It’s hard to believe I’ve been living in Gainesville, GA for over 3 months already! Wow, how time flies! I’ll admit what you already know, I have nooot been good at getting updates out as regularly as I was hoping. My gosh, so much has been happening, it’s hard to keep up! Regardless, I apologize for my lack of writing and I thank you for those who have continued to reach out, support, pray for and financially bless me. You continue to make a HUGE difference in my life, and I am so grateful.
So what’s new, you ask!? I’ll give you a run down. First and foremost, God has been SOO GOOD! As He always is. Gainesville has become home. I’ve talked to quite a few people that have said that even after 6 months here, they still feel in transition mode in making this home, so it’s only the Lord that has brought me to this place of complete peace in being here. I’ve made some amazing friends and I LOVE my job and what I get to do each day. We start each Monday morning with worship and prayer, I get to talk to people that are passionately pursuing the Lord each day aand random dance parties are a regular occurance throughout the week. I’ve also had some great conversations with the Lord lately about what this season is all about…or at least, what He wanted to give me a heads up on 🙂
About 2 weeks ago – after praying the Lord would help me be more disciplined in spending time with Him, specifically with giving up sleep (pretty often I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t sleep, so I’ve been trying to spend that time with the Lord instead of continuing to force myself to go back to sleep) – so that night, God and I pulled an all-nighter, and although I fought it the first 4 hours or so, I eventually gave in and He started talking to me like crazy. It was great! I felt like He was telling me that in order to go deeper (which has been my prayer for the last whiile) we need to take a few step back sometimes. Interesting thought, ay? Go further into knowing Him, go deeper into relationship with Him, by taking a few steps back. The crazy part is that I knew exactly what He meant. I’m at this point of just wanting to know Him so much more intimately, wanting to learn so much more about Him, that I want to fly through all of the normal aspects of getting to that point. I feel like He was telling me, just like in any relationship, depth takes time. You don’t start a relationship and expect to be in the deepest parts of eachothers lives after only just meeting, and you don’t read the end of a book and expect that by just reading the end, you know the intricacy of the characters and their struggles and victories. You have to take time to read the entire story and allow yourself time to understand and process the breadth and depth of it. He’s taken me on a wild ride the past 2 years, and a wise friend (shout out to Tracy Hagar!) once told me that we have to realize how far God has taken us, and then recognize that the distance He wants to take us is never-ending – so basically, look at where I am and recognize that this is still just the beginning. I haven’t reached my destination…I’m still on the journey. Going deeper takes patience, pursuit, time, questions, listening, quality time… you get the drift.
So I’ve started to back up. I’ve started to embrace spending time with the Lord again with no distractions, just Him and me. We talk about life. We talk about love. We talk about the day – the good times and the bad. It’s so good! I’ve also got this hunger for His Word that hasn’t been there for a while and in that He’s been teaching me so much about His character and His faithfulness and about discipline! Whew! To be drawn into Him and His word, not because it’s a chore, but because it is my desire to know my Father more! Man oh man. I love it!
So, that’s one tid bit about what the Lord’s been up to lately…and there’s so much more! 🙂 Love it. Love Him. He is good. More to come!
here are just a few of the amazing people i get to work with each day! 🙂
Thanks again for your continued support and reading my blogs! Any questions, comments or anything at all, be free to contact me!
