Thankful Thursdays!

This Thursday I am thankful for the ability to have emotions! It amazes me that God has made us to have feelings! To express our selves in so many different ways! So this Thursday I am thankful for EMOTIONS.....

~ Silly .... those times where you feel like you are out of your skin and so funny to be around!

~ Excited ..... to be able to know that what is happening or what is going to happen is from God and is an exciting adventure!

~ Happy ..... I love to smile and laugh weather it be at myself or at someone else it is always fun to laugh and be happy!

~ Love ..... to be able to feel and know love!

~ Sadness ..... that God knows our deepest hurts and that He loves us and walks with us through it

~ Frustration .... most times it is at myself but sometimes life can just be frustrating

~ Mad ..... although I might get mad it does not last for long, I am a red head you know but no matter what I still love! :)

I am so thankful that God created me in his own imagine! That He gave me a spirit and a body! That He allows me to decided what my emotion is and how long I will let it control me weather it be good or bad! That He is a loving God and an every lasting Father!

Gods Timing!

This week I have made a lot of decisions about my future! I am starting school tomorrow to get my teaching degree which I am super excited about! And I also made another step for my future that I am still waiting on! But in this time I am really having to wait on the Lord and seeking the plans He has for me!

Just like my dads favorite verse "I know the plans I have for your declares the Lord plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11

Now waiting on Gods timing is a lot easier said then done! So I have decided to make this my March mission! :) Allowing God to teach me how to wait on His timing! Here is what my calender says for this month.... "Align my heart with Your and give me revelation and guidance so that I nay know Your will for my life. Shine your lamp of truth where I am right now and show me the next step to take" Stormie Omartian Fancy that! The quote for this month is what I am going to be working on this month! :) God works in amazing ways!

Dear Jesus,

Teach me to be patient and to wait on your timing! Show me that your timing is better then my own! Allow me to feel your presence every morning when I wake and every night as I lay my head on my pillow! Direct my steps and guide my path!

In Jesus Name I pray, Amen!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Okay so today is/ would be my dads 51st birthday! Man how that seems so young! However I am so thankful for the 18 years I had with a wonderful dad! He taught me so many things in those short few years that I will never forget! So today as I remember an amazing man of God and an amazing dad! I would like to share with you a few memories about my dad!

1. I remember our father daughter dates! These where nights where we would have our special time together! We would go to dinner, go to a movie, walk down town eating ice cream and making fun of the tourists, and singing in the car together with the windows rolled down. He would teach me how a boy should treat a girl like always having the girl walk on the inside of the side walk, letting the boy open the door for you and close it, and letting a boy pull out your chair for you! He showed me how to be a lady and how to look for a gentleman!

2. He was such a clean freak that he made me rack the carpet... yes you heard me right rack the carpet, with a rack that you would rack leaves with. :)

3. When he would clap his hands during worship he would not just open his hands and clap them together he would open them, then clap them and then rub his hands together once all while shaking his leg.

4. He would always shake his legs together when he was relaxing at home or even when he was going to sleep.

5. He would use mascara to color in his side burns every morning! (he would kill me if he knew I was telling you this lol)

6. We would have family nights once a week!

7. When he would be in his den watching TV I would go in there and sit on his lap all the way through the night he died!

8. When we would walk together I would try and pinch his muscles on his upper arm and he would tell me no until I gave him the puppy dogs eyes and he would say fine just one time!

9. I remember when I got my prayer language and I was laying in bed with my younger brother and my dad came in to say our good night prayers and I asked him if I could receive my prayer language and he said of course. So he prayed with Josh and I and Josh got his right away well I was not that lucky lol I started singing cumbia my lord. But eventually I did get it.

10. I loved when he would make us breakfast in the morning before school and then as we where eating he would read us our family devotional for the day! Then before I started driving we would get into the car and go around to each person and pray for our day. Then after I started driving we would pray right after breakfast together for our day!

Okay so there are many many more memories but it would go on forever so maybe someday I will write more but for now this is it! Happy Birthday Daddy! I miss you every day and can't wait for the day we will meet again! I am so blessed to have had you in my life for 18 years! You are an amazing man and your legacy will live on forever!

Thankful Thursdays!

This Thursday I am thankful for my relationship with Jesus Christ ......

