Last night I had the priviledge of celebrating my Mom & Dad's 38th Anniversary with them. Has is really been that long? They have provided a wonderful example of a couple that weathers life's surprises and challenges and make it together. It takes work to make a marriage last for 38 years and counting, but I am so thankful that they have stayed together in a time when it is so easy to give up and give in to what the world says is right or okay.
Thank you mom for following dad to a new appointment with lots of new adventures and challenges. Dad, thank you for taking care of all us women and teaching us what to look for in an honorable man.
I am learning that relationships take effort and compromise with each other to succeed. Thankfully, I have a great example of what it means to love each other through anything.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Monday, June 25, 2007
Wow, I saw this on another blog and was just blown away. I want to be this person that is not proud and arrogant about my status in the world, but rather to have God look down from heaven and see me as more precious than angels is more humbling than I can verbalize. I am working toward being meek, but have a long way to go. My human-ness gets in the way so often.
MEEK ~
"The meek man, is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather, he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He knows he is as weak and helpless as God has declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is, in the sight of God, more important than angels. In himself, nothing; in God, everything. That is his motto. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring. He rests perfectly content to allow God to place His own values. He will be patient to wait for the day when everything will get its own price tag and real worth will come into its own. Then the righteous shall shine forth in the kingdom of their Father. His is willing to wait for that day.
In the meantime, he will have attained a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings.
Then also he will get deliverance from the burden of pretense. By this I mean not hypocrisy, but the common human desire to put the best foot forward and hide from the world our real inward poverty. For sin has played many evil tricks upon us, and one has been the infusing into us of a false sense of shame." AW Tozer, The Pursuit of God.
MEEK ~
"The meek man, is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather, he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He knows he is as weak and helpless as God has declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is, in the sight of God, more important than angels. In himself, nothing; in God, everything. That is his motto. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring. He rests perfectly content to allow God to place His own values. He will be patient to wait for the day when everything will get its own price tag and real worth will come into its own. Then the righteous shall shine forth in the kingdom of their Father. His is willing to wait for that day.
In the meantime, he will have attained a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings.
Then also he will get deliverance from the burden of pretense. By this I mean not hypocrisy, but the common human desire to put the best foot forward and hide from the world our real inward poverty. For sin has played many evil tricks upon us, and one has been the infusing into us of a false sense of shame." AW Tozer, The Pursuit of God.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Today I read an article on MSNBC about the new iPhone coming out and that bloggers are calling it the "Jesus Phone". http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19297486/
I was appalled that they could associate a cell phone with Jesus Christ Himself. I am sorry, but they could have come up with something a little more creative that didn't have to compare to the risen Savior and King of Kings. I am pretty sure that this phone will never turn water into wine. I am fairly certain that it will never walk on water. And I know for a fact that it will never be hung on a cross and rise on the third day.
Okay, I will not be upgrading to an iPhone after I get off of my soapbox.
Anyway, it reminded me of how we put inanimate objects in the place of Christ which I am guilty of. I was reminded at a worship service tonight that I need to keep Christ in the center and that anything or anyone that takes His place is idolatry, pure and simple. In order to please God, I have to devote my full attention to Him and not get distracted by all of Satan's tools to keep me in sin and bondage. I am so thankful that Christ can and will change me, but I also have to let Him. Thank goodness that my salvation doesn't rest in the latest and greatest cell phone. Oh and by the way, Christ will still be around even when the iPhone is no more.
I was appalled that they could associate a cell phone with Jesus Christ Himself. I am sorry, but they could have come up with something a little more creative that didn't have to compare to the risen Savior and King of Kings. I am pretty sure that this phone will never turn water into wine. I am fairly certain that it will never walk on water. And I know for a fact that it will never be hung on a cross and rise on the third day.
Okay, I will not be upgrading to an iPhone after I get off of my soapbox.
Anyway, it reminded me of how we put inanimate objects in the place of Christ which I am guilty of. I was reminded at a worship service tonight that I need to keep Christ in the center and that anything or anyone that takes His place is idolatry, pure and simple. In order to please God, I have to devote my full attention to Him and not get distracted by all of Satan's tools to keep me in sin and bondage. I am so thankful that Christ can and will change me, but I also have to let Him. Thank goodness that my salvation doesn't rest in the latest and greatest cell phone. Oh and by the way, Christ will still be around even when the iPhone is no more.
