Update stuff

Well, this month has been hectic and crazy. I finally have a place to live! YAY! God is so faithful! I am living in Lima, and loving it here. Still working at the movie theater and trying to find another job on top of that one.
I also found out I have pneumonia. Good times. But God will heal me and my lungs.
I am in a place right now where God is calling me to a new place in my faith! I am learning that God can do whatever He wants and I dont have to approve. (what a thought, right?) He is God and I am the kid. I do what He says, I do what He wants. God is really teaching me what it means to love Him above all. Its hard sometimes but its good. I am going through my life just getting rid of things that need to be gotten rid of and adding things that need to be added. Its good....

Fascination

Ive been just getting run over by Revelation 4:10 where it talks about how the elders throw themselves down at Jesus feet and cast their crowns before His throne. And I have just been thinking that the reason they do that is because the glory of God is more than they can handle. Its like He is constantly revealing more of Himself (parts of Him we as humans CANNOT even understand or imagaine wouold exist in Him) to them. He is fascinting (sp?) their hearts and they cannot handle the greatness and power of Him who sits on the throne.

They are so overwhelmed they cannot stay on their feet…all they can do is throw themselves down before His feet and worship and adore Him.

And God has been really challenging me to do just that. Let him fascinate your heart. Let Him blow your mind away with His goodness and His power.If we abandon ourselves to Him He will be faithful to reveal Himself. I think God gets the biggest kick out of it when we discover some hidden thing in Him. (Colossians says that in Him are HIDDEN all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.)

I bet God sits up there just laughing and rejoicing when He reveals some new aspect of Hinself to us. In my minds eye I see Him dancing around and just rejoicing because we have finally quieted ourselves long enough to let Him fascinate our hearts. As humans we love to be fascinated (note: we love to watch movies that 'fascinate' us, do rollercoasters, etc because these things fascinate us.) We love to have our hearts fascinated. This is a gift God has placed inside us for a specific reason. He has placed this little space in our hearts where He will fascinate us with Himself.

My challenge today is just to LET GOD FASCINATE YOU TODAY! He desires to do so…He wants to see you in tears at His feet because you have just seen some hidden part of Him you would never in your wildest dreams have thought existed. So just get quiet before him and allow Him to fascinate your heart today.

What is the glory of God? The original meaning of glory has to do with weightiness. The glory of God summarizes the seriousness, the perfection, and the infinite significance of all of the attributes of God. It sums up who He is, in the awesome brightness and weightiness of all His perfections. What does it mean then for us to glorify God? We cannot add to His glory, for He is already perfectly and infinitely glorious. Rather, for us to glorify God means for us to ascribe the glory that is due His Name in worship. It means that we acknowledge His glory by living as though His perfections are as serious and significant as they really are, so that we reflect His glory through a pure mirror. It means that nothing horrifies us more than the thought of bringing dishonor to His glorious Name, and nothing delights us more than to feel His pleasure as we live to the praise of His glory. It also means that we declare His glory among the nations, inviting others to join us in our love affair with His glorious perfection. Glorifying God thus consumes and defines every aspect of our life and witness as well as our worship.

The Glory of God. I am speechless.
So many times we get caught up in the 'feelings' that we get in worship. We sometimes forget about who we are supposed to be glorifying. I just keep thinking about the line above where it says, "We cannot add to His glory."
He is all glorious. He is perfected in Glory. We cannot add to it. We cannot even wrap our mind around the Glory of God.
It just makes me wonder about these aspects of God we don't normally think about. There is so much to God, we cannot even imagine. I just want to seek out the deep things of God. If you read my past post, God wants us to be fascinated by who He is. I just want to live every day in awe of His Glory.

I miss them so much....

Here is the sweetest, cutest little girl known to man. My little niece, Katie. Oh, I love her so much!




























Timmy. My little nephew. He is my favorite kid in the world. He is 4 and so cute its ridiculous.





































ARE THEY NOT JUST THE CUTEST!!!!?????

gotta love....

ONE TREE HILL! SO after waiting and waiting and waiting for Season 6 to premier, and to see who Lucas chooses(yes, I am obsessed!) I finally got to watch it. So Nicole, Pam and I are sitting there, Nic and I are freaking out, waiting to see who it is Lucas chooses. Pam is, of course, making fun of us. We wait, and finally on the screen....we see....PEYTON! WOO! Nicole and I were so excited! YAY! ok. I am lame...i admit. But for real...its just goooood stuff.

My First Blog

YAY! I have a blog. Now for the fun part.
Random Ramblings. *evil cackle*

Well, today was church and as usual I (being the late night person I am) decided that I would stay up until 2 AM and "be able to get up with no problem" in the morning at 6:30 AM. Now I am already a pro at running on less that 6 hours of sleep a night, but recently my body has started screaming at me, "I HATE YOU" every morning. So I am laying there, my stupid cell phone singing Bleeding Love at me (I use it for an alarm clock), and all I want to do is throw it across the room and go back to sleep. But me, being ever so wise, the night before (or morning I guess since it had only been 4 hours earlier) decided to set all 3 alarms. So I lay back down and almost fall back asleep when Leona Lewis starts singing again. And a minute later Keith who was in the living room where I was sleeping says to me, "Hey, are you up?" I lay there and in my head I am saying sarcastic remarks but to him I say, "No, but I will be." I continue to lay there for another hour. At 7:45 I finally get up, shower, get dressed and everything and make it to the church for practice at 8:25. Wow, am I good or what? How many girls can be completely ready in like 20 minutes? Well, I guess I just have good skills.
So here I am. Sunday afternoon, its this gorgeous 80 degrees outside and I am inside in the AC BLOGGING ABOUT NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE. As our favorite nerd says, "Gawsh!".
Anywho, so I have to work tonight. I really dont want to, but I suppose I have to. Good times.
On a funny note. I wore my sandals today with 2 inch heels and was feeling really good wearing them. So I leave the Musicians Lounge after Worship today, I start walking down the hall toward the Sanctuary when the inevitable happens. I trip on my long pants and fall to my knees. Me being me, sits down on the floor and laughs at myself. No one saw it, thank God, but it sure was funny.
I am also, looking at an apartment to rent on Tuesday. My first apartment! woo! I am so excited. Please pray for favor for me and that God would somehow provide $400 for me by Wednesday!
Ok well enough of this randomness...
Hey comments would be good, so I know someone is reading this and im not just rambling to myself.