Isaiah 41:10

Hey everyone

I know it's been crazy long since I've blogged and posted about how life is going. I'm so sorry! Life has been beyond crazy. Since I last talked to you amazing people, I've been teaching many classes, as well as fostering two adorable kittens who are getting adopted on friday and I love them and that's going to be so hard...but it's good :D Also i've been teaching my home Bible study *off and on the girls are now exceptionally busy and we haven't had it in a while :( * as well as leading worship and leading the adult Bible study at church. I was actually asked by my pastor to preach once a month. I am overwhelmingly blessed by these opportunities. I have been slightly pulled a bit thin though and I'm trying to regain some strength. I have up days and down days but I am richly blessed because God is always ALWAYS with me. I'm trying to read my bible through in 90 days time.i've never done this in such a short amount of time but I'm really excited about it. 

Today was a bit of a down day. I've been so extremely exhausted just from preparations for teaching two full weeks of 7 hrs of English and then teaching the last two days it's been crazy. I was just so drained today that I have been on the brink of tears for most of the day but God has gotten me through. I came home and extreme cleaned my bathroom and then cleaned up my living room pretty well as well as doing two loads of laundry. I was still obviously exhausted but I needed to do something I felt....And then i found a letter that came in my last box that said "save for a day when you need a smile" well I couldn't think of a better day that was described as such. i opened it up and saw a dinosaur card. Upon opening it tears just began to fall from my eyes it was a wonderfully scribbled letter from Mr. Ryon my 2 year old nephew and a beautiful letter form my sister Jenny. I needed these most today.I then began to cry out to God.*not sure why i didnt do this first but yeah:( *

I told God how i missed my family but I was thankful because I will see them soon-ish, and how I would miss my kittens but that I'm so thankful that they are getting a loving home and how I hate not being understood or not understanding and how i feel so alone and then God just told me even when there is everyone or no one around who understands that HE does and He is always there. I could not be more blessed with the LORD that we serve <3 I just pray that are you being richly blessed where you are. I hope and pray that no matter what life may look like that you take these few precious moments and thank GOD for what He has done and how He has blessed you <3 I love you all and i'm praying for you <3

 

Isaiah 41:10 says:
"So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you; 

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

Finally a Blazing Fire!

Hey All,

this is a rarity isn't it? Two post within less then 24 hours. haha but alas here I go :D

God is amazing isn't He? Even through all the crap and stuff that is going on around the world, the fires in Colorado, the flooding in Florida, the war over seas, the impending war with Korea, and yet through it all GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!!! What a RADICAL God we serve!!! 

I wanted to expand on what God has been doing in my life! I wrote a little bit on it last night but I was half awake and I NEED to explain more haha! I'm sorry i feel so giddy I cannot explain it haha. Ok So I was struggling deeply through a ton of stuff, but it came down to the fact that I had not only begun to listen to satan's lies but I had taken them to heart, which is so much worse. I had taken more then a few steps away from God and ended up falling into a pit of depression and sadness and loneliness. i had been focusing on what i did not have rather then what God has blessed me with. It was very destructive. Then I had allowed myself to become sick, slowly sicker and sicker until on the 15th I was so sick with strep that I could not swallow or talk and could barely breathe. I took a day off and rested at home all weekend. There was some stress that happened at work because I did not use the proper steps on taking a day off and I was seriously consumed at that point with worry and fear and I was completely overwhelmed when i was asked to have a meeting with the director of the program here in Cheonan.

 I finally begun to share what had been holding me down with a friend here in korea and that is when things began to look up. i cried and was so overwhelmed by everything and she shared her heart and that God has placed me here for a reason and I had begun to feel better. I had gotten that day a package from my mom and family and friends back at home and when i had finished talking with my friend that evening I went to the my room and unwrapped a package of pure love!! I spent the rest of the night crying and just thanking God for my family and friends. I went to sleep that night and actually rested for the first time in a while. i woke the next morning with some worries but mostly peace.I went through the day praying off and on and then went to the meeting and spoke with my Director and she did not fire me which I was afraid of but she spoke with me about my worries and how things were going and she reassured me that she would help handle the situation and that there would be no issues but that i needed to follow the right steps next time, which i assured her I would and I will if i get sick again. ha

