God

I have been thinking this morning, and the more I think about it the more the reality hits me that Jesus Christ really is the only option to be the center of everything. I
have a blog where I talk about being a Lady, and I have realized that it is almost impossible to really understand the role of a lady apart form the love of Christ, because being a lady is about seeing other people as more important than yourself, but the only real way to do that is if you are secure in the Love of Jesus. We have to be rooted and grounded in love or else all that we do will come to nothing. You have heard the fruits of the Spirit, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control, notice that the first is love? All of the others cannot cannot grow unless they are rooted in love.
This is the whole point! Jesus is the point, His love, His sacrifice, His victory, Him and Him alone. There is a reason that He is worthy to open the scroll, and that is because it is all about Him. The epitome of the universe, He is everything. Without Jesus everything falls apart, the point of history is the Cross, and the climax of history will be His wedding to the Church. There is nothing outside of him (eg of history, B.C. and A. D. ?) There is nothing outside of it, except destruction and death. We were dying in our sins, and He saved us! I am just kind of worked up about it, but the fact is that Christ is my life, and there is no other way to live!
If you want adventure, wisdome, love, hope, extrordinary, peace, fulfillment, joy, blessing, anything good or noble of righteous, this is where those things were created, and I promise you that these are the origionals, not the cheap knockoffs of the world today. "Come to the well and drink" "I will give you living water" "Victory is mine, says the Lord" "The Lord will fight for you." Those statements are not empty, but they are life, life offored to us in Him, in His word, go to a church and grab a Bible and buckle in for the most extrordinary, beautiful historical book ever writen, for its author has no beginning or end, but is the sovreign Lord of the universe.

Times of Change

Yesterday was the first day of fall. I love the fall, it is full of apple cider, warm colors, memories and pumpkins. When I think of fall, inevitably good memories of home come to my mind, Thanksgiving, picking peaches off of the tree outside, racking leaves with my little sister and then jumping in them, reading a good book outside with a big blanket. But this year is different, though all of those things came to my mind, we have officially put our house (of the past 12 years) up for sale. It is the beginning of a new and exciting adventure, but at the same time it is kind of sad. I don't know what this fall is going to look like, where we will live, or what exactly I am doing.
My family is moving to Dallas, though I am planning on going with them, I am not sure that I will move at the same time, seeing that I have responsibilities here. I don't know what fall and winter look like in Texas, so it is hard for me to imagine the next phase of my life there. I know, and must stand on the knowledge that God has good things for me there, and that this next season will be good.
But for now, I am going to enjoy the changing of the season around me, and look back on fond memories knowing that I will simply make new ones this year. I will look forward as well as back, and I will remember the Lords faithfulness to me. In these "days of awe" before The Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles, before the Lords time of harvest and fresh starts, I will rejoice in the wonderful years that He gave me here in my home, and with the people and places that I know and love.

To Live

Wow, I am sorry for my neglect of this blog, but I have actually been quite busy :) How is everyone? Well, we are putting our house on the market today, and let me tell you it has been quite and adventure, and a lot of hard work, but the house looks great! Mix that in with having a full time job and school, and life can be crazy.
My best friend is coming for a visit of two weeks, and she gets in this afternoon, but I don't think that I will be able to see her for a few days because her family also lives here, and they will claim her today and tomorrow, and I have class on Thurs, but it will (should) be over by 7, so we will see what happens. I am very excited to see her, she lives on the exact opposite side of the country.
You know, I have no idea what is going to happen in the next couple of months, and if I have learned anything by living on my own it is that a LOT can happen in a small amount of time, and I find myself very excited about it, (which is interesting because yesterday I was not at all)
God is just so good, and really, whatever happens, it will be an opportunity to give Him glory, which is what we live for. Christ is my life. In the Bible Paul says "To die is gain, but to live is Christ" How true that is, I am not afraid to die, for to die would be gain, but neither am I afraid to live, for to live is Christ, it is to be his light, and do his work. In the words of Peter Pan, "to live would be an awfully big adventure."

Discovery

I discovered that not only does Target have amazing shoes, it also has a good grocery selection, and promotes fair trade companies, helping to end World Slavery :) .

Family Reunion

Well I have not written in a while, but I have been really busy. :) This weekend we all went up to Kamiah (pronounced kam-e-I) for a family reunion. My Great Grandpa Lee had some land up there and when he died he left it to his children, so, that is where we all meet. Now, you have to understand that I have a rather large family (as in numbers and not weight;) ) so there were a lot of people there. Further you must understand, that we have as many characters in our family as anyone, and that usually they are all hicks...thus live in Kamiah.
We had a blast! We went into town all day Saturday and shopped and ate and enjoyed ourselves, before all going to the High School race tracks, and we all had races according to age. The "Fabulous Six" which was my grandmother and all of her siblings, had a really interesting race, and only one person fell down :). Then on Sunday we started with Church, and then we had a barbique. After that a bunch of people went to the grave site of my great grandparents, and then around 4 we had a talent show. That was interesting! Finally around 7 we had a wonderful firework show, that was as good as any city wide one. My uncles love fire works. Monday sadly we all headed home, but not before we stopped in Lewiston and had an interesting Church service with some of my dads crazy friends, but it was all such fun, and I will remember it for a long time.
P.S. I found out that my great great grandmothers name was Zinobia May Waller :)

Voulinteer Work

I volunteered at the fair last night, it was fun...three hours of sitting by myself hearing concerts, that I could not see and smelling fair food that I could not eat...Awesome! (no sarcasm of coarse) But, I really did have fun. I got to talk to a few people about the station, and another church here in Twin had a coffee booth set up next to mine, so I was able to get coffee...which was really nice around 9.
After I closed up the booth, I was able to walk around a little bit which was fun. I am planning on going back tonight, but this time to play. My sister will be visiting tonight so we wanted to go, so last night I was able to see where everything was, and how many tickets the rides cost. I will know what to do now :) . There are still a few things that I have to work out, but I am excited.
You know what, I am just having a really good day, God is so good... ;D

First Day

Yesterday was my first day of school, and today is the anniversary of the day that I moved here. I cannot believe that I have been here for a year already. It seems just a little while ago that I met and moved in with Shirley, and yet so much has happened! I am a very different person than I was when I moved here. God is so good and faithful not to leave us where we are!
Unfortunately I cannot celebrate exactly, I have a lot of things that I need to do and not a whole lot of time to get them done this week. Things like school starting and volunteering at the fair. Fun things, but still a lot of them. I do however plan on buying myself some flowers when I go to the store tonight.
Ok, school. The first day of class was really good. I am taking Chemistry and Ethics, but due to miss communication, the Professor was not ready to start the Chemistry class, so we began with Ethics. It was really fun, and I think that it is going to be a good class. Our lecture/discussion was on Ethics (duh) as it relates to psychology and physics. Go day one! We can either write one large reasearch paper, or several smaller ones, I may opt for the second one, but we will see. There are three of us in the class, which I think if nothing else will make it a very interesting year.