Tweet Ever notice how for some people serving just seems to come natural? It’s not a job or a chore, they just do it.  Lately, I have been in very close contact with a family who serves as a way of life. (and by close contact, I mean living in their house)   This past week, I got a ride to work one day because my car was frozen shut and another day I went out to a cleaned off, warmed up car.  Today I got breakfast. Most nights I get dinner. After an unfortunate flat tire in -3 degree weather, an air compressor showed up to inflate the flat…

Tweet I am officially finished!!!   This morning I woke up, took a deep breath, and realized a huge weight is gone. All those papers and projects and textbooks are no longer hanging over my head or sitting on my desk longing to be read. I can now write MPA after my name if I want. Soon enough there will be an expensive piece of paper hanging on my wall signifying a lot of hard work, sweat, tears, and sacrifices. On top of that, I even finished it out with a 4.0 GPA.   Now that I am finished, I have lots of plans of things to accomplish. First off, I…

Tweet Luke 14:12-14 12Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. 13But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,14and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”   As I have mentioned before, I am reading through the book Seven by Jen Hatmaker with a small group of women.  The book has challenged  all of us on our lifestyles, the amount…

Tweet If you had told me six months ago I would have spent the last week of my life learning about natural gas and electricity, the differences between volts, amps, and kilowatts, and trying to figure out if people around me were actually speaking English, I would have laughed in your face. I was out to change the world and no where in those plans did I consider needing to know how the electric industry was regulated.  As has been a general theme the last several years, however, God had other plans.   Monday I found myself sitting in orientation for a job as a Rates Analyst at our local…