Holidays are coming. I'm excited. I'm not feeling a desire to rush myself through the upcoming seasons (despite being really ready for our wedding).

Playing with some actions and my heart is ready for the post-Christmas season that will find me in Haiti again!

Holidays are coming. I'm excited. I'm not feeling a desire to rush myself through the upcoming seasons (despite being really ready for our wedding).

Playing with some actions and my heart is ready for the post-Christmas season that will find me in Haiti again!

pictures

I'm loving our engagement pictures

Not that I need to be, but I’m OBSESSED with this new site.

So...life. Again I've abandoned my blog. Does anyone read this?

Updates:

I need to give current pictures of where I live. I'll try to in a few minutes.

I'm officially part time at CTU & Freedom Fire Urban Ministries.

I'm officially learning how to balance my time so that I can be healthy in my orientation to my position.

I'm officially ENGAGED!!!!!!! It was pointed out recently that I'd not posted on here about that WONDERFUL update! I don't get much feedback, so I wasn't thinking about it. But for those of you who check in silence...check out my bling from the most INCREDIBLE MAN!!! I'm wonderfully blessed. Jonathan, really there are no words to describe how excited I am to marry him, to being our life together, to be family with one another. He has the most genuine spirit, we're friends, we enjoy time together, walking holding hands, adventure, hanging out without any reason gives my spirit peace unmeasurable, he truly loves people, he encourages me when I'm down, he loves me in sweatpants, and treats me to fancy dinners, he loves my family and I love his...I could go on, but I'll spare you the gush. Just know that I count myself the luckiest girl in the world. I can't WAIT for our marriage!!!! He asked me to be his wife on September 1st at the Nelson after a sushi picnic. We were in the exact same spot we decided to start dating. My heart is honored.






So...life...is good!

I have been away from "here" for a while.

I've started using the google reader and so I' not even logging in, which releases me from the guilt of needing to post.

I desire the technical skills which would allow me to create a website, but alas I do not have them. I am doing much work here, and gave current life updates here. Please check it out and LEAVE COMMENTS. It's torture because I can see numerical reflection that folks are viewing the site, but I never get comments or feedback, maybe I need to be a more inflective writer. BLEH. Well that's my whine for validation.

Hope you're well!

August

It's August now.... how do you plan to enjoy this last bit of summer?

get unpacked

organize and decorate my new space

walk the dog

drink iced coffee with lovely lady friends

photoshoot for fun

dive into HIS word

long drive to smithville lake with my honey

trust

Trust bears a relationship of reliance.

Trust doesn’t often come easy for matters of my heart.

A trusted party is presumed to seek to fulfill previous promises.

What has God promised me?

God has promised to supply every need I have.
God has promised that His grace is sufficient for me. {here & here}
God has promised that as His child I will not be tested beyond what I can withstand. {2 Cor. 4:7-12}
God has promised me victory over death. He first resurrected Jesus by way of assuring my resurrection, when I hear His voice and follow, I find eternal life.
God has promised that all things work together for good to those who love and serve Him faithfully.

It may be difficult for us to see and understand how this is accomplished at times, but God has promised it, and He will deliver. In closing, let me appeal to you to live so that the promises of God will be yours.

thougths

This is a hard journey and I know I'm only at the head of the trail.

I want to be intentional about MY pursuit of the Father.

That can I determine. The rest is to Him.

I'm abounding in his provision at this point, but I know that I'm only as an infant...challenges ahead, I must bear a course focused on HIM.

Roommates secured.

Ideas overrun my thoughts.

Excited to begin work some serious preparations and changes.

I've been dreaming this dream since my senior year of college (and my heart began to love two years prior-2003)

wow, could this be all coming about?

makarios

I’m reading back though a cherished book of mine. It’s called, Jesus the One & Only, by Beth Moore. She does an incredible job of bringing Christ to color, to painting an understanding of HIM that is contagious. I’m drawn into the following passage:

The original word for “blessed” is makarios. Revel in the definition: “Biblically, one is pronounced blessed when God is present and involved in his life. The Hand of God is at work directing all his affairs for a divine purpose, and thus, in a sense, such a person lives coram Deo, before the face of God.”

I hold to the word, “blessed” for so many reasons. It seems to have woven itself into the fabric of my heart. I’m awed by the depth, the weight and the value of that word as it’s continually revealed to me.

He has called me blessed. He has called me His. This definition and understanding takes me just once more into the height of the mystery of my Father, and the profound way He loves me.