Wednesday, October 6, 2010
October
October already?? Where did the summer go?!!? Been working my full-time job for a little over a month now, and have been enjoying it, getting back into banking. And working at ACMoore provides a bit more fun, yet still working can be quite tiring. Looking forward to heading back to Spencer this weekend for a visit, and then in November to visit friends in the Roanoke/Lynchburg area... Even when around family, sometimes I just miss my friends even more... :/ Quite glad I'll be able to see most of them all sometime soon!! :)
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Time for opportunities
Okay, so I have an opportunity to possibly go to Brazil for a while... tickets are quite cheap, and I have someone willing to let me stay with them for my stay there...
I have always wanted to go back, and feel and felt at home there, like I had a place to belong.... I don't only mean physically, since I do also have the tendency to look like with my coloring being more tan than others... but also the welcomeness, and accepting of those I had met while there...
God... please show me your will and the plans you have for me. If you want me there, please show me how and provide the way...
Monday, June 14, 2010
June activities
The month of June is almost have way done...
The month started with the ending of a relationship, and the transition of going and being where God wants me to go next.
After working lots of extra hours, I was able to go home to PA for a week for my sister's birthday and high school graduation. While there I was able to see family and a few friends.
After working lots of extra hours, I was able to go home to PA for a week for my sister's birthday and high school graduation. While there I was able to see family and a few friends.
The month will also bring more long hours, and then the job of packing and moving again, back to PA until God shows me where to go next...
Thursday, May 6, 2010
May
Into the month of May we are already. Just finishing working 7 days and will be able to enjoy about 3 days off before working again. Working overnights is a hard schedule to follow... it really can mess your body up. With sleeping odd hours, not getting enough sleep, and also eating habits are changed... no wonder I haven't been feeling well.
Still looking for a new job, pretty much so far though unfortunately nothing is panning out.
Oh well.
Mother's Day is in just a few days! My family is coming up to see me, which I am looking forward to!! I haven't seen them in a few months, and am glad they can spend the day with me.
It's hard to believe that my sister will be done with high school classes forever in just 2 weeks! Then graduation... wow... :) she's growing up... Time sure has flown by!
Still looking for a new job, pretty much so far though unfortunately nothing is panning out.
Oh well.
Mother's Day is in just a few days! My family is coming up to see me, which I am looking forward to!! I haven't seen them in a few months, and am glad they can spend the day with me.
It's hard to believe that my sister will be done with high school classes forever in just 2 weeks! Then graduation... wow... :) she's growing up... Time sure has flown by!
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Lets Review...
So it has been just a few months since I wrote on here... it's been a challenging time in a lot of ways. Changing jobs, learning to work overnight shifts while trying to function during the day.(it is not easy!) Having become more involved with the music program at church, as well as continuing to help with the youth group, and being encouraged as it continues to grow...
Starting to give piano lessons to a friend's daughter, moving to a new place, babysitting some, working extra hours, visiting and spending time with family and friends when able... A lot has been going on...
It's hard to believe that it has been a year ago that I was in PA for Easter, and that my niece was born and turns 1yr old today! And then just 3 days later, I started dating Raymond...
I normally don't have a hard time with change, I enjoy being able to switch things up a bit... but this past year has been a little bit more difficult in dealing with the changes that have occured...
Maybe it's that I'm at a point in my life where I am starting to want to settle down and consider what it would be like to be married and have a family of my own, and become familiar with what it's like to have consistancy in my life, or maybe I'm just getting older and the thrill of all of the changes isn't as much of a thrill anymore.
There are so many things that are or at least feel like they are up in the air right now, and that makes it hard to try and focus on the here and now, when I don't feel like I know what that is supposed to be. I had a friend this week who made a comment that she wished that God would just tell us what we're supposed to do some time, (more specific guidance from the Holy Spirit) like in the New Testament... and I can understand that desire... I know that God guides us, but having to decide what job to do, or who am I supposed to spend my life with... there are guidelines in the Bible that we can use to help us make these decisions, but sometimes it'd be easier if God just spoke to us verbally and told us to "take this job" or "this is the person for you"... Do we have concerns that we are making the right decision? Is God opening the doors in a specific way that we have no other option but to go thru this door? Has he brought people into our lives that we knew years ago, who were out of our lives for a time and then come back at a certain time, just when we needed them there? How do we know we are making the right choice when it comes to the person we want to spend the rest of our life with? Sure, the Bible has the Proverbs 31 Woman, and the qualifications of deacons/elders/pastors which are also good qualifications for what to look for in a man... but what if multiple people fit the ideas we have in our heads, how do we know we are making the right decision?
