AMAZING WEATHER!

So, basically the weather has been so incredibly beautiful this week! It has been amazing  to turn off the AC and open the windows and turn on the fans! I have really enjoyed just going outside to play with the kiddos a lot this week!

God has really been showing me a lot about myself these past few weeks. It has been really neat and hard at the same time. He is refining me! It is so neat that we serve a God that loves us enough not to let us stay the same! I have really been challanged in so many ways. The biggest thing that I have been thinking about is PRIDE! O pride how it comes up all the time! Pretty much in every situation I can see pride poking it's head out at me! Often times I think that I am not very proud, because I don't think too highly of myself. However, I have learned that pride isn't jsut thinking too highlly it's thinking to lowly of yourself. God is really showing me how much more I need him and how I need to rest in the fact that he is enough. I am learning the importance and true meaning of letting God work through me.

Right now I am taking things slower than usual. I am really trying to rest as much as possbile to make up for all of the non rest that I have always gotten. It has been so refreshing and good. It is really helping me to focus more on God and have more time to just sit and talk to him! I am so excited to see how he will use me in ministry this year. I know that this year is going to be good. I know that he is going to use me more than ever! God is so good and he loves each one of us so much!

I am really enjoying going to Grace church. I do very much miss the youth group at Northwoods, but I know that they will always be a part of my heart. It's just not the place that God has for me right now. I'm thankful that I still get to see people like Diane, Kenley, David, Nellie and Jenshka a lot, but I do miss the youth. However, the youth at Grace are great too! I am really hoping to get to know some that I already know better and then to also get to know some that I don't know!

"Take away the dross from the silver, and out comes a vessle for the smith!" Proverbs 25:4

I pray that you are all being refined today!

Well guys, it's been a while.

I don't have a whole lot of time, but I wanted to do a quick update.

I offially left Northwoods. I am now at Grace Church and I love it. I have always enjoyed visiting there, but now it's different. IT's my home, it's where I belong. I have been challanged so much latley and I am learning a lot.

I am going to be working with the youth over there on Sunday nights as well as helping with a Bible study on Wed nights for high school girls. It's been a great ride so far. Although, it is hard and scary, because it is all so new, but I am thankful that God was so clear in what He wanted me to do. It's so good to know you are doing what you are supposed to be doing!

There are still some things that have been hard, but God is helping me deal with them. I still have a lot to deal with in my heart with my family, but God is faithful.

I miss camp, but I know that I am not supposed to be so involved right now.

I love the kiddos that I am nanny for.

My mom is in the hospital so you can be praying for her. She has a lot that she is dealing with right now and prayer would be the best thing for her.

I love living with Mary. We have so much fun around here. I couldn't have been blessed with a more encouraging roomie. And to top it off we get to hang with Katie so much that I feel like she lives here too.

Decsions are hard sometimes, but it's good when God shows you exactly what He wants for you.

I am learning so much right now and I cannot wait to look back at this year and see what happens.

this is all that I have time for right now. I hope you are all doing well. Love you guys! 

Changes

Good morning to all!

Life is so full of changes. I have alwasy known this, but latley I am begining to really learn what this means. I am a creature of habit and I DO NOT like change. It's hard, uncomfortable and takes a lot of energy. So, I avoid it at all costs. However, this year is different. God has placed some good sized changes in my life and I have not done well thus far in dealing with them. But, I know that my God is a God that has a plan that is better than what I can see. It may seem to me that He is crazy and doesn't know what He is doing, but this just isn't the case. This year I am going to try and have a few less commitments and have more time that is planned for just me and Jesus. This will be hard for me, because I am a person that likes to be busy and have responsability and I am a sucker that can't say no to anyone. I have committed to myself and God that this year or at least this semester I am going to be more faithful to taking care of me and having time with Him.

My favorite song to sing is Sanctuary, the words go something like this....

Lord prepare me, to be a sanctuary.

Pure and Holy tried and true. With thanksgiving I"ll be a living Sanctuary for you.

That's my prayer for me this year. I want to be a Sanctuary for Jesus. I want my heart to be focused on Him and not me. I want people to see something different in my. I am praying that God will give me more faith. And I believe that He is. Slowly. That doesn't mean everything is going to be easy, but it does mean that with all of these changes I can better trust Him.

You can pray for me that I will have faith like a child. And pray for me in all of these changes. .....

My parents got a divorce. I know that many of you do not know this, but I was so busy at camp this summer, that I didn't want the focus to get too far off so I didn't tell anyone. This has been hard to swallow and it's been very different coming home and having to schedule time with both parents. God is working on healing my heart and the hearts of my family members.

Also, I have moved out on my own for the first time. This is a big change, because I have always been with my family. I have never had all the bills that I now have and well, it's just different. But, I am excited about it and I know that I have a great roomie that is going to be great to live with!

Camp, I have worked at camp a lot these past few years. But, this year it's just not going to be as big a part of my life as it has been. I know it will be a part of my life, but I just don't know yet how or how much.

Ministry and church,  God is still showing me the full picture of what He wants from me, but it's going to be a big change. Please pray for me as I seek Gods direction!

God is good and faithful and He has a plan. I don't know what it is, but I can trust that He has it under control. I want to challange you guys that if things are hard. It's ok to hurt, to cry, to talk it out with a friend. But, talk it out with Jesus first. Lean on Him. Know that He does have a plan even if it seems crazy to you right now.

Let me know how I can be praying for you!

Hey there everyone! I'm still in Washington, but tomorrow I will be heading to Canada! This has been a great trip, but I am very tired. Currently I am inside doing homework and Katie and Mary are outside with Marys family and cousins cardboard sledding down a huge hill (not like the hills we have in Tally).

Anyway, I know I have been out of the loop for a while,but let me know how I can be praying for you!

love you all!

Hello All!

 I'm in Washington and I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY tired.

We have been hear for 3ish days and it's been some good times. We went to Oregon today and got to see Cassie H. That was really exciting.

It's midnight here which means 3 am in good ole Tally.... therefore I have nothing else to say other than Good night and Love you all!