So not that long ago I wrote about going to coffee with friends and I had expressed how this was one of my all time favorite things to do! WELL I have decided that I have to continue writing some of my favorite things maybe as insignificant as they may be but all in all my FAVORITE!
My younger sister, Hillary, started a list of things that she LOVED and it made me start to wonder about things that I might love...as I started thinking about all these things I realized how TRUELY blessed I am to be surrounded by small, big, weird, crazy things that make me happy. They are like little gifts that God has set aside just for me to enjoy at any given time that He chooses!
I am going to start with cultures! I LOVE cultures! I love learning about them, understanding them and most of all being immersed in them, getting to experience them first hand. It is truely amazing how God made different areas so special!
It is like getting to know a person, everyone is different some of them have similarities but others are just off the wall. You can hear stories and think that you will really get along with them but you won't know until you hangout with them. In that time you could love them quickly or not and have to work to love them.
I have yet to meet a culture that I have to work to love...there is just so much behind what they do and how they do it that I can't help but appreciate how God has constructed them over the years!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
PERSEVERANCE
Oh my word…HOW HE LOVES US!!
So the past month has been a tich of a struggle for me. BUT recently I was reminded by a friend of mine how lucky I really am. I was talking with her about her life, she mentioned that she felt God calling her to a life of singleness this year. So her theme verse for the year is all about endurance she is focusing on James 1:2-4
2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
This encouraged me so much! This is one of my favorite chapters in the Bible and I was so excited to come back to it! Sure I am joyful most of the time but do I consider it PURE JOY when I face trials? NOPE petty sure not! So over these next months ahead I will look at my trials with JOY…not only that but PURE JOY! Ahhh…I will persevere and work on continually pursuing my LORD! :)
So the past month has been a tich of a struggle for me. BUT recently I was reminded by a friend of mine how lucky I really am. I was talking with her about her life, she mentioned that she felt God calling her to a life of singleness this year. So her theme verse for the year is all about endurance she is focusing on James 1:2-4
2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
This encouraged me so much! This is one of my favorite chapters in the Bible and I was so excited to come back to it! Sure I am joyful most of the time but do I consider it PURE JOY when I face trials? NOPE petty sure not! So over these next months ahead I will look at my trials with JOY…not only that but PURE JOY! Ahhh…I will persevere and work on continually pursuing my LORD! :)
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