Heavenly Father, I praise you and thank you for the gift of FAMILY in what ever form they may come into my life THANK YOU! Amen.
I just returned back to Leo after spending the weekend in Nashville with my family. So many of us were able to gather in this HUGE hotel and dive deeper into our relationship with the Lord. New family was made, and old family ties grew stronger. PRAISE GOD.
God did some interesting thing in my heart this weekend, I just haven't been able to process it all. But whatever it is Lord I SAY YES!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Just love
I was at a bar last night for one of my friends birthday and I met Jesus.... Let me explain.
We were sitting around the table talking and this man caught my eye from outside. He just sort of looked in and we made eye contact and so he came in the bar. He walked up to the counter and started to tell the bar tender his story. I was half listening to what my friends were talking about and half listening to this man poor out his heart to the bartender. He said he was a hitch hiker looking for a place to use the restroom, so she showed him the way and heated up some pizza. By the time he came out, she was in the back getting the pizza and he told the others at the bar to let her know thank you but he better be on his way. So he left, and the rest of the time we were at the table I kept seeing this man and praying for him. When we left the bar I saw him again but this time he was being talked to by two police officers, so I said a quick prayer and continued on my way home. After I dropped everyone off at I home I couldn't sleep and I kept thinking about this man. There was a BURNING desire to go back and find him. So I made a Peanut butter and fluff sandwich and headed back out to main street. I was just praying for God to protect me this entire car ride, and really through out the entire event and I was really praying for God to help me find this man if that was in his plan. Eventually I found him and I simply approached him and said I had some food and told him I saw him earlier in the bar. We began talking and we talked his life, how he got to little Ol Dade City, and then we talked about God. I had a bible with me and we prayed together. As it started to get late I told him it was time for me to go home. I let him know when mass was at the church up the block and we prayed for God to have our paths cross again. The ironic thing was I never asked him his name. But there is no doubt in my mind that, that man, that experience wasn't a grace from God.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
We were sitting around the table talking and this man caught my eye from outside. He just sort of looked in and we made eye contact and so he came in the bar. He walked up to the counter and started to tell the bar tender his story. I was half listening to what my friends were talking about and half listening to this man poor out his heart to the bartender. He said he was a hitch hiker looking for a place to use the restroom, so she showed him the way and heated up some pizza. By the time he came out, she was in the back getting the pizza and he told the others at the bar to let her know thank you but he better be on his way. So he left, and the rest of the time we were at the table I kept seeing this man and praying for him. When we left the bar I saw him again but this time he was being talked to by two police officers, so I said a quick prayer and continued on my way home. After I dropped everyone off at I home I couldn't sleep and I kept thinking about this man. There was a BURNING desire to go back and find him. So I made a Peanut butter and fluff sandwich and headed back out to main street. I was just praying for God to protect me this entire car ride, and really through out the entire event and I was really praying for God to help me find this man if that was in his plan. Eventually I found him and I simply approached him and said I had some food and told him I saw him earlier in the bar. We began talking and we talked his life, how he got to little Ol Dade City, and then we talked about God. I had a bible with me and we prayed together. As it started to get late I told him it was time for me to go home. I let him know when mass was at the church up the block and we prayed for God to have our paths cross again. The ironic thing was I never asked him his name. But there is no doubt in my mind that, that man, that experience wasn't a grace from God.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Moving mountains
God is so good!
Here is my crazy God filled Sunday. I couldn't sleep Sunday morning so I woke up and went into my living room. Naturally turned my computer on and I was hit with this urge to go to mass. So I googled a church that I had been to 3 years ago for a baptism. BAM mass would be starting in 30 mins. I went, and I didn't know why. Well I knew why, I desired Jesus. On my way to mass I was praying about God using me and filling me in anyway he wanted to fill me. So mass was almost over and they were making announcements. They had a Life Teen program and would be having a Life Teen meeting right after mass. My heart instantly was pounding out of my chest. But the calmest, fastest heart beat EVER. So I found myself after mass on my knees asking God for the strength to find the priest and the core team. Well I legit almost crashed into the priest on the way out. So I introduced myself as a Life Teen Summer Missionary and I asked him were the Life Teen program was happening. I met with the core team, prayed with them and asked them how I could help. They said the program only started a month ago and they would take any help they could get. So I ask for your prayers for this brand new Life Teen program. Pray for the core team and pray for the youth of the parish to say YES to what God is calling them to be.
<3 HIS Beloved
Monday, January 3, 2011
YOU RANG
"He is calling me to bring good news to the poor"
While preparing my heart for this next adventure of a Mission trip to Houston, starting another semester at Leo and being HIS beloved I've had this song lyric repeat over and over agian. Before going to Covecrest and experiencing the love and brokeness of so many teens, I thought the word poor just ment those without money. But it means so much more, those who don't know the love, the unconditional love, that HE has for us. It could be the teller at the bank, the kid who's just trying to make a few bucks at Dunkin Donuts, or the grouchy school bus driver. Who ever it is, they are LOVED unconditionally by the Lord!
Every morning I wake up and say a quick prayer. "Hey God, use me as in an instrument today, in whatever way you need me to, give me the confidence to say YES". I leave in less than 24 hours to begin a quick 3 day mission trip with sisters whom I've missed terribly, in a place where I've never been. I'm a little nervous, dont get me wrong. I'm the type of person who likes details, and has every minute of my day planned out. But not on God's time. All I know for sure is when I'm landing in Houston and when I'm leaving Houston. Even that could be changed by a blizzard, or high winds.
God has called and I have said YES. "Will you go where you don't know and never be the same" YES
So I ask you to pray for my brothers, and sisters who are going to Mexico to serve, and those of us staying behind in Houston. We pray for safe travels, and that the love of God can shine through them. AMEN
While preparing my heart for this next adventure of a Mission trip to Houston, starting another semester at Leo and being HIS beloved I've had this song lyric repeat over and over agian. Before going to Covecrest and experiencing the love and brokeness of so many teens, I thought the word poor just ment those without money. But it means so much more, those who don't know the love, the unconditional love, that HE has for us. It could be the teller at the bank, the kid who's just trying to make a few bucks at Dunkin Donuts, or the grouchy school bus driver. Who ever it is, they are LOVED unconditionally by the Lord!
Every morning I wake up and say a quick prayer. "Hey God, use me as in an instrument today, in whatever way you need me to, give me the confidence to say YES". I leave in less than 24 hours to begin a quick 3 day mission trip with sisters whom I've missed terribly, in a place where I've never been. I'm a little nervous, dont get me wrong. I'm the type of person who likes details, and has every minute of my day planned out. But not on God's time. All I know for sure is when I'm landing in Houston and when I'm leaving Houston. Even that could be changed by a blizzard, or high winds.
God has called and I have said YES. "Will you go where you don't know and never be the same" YES
So I ask you to pray for my brothers, and sisters who are going to Mexico to serve, and those of us staying behind in Houston. We pray for safe travels, and that the love of God can shine through them. AMEN
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