That was Wednesday the 20th and then we had a dinner all of us teachers in the program and we celebrated together the birthdays of everyone who had had one in the last 3-4 months *myself included* and then celebrated with those who were leaving for a new adventure within the next 3-4 months. It was really good! Then I was talking with my friend Amanda here and we decided that we would go to the beach on Saturday. So we went to the beach Saturday and that was the first time I had actually swam in the ocean and it was beautiful and relaxing and so good, just what I needed. Then Sunday I have been asked to do a Bible Study of the Adults and college age for the English Service for 8 weeks because our normal Bible study leader is in Canada visiting home. I was preparing for the Bible study and still honestly not on the firmest of grounds with God and had no clue what God had wanted me to share and then I was reminded of a youtube video that I had seen of Francis Chan where he had been talking about this person he was very close to who had died and how he did not know if he was going to heaven or not and how he just broke down by the bed weeping when he died. Francis was not alone in the room when this happened. He turned to this man's son i believe it was an he said with tears streaming down his face that he did not want to ever be uncertain of his fate, he begged this man to never leave it up to change, to live his life fully sold out. I was then reminded of the verse in Revelations that Jesus says it would better to be hot or cold rather then luke warm that He would just spew you out of his mouth. 

This for whatever reason FINALLY sunk in! This is who I was being!!! I was complacent! I was luke warm!! I was safe. My Friend Lauren told me, "It means nothing to follow Jesus until you understand what it will cost you." Finally I've realized this!! I was having such a hard time because God has put a spiritual at the very edge of this cliff. I could either jump and trust that not only will God catch me but that He will teach me how to fly OR i could turn around and return to what i've known and become even more and more cold. God was not going to allow me to be complacent, he was not going to allow me to lukewarm any longer. this was the moment of decision. And in that momment, Sunday morning I was cleaning my house and listening to worship online and then I was in the middle of picking up trash when all of a sudden i had that choice, I could stop and worship God full and choose to never go back to who i was or i could choose to continue to be who i was...and I stopped and worshiped!! It is one thing to think and talk about doing something but it is so much more to actually do it! i'm doing a 90 read through the Bible plan, I am devoting myself fully to God! I am not sure what this means but I am overwhelmed with peace and hope and love and joy sooo much joy in spite of the hardships and sadness that I've heard about all over the world God is still in control GOD IS STILL HOLY!! this is a song that is sooo the cry of my heart right now I would encourage you to listen to it and be consumed by who GOD really is :D I love you guys!! Sorry this is so long but this is what has been going down :D i'm so happy I could share it with you! 

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AND I CHALLENGE YOU!! BE different!! Choose to be someone more!! and then GO and DO it with GOD'S help!!!!!

The Things That were and now are and that will be...

Hey Everyone,
I realize it's been forever and for that I am very sorry. this last month has been up and down so much for me, mostly down...but I am doing better I am doing MUCH better!! over the last month I have experienced a ton of culture shock as well as sickness. Over the last month I have, for the most part, gone to work, come home, rested, gone to work, came home and slept only to repeat the cycle. I was able to go to the doctor but one thing here in Korea is though the doctor is very inexpensive about 2.50 per visit and about 3 for meds, they only give you enough meds for 3 days and then you are expected to come back. That does not work very well with my work scheduled but I've been working on it.

Also I have been doing Hapkido for the last four months but i had hurt my knee about two months ago and though my doctors had told me that I needed to take a break from Hapkido I just couldn't not with my belt test coming up so closely and though i had hurt it even worse, partially tore a tendon, i continued to be in Hapkido. However after hurting it and straining it more I decided that I needed to take a break. And so I took this last month off however I did physical therapy and have rested my knee. 

Also There was a good amount of stress at work. I went about the protocol of missing a day of work because I was very sick and that set things off a little. I have been able to talk to my director and heard coordinator for my program and thing have been smoothed out. I am adjusting to the culture though it is very difficult. It's been very lonely partially because I've been sick and so I've been isolated in my room but also because well I'm in a country where i am not being understood or understanding 90% of the time and that is very tiring.I am always striving to become more thought.

