Sometimes...life seems to decide
to go another way than what I
want. I can't explain why but I
find some thrill in how God lets
it happen to make my faith and
me stronger. We might not be able
to explain, understand, or like
terrible things that happen...
when our Grandpa dies,
our best friends wounds us
and leaves a scar we'll never
forget or when nothing in a day
seems to happen our way.
When life seems to decide that
it wants to take another turn than
what we truly want. We want
everything to be right, all to be
perfect, and well. But we all know
that's just not the way that it goes.
Let's just remind ourselves to
look at the big picture. Not
what we can see now but what
will matter in heaven, not here.
And that makes life just a little
easier.
May 20, 2009
May 15, 2009
Sometimes you'll have to stand alone
Just one...Let's be honest that if it hasn't happened already, your friends, aren't always going to stand with you to do what's right. They might still be Christians but they also might not be different with you, push against the flow, be unique. The sad part is, most people never find who God created them to be because they are never willing to step out of the boat and play around with their options. They are not willing to be different. It's seriously not easy and it really makes you question if you want to follow God or not but let's be different. Starting now. Don't think about the past. Stand now. Sometimes it really will be just one but always remember that you have God will you! Sometimes you will have friends who will stand with you but let's always be willing to STAND ALONE FOR JESUS! BUT YOU WON'T STAND ALL BY YOURSELF BECAUSE HE'S THERE WITH YOU!! HE WAS ON THE CROSS FOR YOU!!
Dear Jesus...
Why can't I stand alone?
Why does it matter what other's think?
Why don't I believe the only thing that really matters is what you believe of me?
Why can't I give it all for you, Father God?
Why can't I decide if I really want to follow you?
Why can't I want to stay pure?
Why don't I believe that you're real?
Why, since I say I'm a Christian, why can't I act like one?
Why can't I believe that you are God's son and that I'm really saved?
Why can't I seem to have much faith in you?
Your daughter now and forever, Anna
Don't be afraid to tell what you really have in your life, struggles, doubts, things that seem embarrassing. I don't do very well at that but am getting better, sorta. People will respect you when you are honest and tell your struggles and doubts!!
Dear Jesus...
Why can't I stand alone?
Why does it matter what other's think?
Why don't I believe the only thing that really matters is what you believe of me?
Why can't I give it all for you, Father God?
Why can't I decide if I really want to follow you?
Why can't I want to stay pure?
Why don't I believe that you're real?
Why, since I say I'm a Christian, why can't I act like one?
Why can't I believe that you are God's son and that I'm really saved?
Why can't I seem to have much faith in you?
Your daughter now and forever, Anna
Don't be afraid to tell what you really have in your life, struggles, doubts, things that seem embarrassing. I don't do very well at that but am getting better, sorta. People will respect you when you are honest and tell your struggles and doubts!!
Daddy-Daugther Love
I love to write and want to be really good! Here's the beginning and all I have. What are some of the things that you believe God has gifted you with? What do you think spiritual gift wise?
Bryan loved his child with everything that he was even though he never had gotten a chance to meet his daughter. She was a beautiful three years old, golden curls, and sparkling blue eyes like the ocean. The fact was, he had only ever seen pictures and talked to his daughter yet never gotten to meet her in real life.
And that’s was the only thing that kept him going sometimes.
Sometimes, thinking about his daughter was the thing that pushed him to go forward, to be a leader to his shoulders, to show love, respect, to do what needed to be done in the war. Taking a deep breath late at night in his tent, he pulled out the photo of his daughter and wife and looked at it carefully as he did every night. Then, licking his dry lips, he pulled out the letter his wife had written when she was struggling to raise their daughter without a father. His heart ached for them and he wished that he could be there with them more then anything…
When Gabby, the special name that only be called her for Gabriel, told him that they were going to have a child, he had been so shocked that he’d fallen to his knees and the first thing he did was thank God. The coming months past and together Bryan and Gabby had experienced some of their baby’s first. First kick, first stretch…if anything made you believe that there was a God who loved, it was a newborn child. Within weeks before the baby's due date, Bryan was deployed to Iraq, the call being both sudden and unwanted. It had been hard but they knew that they would see each other again. It had been three years ago…
Bryan loved his child with everything that he was even though he never had gotten a chance to meet his daughter. She was a beautiful three years old, golden curls, and sparkling blue eyes like the ocean. The fact was, he had only ever seen pictures and talked to his daughter yet never gotten to meet her in real life.
And that’s was the only thing that kept him going sometimes.
