This is what happens when you have a 24 hour yard sale! :) What fun we had......

See Jordan was sleeping way too much and Angela decided she would wake him up by scaring him. Well... it did not turn out like she wanted it to.

Soaking it all in....

So I just got a chance to sit down at the computer and read over everyone's blogs and I am just in aww.. I mean really what is there to say, that has not already been said before? Words are definitely not enough to explain the move of God on people's lives.

I can't help but get frustrated sometimes because there is not enough time! I have such an urgency to the things God has called me to do but at the same time I want to spend time with my loved ones and soak up all the things God is doing in my life. There is never enough time, but I can't spend the time I do have worried about not having enough time. I just hope and pray I am able to do everything in God's timing and not my own. I try to rush things of the future, but at the same time want to remember every moment. I can not do both.

India was amazing! But I can't help but think I could have done a little bit more. I don't know what or even if I was suppose to do more. I just always wonder coming back from things like that if I truly gave my all. I believe there is always at least a little bit more that we can give of ourselves. That is why it is hard to do short term mission trips for me. I always feel there is still more to be done, more people to see, touch, heal, feed, and save. There is always more. But it is still all about God's timing, because it is not me they need to see, or me that needs to touch them, heal them, feed them, or save them. It is God himself and if I go in my timing it will not be Him, it will be me. And there will be no glory found that.

Silenced by God

So I'm sitting here on my couch, less than 2 hours away from leaving for India and I am just in aw. God is so good at what He does. Looking back on my life, it is so amazing how I can see things line up. I am just so thankful I made that decision to follow God no matter what! It has definitley been a hard journey so far, times when I really did not think I was going to make it, but God provided the strength to get me through it. I mean really I'm in Baton Rouge, LA! Who da thunk it! My family and everything/everyone I know is in Georgia and I decide to go 8 hours away to place i've never been, to people i've never met and live there for 9 months. It just makes me think, I never want to be moved by anything other than the Holy Spirit. I never want to go or do something out of my own fleshly desires. I know it is the Holy Spirit that led me here because it was so random and really last minute that I even decided to come here. It just hit me.... for the first time ever I truely trusted and obeyed the spiritual athority that God placed over me in coming here and look where it has gotten me. :) God really does place spiritual athority in your life to help guide and protect you. Thank you God, I will never be the same again because I chose to follow YOU! You continue to daily to do a new work in me. Never stop doing something new in my life, I know that means hardships and trials along the way but i'm learning how to find to the joy in those as well. I'M GOING TO INDIA!!!!!!!!!!! God I am truely in AW of you!

Don't Just let it pass by...

It is so easy to just do life. Life goes by so fast and I don't want miss any opportunity that God is putting in front of me. I don't want to get to the end of this life and look back and see all the blessing that God had for me and i just passed them up because I was worried about something stupid. So many times i get so consumed about things that should not even matter and then I let life pass me by without taking advantage of every moment. We are not guaranteed the next 5 minutes, so I do not want to have my last thoughts be of doubt and fear of whats next. I want to look at all the possibilities of opportunities that God has put right in front of me. Even if i may screw things up, it does not matter because it is not about me! I'm going to do everything I possibly can to take every opportunity that God places before me to honor him and bring glory to His name. I'm going to take advantage of this life on earth, so when I get up to heaven I will not be surprised to see an opportunity or a blessing that I did not take! He wants us to have life to the fullest! Are you going to take everything that He has for you or just enough to get through life on earth?

Terren the Chicken Man

Alright this is my friend in Atlanta doing the Chicken man! He is hilarious! Check out the couple that walks out of the restaraunt when he goes after them.

Guiding and Directing me...

So God is guiding me in a new direction and its really hard to grasp what i feel He is calling me to do. Never would i ever imagine myself in the position of a leader. But He is raising me up to be a leader of some sort and its really scary, but i have decided that I would go wherever He wanted and do whatever He wanted.

A little over 6 years ago is when i first got called to missions and I made a decision back then that I follow Him wherever He takes me. I also decided that i would go on short term mission trips every year until God called me to the next step of my journey. Because i didn't know exactly what He wanted me to do for missions, all I knew is that He gave me a heart to serve others in need and are hurting, so that is what I was going to do. I did that up until about a year ago, when God started tugging on my heart. He was ready for me to take my next step in the path He had made for me. So I knew it was getting closer to time of what God had called me to do, but I did not feel prepared enough. I decided to research programs that get you ready for ministry work and the mission field. Long story short I decided to come here and there was alot that happened in that decision, but that is not the reason I am writing this blog.

Coming here, I had in my mind that I would do the 2 years and then I would go out on the mission field over seas. Well "For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord" and they were not my plans! My plans was to be a missionary overseas and that still may come, but for right now God is drawing me in new direction and that is to a missionary in my home town... (Atlanta, Ga.) I feel He is calling me to open a dream center there. I don't know when, but He is revealing bits in pieces to me at a time and it is looking like it is falling into place just how He planned it. Let me tell you it is really scary, because I do not feel capable at all of doing this and I know that is the whole point because if i was capable of it then I wouldn't need God. Its pretty cool because what I feel for overseas missions I am starting to feel for local missions and I never thought I feel as passionate as would overseas. But really where my passion is, is in outreach and you do outreach anywhere. I love showing God's love to people and catching them off guard. I just love to see people get blessed and to experience God's love especially for the first time! Man, i could go on for hours talking about this....you can ask my roommate Mary Beth. But I just wanted to share with everyone a little bit of what was on my heart. So I just ask that you keep me in your prayers that I don't back down no matter how unworthy I feel or how many times I feel like I can't do it, that I just continue to yield to the Holy Spirit and let Him guide me.