Well ok it has been way to long since I last posted. I figured it was time to get back in the groove of things :)
I have missed this. At lot has happened in the past 5 months, to much to write. So I will begin with now. I am 3 days shy from turning 23 and I have a lot of emotions surrounding me.
Emotions of I'm not a kid anymore... and there are days I would give anything to be a kid again....feelings of sadness and excitement as I am entering my last and final semester as an undergrad....remembering my papa who died 23 years ago on Sunday.... Just reminiscing. Sometimes it is good to look back.. to reflect.. to remember where you were a year ago... 5 years ago.. and to see where you have come from, what you have overcome and who you have become! As I reflect back I can still say that my GOD is a FAITHFUL GOD!
It blows my mind away that I will be 23. I feel as though I just moved here... which was almost 8 years ago. I remember when I was little my Neena always told me " just wait until you get older, time will fly by" man was she ever correct. I don't know where the time has gone. To think I am already 3 years into my 20's about to graduate college and start my Master's... and then on to get engaged and married in the next 2 years! Life is changing in so many wonderful, exciting and overwhelming ways :)
I am thankful for life, as I think back on my 23 years I have so much to be thankful for. I have an amazing mother who has instilled in me a foundation that can never be broken. A mother who has made some of the biggest sacrifices for her children that I have never known mothers to do. A mother who has loved unconditionally. A mother who has prayed on her hands and knees from the moment we were born for her children's lives. A mother who above all else is my forever friend, someone whom I admire and hold dear to my heart in so many ways. I am thankful and blessed.
I am thankful for an amazing brother, and fatherly figure in my life who has been that guiding and helping hand along the way. Who has made me laugh until I pee my pants and has wiped my tears as he held my hand, who has helped me through failures and accomplishments and who has been my forever friend.
I am thankful for the amazing friends and family he has placed in my life. Sometimes God allows certain people to come into your life at just the right season. He has placed certain people along my path at the most divine time and allowed me to see once again his amazing faithfulness that he pours out on us daily.
I am thankful for my absolute amazing best friend and man in my life, Tyler. I think I thank God for him everyday. He is an answer to every prayer I have prayed, every tear I have cried, every dream I have dreamed and every hope I have ever had. He is "The one", he is a man of God. We are about to celebrate a year together and I could not be more happy. I don't say it enough but he is my other half, he makes my world go round and God knew what he was doing when he placed us in each other's lives almost a year ago next week! God is one amazing and timeless God!.... :)
As i think on these things. I am thankful. As this is the month to be thankful, I feel extra thankful and extra blessed this year.
So many new windows of opportunity that have been given to me, so many blessings, so many dreams being fulfilled and passions that are being ignited. I am excited to see where God continues to take me as I finally being to finish out this journey of life that he has placed me on.
I remember saying when i was younger Lord send me to the nations, for this is the cry of my heart. let me change the lives of the hurting and the broken.... Well God is sending me to just that with what is right on my back door step. I feel God's calling on my life being broadened and expanded into the bigger picture that he had placed before me a long time ago. I see new directions and new hopes that are being lived out and I see God moving mountains and placing me in places that I never thought I would be in but places that I can't imagine being without.
I will move ahead bold and confident
I will move ahead, bold and confident
Takeing every step in obedience
While I'm waiting
I will serve You
While I'm waiting
I will worship
While I'm waiting
I will not faint
I'll be running the race
Even while I wait
