Summit Summary

Now that I've had the time to muse over what I learned:

1) Obey
2) Pray . Read . Go
3) Get out of debt

Still praying for the job with GOD TV. My goodness, it would be awesome working there, and taking care of #3 of what God put on my heart would take at most two years (one if I'm super ambitious!)

Oh how He loves us...

I love and hate the times in my life when the rug is pulled up under me and I've found out what I've really been relying on. Is it money that I rely on, or the good relationships that I have, or the gifts and talents that I have that I base all of my security on? It's until these things are stripped away that I realize my dependence on them. It's after these things are stripped away that I slowly remember that my security is in Christ and my life is hid in Him.

I love everything from Him. I love how He puts on my heart the people I need to be intercedeing for. I love every trial, tribulation, and diverse temptation because not only does it make me more like Him, but it makes me look forward to the day when all of this will pass and everything will be as it is supposed to be.

All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has ever read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before." - C.S. Lewis

Perfect Peace

In this transition time between the end of the holidays and my upcoming 24th birthday, I am honestly very tired and more stressed than I have been in a long time.

January 5th is the start of me working 60+ hours a week. I'll be registering an LLC tomorrow (or, rather, later on today). I'll also continue studying for the GMAT so that I can start my MBA program in the summer. That's on top of the Summit being around the corner, being involved in home group and discipling, and spending time w/ the Crew.

Needless to say, my first reaction to all of this change is to think about it, then strategize about how I'm going to get it done. What a hot mess I've been lately!

As my life is changing, my perceived need that I have for God is increasing. Recently, I heard a speaker say that we live without the things we can live without. It's funny how I don't realize my dependence on God until I am absolutely stripped. As my strength and energy decrease, my "need" for God increases. The way my life is heading toward will definitely get me more and more out of a Martha mindset and into a Mary lifestyle.

My heart will doubtless hold fast to these verses as I begin 2009: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD forever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength. (Isaiah 26:3-4)

I love my Abba

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