So as I stated earlier in a post, our church (washingtonavenue.org) started studying Heaven.
I want you to close your eyes...well read on first and then close your eyes. Picture the place where you feel the safest, the most comfortable, the best. The place where you feel the absolute happiest! Then think about a place that is about a million times better!!!! Then maybe you can start, and just start, to get a picture of Heaven. It's not a place where we will just float around with wings, a halo and a harp. It will be a place of rejoicing and love and FUN!!!!
If you have ever been at church or anywhere else for that matter and felt the presence of God ( I mean really feel it all around you), you might can start to feel the joy that you will feel once you get to Heaven.
I know some of you are thinking that you have never felt this or maybe you don't know what I am talking about at all when I say Heaven. Well to you I would say, "come to my church this sunday and find out what it is all about". Not feeling the whole come to church thing, well check out the church's website and from there go to Chuck Bridges blog. He will be talking about Heaven there as we talk about it at Church.
Have more questions? Just comment to me and I will get back to you!!
I hope to see you in Heaven one day!
Monday, May 18, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Mother's Day
Happy Mother's Day to all you moms reading this!!!! Mom's deserve so much more than we get.
I was thinking back to three years ago. That was my last Mother's Day before I became a mom. I just want to tell you that that was one of the most difficult days I have ever been through. That morning I was singing with the Praise Team at my church at that time. One of the songs had a line in it about God providing more than I could ever want. I couldn't sing that line. I just broke down crying on stage! I hated Mother's Day!!! I mean I really, really HATED Mother's Day. It reminded me that I was not a mother and possibly never would be. Let me tell you that if you never suffered infertility, you will not understand what I am saying. That holiday is the most horrible day in the life of a woman suffering infertility. For any of you out there who are suffering now, I pray that God will be with you and that He will wrap His loving arms around you and comfort you. I also pray that if it be His will that He would bless you with children just like He did for Sarah, Hannah and Me!!!!
Now I am a mother. So, Mother's Day is a time of rejoicing for me!! I am so thankful that I have been blessed with my daughter and her love and laughter. You see, that last Mother's Day in 2006...I told God that I would not come to church on Mother's Day again until I WAS A MOM! I could not deal with that pain any more. Now I joyfully to thank Him for His gift. You see nothing I did caused me to become pregnant! That was all God!!!! Now, I know that I have job to do. I have to raise my daughter in a way that is pleasing to Him! I have to give her daily to Him! (Thankfully, I don't have to literally leave her at the church in the way Hannah did.) I do raise her in the church, though, both literally and not. This is the most important job I will ever have! I take it seriously.
I want to take a moment and thank my Momma. She was always there for me. She raised me right and showed me how to love the Lord. I am blessed that God gave me to her. I could not think of a better momma out there. She was at every sporting event, chorus event, everything. I could count on her to show up and cheer me on in whatever I did. She is the Best Friend I have ever had. I can still count on her any time I need. I did not always treat her right, but she loved me anyway! Thank you Momma. I love you!
Now I am a mother. So, Mother's Day is a time of rejoicing for me!! I am so thankful that I have been blessed with my daughter and her love and laughter. You see, that last Mother's Day in 2006...I told God that I would not come to church on Mother's Day again until I WAS A MOM! I could not deal with that pain any more. Now I joyfully to thank Him for His gift. You see nothing I did caused me to become pregnant! That was all God!!!! Now, I know that I have job to do. I have to raise my daughter in a way that is pleasing to Him! I have to give her daily to Him! (Thankfully, I don't have to literally leave her at the church in the way Hannah did.) I do raise her in the church, though, both literally and not. This is the most important job I will ever have! I take it seriously.
