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New Perspective

Hooray for the New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!! It seems like when the new year rolls in, there are so many opportunities for new beginnings in our lives. Hopefully this year we will take the time to see all the things that God has given to us in the past and all the wondrous things that he holds for us in the future. Instead of making new years resolutions, I'm going to let God lead and guide me into the things He wants for my life. It may not be as easy as saying it, but ultimately God is in control of everything. No matter what we go through whether good or bad He sees it all and is with us through it all. Here's to a new year lead by God Almighty!!!!!!!

Just a thought

I have found something very troubling lately. Why can't we reach out to people? Why do we feel as if we have to stay in our own little worlds and not include others? How can we ever meet and make friends with people if we never approach them? What are we afraid of? I have asked myself these questions several times throughout my short life. And the answer I've come up with..... we're afraid of rejection. Rejection hurts no matter who it comes from be it family, friends, co-workers, church family, etc. Everyone wants to be liked by somebody. And yes we all know that you can't be liked by everybody all of the time. But wouldn't it be nice? Ah..friendship what an awesome thing to have in one's life. The trick to friendship is finding someone to be yourself around. How many us can be "real and vulnerable" with total strangers or even not so totally strange? Not many but wouldn't it be nice to try. Just a thought.

Date Night

Today my husband and I had our usual date night. Every week on Wednesday, we try to go somewhere we haven't been before to eat or we stay at home and cook. Date night in the beginning was not what I would call very "romantic".  Picture this, husband and wife sitting across from each other in a dimly lit restaurant on their cellphones checking emails, doing text messages, and looking at the news reports coming across the television in the restaurant. See I told you nothing romantic at all. We finally had to take a hard look at how we were doing date night wrong. Because we didn't "go out on dates" when we first met each other, we had no clue what we were doing. Sometimes I still feel like after 15 years I have no clue of what I'm doing. But anyway....we started asking questions. The kind of questions that one should ask every so often of one another. More specifically from 1 Corinthians 13. This chapter is called the "Love Chapter" and for good reason. It lists all the things love does and doesn't do. Now what we do is we go through the entire chapter but instead of love is patient, love is kind we put our names in place of love. Am I patient with my husband? Is he kind to me? When you start looking at love and romance in that way, you begin to see what you both need to work on. This all came about when my husband was watching a sermon by Pastor John Piper. He explained that he and his wife every so often go through this chapter to see where they are in their relationship. So we took the idea and started trying it out. I can say that it has led to some pretty interesting discussions at dinner. I'm so happy that we can now gaze into each others eyes instead of our cellphones.

Life right now

It's been forever since I've written anything. As much as I love to write, you would think the words would just flow from me like sweat on a hot day ( I know, very gross). I guess I feel like I should be able to write paragraph after paragraph about my everyday life. But my life seems so mmm.....boring right now. Not that I want any action at all. Because we all know that when our daily routine is disrupted, it's chaotic. The last thing I want is chaos. So I guess I'll be content on ho hum and write stuff as it pops up. I'm sure I'll have lots to write about soon.

Changing

The more I look at my interests, the more I begin to realize that I'm into things that have really no lasting value. While the things that I like (jewelry, shoes, clothing etc) have nothing really wrong with them, I find that my attention has been stolen away by them from what really matters. I'm the type of person that once I'm into something I can go overboard. But I've noticed that even though I love God and have a relationship with Him, I don't go overboard into studying the word or spending time in prayer to Him. This is something that I desire above all the greatest deals I can find at the thrift store. But I feel like it's something that is truly eluding me. And as my husband always says you can't go based off feelings. I know that if I truly want a deeper realationship with my Father, then I must do something I never done before. I have to redirect my focus on Him and Him alone and let everything that steals my time away be put away for a little while. That way my life can be brought back into balance and my focus can be on the one who died and rose again.

What's in your heart?

Today while I was at work, an opportunity to see inside the hearts of people arose. A person's family was dealing with pain and suffering that most of us would not want to ever happen to us or anyone we truly loved. The person was distraught because they felt like what they were requesting for their dying love one was being denied. They became angry and almost to the point of being hostile. When I relayed this information to the person who was in charge they became even more angry than the person I spoke to. We all go through rough patches in our lives. Not everything is going to work out as we planned. People aren't going to be as friendly as we hope they would be. And when things happen for the worse our true colors come out. Since we hear all the time that God is in control of everything, do we really believe that when the going gets tough. Our reactions reveal our true nature. How many of us can say that we stay calm under pressure? Or that we rely on God for our deliverance in bad situations and circumstances? The lesson I learned today is that we have no control of our circumstances but we do have control over how we react to them. Let your reactions show that Christ lives within your heart.