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| weekend highlights and other ramblings.......So this past weekend I really had no big plans and I enjoyed that! I went out to eat with my lovely roommate Friday night and ran into Casey (girl from work) and her husband David. Then Saturday I got my hair cut. It's now more shaped up and doesn't look like a big helmet on my head. Shelly worked Saturday, so when she got home, we went to grab some food and headed to the mall. I needed to go bra shopping. As the women reading this blog, you know how time consuming and frustrating that can be at times. I also got two shirts for summer, so that was exciting. AND I got it all on sale and ended up saving about the same amount I spent. I am loving having a JC Penny near me! Today I went to Sunday School and church. It was senior adult Sunday and there were all kinds of special things during the service. After church I headed on to the grocery store. I ran into Casey again! She said I was following her, but I do believe that she has it backwards.:) I got home and just chilled, watched a little Gamecock baseball on TV, which by the way they won! GO GAMECOCKS!!! Then I went to church tonight for my last small group of the semester. I really have enjoyed the small group. Most of the people in there could be my mother/father or should I say grandmother/grandfather, but they are awesome people with Godly wisdom who want to share the love of Christ with others through missions and I love it! I went out to eat with some of them tonight. They are fun and so sweet to invite me. I am getting WAYYYYYY excited about our family beach trip that's coming up in two weeks. We are going to the Outter Banks for a week, all four of us plus Margaret (pretty much my future sister-in-law) and Maggie!!! Kendra is coming up for a few days as well. I am looking forward to getting away and just chilling with the family for a while. John is going to summer school so we have to squeeze in our family vacation before he has to get back down to school.
It's become very evident over the past few days to me that even though I had a mountain top experience a few weeks ago, if I am not daily seeking and relying on Christ, then I lose focus and start to doubt and go back to my fake earthly confidence. (read previous post if you haven't) I look at the necklace we were given our last day on our walk and I am reminded about what it resembles. Many times this past week I wanted to just scream at the top of my lungs or just sit in a puddle of self-pity tears, but I did neither. Instead I put my nose to the grinder and made it to the end of the week. Christ doesn't call us to just "make it" til the weekend. He calls us to be a light for Him and rely on Him daily, hour by hour, minute by minute. Christ is counting on us but I often forget I must count on Christ for ALL things. Even the little details of a hurting shoulder or difficult patients. There is always a reason. Proverbs 3:5-6, Proverbs 3:5-6, Proverbs 3:5-6...................................................... | | |
| WOW, what a weekend!!This past weekend I went on "Walk to Emmaus" in the New River Valley in Virginia which is in the mountains and absolutely beautiful country. I wanted to share what all I learned and felt during my journey.
This past weekend was truly amazing and so difficult to put into words. I felt the love of the body of Christ like I never have before. There were people all around me there loving on me, serving me, praying for me and they didn't even know me!! I had a glimpse of what the Lord wants of His church, to love and encourage and serve each other so that we may go out and love, encourage and serve the lost in this world. There is really no way to describe how loved I felt throughout the weekend. It continues to blow me away 48 hours later. Not only was God's Agape love shown more real to me, other areas of my life were put into check you could say. When I first moved to Anderson I knew in my heart and my mind that the Lord wanted me here. Come May I will have been here 8 months. Over the past eight months, slowly I have began questioning the Lord as to why He has me here. Don't get me wrong. I have enjoyed my job, roommate and Anderson in general but I continued to seek what the Lord had me here for since I always want to be in God's will. For the past few weeks I have really been talking and sometimes yelling at the Lord and asking for Him to reveal to me why I am here or just give me a peace. God had placed people in my life right up to the walk talking about listening to God more than talking to God. How our relationship is a two way conversation. Well Duh Elizabeth, if you ask a question you have to listen! On Friday evening I wrote in my prayer journal and prayed telling the Lord, ok I am going to shut up and listen. After surrendering to Him, boy did He give me an answer fast. Over the next two days, through the talks by lay people and clergy, through communion, through prayer time, through other pilgrims in the walk and through the letters from family and friends the Lord answered me. He told me that I must have confidence in Him to work things out. See, I was asking and searching but having no confidence that He would reveal His plan for me. When we don't have confidence in our Lord, we aren't trusting Him. One verse kept coming to mind.........Prov. 3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all of your heart, lean not on your own understanding; in all of your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight." I am now trusting and having complete confidence in our Savior that HE WILL show to me why He has me here and I will take that step of faith with the Lord's confidence, not my own fleshly fake confidence, when He wants me to step out for Him through my church, my work, my family, my friends, my community, and wherever else He will lead me in this adventure called life. As I continue to process these past three days and bask in the love of God, I pray that I will grow each day closer to our Lord. I pray this same prayer for each of you. Without Him there is nothing. I'll wrap up this LONGGGGG blog with a quote from this weekend........"Are you standing on the promises or sitting on the premises?" | | |
| It's been a while....Let's see. I got a new car. 