But I am doing better, MUCH better!! I am very glad to say, healthy. Also i am working on me and GOD and more on who I am. I am trying to get more and more rest. I think that that is a reason why I was getting sick so easily was that I was pushing myself too much. I also am eating very healthy, Also I am going to be running with a friend. we are going to be doing a program where we are conditioning ourselves. Also I am going to be reading through the Bible in 90 days. Also I am continuing to have my Bible study over on with my friends, Also Also haha I've been asked by my pastor to do the Bible study while our current leader is gone and I'm leading the worship on Worship team for the English service. Also I am going to be doing foster care for a kitten for a while until she can find a good home or until I leave Korea. I really think that that kitten will help with the loneliness. I will be getting her Saturday. My Friends are helping me get out but what is helping most is God

God has recaptured my heart!!! I can't really express it! God has renewed who i am in Him! I was listening to worship online and God consumed me He wrapped me in his Love and hope and peace and all that good stuff!! He has shown me this through a package from my family and friends and a blanket from my friend who made it and had people pray over it! I am inspired. I am inspired to be more, more who I am where I am at. I know that Korea has been a HUGE step for me and something that I'm not yet even still adapting t but I know that God is and will prepare a way one way or the other.I am and will be more! I just need to cling to God and honor Him through all that i do. I love you guys and I am praying for each of you!!!! God has also given me a peace about being single and alone. Though satan would try and take this little object an let it eat away all that I am God has given me peace and I know, more then anything, that because I have Christ, I will NEVER be alone!! There is no one better at love then the author of Love Himself. <3 we shall see what the future holds. Also please be praying. The program here in Cheonan may not be renewed, and if so I need to know where i should God and what i should do. I've been debating on going and teaching english in another country or if it be possible working in an orphanage. That is my ultimate goal. Or I may end up at home working off my loans .... any of these are a wonderful option and God would and will use me wherever I am :) I hope you are well and I love you guys so much!!! I'm praying for you all!!!

O love from the God of the Universte ... (part2)

I've been planted here on this earth, but more then that I'm planted here in south Korea. I am to be God's hands and feet and yes. I've known that for a while for a long time, but what the heck does that look like? Does that look like me getting up each day, walking 30 mins to work, working teaching kids, walking 30 mins home, going and doing Hapkido and then going to bed?! NO!! it is so much more then that!!!! There needs to be Passion!!!! there needs to be LIFE!! Christ says "I have come that you might have life, and have it to the full!" John 10:10 Life is not meant to be something that we just pass through where everything fades to gray!! GOD wants us to have LIFE and to have COLOR!!! But that does not usually come in Money or fame or gratification whatever that may look like in your life *be it food, or sex, or drinking, or drugs or whatever* God's color, the REAL color of life is injected through people that we encounter, it is inspired through seeing Christ in the eyes of a child! GOD IS EVERYWHERE!!

I was watching this video of this woman, Christine Caine, She is from Hillsong United and she spoke at this conference but her words have stuck with me she said

"Jesus Christ came to make us alive to set us free and then SENT us into a dark and dying world to bring freedom, and life, and hope, and mercy, and justice and truth to lost and broken people. WE DO NOT NEED TO FEAR WHAT HE HAS ALREADY DEFEATED!! We do not need to fear the darkness!! We just need to shine our lives into the darkness and dispel that darkness...Light works most effectively in the darkness. we do not need to fear the darkness we just need to take the light of Christ THAT IS IN US into a dark and dying world and dispel that darkness with the light and the hope of the Lord Jesus who for freedom has set us free!"

There are so many around us that are trapped in fear or worry or selfishness or just trapped in the blah. GOD as called us to be more!! There is so much that is going on in this world. So much that is threatening to destroy us. Did you know that there are over 27 Million slaves world wide? There are more slaves now then there have ever been in the entire history of the world. I would venture to say that you know many people who may not be slaves through chains but through fear, through depression, through sin, through death. These people need hope, These people need LIGHT!! They are trapped in the darkness, starving for the fullness of God's love, beaten, bleeding through the lies of satan. We encounter them each day. I ask you who In your life is a slavery? who in your life is not only hearing the lies of satan but accepting them fully as truth? There is so much more then that?! DO THEY KNOW THAT?

The Church is not meant to be a time of just singing songs in a building listen to someone and then go home...no church was meant to be a place where the Christians came together and fellow shipped together after being beaten after being torn apart for their lives, but now we are stuck. we were meant to be Warriors for God. Read Ephesians 6:10-18! Why would God give us armor if we did not need protection? we are meat to be fighters for our faith. There is a battle for our souls, for the souls of EVERY  SINGLE one around us and they are taking captives. They are brainwashing people and sucking all the joy and life out of their lives they struggle in vain to feel alive again by partying and doing this and that but in the end they are not fulfilled. it is a shallowness that is not lasting and leavings them feeling worse then before...We are meant to be helpers, we are meant to be fighters for everyone around us. What would happen is a person came up to you and said "I wish you Christians would die?" what would you say? What would happen if instead of just writing that person off we offered to buy that person lunch or asked them to go see a movie with you or play a game or hang out How would that radically change their life? How many of us are too busy with our own lives, our own agendas that we miss the chances to share God's love with those that may need it most? Have you ever thought that God interrupts people's plans to change the world? Esther was just a girl living her life, when she was called to save her people. she was taken out of her comfort zone and fought for the future of her people, Moses was just an Egyptian Prince but was put as a sheep herder for many many years before being called to save the lives of all of Israel. David was just a normal Shepard, minding his own business looking after his sheep when God called him and anointed him as the next king, Mary was a young teenage girl who was charged with the most precious child ever born. Paul was stricken blind before God called him to not kill his people but save them.