Sometimes, thinking about his daughter was the thing that pushed him to go forward, to be a leader to his shoulders, to show love, respect, to do what needed to be done in the war. Taking a deep breath late at night in his tent, he pulled out the photo of his daughter and wife and looked at it carefully as he did every night. Then, licking his dry lips, he pulled out the letter his wife had written when she was struggling to raise their daughter without a father. His heart ached for them and he wished that he could be there with them more then anything…
When Gabby, the special name that only be called her for Gabriel, told him that they were going to have a child, he had been so shocked that he’d fallen to his knees and the first thing he did was thank God. The coming months past and together Bryan and Gabby had experienced some of their baby’s first. First kick, first stretch…if anything made you believe that there was a God who loved, it was a newborn child. Within weeks before the baby's due date, Bryan was deployed to Iraq, the call being both sudden and unwanted. It had been hard but they knew that they would see each other again. It had been three years ago…
May 12, 2009
So short...
This is a picture that I colored on Sunday! Don't you totally think I should go into artistic studies in college?! :)
Life is so short...so sweet...yet gone in a blink.
Life is so short...so sweet...yet gone in a blink. Enjoy life because it won't last long. Enjoy
the sweet moments that seem silly. Do silly
things. Live to the fullest, laugh until the tears
come, and love with all that you are.
May 11, 2009
Failing is staying down...
We babysit a cute, chubby little girl named Miranda. Randa turned one in February. Sometimes you'll get lower down, open up your hands, and call for Randa. Randa will be delighted and open up her hands to you and come tottling toward you. "She's walking pretty good, but she'll still fall." In our walk with God, don't be afraid or bang yourself up when you fall and you will fall-we're all going to. To quote a line in a the Love Comes Softy movies, "It's okay to stumble. He's there to catch you when you fall." When we do fall, get back up; don't stay down. My sister, Rebekah, did a speech last forensics year about failure. She spoke about how failure is not falling but staying down. If you decide to give up after you fell down the first or second time, then that's when you fail. But when you get back up, though it hurts and you honestly don't want to, that's when you can suceed. It's the times when we fall that we end up growing and like everything, even times when it seems like we've failed can be used for good. When I didn't break at the first tournament in forensics I went to and both my sisters did and also placed, I was like or Satan was trying to whisper to me, "You failed. You're a failure, Anna." But when I got back up, I had to try harder but also did better. When we fall, it can only teach us to try harder if we want to suceed. Satan will try to tell you that you are a failure! We shouldn't believe him! And don't let your age, no matter how old you are, stop you from doing big things or things that seem impossible (Philipians 4:13). Have you ever heard of Brett and Alec Harris? They have a blog (http://www.therebelution.com/) as well as have written a book (Do Hard Things) and do confrences or something. I haven't read the book but a friend and her sis are and my friend loves it! Another book is "If You Want to Walk on Water, You Got to Get Out of the Boat." Someone once said, "The only real failure is the failure to try."
God can use it for good!
Faith means to trust God. You have to have faith to do anything. You have to have faith when you sit down, when you get into your car, when you eat...faith is everywhere. We have to have faith do everything if you think about it. Do you have faith in God? Do you trust Him?
Faith is also something that I struggle with. God proves himself trustworthy time and time again but how often do we forget and so quickly, as well? God's perfect and, even when we're untrustworthy, God is trustful. We can always trust and depend on Him. And He wants Him to.
My sister was in a wreck yesterday with a friend and I have to trust that the Father would allow my beautiful sister that I love to be hurt. She's okay but it's tough. No car now, finals start tomorrow...But she could have gotten killed. Life is so short and even if she did, I have to trust God. Rely on his plan, not mine. Believe that he's thinking about my good. I don't know God is real but I have to trust it. Trust is everywhere.
What do you trust?
Into the Deep is an amazing, but oh, so sad book! A man losese his entire family, four beautiful kids and a wife, in a flood but he trusts God minute by minute. He questions why (it's okay though to question but keep your eyes on Jesus...that makes the difference between good and bad doubt, when we keep our eyes on Jesus). He, Robert Rogers, is now married again and has started a ministry. "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." Genesis 50:20.
This is something that I got in a forward: Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain
Faith is also something that I struggle with. God proves himself trustworthy time and time again but how often do we forget and so quickly, as well? God's perfect and, even when we're untrustworthy, God is trustful. We can always trust and depend on Him. And He wants Him to.