Ten Year Reunion
My ten year reunion is coming up in about 10 days. I can't believe that it has been that long ago that I was in high school. I can't believe I am old enough to go to a TEN year reunion! I am excited to see old friends and re-connect with people that I have not talked to in several years.
I have done so much since high school that it is hard to summarize. Here is what I sent to the reunion committee about myself that will be put together for all of us to share.
I attended college at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. At college, I developed many friendships and had opportunities that I would not trade for anything. I worked with high school and middle school youth for two summers, one summer as a youth intern at my local church and then as a camp counselor in Tennessee. I did mission work in Italy during a ten day trip and got to tour Rome, Pisa, and Florence. Then to finish my senior year, I worked as an intern at the Small Business Administration in Washington, D.C. After graduating from college (in four years), I got a real job. After a couple years of trying to figure out what I wanted to do, I got into the business of appraising businesses. It has worked out so far and I am well on my way to obtaining a distinction as an Accredited Senior Appraiser from the American Society of Appraisers.
I will travel about 200 miles from Kansas City to attend the reunion.
I am not married, but have a great boyfriend, Eric, of about 2 years. We were good friends before we started dating and he is my best friend now.
What I would have done differently in HS: I would have cared less about what other friends thought of me and cared more about what God thought of me.
My favorite memory is when I ended my swimming career and had my personal best time at the State Championships as a senior. Even though I was about half a second from getting a scholarship to swim for the University of Nebraska in Omaha, I was so proud of my accomplishments and had my family there to cheer me on. That year, the girl’s team was the city champions.
I am most proud of the choices that I have made since high school to help mentor and lead bible studies for other high school girls. God has radically changed my life for the better and I relish the opportunity to have a positive impact on other girls’ lives by sharing the Gospel or helping them discover God’s truth about His adoration for them. Young people struggle with the exact same issues, but on a much larger scale now. I have been truly honored to help a sister in Christ to get through high school with their integrity in tact.
Since graduating from Heights High, I have come to appreciate my parents’ leadership and guidance. My sisters are my best friends and I have built relationships with many others that have made me who I am today. I would not change anything in a heartbeat, but the lessons that I learned in high school changed me. The biggest changes that I have made since then, other than my acne clearing up, (Thank goodness!) is that I came to know Christ and at the end of the day, that is the only thing that matters.
I have done so much since high school that it is hard to summarize. Here is what I sent to the reunion committee about myself that will be put together for all of us to share.
I attended college at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. At college, I developed many friendships and had opportunities that I would not trade for anything. I worked with high school and middle school youth for two summers, one summer as a youth intern at my local church and then as a camp counselor in Tennessee. I did mission work in Italy during a ten day trip and got to tour Rome, Pisa, and Florence. Then to finish my senior year, I worked as an intern at the Small Business Administration in Washington, D.C. After graduating from college (in four years), I got a real job. After a couple years of trying to figure out what I wanted to do, I got into the business of appraising businesses. It has worked out so far and I am well on my way to obtaining a distinction as an Accredited Senior Appraiser from the American Society of Appraisers.
I will travel about 200 miles from Kansas City to attend the reunion.
I am not married, but have a great boyfriend, Eric, of about 2 years. We were good friends before we started dating and he is my best friend now.
What I would have done differently in HS: I would have cared less about what other friends thought of me and cared more about what God thought of me.
My favorite memory is when I ended my swimming career and had my personal best time at the State Championships as a senior. Even though I was about half a second from getting a scholarship to swim for the University of Nebraska in Omaha, I was so proud of my accomplishments and had my family there to cheer me on. That year, the girl’s team was the city champions.
I am most proud of the choices that I have made since high school to help mentor and lead bible studies for other high school girls. God has radically changed my life for the better and I relish the opportunity to have a positive impact on other girls’ lives by sharing the Gospel or helping them discover God’s truth about His adoration for them. Young people struggle with the exact same issues, but on a much larger scale now. I have been truly honored to help a sister in Christ to get through high school with their integrity in tact.
Since graduating from Heights High, I have come to appreciate my parents’ leadership and guidance. My sisters are my best friends and I have built relationships with many others that have made me who I am today. I would not change anything in a heartbeat, but the lessons that I learned in high school changed me. The biggest changes that I have made since then, other than my acne clearing up, (Thank goodness!) is that I came to know Christ and at the end of the day, that is the only thing that matters.
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