No Title Blogs are Sweet

I haven't blogged in some time now and it drives me nuts.  

I've felt the weight of a lot of things on my shoulders lately and somehow my time has been spent doing things that don't really matter.  It's funny how the devil can do that.  He makes us so busy doing things that we think are important and a week from now, we'll still be in the same spot, doing the same things.  I haven't spent time blogging.  I haven't spent time playing guitar.  I haven't spent time reading things other than the Bible.  It's like all my time that I did that expanded my thoughts and relationship with God I can't seem to find time to do anymore. 

Don't get me wrong, my essentials are still there.  I still read and I still pray.  I still love God. But somehow in the midst of all the chaos, everything else that was so dear to my heart has fallen away.  Time can be so life giving or life taking.... Kairos and Kronos (thanks Cliff).  It's so true though.  

When was the last time I was at Starbucks just because I had nothing to do and I spent hours listening to Chan and reading the Bible and journaling?  Your guess is as good as mine.  When is the last time Emily and I walked 4 miles to sit at Starbucks and write on post-it notes.  Which by the way are the coolest things ever and I will blog about them in my future blogs.  

What happens to our time?  And what truly is important?  How do we figure this out?  How do we know that how we are spending our time is where God wants us even if that means sacrificing things we loved to do?  When do we get our time back?

Rich Sheep in Thailand

I started listening to Dave Ramsey's financial peace university cd's. Sweet. They are pretty legit, and full of common sense things that we all seem to have a hard time putting into practice. Today I flipped open to 1 chronicles 29. It is an awe some chapter. Verse nine really stuck out to me. It said, "The people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given freely and wholeheartedly to the LORD." Then verse 14 that emily so kindly pointed out. "But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you , and we have given you only what comes from your hand." So lesson number one, everything comes from our Lord God Almighty. Lesson number two, we need to give back to the one who gave us everything. Lesson number three, I need to be better with my money.

Now, I'm in starbucks listening to Chan. I'm in Love Part 2. As I'm listening I doodle out the word Thailand with a question mark in bubble letters and neatly color it in. And what have you, Chan plays a video for his people and not 10 seconds after i finish coloring, I hear something to the effect (my statistics might be off), "Every day more than 2000 kids are sold into the sex trafficing industry." WHAT?! If that's not a sign, I don't know what is. Honestly, I haven't thought much about Thailand and saving prostitutes. But just one day I think about it, and then God affirms it. Alright, So How does this happen?? We'll just wait and see.

Chan goes on, he's telling me to visually picture the scene in Mathew 25:31-46. The Sheep and the Goats. The story of where he separates the two. And I wanted, with all my heart, to be a sheep on His right side so I could hear him say, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take you inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me somehting to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me." Do I do any of these things? My heart broke at that moment to just be near Jesus.

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. - Philippians 3:10-11

fireworks

I decided that they aren't my favorite... So I'm blogging through the finale. And because emily is not here. If she were here I wouldn't be allowed on the phone.

Basically I'm really wet. More like moist and that's even worse. My pants are really heavy because they are so wet. Yuck.

God let the clouds overflow tonight. Then they closed up for the explosions in the sky. Now it's raining again. God is sweet like that. Love him :)

Emily

I just read emily's blog and was upset with myself... because she is writing so many blogs and I'm not. I need to.

So here I am and I don't know what to say.

For those of you who don't know, I'm going to school :) Yay! Starting July 7 I'll be going to Aveda in Royal Oak. I'm super pumped but nervous at the same time. I was walking through the other day and just felt like I have a big responsibility placed on me. It's safe to assume I'll probably be the only Christian there... and my actions have to show that. I need to be praying more for it. You can too.

I'm really pumped to be able to walk there when Emily and I move there :)