Busy but Buoyant

Reading and writing---these are two of my favorite things to do, yet I haven't had hardly any time to do either...until tonight :)

I am here in Savannah for my "nanny" job. This is my third trip down here to work for a family which I will continue working for every other week until May. I love it and I am so grateful for it. When Mrs. Lisa arrived home from work this afternoon I finally was granted the lavish opportunity to sit down and enjoy a good book. I went outside on the patio and enjoyed myself--a book in one hand and an apple in the other :) I am reading What He Must Be...If He Wants to Marry My Daughter, by Voddie Baucham and it is really insightful. The Biblical qualifications for a Christian to marry are "musts" but ones ladies seem to easily look over. I am grateful for works as these. I want to read A Man Worth Waiting For and A Lady In Waiting by Jackie Kendall next...

Life has been particularly hectic for me lately but I don't really mind. I like to be busy as long as I am not overwhelmed, which I haven't been a great deal.

I started a discipleship for girls titled Bright Lights (www.brightlights.info) three weeks ago. We meet at our home every other Friday and have had two meetings thus far. God placed this on my heart to start a group when I was fourteen and I have finally begun. I love it. I have 8 girls including my sister who come and I love each and every one of them. I pray this has been and will be a blessing to their life as much as it has been mine. I am so excited to see what God is going to do! I tell you, there's no greater joy than obeying and serving the Lord. There's a lot more to say and perhaps I will get the chance to do so at another time...

Guess what else has occurred? I don't know if you remember my desire to start quilting lessons, but a sweet friend from our church has graciously offered to teach my sister and I! She came to our house about two weeks ago and gave us an introduction to quilting and showed us the many patterns we could do. I'm so excited! We're going to pick out our fabrics this Saturday. This is an answer to prayer as I have desired to do this for so long. God answers prayer!!

Monday's Bible study is going well, even though I miss every other lesson because of my job. Bible Study Fellowship has been a tremendous help to my life! I don't have time to tell you about it but I'd highly encourage you to see if there's one in your area. BFS is an international Bible study and it's free too! Check out their site: (http://www.bsfinternational.org) and click "Find a class." I LOVE it so much and if there's one near you I'd greatly encourage you to be apart of it. It will really help you to grow in your relationship with the Lord and your knowledge of the Word. I am learning so much.

In between these things I've been scheduling to visit a college at least every other week. My mom, sister and I went to visit one on St. Patrick's Day but we weren't impressed so I crossed that one off my list. I know God will show me where He wants me to be. I shall keep praying :)

I must run. Thought I'd update while I have some time! One more thing---I am having a birthday this week. I am pretty excited that I will 19 years of age. Hard to believe but exciting none-the-less!

Thank you for reading and God bless you.

Wordless Wednesdays: Road Trip Pic

                       

I love sayings/quotes and thought I'd share some of my favorites which are all by anonymous authors. Some I think are profound, some simply make you think, and others are just amusing, but never-the-less I like them all. Enjoy  :)

To be content with little is difficult, to be content with much, impossible.

Humility is that grace, that, when you know you have it you have lost it.

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

Fear God and all other fears will disappear.

Do you see difficulites in every opportunity or opportuinies in every difficulty?

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it's due.

Salvation is free but there's a price in following Jesus.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to lose it.

Tis better to be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt

Wise men talk because they have somehting to say; fools because they have to say something

I used to think I was indecisive but now I'm not so sure.

Kisses are like diamonds--the more of them there are in circulation the less valuable they are.

Today is the tomorrow that worried you yesterday and all is well

Home is where each lives for the other and all live for God.

Faults are thick when love is thin.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship.

I married her because we have so many faults in common.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

The best way for a husband to clinch an argument is to take his wife in his arms.

Friends are made by many acts--and lost by only one.

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

Success in marriage is much more than finding the right person; it is a matter of being the right person.

Bitterness is a prolonged manner of suicide.

Some women work so hard to make good husbands that they never quite manage to make good wives.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

If we fill our hours with regrets over the failures of yesterday, and with worries over the problems of tomorrow, we have no today in which to be thankful.

