First off, it's the start of wedding season! My summer is quickly filling up with showers, batchelorette parties, and weddings. I'm excited to see my friends getting married, some of them I've known since middle school. There's a slight twinge of jealousy, but otherwise, I'm just excited! The first one is this weekend in Arkansas...Jason's (friend from growing up) going to pick me up and we'll head out tomorrow afternoon. The wedding's going to be great, but we'll also get to spend time with old/new friends and explore Hot Springs which I'm really looking forward to.
I've been constantly reminded lately to lean HARD on God for His plan in my life. It's been so hard for me to resist manipulating situations/people/etc and try and get what I want. It's also been quite a lesson to say no to things that would be fun now, even though they're not necessarily sinful, because they are distracting me from my Father. Needless to say, I've been constantly praying for faith. That seems to be at the root of all my issues, a lack of faith. God has proven Himself over and over and over in my life with the situations He's designed and the path He's lead me on, but for some reason I continue to doubt Him. So, my lesson I'm learning lately, and probably will continue to learn for a very LONG time, is that I can't even muster up my own faith. I even have to depend on God for faith! I have to pray and beg for it, because I can't even do that on my own. I do, however, find every new level of helplessness refreshing because of the knowledge that I am so bad at running my life by myself. The more I realize I have no abilities to make life go the right way, the more I understand God's plan for me. Matt Chandler preached on the topic of faith last weekend and it was challanging and wonderful. If you're interested in it, go to http://www.thevillagechurch.net/ and listen to "Conviction of the Unseen" from May 18, 2008 or you can also podcast it on iTunes.
Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness. (Jeremiah 3:22)
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Amen Sister. I hope you enjoy all the weddingness and whenever you've got some free time we should get together. Maybe we can fit dinner in sometime soon?
Have fun this weekend!
What a great and challenging blog. You inspire me honey! I hope you and Bubby have a great trip this weekend... give everyone a hug from me! See you soon, Mom
You are a pretty deep chicky...great post!
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