college students wish list but what can I say...Lets see...school is going pretty good this year. One more year until Grad school! After looking at some options, I have decided to stay here at UCA for Grad school.
I am also looking forward to this summer! I am going on a mission trip with Adventures in Missions. My first choice was to go on a two month trip to the Bronx. However, there have been some people who have dropped out so I am now looking at going somewhere outside of the country for a month. So far, AIM has been a great organization and I can not wait to know for sure where I am headed to. I have already started raising money and am shocked to see the work of God's people. I am blessed to have such great support from those around me!
One of my cousins has been seriuosly burned and has had to undergo skin grafts. Please keep him in your prayers! You can read more about it on my Uncle Doug's blog. I have offered to help in anyway that they need me to so hopefully they will take me up on the offer (cough, cough)! you are all in my prayers and I hope you feel better soon Anthony!
I really can not think of anything else that has happened...well besides meeting this guy :)
Well i better go. I have some observations to get done! I promise I will update again soon!
Monday, October 15, 2007
Casting Crowns Concert
This weekend I went to the Casting Crowns concert. This was my first Christian concert where most of the people were not all the same denomination and lets just say I can't wait to get to Heaven so we can all worship together forever!
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Fatherly Love
Lately God has been revealing to me a deeper "Fatherly Love". What I mean by that is He is showing me a even more of how much He loves me as His daughter.
Now I have always felt this love but He is giving me even more of it. This semester I have been focusing on my prayer life. I have been keeping a journal which is something I have tried many times before but have never kept up with it. As I write in this journal I have begun to feel bad/guilty for making request to my Lord. I feel guilty to lift things up to Him because I feel so unworthy to ask Him things. However, He has shown me that He wants me to give Him all my heart and to do that includes asking Him for things that are on my heart. He doesn't care that I don't deserve it...He doesn't care that I fall WAY short EVERYDAY. He WANTS to love me. As I've been reading and in devotions God has pointed out to me that others have asked for their heart's desires. In fact, God sometimes asked them what they wanted.
God has used my relationship with my daddy as a way to reveal His love to me. I have the best dad ever. My dad will do anything for me no matter what. I have done nothing to deserve my daddy's love nor have I always treated him the way I should. However, my dad loves me and wants to give me the things I desire. This is how God is. The difference though is God is the only one powerful enough to be able to give me all the desires of my heart and the only one knowledgeable enough to know what is best for my life.
I know this probably doesn't make too much sense and your probably reading this thinking duh she just realized that, but I have just never felt this deep of a love from God in this way. I feel Him telling me to come to Him...I feel his comfort and peace no matter how busy my day is. I feel so blessed and at the same time so unworthy. I can not put into words how thankful I am that I serve a God who loves me and wants to have a relationship with someone so undeserving.
So lately I have been trying to lift ALL my heart to Him in prayer. After all He already knows my heart and is just waiting on me to give it to Him.
Now I have always felt this love but He is giving me even more of it. This semester I have been focusing on my prayer life. I have been keeping a journal which is something I have tried many times before but have never kept up with it. As I write in this journal I have begun to feel bad/guilty for making request to my Lord. I feel guilty to lift things up to Him because I feel so unworthy to ask Him things. However, He has shown me that He wants me to give Him all my heart and to do that includes asking Him for things that are on my heart. He doesn't care that I don't deserve it...He doesn't care that I fall WAY short EVERYDAY. He WANTS to love me. As I've been reading and in devotions God has pointed out to me that others have asked for their heart's desires. In fact, God sometimes asked them what they wanted.
God has used my relationship with my daddy as a way to reveal His love to me. I have the best dad ever. My dad will do anything for me no matter what. I have done nothing to deserve my daddy's love nor have I always treated him the way I should. However, my dad loves me and wants to give me the things I desire. This is how God is. The difference though is God is the only one powerful enough to be able to give me all the desires of my heart and the only one knowledgeable enough to know what is best for my life.
I know this probably doesn't make too much sense and your probably reading this thinking duh she just realized that, but I have just never felt this deep of a love from God in this way. I feel Him telling me to come to Him...I feel his comfort and peace no matter how busy my day is. I feel so blessed and at the same time so unworthy. I can not put into words how thankful I am that I serve a God who loves me and wants to have a relationship with someone so undeserving.
So lately I have been trying to lift ALL my heart to Him in prayer. After all He already knows my heart and is just waiting on me to give it to Him.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Captivating
After having a ton of people mention the book Captivating to me for the past two years, I finally decided that I should read it! It is a really good book and had some really good points that made a huge impact on me.
The authors talked about how Satan uses certain lies to bring us down and to make us feel as though we are not good enough to do the Lord's work. This really hit me in that I am a very insecure person...always have been and I really never knew why. For awhile I have been praying and trying to give these insecurities to my Father but I haven't been able to. Lately though I have realized that it is Satan feeding me these lies so now I'm learning to say no to him and yes to my Lord in this area of my life. I already feel better, free of some of these insecurities, and closer to my Father...but I also hear satans lies get louder and louder in my head. But I know that as long as I remain strong in God He will take care of me and help me.
Another point that these authors made that really struck me was that instead of praying to be something you were not designed to be you should pray for God to make you more in the image he intended you to be in. I really thought that this was interesting because I know so many times I see a women who is an amazing leader for Christ and I want those traits and I sometimes strive to be like her instead of who God created me to be. Now I'm not saying that God didn't create me to become an amazing Christian women...just that he made me unique and I will posses some of the same but also some different qualities from these women that I admire.
The last point of the book that I have been pondering on is about how the world has hardened my heart to certain things. Now I knew that this happens and have tried to protect my heart on a surface level. However, this book has encouraged me to dig deeper and to really see how hard my heart is. As I find these spots I pray that God will soften them. It has been a very humbling experience and has also helped me see people and situations in a different light but I know I have a LONG ways to go before my heart is completely softened and back to the way God wants my heart to be.
I'm very glad that some of the women in my life have encouraged me to read this book! And am also thankful that God has provided such great mentors in my life.
The authors talked about how Satan uses certain lies to bring us down and to make us feel as though we are not good enough to do the Lord's work. This really hit me in that I am a very insecure person...always have been and I really never knew why. For awhile I have been praying and trying to give these insecurities to my Father but I haven't been able to. Lately though I have realized that it is Satan feeding me these lies so now I'm learning to say no to him and yes to my Lord in this area of my life. I already feel better, free of some of these insecurities, and closer to my Father...but I also hear satans lies get louder and louder in my head. But I know that as long as I remain strong in God He will take care of me and help me.
Another point that these authors made that really struck me was that instead of praying to be something you were not designed to be you should pray for God to make you more in the image he intended you to be in. I really thought that this was interesting because I know so many times I see a women who is an amazing leader for Christ and I want those traits and I sometimes strive to be like her instead of who God created me to be. Now I'm not saying that God didn't create me to become an amazing Christian women...just that he made me unique and I will posses some of the same but also some different qualities from these women that I admire.
The last point of the book that I have been pondering on is about how the world has hardened my heart to certain things. Now I knew that this happens and have tried to protect my heart on a surface level. However, this book has encouraged me to dig deeper and to really see how hard my heart is. As I find these spots I pray that God will soften them. It has been a very humbling experience and has also helped me see people and situations in a different light but I know I have a LONG ways to go before my heart is completely softened and back to the way God wants my heart to be.
I'm very glad that some of the women in my life have encouraged me to read this book! And am also thankful that God has provided such great mentors in my life.
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