...... that i can be myself and He still loves me

...... that i can tell him off and He still loves me

...... that He listens to my hurts and pains and still loves me

...... that He has created me in His imagine and loves me no matter what

...... that He is a mountain moving God who loves me

...... that I can go to Him in my darkest hour and tell Him truly how I feel and He loves me

...... that I can tell Him that I am mad at Him and He still loves me

...... that He knows I am not perfect and He still loves me

...... that He walks with me, by me, and carries me through out life and still loves me

...... that He sees my failures and still loves me

...... that no matter what HE LOVES ME!

He is my Jesus, my Savior, my Father and no matter where I go or what I do nothing will separate me from His love! I pray that everyday I will remind myself that He STILL LOVES ME and nothing will ever change that! Thank you Jesus for dying on the cross for my sins and STILL LOVING ME!

What Are You Teaching Me Lord!

This week has been a very long and tiring week at work! Plus there is a lot that God has been showing me about myself! A lot that He is trying to teach me about where I am in my life! I was reading a devotional book yesterday that was talking about how we view God as our (Lord)! How we use Lord so flippantly in times where we "feel like" He is Lord over our lives but what about the times when we don't ALLOW Him to be Lord over our lives! When we say I will never do this or I will never do that! Saying that God is LORD over your life means more than just a word it means that He is Lord over you everything about you! Here is what the Webster's dictionary definition of LORD is 1: one having power and authority over others, a ruler by hereditary right or preeminence to whom service and obedience are due. So allowing God to be Lord over my life means that He is Lord over everything! I can not say you can be Lord as long as this it is this or as long as it is that or put restrictions on what I will or will not do! I have to trust that He has the best things in life for me! That He knows my deepest desires and my deepest dreams and wants them to come to true! But in His timing not in mine! I have to stop putting boundaries on what God (Lord) can do in my life and in what time frame and instead allow Him to take full control! To listen to His voice and know that He is speaking to me! That He loves me no matter what and that He has only the best in mind for me! This is going to take time for me because I am a check list type of person! If God could just give me a check list and say when you have completed this list I will bring you a husband or I will fulfill all your dreams. I would be so happy and excited to see all the things get checked off and have my dreams come true. But He is not a God that gives me To Do lists He is a mountain moving God who in HIS TIMING will bring the man of my dreams into my life and in His timing my dreams will come true not when I finish a To Do list! Here is the prayer that is on my wall calender this month..... Lord, help me to be content where I am right now on Your path for my life. I know you are always growing me into Your likeness and will not leave me where I am forever. Here is the verse for this month on my calender as well "Godliness with contentment is great gain."1 Timothy 6:6 How amazing is our God that in a time where He is teaching me about allowing Him to be Lord over my life this verse and this prayer is what I look at every morning before I get out of bed and every night before I go to sleep! How Great is our God! So my challenge to you as well as to me is .... Are you allowing God to be Lord over your life with no limitations or are you putting Lord in a box?

Memories.....

Leave one memory that you and I had together. Don't send a message, leave a comment on here. Next, re-post this in your notes and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty cool (and funny) to see the responses. Repost as "memories."

Okay so I can not figure out how to write a note on facebook so I decided to do it on here! I can't wait to here what you all have to say hehehehe.....

Thankful Thursdays! (Roommates)

Today I am thankful for my roommate(s) past and present..... (Laura, Kristin, Perla, Amiee, and Blair)

I am THANKFUL FOR.....

~ a family apart from my biological one

~ the friendships built

~ the late night talks

~ the dress up nights

~ and even the dress down movie nights

~ the openness and honesty

~ the lasting relationships

~ the growing we did together

~ the accountability

~ the love and commitment

~ the trust

~ being able to watch each other grow up

~ going through life changes (boyfriends, marriage, and babies)

~ sharing boyfriends (w/ Laura lol)

~ sharing a room for the first time

~ big jet tubs

~ memorize that will always be remembered

~ Christmas exchange

~ Parties we had

~ Pillow fights

~ Sharing Bathrooms and showers

~ Trying to get ready at the same time in the same bathroom

~ Working together

~ Walking to work together

~ Hugs good night or good morning when they where most needed

So to you Krisis, Laura, Perla, Amiee, and Blair thank you for sharing your lives with me. You are all such amazing women of God. I am blessed to know you and having the privilege to live with you through thick and thin.