My sister was in a wreck yesterday with a friend and I have to trust that the Father would allow my beautiful sister that I love to be hurt. She's okay but it's tough. No car now, finals start tomorrow...But she could have gotten killed. Life is so short and even if she did, I have to trust God. Rely on his plan, not mine. Believe that he's thinking about my good. I don't know God is real but I have to trust it. Trust is everywhere.
What do you trust?
Into the Deep is an amazing, but oh, so sad book! A man losese his entire family, four beautiful kids and a wife, in a flood but he trusts God minute by minute. He questions why (it's okay though to question but keep your eyes on Jesus...that makes the difference between good and bad doubt, when we keep our eyes on Jesus). He, Robert Rogers, is now married again and has started a ministry. "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." Genesis 50:20.
This is something that I got in a forward: Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain
May 08, 2009
BE A WORLD CHANGER
This is a sheet from my journal or diary...whatever it is. :) Do you like to journal? Have you ever noticed that God doesn't really use the popular, well to do off, people but the ordinary people who love God and follow Him? And He uses them to make a huge difference and change the world. Esther (who once was Hadassah), Gideon, David, Mary...And God can use you! Let Him!
77 Days
It is only 77 days until my missions trip. Please pray for my trip, as well as two of my other sisters that are going-or are on-mission trip. Rebekah is in Egypt right now! That's so cool...So, for her and then Bethany might go to Peru (she's sighed but might switch trips to Africa) and will be a week longer then I will be in Italy. Then my sis, another one, is going on an internship. If you'd like, pray for her as well!
Do any of you have anything to pray about? Anything been happening that you want to talk to God about? Just post if you want or you can email.
How have you all been??
~The Spirit of the Soverign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort those who mourn.~ Isaiah 61:1-2
Do any of you have anything to pray about? Anything been happening that you want to talk to God about? Just post if you want or you can email.
How have you all been??
~The Spirit of the Soverign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort those who mourn.~ Isaiah 61:1-2
May 06, 2009
What would life be without?
To Timothy, my dear son: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. ~2 Timothy 1:2~
What would life be without some of the memories that make it fun? I came in from dropping letters off in our mail box yesterday and my younger sister, Mary was coming into the family room. I acted like I was, or was going to, clamp her ears with my shoes and Mary acted like she was going to punch me or something. But she stepped on my sock, making me trip back unto baskets-crates, actually. :)
What would life be without miracles that make us rejoice? Yesterday I found a check that I had lost for my mission trip, thanks to God. It was the largest check and I was so excited and thankful to have found it!
What would life be without the hardships that make us cry? Those are the times that we draw close to God, when we question why, when we learn that we must enjoy the good times of life that make us relish and long for the sweet times.
Finally, what would life be without embarrassing moments that keep us honest with ourselves? When my youth group went to the concert last month, you could go two places to eat: Sonic or Freddy's Frozen Custard. I chose Freddy's and when my custard was ready, I went to get it. There was this pretty, popular girl there and thinking that all the straw was off, I tried to suck my vanilla custard...only to discover that they hadn't taken off the end of the straw wrapper. The girl laughed and I made a joke. Let's learn to soak up life and enjoy every moment of life. Jesus wants us to have life to the fullest. And when we want to have fun, we need to have rules, boundaries. So don't think that boundaries or rules are stupid. They're there so that we can have fun, be safe, and enjoy life! God bless you!
What would life be without some of the memories that make it fun? I came in from dropping letters off in our mail box yesterday and my younger sister, Mary was coming into the family room. I acted like I was, or was going to, clamp her ears with my shoes and Mary acted like she was going to punch me or something. But she stepped on my sock, making me trip back unto baskets-crates, actually. :)
What would life be without miracles that make us rejoice? Yesterday I found a check that I had lost for my mission trip, thanks to God. It was the largest check and I was so excited and thankful to have found it!
What would life be without the hardships that make us cry? Those are the times that we draw close to God, when we question why, when we learn that we must enjoy the good times of life that make us relish and long for the sweet times.
Finally, what would life be without embarrassing moments that keep us honest with ourselves? When my youth group went to the concert last month, you could go two places to eat: Sonic or Freddy's Frozen Custard. I chose Freddy's and when my custard was ready, I went to get it. There was this pretty, popular girl there and thinking that all the straw was off, I tried to suck my vanilla custard...only to discover that they hadn't taken off the end of the straw wrapper. The girl laughed and I made a joke. Let's learn to soak up life and enjoy every moment of life. Jesus wants us to have life to the fullest. And when we want to have fun, we need to have rules, boundaries. So don't think that boundaries or rules are stupid. They're there so that we can have fun, be safe, and enjoy life! God bless you!
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