GBS

I will miss them... 

"... we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, including you who are CALLED TO BELONG TO JESUS CHRIST."

treadmills.

So, yesterday, I was running on the treadmill. I've heard many horror stories about people falling off of treadmills, slipping and falling, and busting open their chin or their heads. I'm always in fear that something like this will happen... 

Thank goodness this story does not end like that, but I will say I was close. I didn't fall COMPLETELY off of the treadmill, but instead I slipped. I braced myself thank goodness. My foot stepped halfway on the moving tread part, and the stable side. My hands reached out to the dashboard of the machine stabilizing my body from tipping over. I think the worst part about this is not that I tripped, but that I looked around and there was no one to laugh with! Everyone ignored me. I got a few glances, but no one smiled or laughed with me. What in the world? It was funny! I needed someone to laugh with me. But, I just smiled and laughed at myself instead. Which made me laugh even harder. Please promise me that when you see someone do something stupid like that not to ignore him or her, but to laugh with them. It makes the situation so much better. Please and thank you. :) 

encouraged.

"I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself,

that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps."

Jeremiah 10: 23

Still clueless as to what my job and income will be starting next month. It's a little hard to swallow that I will be living with my parents again at the age of 24 with no knowledge of how long I'll have to be there. This reality has taken me in many different thoughts of frustration and questioning my own ears as well as the Lord's. If you were to read my journal, you'd see many exclamation points and question marks...

 "Are you listening?" 

"Can you hear me?" 

"Talk to me!"

"Do not hide yourself!"

Ha. Who am I to question if the omnipresent God is listening to me? However, I am continually coming back to my knees, eyes up, hands lifted acknowledging who He is and who I am not. It's the only place that makes sense. And in that place, there is overwhelming awe of His power and glory. I read this and am reminded that He is above and beyond anything I need. 

"There is none like you, O Lord;

you are great, and your name is 

great in might. 

Who would not fear you, O King

of the nations? 

For this is your due;

for among all the wise ones of the

nations

and in all their kingdoms

there is non like you...

But the Lord is the true God;

he is the living God and 

the everlasting King.

At his wrath the earth quakes,

and the nations cannot endure

his indignation...

It is he who made the earth by

his power,

who established the world by 

his wisdom, 

and by his understanding

stretched out the heavens. 

When he utters his voice, there is 

tumult of waters in the 

heavens,

and he makes the mist rise from the 

ends of the earth. 

He makes lightning for the rain,

and he brings forth the wind

from his storehouses."

Jeremiah 10: 6 - 13