Tweet Life has been full of ups and downs lately and lots of confusion over what is next. So I decided to start re-reading through the Gospels. (and I found this sweet app for my ipod that will keep track of the plan for me:) )Perhaps another intense study of the life of Christ will shed some insight into what is next. If nothing else, it will be convicting I am sure. So I started today with chapter one of Matthew, Luke, and John. I decided to read them in The Message and ESV. I like the way the Message says things sometimes…it just puts in terms that are sometime…

Tweet One of my friends and I have been doing a study called “21 Day Habit.” It’s been really good. Everyday I get an e-mail with verses and a challenge around a certain point. Today’s topic was peace. It seems that each of these days has been just the challenge I needed that day. Today’s challenge was to identify your “disturbers of peace.” I sat back and thought about how little peace I have had lately. It seems that lately just about everything has been frustrating and made me anxious and lacking peace. As I reading through the verses, I came across this verse.. “He will keep in perfect peace…

Tweet I hit a wall this week and never knew I could cry so much. I have officially reached the “longest time being away from home” mark and it caused me much anguish. I don’t know why, I am really enjoying Saipan, but I really miss my family. The advancement of modern technology is amazing and I cherish the fact that I get to see and talk to them, but sometimes you just need a hug and those things don’t transfer so well through the computer. Not to mention there is stuff at work that just drives me crazy and while I am sure that is true of any job,…

Tweet This is from Donald Miller’s Blog and exactly what I needed to hear right now! Does God Have a Specific Plan for Your Life? Probably Not. Share3152 I want to write an essay saying the statistical chance of God having a specific plan for your life is roughly 1 in 227. I’d base that statistic on scripture, because scripturally, for every one person God had a specific plan for, there were 226 He did not. Joseph was in, Benjamin was out and so on. Okay, I haven’t actually done the math. It may be 1 in 250 or 1 in 95, but that is hardly the point. The point…

Tweet Wednesday nights are Bible study night. I am part of a small group of women varying in just about every way possible and I LOVE it. It is such an awesome picture of the body of Christ and I have grown to love each one of them for their unique differences and thoughts that make our study so enlightening. But beyond that, there is something about our study that makes it different from any study I have been part of. That is ANSWERED PRAYER. Literally we pray for something and sometimes within hours the prayers are answered. It blows my mind. Last week we prayed for a key and…

Tweet Wednesdays are busy for me. I usually have a run to get in, paddling, and then my Bible study which I absolutely love!! And today was especially frustrating because we had to scramble for a ride and everything just happened a lot faster and more rushed than I like it. So needless to say, I needed a good dose of re-focusing. We normally paddle at 5, but today we didn’t get out till about 5:30pm which meant that we got to watch the sunset. This is something that I don’t normally get to do because we are normally eating, but tonight the sunset was especially amazing. The sky was…