I want to take a moment and thank my Momma. She was always there for me. She raised me right and showed me how to love the Lord. I am blessed that God gave me to her. I could not think of a better momma out there. She was at every sporting event, chorus event, everything. I could count on her to show up and cheer me on in whatever I did. She is the Best Friend I have ever had. I can still count on her any time I need. I did not always treat her right, but she loved me anyway! Thank you Momma. I love you!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Change, change, change
Things change all the time. Some things I want to change do change and other things don't. So what do we do with this? How do we plan for change to happen? I mean, 5 weeks ago I had no idea that Zach, Carly and I would be leaving Johnsonville and JFBC and moving back to the upstate and going to WAC. There is a whole lot of change there.
As I look back over the last year, I realize that we have had a lot more change than I even realized. It started when we sold the single wide mobile home that we were living in and moved to a town home in Central. Then the church we were attending and working at at the time broke up and left us without a church home and without that job. Then, a few months later we moved to Johnsonville and Zach started his job at Johnsonville First Baptist Church. So we were in a new town, new house, new church, and we knew NO ONE. That is a BIG CHANGE for both of us and Carly.
Now we are back to the upstate and another new church. As we drove down Hwy 123 from the church to my inlaws house, I broke down crying Sunday evening. It was as if it had just sunk in that once again we were being uprooted and placed some where else new. Right now we don't have a house so we are living with Zach's parents. Thus, there will be more change when we find a house and move into it.
So is this the life of a minister's wife? Will God keep calling us to change and move and go? IS THIS WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR????
I always said I would NEVER marry someone in the military or go into the military myself because I didn't want to move every four years. I guess God showed me!!!!! I will have moved basically 5 times in one year by the time we find a house and move in.
So what attitude do I take with all this? I could get angry or be upset...OR I could realize that, as Jeremiah 29:11 says, "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." God is in control and He plans to prosper us whereever He takes us.
And as my awesome new pastor pointed out last night, This world is not my home!!!!! My home is so much better than Orangeburg, Clemson, Seneca, Central, Johnsonville, Greenville, even Hawaii!!!! My home awaits me when God calls me to go there. In John 14, vs 2-3 states, "My Father's house has plenty of room; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am."
The Home that awaits me is awesome!!!! If you are interested in learning about this home and what you need to do to go with me one day then join us at Washington Avenue Church starting May 17 on a journey through "The Finish Line".
http://www.washingtonavenue.org/
As I look back over the last year, I realize that we have had a lot more change than I even realized. It started when we sold the single wide mobile home that we were living in and moved to a town home in Central. Then the church we were attending and working at at the time broke up and left us without a church home and without that job. Then, a few months later we moved to Johnsonville and Zach started his job at Johnsonville First Baptist Church. So we were in a new town, new house, new church, and we knew NO ONE. That is a BIG CHANGE for both of us and Carly.
Now we are back to the upstate and another new church. As we drove down Hwy 123 from the church to my inlaws house, I broke down crying Sunday evening. It was as if it had just sunk in that once again we were being uprooted and placed some where else new. Right now we don't have a house so we are living with Zach's parents. Thus, there will be more change when we find a house and move into it.
So is this the life of a minister's wife? Will God keep calling us to change and move and go? IS THIS WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR????
I always said I would NEVER marry someone in the military or go into the military myself because I didn't want to move every four years. I guess God showed me!!!!! I will have moved basically 5 times in one year by the time we find a house and move in.
So what attitude do I take with all this? I could get angry or be upset...OR I could realize that, as Jeremiah 29:11 says, "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." God is in control and He plans to prosper us whereever He takes us.
And as my awesome new pastor pointed out last night, This world is not my home!!!!! My home is so much better than Orangeburg, Clemson, Seneca, Central, Johnsonville, Greenville, even Hawaii!!!! My home awaits me when God calls me to go there. In John 14, vs 2-3 states, "My Father's house has plenty of room; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am."
The Home that awaits me is awesome!!!! If you are interested in learning about this home and what you need to do to go with me one day then join us at Washington Avenue Church starting May 17 on a journey through "The Finish Line".
http://www.washingtonavenue.org/
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