The Unofficial List of 2008

I wanted to make a list of things to do this year. The year of all years. I am so enthusastic about the adventures that this year will hold. So here comes so ideas of things I truly hope to try and accomplish ....

- Watch the Planet Earth's Dvd collection
- Go Skydiving for my graduation ... ive only been waiting for years ;)
- Run a 5k or a 1/2 marathon
- GRADUATE from Nursing School
- Get and start my first grown up job... (Ill be a nurse)
- Read some books ... Any kind - just no text books
- Travel to another state (I havent been to)
- Travel to Mexico City to visit the orphanage
- Sing aloud for all to hear
- Learn to eat with chopsticks
- Take a dance lesson or two
- Meet a new friend
- Take a special adventure with my nephews
- Learn to do a 180 jump with my snowboard (start small - think big)
- Cross the wake with the wakeboard
- Take a day to travel by myself
- Make a piece of pottery - and paint it
- Go hiking!
- Play ultimate frisbee with friends
- TURN 22 - I ve been waiting for this day since I can remember!
- Spend a date with my dad.
- Go to a concert
- See a theatrical production (ballet, play .. etc.)
- Continue to seek the Lord and live with intention...

With all the above thoughts, God be my guide and use me to make a difference. Teach me to live.

Inner Purity

Matthew 15: 1 - 20.

In the past few days, I have been praying about the condition of my heart. This morning I read this passage of scripture and it stuck with me...

8: "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me."

Where is your heart? What is the desires or depths of your heart crying out to? Does the Lord find your heart a place of worship, a place where He is honored? Or is your heart focused on the passions of your own ambition? People hear the praises of the Lord on our lips, but the Lord hears our praises from our hearts.

I was talking with a friend about a picture. An image of a little girl reaching up to hold the hands of her father, and in her eyes you could see the reflection of her daddy. If your heart is focused on Jesus, so should your eyes. If people looked at your eyes,would they see your Father's Reflection? And when Jesus is examining your heart right now, would He find a pure heart that exalts Him and His desires for your life.

Take a moment and examine your heart and the focus of your eyes.

One Night. One Choice.

Tonight I sit here and discuss the ugliness of sin and the pain of the choices that need to made. Fascinating isn’t it that I find myself writing what I have been writing for the past three months. Life is redundant. Repetition that will make a Ferris wheel appear exciting. Over time the mercy of God will become the wrath of God. Why do I play around with this? The thoughts of the fury of God on the Egyptian People and the Hebrews should shake the sin out of the nation. Although, I continue to try the patience of Jesus.



The choice of a one night. The overwhelming guilt and the forgiveness of a Perfect Savior. This morning the voice of a speaker rang out the words " Jesus loves me." He does love me. and how I barely understand the depth of that love. Today I am grateful, and humbled. Words dont express those feelings very well... but I guess I am sorry to all those I let down. Its been an extremely busy semester with mixed up priorities. Its time to allow God to take control... and Start from here... excuses abandoned ... Allow my Weakness to be my Strength through Jesus Christ. Amen.