Love

Today is valentine's day and I am reminded of God's immense love for his children! I am so thankful that I can know him in a personal way. He has changed my life so dramatically and it hasn't left me the same.

It amazes me that the creator of the universe would choose to step down off his throne to come and live with us, but not just that, but to humble himself and take the punishment that all of us deserve. Because he loves us so much he was willing to die for us, take the bullet intended for me!

He cares about us so much that he knows the number of hairs on our head!!! He even knows the precise number of gray hairs I have, and has a name to label the color of my natural hair (sandy blonde? dishwater blonde? mousy brown?) I was not a mistake. I was not just a creation of chance that one guy fell in love with one girl, and I just happened along in time, but god created all the right circumstances to produce me just as I am, and place me in this time and place. He provided the perfect opportunity to show himself to me that I would open my heart to him and let him come and live in me. Not just in me, with me, through me, guiding me, showing me the way that he has planned out before the creation of the stars. He knew. He loves me so much that he wouldn't let me just wander on this spiraling ball of dirt, but that he would plan a way for me to go, that would give me the most life, and fulfillment. He knew what would make me happy, what would make me sad and what I would be good at and what I just can't grasp.

He put people places and events in my life so that I would be able to know him and love him, more and more every day. I am not just another dot. not just another life in the scheme of things. I am not just a creature that happened to evolve out of slime, nor have I just created something in my mind to make me happy. Life with Christ isn't always happy, it's not always easy, but It is more than I could have ever dreamed my life of being. I get to do what I love, and I get to enjoy every minute of it! Even if it means long hours and hard work, at the end of the week, I never feel like it isn't worth it.

Today I celebrate that I am loved beyond compare! I hope you can too!

Here is a gift from my creator to me, and from me to you!

Love ya!

precipitation

So this morning I took a walk even though there was water falling from the sky. I decided I had put off exercise for long enough, and I was glad I had the energy to get up and out, and move around a bit before I got my day started.

I have been having a hard time getting up in the mornings, to work out, spend time reading the bible and meeting with God and then starting my day. When I have a choice, I usually choose God over exercise, knowing that he is so important to me having a good day, and really makes the difference of how my day goes.

So this morning, since I had a little extra time on my hands, I went out. Fortunately the precipitation wasn't the kind that leaves you feeling soaked to the bone. It was too cold for that :-) so by the time I got back, I was cold down to my bones, but I was still refreshed! I felt great that I had more energy, I was just too cold to keep going. but anyway, if you haven't figured it out by now, it was snowing, and not raining, and so it was just peaceful and beautiful. The neighborhood I live in has lots of old houses, and in the snow, they just look right out of a history book!

Hope you had a good morning too!!!