My dear friends, my family, we are called me be more and to do more then we are doing. This quote stirs in my heart.

"Compassion is never compassion till you go and cross the street and do something RIGHT NOW! Compassion is not Compassion until you are will to be interrupted." ~Christine Caine

My dear friends, my family...We are called to be something so much more. We do not know when our lives will collide with others and completely change who we are or even more transform who THEY are. Our calling our challenge is to go and make disciples among ALL nations. and some may say, well i can't go to Africa, or Russia, or The Middle East, or wherever but you must bloom where God has planted you! He has you there for a reason. But BE that compassion BE that love. Do NOT just pass by whom ever God is placing in your life. Whatever that may look like stop and pray. Ask God to show you who you are meant to minister to. But also make sure that your light is buring bright. If you are not in God's word, if you are not earnestly praying and seeking Him, start there. God can use anyone wherever they are but "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him!!" I love you all and I am praying for you! I ask you pray Eph. 10:18-19 over me and that God would give me His Passion, His Love, His eyes. untill Next time my dear family :)

O the love from the God of the Universe... (part1)

Hey you all

I hope that you are doing well. This is what has been happening in my life as of late. I am here in Korea for going on the fifth month. These past four months have been a roller costar but a blessing. I have felt very alone, I have been overwhelmed, I am blessed. I am enriched, I have been challenged, I have been broken down, I have been lifted but, but I survive and more then just survive I am thriving, by the grace of God.


Within the last month I have had the pleasure to go to Seoul with my group of teachers and visit the last palace of the last known Princess of Korea. it was a wonderful time and a good time to rest. I needed that time to relax. we went and saw the palace and walked around. it was wonderful. I was walking around with one of my friends and she and I wandered around and eventually found ourselves at this one place in at the back of the grounds where we could no longer hear the roars of the cars or the chatter of people but what we did hear was the whisper of the past. it was almost as though we could heard the clog clog clog clog of the wooden shoes of the King or the scuffing of the Princess' Hanbok 한복 dragging upon the cobble stones of the palace grounds. It was so peaceful and wonderful. I plan on going back with my friend in August and going back into the area called the Secret Garden.


I've been working each day. I am teaching Kindergarteners, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders. I love my kids so very much! I've been having my kids come and speak to me in English during lunch and they are getting better little bit by little bit. They have such wonderful hearts though sometimes they can be such butt heads ha. We also have schools come three days a week and we teach 5 classes each to these kids. There was this group that came last week. they must have been from a smaller school because they were not used to having native English Speakers. I was standing outside of a room because the class was not done yet and this room was the play room of sorts. I was standing blocking the door and a group was gathering right in front of me and I wasn't paying them any attention or anything but then one of them said 선생님 which is teacher in Korean and I looked at him and said 무 which means what? and then they all started saying it one by one. haha they would laugh and then just star at me in the eyes. finally I was like WHAT? haha and then one girl 아름다운 눈 which means beautiful eyes. Haha It was a wonderful complement and for the next 5 mins i stood there and just stared into the eyes of each student and I could not help but pray for each of them.

I don't know if you have read or if I have posted but I am doing a Bible study over John with now three Korean ladies and few American ladies. it is going slow but I love it and these ladies. I had the distinct honor of going to one girl's church *her father is the pastor* and I shared my testimony and sang a song for the church. it was a gathering of about 10 but it was a huge blessing and I feel like this is what I'm meant to be doing right now here and there...I'm finally getting it!

I am so blessed

Hey Everyone, 

I'm agagin appologizing that I have not posted in FOREER. Life has been crazy. and I've been sick...still I will try to post a ton more often in the future. once a month is not good.

