Show and Tell

I am very typically one to shy away from the Christian "self-help" books. I have tried to read them, but time and time again they just seem to go off the deep end on some tangent that really has nothing to do with my life at the time I am reading them, but there is a book that I have recently picked up that has been able to keep my attention. It is called, Beautiful Things Happen When A Woman Trusts God. This book has really opened my eyes to some things. The woman who wrote the book isn't afraid to get personal, but she doesn't dwell on herself either. The other day I was reading from it and when I read the following quote I couldn't help but write it down:

From your limited human perspective, it may look as if I am mismanaging things. But
you don't know what I know, or see what I see. If I pulled back the curtain and let you
see the Heavenly realms you would understand much more. However, I have made you to
live by faith not by sight.

I really liked this a lot. Certain circumstances that have come about in my life have me wanting to know what is going to happen in my future a lot more recently. I am worried about who I am going to marry, who I am going to date first though, what to do after I graduate. These things I know are no different than the things that the average person my age deals with. It is just strange to me because of recent events I feel like some of the answers to these questions may be postponed.

It is really crazy how God works and is completely different than what we could imagine. I am really thankful that God has a plan because my plans, frankly suck. Things that God is teaching me that I want to pass on are: one just because you find someone who you think meets all your qualifications that you want in a husband, does not mean that is who God has for you; do the right thing even when it seems that people will be upset at you for it; and always have communication with the Lord. Whether you are praising him, or begging him to get you out of a desert, or you are frustrated with Him. Pour yourself out before Him. He knows everything anyways so you might as well just tell Him instead of the guilt just riding on your shoulders.

I know I got a little carried away, but that is what happens when my workload is light on Sunday afternoon...Stay tuned...

City on a Hill: Liberty

My friends and I always joke that we could have a pretty successful TV show of our lives. Something like Jersey Shore or the Hills. We would laugh because we really thought our lives were petty drama...Well I wish I could just tell you how wrong we were. There is so much that has gone on since January that I don't know if I could even fit it all into a book...okay probably, but that isn't the point. The point is why does the drama continue. I am a Junior/ Senior in college and I feel like my life has gotten more dramatic since high school. There are bigger pressures looming, though I guess. In high school your biggest decisions upon finishing up your career there is whether or not to go to college or work and then where you are going to do that. Once you get in college marriage is always preoccupying your thoughts (or at least this is how it is at Liberty). Another thought if you aren't getting married is where you are going to work, where are you going to live, how are you going to pay off your loans. I am at such a loss for the answers to these questions. BUT I know that God will direct my path. Even though it seems that nothing I planned is happening; even though I have no idea where the Lord is going to lead me. I am going to follow in faith. He is the only solid thing I have in my life. Family is not solid, they'll let you down, friends aren't solid, they'll let you down, a career is not solid, it'll let you down. I can't help but to think of the verse that talks about keeping your eyes on things above because they are eternal and not on earthly things for they are temporal. Just a thought while I am in Daniel Revelation

Stay tuned...