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…

Tweet ..if you have love one for another. John 13:35. Love. We hear so much about it. and lately, I have been thinking about it a lot. Perhaps because I am falling in love, but I think more than that because God has been challenging me in the way I think about love. The message in church this morning was on love and unity within the body of Christ. I have been reading several books on love and forgiveness. I have been studying the teachings of Christ. It all leads me to this question..where is the love? (insert Black Eyed Peas song) But seriously, where is the love within the…

Tweet So today I had three prep hours instead of my normal one. It was so nice because I have not been feeling well. I think I ate something that did not agree with me and needless to say the past 24 hours have been rough. I went home yesterday and slept for a little while, ate, and went back to sleep at around 9. Today has been much better and not having to teach two of my classes was a blessing from God. I was able to get a lot done and almost have all my planning done for next week. Which doesn’t seem to matter much because I…

Tweet One of the other teachers who has been in charge of prayer for our mornings meetings this week has been sharing The Beatitudes with us from The Message. I don’t normally read that version, but I have been studying the Sermon on the Mount and I thought I would read through all of them tonight. (and maybe get a jump on what she is going to talk about tomorrow 🙂 ) So I came across this.. You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule. Wow-talk about what I needed to here. I try to make…