So I am teaching tons now. We teach a camp also each week three days a week and kids come to my school and we teach them things like writing a letter, board games, and other awesome stuff. it's been fun. i've diffenately found my teacher's look. haha it's a blessing to teach these kids

I am doing well in Hapkido. I had a recent knee injury but i've been to the doctor and he says that I will be fine i just need rest. My knee is not in any pain it is just unstable...so yeah but it's getting better. I have been sick for about a week with this cold thing that seams to have fallen in love with my cheast. not cool. I'm taking meds and going to he doctor about every three days. the ladies in the office know me by name and they are excited to see me :)

Overall I am doing very well. I have bouts of home sickness but then i remind myself why I am here and WHO has put me here. I dont know what is going to happen or where i will end up but I know that I am here for now :) and I am doing as much as I can for this time being. we shall see what the future hold.

I went to Pohong two weekends ago. I saw the ocean for the first time it was AMAZING!! i've attached a link to picture I took. it was really a blessing i need the break. then we went and hiked up a mountain it's a ton of fun and I was deeply blessed by all who went. We got a ton of seashells that stink btws and if you know how to get the smell out of them PLEASE let me know :D it was really nice. 

I am going to a multibang with some friends here in an hr or so. it's a room that has karakoki, a tv with dvds, and a tv with a wii. we are going to hang and sing and rock it out! I am excited about it. I am thinking about going to the jimjilbang after with a friend. I love how in Korea all of this is so inexpensive. I am blessed to be able to experience cultur so reguarly...and then tomorrow I am going with my Kwanjanim *hapkido master* and my friend Ben and we are meeting up with other Hapkido dojo's and we are going to go hiking and watch old time korean fighting and cutlural thingy. I am excited except it will be from 7am -5pm :P i'm going to be so dead but ti should be good. and then Monday I'm going to being cupcakes or something for my kids because it's my birthday and Ironically they will be learning about how to ask someone when their brithday is. ha. and then after work I am meetin with a few people for dinner, then going to hapkido and having cake *again* and celebrating with them :D I am so blessed. I so much miss home but I am blessed

Prayers: I would ask prayers for North Korea. My friend is going to be sending me a link about some of the stuff that is going down up there that noone really knows about. PLEASE be praying for the people and the government that change Good change would come. Also Please pray for my health it's been up and down and kinda stayed at sick....please pray for that and then also for my friends here. i know each have their own issues and I want to help as much as i can but a ton of it is up to God and the person.

I hope and pray that you all are doing well I miss you guys like crazy like CRAZY CRAZY I often pray for you and about you. I love you!!! 

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God is always at Work

Hey Everyone,

I am so sorry that it has taken me so long to write again. Man life has really picked up. Good news I graduated from TESOL!! Yay! I’m an official international teacher! Yay! God has been doing so much in my life and I know 못 that is mostly because of you all and your prayers and I cannot thank you enough for all that you all have been doing.

ok So what has God been doing? He has been showering me with so many blessing and so much love it’s crazy!! As all of you may remember I was having some issues feeling isolated and alone. Well God has been helping so much with that. He has been providing wonderful people in my life whom I connect with so easily and so well. God has given me well the wonderful people that I was teaching with in TESOL as well as Amanda *the girl from Florida whom has become my best friend here* then there are three more new teachers; Rea, Christian and Carlee. I am also taking Hapkido which is a type of Korean martial arts and I have been blessed with an American friend there as well, Ben. God has helped me to no longer feel so alone and I know that that feeling will come and go but I’m hoping that it is done for now.

Also I am finally becoming more at peace. I had been worried and stressed and wrapped up in so much and most of it was not right for me to be worried about or what not but now God has given me an overwhelming peace!!! I am just so happy and well peaceful. There really is not other way of expressing it then peaceful. It’s so amazing!! I love it! But I believe that that also has a great deal to where my heart is at. God has really been chasing me and fighting for my heart and I am finally allowing Him to be God there. My heart has always been something that I have always tried to control and not give to God. And because of that I believe, ok, no, I know that I’ve been deeply hurt. But I finally understand what it means and looks like to protect your heart. I finally understand how to allow God to have my heart. He finally has all of my heart and all of my focus and all of every part of me. Now that is not to say that I am perfect. Ha I’m far from it. But it does mean that I’m so much closer to God then I’ve ever been but it is also a different form of closeness. It’s a new kind of closeness. I’ve never experienced this closeness before. I’ve always just known who God was but I’ve never realized that passion He has for me. And I know that He has been trying to share that passion with me but I have not been listening. I’ve only been listening to the lies that satan would say to my heart. Finally I am listening to that voice that God has that enriches the very depths of my soul. It’s amazing!!! Again I’m not perfect but I’m a beautiful work in progress!! One example, Korean culture is very VERY big about looks and being incredibly skinny. And we are not talking about healthy skinny but almost to the point of being anorexic. One would think, that I, being a plus sized person, would feel even worse about myself being here but it is quite the opposite. I’ve finally realized who I am in Christ and where my form of worth comes from, or whom it comes from I should say. And this thought process has restored my heart in many ways. “Change your thoughts and you will change your world.” It’s a quote I have on my computer screen and I read it each day.

