Rediscovering You

Well, once again it has been a while since I have blogged and I hate that. I really don't have any excuse for not updating more often other than, "I don't have anything exciting to write about". Which would be a big fat lie. I have been called a diva from time to time over the years so I can make things exciting.

Over the past week I have been given the opportunity to talk

with several fabulous friends. Friends that I've known since we were five years old, one who I worked at Sky with and within one day we turned into lifelong friends and then one who has impacted my life at UT more than she knows. Each one of these girls are on different paths in life, they are in different stages; graduated and in the new world, starting her senior year in high school and beginning her internship before her last year of college. There are struggles that are webbed into each of these girls lives, some that have been there for years, some are recent and some that keep popping up in the back of thei

r mind. Despite the struggles, temptations and sin that tries to creep into their everyday life the one similarity between each beautiful girl is their pursuit for Jesus Christ.

I have been left speechless at the dedication, obedience and desire to search after our loving God that these girls show. As one heads off to live a life that is way different than anything she has ever done before, all to spread the news of how our world needs missionaries, another is ready to rediscover herself in Jesus Christ searching for where to begin in a Bible that can be so intimidating. One will be the hands and feet of Christ as she loves on a friend during a life changing trial and event that will one day be a beautifu

l blessing from God. Each one of these girls all have their eyes set on one thing and that is the cross, Jesus. They have opened their arms and heart to a trusting God and are willing to receive the grace and love that He will pour onto them.

Each one of these girls are true testaments as to what a daughter of Christ is, whether they realize it or not. What blessings God is going to bestow upon them through their journeys, both day and night. I have committed myself to prayer for them as they continue to put one foot in front of another out of faith and trust. I pray that what they discover along the way is an identity in Christ, a love that words can not describe and a Father that does no evil and finds beauty in every situation. I thank God for my ti

me to sit and listen to these girls and stir in my heart a need for Him. As I pray for these girls I also pray that God continues to turn my hard heart into a soft heart full of love; for myself, others and above all for Him.

If he walks in My statutes and My ordinances so as to deal faithfully— he is righteous and will surely live,” declares the Lord GOD.

-Ezekiel 18:9