2015... Let's Do This!

Well hello friends. To say that it's been awhile since I have posted is an understatement.  I'm not blaming it on anything in particular...ahem...having a baby.  The fact is, I just haven't made it a priority. My apologies. 

I love the start of a new year.  I absolutely yearn for the time to come to get a new calendar and fill it out.  I don't make resolutions but I do make goals.  This year I bought a pack of Lara Casey's Powersheets to help me organize my thoughts. 

 I've started filling them out and just really appreciate they way they are laid out. I find joy in filling out forms and seeing things on paper. (I know, I'm weird:)   Go to www.laracaseyshop.com to learn more.  I do, however, believe they are sold out until the spring. I was only introduced to Lara Casey a week or two ago, but man, I wish we were friends:)  

I also started a Bible Study by Jennie Allen called "Restless".  

I was drawn to it because, well.... I feel very restless sometimes. I feel like my mind is just a pool of ideas at times. Ideas that sometimes seem too big to accomplish.  Ideas that I think are great but fear others might find silly.  I struggle with this feeling of restlessness because I never want it to be out of discontentment.  I truly believe God does give us a spirit of restlessness at times, because he is moving us towards something new.  Jennie says in her book:

We are designed to dream

We are called to dream

We must dream

I know the Lord has given me gifts and abilities that I MUST use.  I fear wasting my life. I also know there is a time and a season for things.  Right now my main priority is raising my little girl in the knowledge of the Lord and leading her the best I know how.  So... some of my dreams are solo involved that they might have to wait for a different season of life when I can truly commit time and energy to them. 

As I move into 2015, I believe this is going to be my theme verse. I've read it so many times, but it is just a great section of Scripture to memorize and really commit to.  I feel like it's almost like a checklist for life.

Hebrews 12:1-3

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great could of witnesses, 

Let us

 THROW OFF everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles,

and let us

RUN WITH PERSEVERANCE the race marked out for us. 

Let us 

FIX OUR EYES ON JESUS, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning it's shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

CONSIDER HIM who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart."

I can make all the goals in the world, but if Jesus in not before them and in them, they mean nothing. 

Questions....

It's been awhile....

I have been busy traveling, hosting my sister's bridal shower, and then recooperating from being gone for a week.  

We are in the midst of a few major decisions.  I get completely overwhelmed at times.  You think you know how your life is going to play out....you think.  I've always been a fan of God knocking my socks off with good surprises.   But I struggle with God knocking my socks off with things that I just wasn't expecting and that end up taking me out of my comfort zone.  I know that he is always working for my good, and stretching me an molding me, but sometimes the stretching just plain 'ole hurts. 

Whenever I am feeling overwhelmed and I need a reality check, I like to just dwell and meditate on all the rhetorical questions that God asks in the Bible.

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
   Tell me, if you understand.
 
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
   Who stretched a measuring line across it?
 
On what were its footings set,
   or who laid its cornerstone—
 while the morning stars sang together
   and all the angels shouted for joy?

Who shut up the sea behind doors
   when it burst forth from the womb,
  when I made the clouds its garment
   and wrapped it in thick darkness,
  when I fixed limits for it
   and set its doors and bars in place,
 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;
   here is where your proud waves halt’?

 
  “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
   or walked in the recesses of the deep?
 Have the gates of death been shown to you?
   Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?
   Tell me, if you know all this.

 What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,
   or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
   and a path for the thunderstorm,
 to water a land where no one lives,
   an uninhabited desert,
 to satisfy a desolate wasteland
   and make it sprout with grass?
 Does the rain have a father?
   Who fathers the drops of dew?
 From whose womb comes the ice?
   Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
 when the waters become hard as stone,
   when the surface of the deep is frozen?

Pleiades

  “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades?
   Can you loosen Orion’s belt?
 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons
   or lead out the Bear with its cubs?
 Do you know the laws of the heavens?
   Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?
  “Can you raise your voice to the clouds
   and cover yourself with a flood of water?
 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?
   Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
 Who gives the ibis wisdom
   or gives the rooster understanding?
 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
   Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
 when the dust becomes hard
   and the clods of earth stick together?
  “Do you hunt the prey for the lioness
   and satisfy the hunger of the lions
 when they crouch in their dens
   or lie in wait in a thicket?
 Who provides food for the raven
   when its young cry out to God
   and wander about for lack of food?




And then also the questions Isaiah asks in chapter 40 of his book...



Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
   or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? 

Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket,
   or weighed the mountains on the scales
   and the hills in a balance? 

 Who can fathom the Spirit of the LORD,
   or instruct the LORD as his counselor? 

 Whom did the LORD consult to enlighten him,
   and who taught him the right way? 

Who was it that taught him knowledge,
   or showed him the path of understanding?

Yup.  I am small.  He is indescribable.   Praise God!