Also God has been using me!!! I felt very out of the loop when I first got here. I kind of felt ok now that I’m here what am I supposed to do God. And God was very silent at first. But then I got connected to a Korean church here with a group of friends and they are wonderful and I was beginning to feel like I was more at home but then Tesol ended and I was speaking with the only Korean lady in our class and I felt God impressing upon me to ask her to do a bible study with me. She was all for it and before I knew it I had 2 other girls in this Bible study. We met for the first time the one girl Rachel told us a story. She said that she had been praying for a person to do a language exchange with. She had prayed for someone who was Christian and someone who was nice. One day when she was on the bus praying she finished praying and opened her eyes and I was getting on the bus and I smiled at her. God impressed upon her to ask me. So we had gotten off the bus at KNU ** I was still in Tesol and I was running very late this day** she followed me and then when I got into the elevator she told me she wanted to be my friend and she asked if I would be willing to do a language exchange and I said yes. And then about two weeks later we are sitting together with AnSu and Amanda doing a Bible study. I know that this is a major reason of why I am here, for this and even on a greater scale. I’m beginning to mentor these ladies as well as other people and I am also growing in faith and trust and understand of God. This is a very good thing for me. I also and volunteering where I can. On Sunday I attend a Korean church from 10-1230 and then rush to an English service form 1:30-3 and then an English bible study form 3-4pm. My Bible study is on Saturdays from 11-12 with food in my apartment. We are going over John.

I would greatly enjoy your prayers. My heart is at home with my family a ton of the time. My brother David just got engaged and I hope to be home to celebrate that in August sometime but that will depend upon my work schedule. Our first break is in August so here’s hoping. I am praying for each of My family members as they go through their lives. I would love to have prayers for each of them. They are wonderful, wonderful people and I am deeply blessed by each of them. Also I would ask for prayers over my heart and my life. I am struggling and growing and deepening in the way that God grows me. It’s not been easy by any stretch of the imagination but it’s been amazing and I know that I am meant to be here. I was just talking with my friend Lauren how I’ve seen time and time again in my life how God has set me apart. And how God has touched my life or intervened in some way and has saved me from a worse fate whatever that may be. I know that I am meant to be alive. God is obviously not done with me yet. I know that there is a greater purpose for me. Maybe it’s not to be the next Mother Theresa or Martin Luther King Jr. but maybe it’s to be inspired. Maybe our lives are not to change this world by our own hands but maybe we are meant to inspire those who will. You never know who around you needs God’s love most. We cannot see the hurts, we cannot see the shame always, but it exists at some level in everyone’s lives. And we do not know who will be the next Billy Ghram or the one who is going to cure cancer. We don’t know and we cannot take the chance that the person we are upset at is going to change this world and our words are the cure that they need. And yes, maybe that person will not be someone who changes this world, but you know what is more important? They have Christ in them. They are worth our time and our love and our effort for that reason alone! Would we snub Christ if he upset us? Would you never talk to God because He chose something over you once? Would you cheat on God with someone else? NO! of course not. What makes that person any less special?? O they are not Christian…blah blah blah. They are a human being. They are God’s most precious creation. They are put on this earth JUST as you are to glorify God. And how are they supposed to know that God if we do not show Him!? They can’t! We must look past our prejudices and see people with the eyes of Christ! Then and only then will this world truly be changed for any good. We must see people the way that God sees them we but honor people as if they were Christ Himself. We must live out lives and help those around us so that we are all able to live our lives to the fullness to which Christ has told us that He wants us to have. We must give all we have.

Ok sorry for preaching. Haha you know me. Once I get started talking about God it is hard to stop. But my final words to you this time as this; I love you. God loves you so much more then I would ever love you. God says you are worthy and valued and pure and incredibly special!!! I am praying for each and every one of you! Remember your worth is found in Christ and in Christ alone otherwise you will not be fulfilled at any point and time.

“I will come and shower my blessings on you!!” Hosea 10:12