Currently Listening New Map of World By PC3 - Paul Colman Trio Africa see related

So here's the deal, this will answer all the questions that everyone has been asking and wondering and staying awake over. ( maybe just maybe not the last part )

I am home.
I am staying home.
I work at Curves.
I will be working full-time within
the next two weeks at one of two places
which I can't tell you because IT'S A SECRET.
I am not giving up on life.
I like it here!
..:sort of::..

And just in case there was any question...
God is still Good! REALLY good!

I do miss everybody though, bunches.
Praying for you all! I hope you are praying for the ex-WOLBI apostate
over here, I need it.

i'm just kidding.

Cheers!

Currently Listening In Between Dreams By Jack Johnson see related

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Only two more hours until Christmas 2006 is over.
Anybody know the song "Welcome to our World" by Chris Rice? 
It's  been in my head nonstop this Christmas.

Tears are falling
Hearts are breaking
How we need to hear from God
You've been promised, we've been waiting
Welcome Holy child, Welcome holy child

Hope that you don't mind our manger
How I wish we would have known
But long awaited holy stranger
Make yourself at home, make yourself at home

Bring your peace into our violence
bid our hungry souls be filled
word now breaking heaven's silence
welcome to our world, welcome to our world

Fragile fingers sent to heal us
Tender brow prepared for thorns
Tiny heart whose blood will save us
unto us is born, unto us is born

So wrap our injured flesh around you
Breathe our air and walk our sod
Rob our sin and make us holy
perfect son of God, perfect son of God

That's all I can think to say this Christmas.
I hope that all of yours were wonde rful!
Our God is so good.

Here's my favorite 8 year old and I today

She's the best.

4 More Days until I get to see my man!!!

4 Awesomenesses

1. God is faithful, no matter whether I choose to trust Him or not.
2. God's plan is faultless, even when mine are always faulty.
3. Home is not WOLBI, or here...it's not anywhere on this crazy planet.
4. God will never give up on me. That's a show-stopper right there.

4 Wonderings

1. What is it that God intends to accomplish here, that couldn't have been accomplished elsewhere? ( *cough wolbi cough cough*)
2. What profits from geographical distance between us and all of our favorite people? ( *Cough cough Jeff cough cough Lauren cough Kaylee*) 
3. How many gasoline fumes can you inhale before you begin to lose brain cells?
4. Why does Rachel still have a xanga?

Here's me last year this time with one of my favorite people
in the whole wide world.

I am unmotivated to continue.

so there it is.

The end.

Currently Listening Simply Nothing By Shawn McDonald see related

 " And let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart". ( Gal. 6:9)

This pretty much says it. How quickly things change! One moment I'm at home sweet WOLBI, studying, learning, growing, surrounded by fellowship and encouragement. The next I'm back here looking at just under a year of full-time work, I'm pulling away from my home church and searching for a doctrinally sound, Bible-preaching church, I'm surrounded by dissension and hurting people.

For those of you  that haven't heard, short of a miracle ( no hate mail ....it's a figure of speech!      I will not be returning to WOLBI for Winter Quarter. Humanly speaking this is devastating, for me. But what God has is always the best.  I can't figure out for the life of me what this year holds, but I am thankful that I serve a mighty God, who is not only all-powerful, but all-knowing. I have nothing to fear and everything to joyfully anticipate.

What else to say? I hope everyone's breaks are going well...I hope that we are all being true to our Heavenly Father and to all we've learned in His Word the past three months. God is so good!

over and out.

Here's something happy.

=)

Currently Listening Absolution By Muse see related

" By realizing the reality of our savior within us, we are never bothered again by the fact that we do not understand ourself, or that other people do not understand us.

     The only one who truly understands me is the one who  made me and who redeems me.

It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of every kind of self consideration and learn to care about only one thing- the relationship between our savior and ourselves. " Oswald Chambers

I love this. It's hysterical how we seem to think that we matter so much!  Who cares if I feel understood, or if I understand myself?  Yet how much our culture does love "self-consideration". Or rather, how much WE love self-consideration....it's just so much more comfortable to blame it on our culture.  How much thought time is wasted on a selfish introspection.
When my heart needs consideration: " Search  me O god, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; see of there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. " psalms 139
When my mind wants to understand: " This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but y9ou shall meditate in it day and night, that you may berve to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success." Joshua 1

There's a little snippet of something God is trying to teach me.
Life is good here at WOLBI!