Be thankful and just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything right now---and then got it back again.

You can't keep trouble from coming, but you needn't give it a chair to sit on.

Habit is a man's best friend or his worst enemy.

It's right to be contented with what you have but never with what you are.

I had no shoes and complained until I met a man who had no feet.

The greatest calamity is not to have failed; but to have failed to try.

Housework is something you do that nobody notices unless you don't do it.

The trouble with some people is that they won't admit their faults. I'd admit mine---if I had any.

Learn from the mistakes of others---you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

We've got to build a better man before we build a better society.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

A good example is the best sermon.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Be careful how you live; you may be the only Bible some people will ever read.

Do right and leave the results with God.

If you blame others for you failures, do you credit others with your successes?

The secret of prayer is secret prayer.

God never closes one door without opening another.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees and he glees when he views the strongest Christian with the blues.

It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.

Who gossips to you will gossip of you

I have often regretted my speech, seldom my silence.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

God without man is still God. Man without God is nothing.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge: argument is an exchange of ignorance.

Past experience should be a guide post, not a hitching post.

I am not conceited, though I do have every reason to be.

Many might have attained wisdom had they not thought that they had already attained it.

The taller a bamboo grows, the lower it bends.

When you hear that someone has gossiped of you, kindly reply that he did not know the rest of your faults or he wouldn't have mentioned only those.

To err may be human but to admit it isn't.

The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.

The longer you keep your temper the more it will improve.

There is a slight difference between keeping you chin up and sticking your neck out, but it's worth knowing.

The test of good manners is being able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

You can't control the length of your life--but you can control its width and depth. You can't control the contour of your face--but you can control its expression. You can't control the weather---but you can control the atmosphere of your mind. Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

Are We Growing?

While reading a few biographies of fellow sister and brothers in Christ, I have been amazed and challenged to learn of some of their spiritual disciplines. Because God meant so much to them they made an effort to go the extra mile for spiritual growth.

Watchman Nee, the evangelist to China, kept his commitment to read and study the New Testament once a week. Wow, no wonder God's Word really became a part of him. He also had a goal to witness to at least one person a day and in addition spent much time in fasting and often prayed up to four hours a day.

Fanny Crosby memorized several books of the Bible during her youth. Notice I said books, not chapters. That is simply amazing.

The spiritual disciplines of these and many others are incredible. Their deep love for God blossomed because of their consumption of the Scriptures and faithfulness in spiritual training. The result was evident in their strong and vibrant faith. No wonder Christians today who only open their Bibles twice a week are so shallow!

This is such a tragedy because too many Christians are settling for just "average." The disciplines of Christians before us should make us ashamed. Being saved is so much more than being rescued from hell; Christ should be our everything. Would we die for Him if we can't even live for Him? The more time we spend with God, the deeper we will love Him and be like Him. God's purpose for believers is to make us like His Son and this will only happen if we're reading His Word, being diligent in spiritual disciplines, and applying what we learn. All I have to say is that we need to wake up and get busy.

For me to live is Christ and to die is gain. ~Phil. 1:21

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. ~2 Cor. 3:18

Comfort From Truth

You Say: God Says: Bible Verses:

It's impossible All things are possible (Luke 18:27)
I'm too tired I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28-30)
Nobody really loves me I love you (John 3:16 & John 3:34
I can't go on My grace is sufficient (2 Corinthians 12:9 & Psalm 91:15)
I can't figure things out I will direct your steps (Proverbs 3:5-6)
I can't do it You can do all things with me (Phillippians 4:13)
I'm not able I am able (2 Corinthians 9:8)
It's not worth it It will be worth it (Romans 8:28)
I can't forgive myself I Forgive you (1 John 1:9 & Romans 8:1)
I can't manage I will supply all your needs (Phillippians 4:19)
I'm afraid I have not given you a spirit of fear (2 Timothy 1:7)
I'm worried and frustrated Cast all your cares on ME (1 Peter 5:7)
I'm not smart enough I give you wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:30)
I feel alone I will never leave you or forsake you (Hebrews 13:5)