Easter was good. Had some family time. 
Now have snotty head because of pollen. Stupid trees!! | | |
| I did it!!So I finally did it. I joined North Anderson Baptist Church this morning. I have been visiting there since the first of the year. It's a smaller church than I am accustomed to, but I have enjoyed getting to know some of the people so far. You have to understand that this is a big step for me. I had been attending a mega church with my roommate and other friend that lives up here. That church is great and is doing wonderful things, but I felt the Lord wanted me some where else. This was hard for me. Going somewhere I knew NO ONE and trying to get to know some people by myself. This was a huge step for me. I trusted the Lord and asked Him repeatedly if this is where He wanted me. Time and time again I was able to see that He wanted me with this body of believers and to invest in this church. Also, to join another church was a huge step in "letting go" of home a little bit more and letting go of the church I have been apart of since 7th grade. I think I had a harder time with this than the not knowing anyone. God is good and showed me that I can only be used if I am willing to invest and not just warm a seat! The church is about 150-200 strong on Sunday morning. There are young families up to the older saints of the church. I have met with the pastor and told him where I am coming from. To show how small this planet is, the youth pastor's wife is a girl I went to high school with, grew up with at church when we were young children, even learned to ride my bike at her house! Such a small world and such a God thing. I am already involved in several things there and was even asked to pray about teaching the high school sunday school class. God has me for some reason in Anderson and I continue trying to listen and follow the steps He wants me to take. NEVER in a million years would I have seen myself here a year ago when I was worried about where I would live and work. God knew. Jeremiah 33:3 How true this verse is in my life right now! 'Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.' I pray you are listening to His still small voice in your life and also the big SHOUTING He sometimes uses to get our attention and yet we still don't listen. Listen, call to Him and he will tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. | | |
| TiredIt's been a long day. One of the therapist called out sick this morning so I have felt behind all day long. So that's neither here nor there. I am sitting in the den, with no lights and no tv on and trying to chill out a bit. I had a long weekend last week,so I can't complain too much. I had a work party back during the week that it snowed. I'll try and post pictures on here. I actually dressed up and washed and styled my hair. It's a new thing I tried out. Don't know if I'll make a habit of it. I went to a class last night at church called Financial Peace University. It sounds like it's going to be a good class. I am excited to learn how to get my student loans paid off as fast as possible and hopefully learn how to invest and all that mess. My Nana had some test run last Friday and they came back good, so that's a praise for this week. We are getting some rain here, but not that bad string of storms/tornadoes like our other fellow southern states. Looked at getting a new vehicle this past weekend. Tried the small SUV the Escape, but I am too tall......stupid tall genes. So I sat in an explorer and I had enough leg room. Now I just have to find one that's reasonably priced and save up a good chunck of change. I don't want to make any hasty decisions, but when your car battery dies on you the day you are leaving to go out of town, well it kind of makes ya think. My current car is a '91 so it's just about a classic!! 17 years old with 260,000 miles on it. It could go at any time. So I am just looking around so when it's time, I will know what I want! K, so here are some pics from a few weeks ago!  
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