Sleeping.

Latest quote from the sleeping Anna: "You're still up?!?!?" ---at 11:20 pm, on a Thursday, from a college student, to me who was asleep for the last hour and a half.  But did admit to just waking up and not saying that she wasn't asleep.  Congratulate her on her accomplishment if you've had this experience with her! 

Hmm...let's see if it will happen again when I take a nap...but I hope not!

Let's face up to the challenges ahead, the problems now, and the hope from Him, who is Christ Jesus.

Grace.  I love that word.  Grace.  It's a beautiful thing.  I know that my parents have named me that name not to be a reflection of who I am, but the reminder of who God is and what He has given to me.  Life and Grace abundantly.

So, what's your story?  How can your name reflect Him who has created you?

Do you ever get sick of the Post-modernism thought?  I guess it's not the whole "thought" it's the whole the way you talk kind of thing.  That there aren't for-sure answers to the questions we have...example: "I think that .... happened, but I could be wrong." "Do you think maybe you could...." "It might be over there... but I don't know for sure."  Sometimes I feel like I have to conform to this way of thinking so that others will either not get hurt or to be more polite, but how did all this come about?  What is the difference between being straight forward and being indirect.  Does it make a difference?  Should it?  What ways will this bring about the Truth?  Everything can be certain to each individual, but not for everyone... So how do Christians reform this thinking so that the Church as a whole will think differently than the world?  How is the Church already becoming part of this new wave of thinking? I hear a lot of people saying that people can do what they want, it's their life.  To listen to their own hearts.  To follow their dreams.  To live a life the way they want to. To accomplish big things. 

What about the life-being who created them?  What about the corruption in the hearts of Man?  What about the ways that are NOT our own, but His?  What about the dreams and calling from Isa?  What about the life that won't become destruction because of the negative choices that they make or the bad things that happen to them--without them allowing it?  What about accomplishing things not for them, but for others, for Isa?

Can I do this?  Can I really make it living on my own?  Can I think differently and the same without hypocrisy?  I hope so...  I keep thinking about having the answers so that my God will be made known to Man, to conform and be transformed by the renewing of my mind, being in the world and not of it.  A traveller, a follower of Truth, trying to know all sorts of people, with the answers...my mind can't handle it!  Did you ever think that there are so many cultural differences in your own town?  How people have so many different concepts that you can't really focus on just one yet? 

Lots of questions...too little mind to think of all the answers.  Be cautious as my mind may go where my heart does not.  I openned somethings that I think about, but may not believe, so ask me questions, give me answers, I want to hear what you think.

Be challenged, be encouraged, be willing to learn and open to Him.

AHH SNEK!

The End!

Decisions...Decisions...

Force really leads me down.

I hate this feeling...

I am empowered by You.

Spiritually enriched by the faith that has been sown.

Encouragement surrounds me...

Prayer conforms me to You.

Thoughts provoke desires of a better life.

Decisions give wings to new highs.

Why can't this be easy?

What is going on inside?

Do I have to talk to another?

Am I supposed to be this way?

I'm okay with making different decisions.

I want to experience life.

I don't want to be safe, I want to explore.

I want to be different, I want to be the same.

I want to see Your heart, I want to live Your will.

Can I want?  Can I desire things for myself and life?

Can I be happy with things that I want?  Is this selfish?

Just let me think, let me speak, let me learn, let me live.

Don't abandon me, do let me go.

Speak to me so that I will not want what I want,

But want the things that You want, Your heart, Lord.