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I woke up today excited that it was monday and with crazy unexplainable joy overflowing in my heart. I am so excited for the day I'll meet my Savior and I wish that day was today. I don't know why I felt the need to write this but maybe someone will find encouragement from this. These words have been replaying in my head all day..."All I know is I'm not home yet. This is not where I belong. Take this world and give me Jesus. This is not where I belong." Looking forward to the day we go Home! :)

~He is LIFE~

The Lord is the giver and sustainer of life and I am so thankful because I can’t imagine a life without Him. The Lord has been reminding me of the Life that is found in Him.  So much has been going on in my life and these situations I would say have been sucking the life out of me (or rather I have been allowing them to) and I’ve been failing to rest in the Lord.  I was at a Casting Crowns/Sanctus Real/The Afters concert last night and Mark Hall was sharing the message behind their “Come to the Well tour” and unfortunately I forget what all he said but it was a picture of what I’ve been doing. The woman at the well goes in the middle of the day when she knows no one else will be there and in avoiding everyone else she meets Jesus and they start talking about water but on two different levels. In the end of it the woman comes to the realization that she desires to draw water from the living well that won’t run out. I saw this in myself in the sense that I wasn’t running to the living well.  I had to ask myself what well I’ve been drawing my water from and I realized that I would start at the living well, get distracted and run off to another well that would not sustain me. And it was a vicious cycle that really wore me out. Christ came so that we could have life and have it to the fullest. It is ours to take and without Christ it is not a life worth living. Act 17:28 says, “for in Him we live and move and have our being.”  I don’t want to squander the life he has given me on things that aren’t of eternal significance and I know that happens when my life is not focused on Him. HE is the everlasting life. I feel so unworthy of this precious gift at times but I am reminded that I have been made worthy. God has breathed life into me and I have to ask myself what am I doing to ensure that He gets all the glory with this life. May I always draw my water from the living well and glorify my Lord.

I’ll share this song (and this song spoke to me before the concert) but the words just speak lots of truth. J “ Giver of every breath I breathe…maker of heaven and of earth…I am alive because I’m alive in you…It’s all because of Jesus I’m alive…to You be the glory” 

So you’re homework is to listen to the song “All because of Jesus” by Casting Crowns.

Take 2!

So, it has been years since I wrote on this blog, mainly because I hate blogging but I'm attempting to do something different :)

I'm reminded everyday of the Lord's love for me and the many blessings he has poured out on me. A few weeks ago I was sharing with my boss about the effort that two of my friends took to come see me and he turned to me and mentioned that I am so blessed to have the friends that are in my life. In that moment I smiled and was so thankful that the Lord strategically placed my friends in my life. This picture is just a few of my wonderful friends that I have known for years. I am so thankful to have people who uplift and encourage me in the Lord and I pray for many more years of friendship with them!