Something to think about...

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, or fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.  There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is in us.  It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

                                                                                    -Nelson Mandela

A young, new preacher was walking with an older, more seasoned
preacher in the garden one day. Feeling a bit insecure about what God had for him to do, he was asking the older preacher for
some advice. The older preacher walked up to a rose bush and handed the young preacher a rose- bud and told him to open it without tearing any of the petals.
The young preacher looked in disbelief at the older preacher and was trying to figure out what a rosebud could possibly have to do with his wanting to know the will of God for his life and ministry. But,
because of his great respect for the older preacher, he proceeded to try and unfold the rosebud while keeping every petal intact. It wasn't long before he realized how impossible this was to do.
Noticing the young preacher's inability to unfold the rosebud without tearing it, the older preacher began to recite the following poem:

It is only a tiny rosebud
A flower of God's design;
But I cannot unfold the petals
With these clumsy hands of mine.

The secret of unfolding flowers
Is not known to such as I.
GOD opens this flower so sweetly,
Then, in my hands, they die.

If I cannot unfold a rosebud,
The flower of God's design,
Then how can I have the wisdom
To unfold this life of mine?

So, I'll trust in Him for leading
Each moment of my day.
I will look to Him for His guidance
Each step of the Pilgrim's way.

The pathway that lies before me
Only my Heavenly Father knows.
I'll trust him to unfold the moments,
Just as He unfolds the rose.

Tell me…how is it that we can so easily forget them???

Each soul searching for hope…

longing for someone to hold them…..

needing more to sustain....

to share the reason for the hope we have..

how is it that we can hear day after day, and they don’t even get

ONE CHANCE?

Currently Playing Simply Nothing By Shawn Mcdonald see related

Beautiful day....

went to church

prayed alot, cried alot, thought alot.....im going to go down Josephs road(the application process to stay as an MA)....if you want to know why or more talk to me in person.

went for a long hard run. laid outside and looked at the stars...

Beautiful night....

ok ok ok.....yes i know its been forever....im actually updating, Mani!

Anyways, im going to try to sum up the last while....My parents came to Texas and totally surprised me! Went to work the Minneapolis ATF and got to see my family there, week of the ring is over and done..the right banquet was last night, went to Dallas for the weekend with Melissa, Danielle and Angela...good times. work had been good and challenging. Today for chapel K.P. Yohannan from Gospel for Asia came....it was so good. He is a very nice man and he encouraged us all.

the next few weeks will be busy like always....Tyler 10k is coming up, Unreached People Group LTE is in a few weeks.....

I will close with one of my favorite Psalms....that i am working on memorizing right now..

Psalm 139

O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when i sit and when i rise; you percieve me thoughts from afar. You discern me young out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord. You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is to conerful for me, to lofty for me to attain. Where can i go from your Spirit? Where can i flee from your presence? If i go up to the heavens you are there; if i make my bed in the depths you are there. If i rise on the winds of the dawn, if i settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If i say, "Surely the darkness wll hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness if as light to you. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mothers womb. I praise you because i am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, i know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when i was made in the secret place. When i was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordianed for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughs, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When i awake, I am still with you. If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men! They speak  of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. Do I not hate those who hate you, O lord, and abhor those who rise up against you? I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. Search me O God and know my heard; test me and know my thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

I think that is sooooo good

this is it for now

God Bless

Beth