how gross i'm glad i'm not there now :( rats really freak me out.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
quiet time shh
i challenged our weekly bible study to try and keep a quiet time this week and to record what God was showing them in the morning, then later that day write about how they responded to His prompting.
and admittedly i missed the first 2 days of the challenge :(
but day three is on tack!
today i read acts 5:12-10:48 (i got caught up in the story and i couldn't stop :D)
what i really heard God speaking to me was when philip was talking to the eunuch of ethiopia. i love how the ethiopian was reading the bible, and trying to understand but he knew he was missing something. God brought along Philip to teach him and show him what he was grasping for blindly. he opened his eyes and taught him about this man he was reading about who suffered for humanity and more importantly for him. and the eunuch totally got it and asked Philip how he could be baptized and then he is baptized and BAM God pulls Philip out of that place and brings him to another city to preach to more people!
this is 100% God divined appointment. God told Philip to head in this general direction and he went and wound up meeting this guy. then when he has done what God sent him there for he gets zapped back to some other town to keep preaching. Amazing!
the most amazing part is not that God zapped him some where else, even though it's pretty cool, no the best part is how you can see God weaving these guys lives together perfectly in order to meet with each other and create a beautiful relationship with the Lord.
i need to be aware of how God is weaving my life with other peoples to create this great piece of fabric with stories and opportunities to be that light for God. Which is really to say i need to be following the thread He has given me, not so much that i need to be able to see the whole sheet or even the pattern.
so today i hope to be more obedient in the things that God is leading me in.
and admittedly i missed the first 2 days of the challenge :(
but day three is on tack!
today i read acts 5:12-10:48 (i got caught up in the story and i couldn't stop :D)
what i really heard God speaking to me was when philip was talking to the eunuch of ethiopia. i love how the ethiopian was reading the bible, and trying to understand but he knew he was missing something. God brought along Philip to teach him and show him what he was grasping for blindly. he opened his eyes and taught him about this man he was reading about who suffered for humanity and more importantly for him. and the eunuch totally got it and asked Philip how he could be baptized and then he is baptized and BAM God pulls Philip out of that place and brings him to another city to preach to more people!
this is 100% God divined appointment. God told Philip to head in this general direction and he went and wound up meeting this guy. then when he has done what God sent him there for he gets zapped back to some other town to keep preaching. Amazing!
the most amazing part is not that God zapped him some where else, even though it's pretty cool, no the best part is how you can see God weaving these guys lives together perfectly in order to meet with each other and create a beautiful relationship with the Lord.
i need to be aware of how God is weaving my life with other peoples to create this great piece of fabric with stories and opportunities to be that light for God. Which is really to say i need to be following the thread He has given me, not so much that i need to be able to see the whole sheet or even the pattern.
so today i hope to be more obedient in the things that God is leading me in.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
busy busy busy
I'm writing this while I'm in Colorado for Amee's wedding!!! I'm so excited for them it is going to be great. The wedding is tomorrow and we are all busy trying to remember all the things we will need for the big day.
It makes me think about when Aaron and I are man and wife and when we will be starting our own family together. I am so glad that he came with me. I know he had to sit around a lot and this was probably a boring trip thus far but he will enjoy the wedding. it means so much to me that we could go together. He is a Good man.
Speaking of good man, we just celebrated our 1 year anniversary and it was very sweet and romantic. We spent the whole day together going to Balboa Park and to the beach for dinner.
We started the day by opening gifts. Now let me take the time not to let you know I really do not like to wait for gifts, but on the same hand I feel like I would be cheated if I go to the day of and there were no gifts. So I am torn and really struggle when it comes to being patient for the day to come. The day of I woke up early, but like it's Christmas day early, and waited several hours before i woke Aaron up. we opened gifts, and it was a lot of fun.
I made Aaron a basket full of goodies and a redeemable coupon for a romantic Lasagna diner made by muah. He had a 2 parter gift so i only opened half of it and the other half i would get later that night. The part i opened was all 4 seasons of the Office so we watched some of them after opening gifts. When then got dressed and ready to go to Balboa Park.
At Balboa we went to the Spanish Art Villa area, a place I surprisingly had never been before at the park. Sadly the art there was quite lacking in many aspects. some was pretty good but some of the stuff looked like high school art assignments gone awry. We still had fun looking at all the different stuff and checking out the cool rock collections. Later we were tired and needed to take a break so we sat on some steps on the main drag, which was the perfect time for an impromptu photo shoot. It was so much fun and they turned out really cute.
We then went and got sandwiches and packed a picnic for the beach in the basket from the gift. as we headed towards La Jolla it looked pretty bad weather wise and we thought for sure it was going to start raining, which is problematic because we don't have good wipers for the car yet. but we went despite the appearance of rain and thought it was cold and stormy, it did not rain. we enjoyed our picnic dinner and then it was time for the second half of the gift. Aaron made a list of 101 things he loves about me. he read them all to me on the beach and it was wonderful. some of them were funny, some sweet , and some were beautiful. it was a great day and we had lots of fun.
I think about life a year ago and how i was feeling, trying to figure out all these new emotions. I'm still trying to figure out what is going on. The difference is i know that i don't need to do this on my own, i can depend on Aaron and we can together depend on God to lead us and we will follow. It has been a great year.
It makes me think about when Aaron and I are man and wife and when we will be starting our own family together. I am so glad that he came with me. I know he had to sit around a lot and this was probably a boring trip thus far but he will enjoy the wedding. it means so much to me that we could go together. He is a Good man.
Speaking of good man, we just celebrated our 1 year anniversary and it was very sweet and romantic. We spent the whole day together going to Balboa Park and to the beach for dinner.
We started the day by opening gifts. Now let me take the time not to let you know I really do not like to wait for gifts, but on the same hand I feel like I would be cheated if I go to the day of and there were no gifts. So I am torn and really struggle when it comes to being patient for the day to come. The day of I woke up early, but like it's Christmas day early, and waited several hours before i woke Aaron up. we opened gifts, and it was a lot of fun.
I made Aaron a basket full of goodies and a redeemable coupon for a romantic Lasagna diner made by muah. He had a 2 parter gift so i only opened half of it and the other half i would get later that night. The part i opened was all 4 seasons of the Office so we watched some of them after opening gifts. When then got dressed and ready to go to Balboa Park.
At Balboa we went to the Spanish Art Villa area, a place I surprisingly had never been before at the park. Sadly the art there was quite lacking in many aspects. some was pretty good but some of the stuff looked like high school art assignments gone awry. We still had fun looking at all the different stuff and checking out the cool rock collections. Later we were tired and needed to take a break so we sat on some steps on the main drag, which was the perfect time for an impromptu photo shoot. It was so much fun and they turned out really cute.
We then went and got sandwiches and packed a picnic for the beach in the basket from the gift. as we headed towards La Jolla it looked pretty bad weather wise and we thought for sure it was going to start raining, which is problematic because we don't have good wipers for the car yet. but we went despite the appearance of rain and thought it was cold and stormy, it did not rain. we enjoyed our picnic dinner and then it was time for the second half of the gift. Aaron made a list of 101 things he loves about me. he read them all to me on the beach and it was wonderful. some of them were funny, some sweet , and some were beautiful. it was a great day and we had lots of fun.
I think about life a year ago and how i was feeling, trying to figure out all these new emotions. I'm still trying to figure out what is going on. The difference is i know that i don't need to do this on my own, i can depend on Aaron and we can together depend on God to lead us and we will follow. It has been a great year.
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