What is it that we are afraid of? Making the mistakes that our parents made, not wanting to go through what they did ourselves? Haven't we all learned something from our experiences and used the past to shape where we are in the present and where we want to be in the future? No couple is perfect, there will always be mistakes made... there are no perfect people, hence there can be no perfect relationship. We are all sinners and thus will fail at some point.(more than once is my guess...) Where we go from there is how we can change the past that we are familiar with and make it a future that is strong in God and use His guidance in making it a relationship that will stand the test of time and knowing that this is with whom God wants us to be for now, and forever, and that regardless of the difficulties and challenges that will occur(not that might occur, it is a guarantee that they will at some point) we will make it through because we took and take the promises we made seriously, and won't consider other options irregardless of what others might tell us.
Life will not always be easy, but there are a few things that will never change...
God loves us all so much, that it was while we being dead in our sin that His son Jesus Christ died on the cross for us so that we could live forever eternally with him.
Because we are sinners, and need forgiveness, there will always be times in our lives that we will make mistakes (until we reach Heaven) and we have to ask for and be the giver of forgiveness as well.
God does not make mistakes, we are all here on this earth for a reason, and that is to through our lives, give Him honor, glory and praise in all that we say and do. Our lives are a testament of what God has done for us and through us and we need to live our lives in a way that is honoring to Him.
And the work that God has started in our lives, whether we realized it or not, He will complete in us in His timing.
Starting to give piano lessons to a friend's daughter, moving to a new place, babysitting some, working extra hours, visiting and spending time with family and friends when able... A lot has been going on...
It's hard to believe that it has been a year ago that I was in PA for Easter, and that my niece was born and turns 1yr old today! And then just 3 days later, I started dating Raymond...
I normally don't have a hard time with change, I enjoy being able to switch things up a bit... but this past year has been a little bit more difficult in dealing with the changes that have occured...
Maybe it's that I'm at a point in my life where I am starting to want to settle down and consider what it would be like to be married and have a family of my own, and become familiar with what it's like to have consistancy in my life, or maybe I'm just getting older and the thrill of all of the changes isn't as much of a thrill anymore.
There are so many things that are or at least feel like they are up in the air right now, and that makes it hard to try and focus on the here and now, when I don't feel like I know what that is supposed to be. I had a friend this week who made a comment that she wished that God would just tell us what we're supposed to do some time, (more specific guidance from the Holy Spirit) like in the New Testament... and I can understand that desire... I know that God guides us, but having to decide what job to do, or who am I supposed to spend my life with... there are guidelines in the Bible that we can use to help us make these decisions, but sometimes it'd be easier if God just spoke to us verbally and told us to "take this job" or "this is the person for you"... Do we have concerns that we are making the right decision? Is God opening the doors in a specific way that we have no other option but to go thru this door? Has he brought people into our lives that we knew years ago, who were out of our lives for a time and then come back at a certain time, just when we needed them there? How do we know we are making the right choice when it comes to the person we want to spend the rest of our life with? Sure, the Bible has the Proverbs 31 Woman, and the qualifications of deacons/elders/pastors which are also good qualifications for what to look for in a man... but what if multiple people fit the ideas we have in our heads, how do we know we are making the right decision?
What is it that we are afraid of? Making the mistakes that our parents made, not wanting to go through what they did ourselves? Haven't we all learned something from our experiences and used the past to shape where we are in the present and where we want to be in the future? No couple is perfect, there will always be mistakes made... there are no perfect people, hence there can be no perfect relationship. We are all sinners and thus will fail at some point.(more than once is my guess...) Where we go from there is how we can change the past that we are familiar with and make it a future that is strong in God and use His guidance in making it a relationship that will stand the test of time and knowing that this is with whom God wants us to be for now, and forever, and that regardless of the difficulties and challenges that will occur(not that might occur, it is a guarantee that they will at some point) we will make it through because we took and take the promises we made seriously, and won't consider other options irregardless of what others might tell us.
Life will not always be easy, but there are a few things that will never change...
God loves us all so much, that it was while we being dead in our sin that His son Jesus Christ died on the cross for us so that we could live forever eternally with him.
Because we are sinners, and need forgiveness, there will always be times in our lives that we will make mistakes (until we reach Heaven) and we have to ask for and be the giver of forgiveness as well.
God does not make mistakes, we are all here on this earth for a reason, and that is to through our lives, give Him honor, glory and praise in all that we say and do. Our lives are a testament of what God has done for us and through us and we need to live our lives in a way that is honoring to Him.
And the work that God has started in our lives, whether we realized it or not, He will complete in us in His timing.
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