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25 Feb 2012

Seeking God’s Will

Working in Children’s Ministry I create a lot of activities for the kids. After a while my brain melts to a puddle and I have no ideas left. This is the absolute perfect time to rely on the Lord and that’s when the best comes forward. The ideas are so good, I know it’s not me. It’s been on my heart to share one of these God inspired activities that we used for the 2nd and 3rd graders.

The lesson the kids were learning was about God’s will for them. I find that phrase to be so daunting. “God’s Will.” This life is a big thing to us, and it’s scary to think about letting God take all of it over. God really pressed it into my heart to show the children small ways that they can follow God, and not just in the big and grand ways.

We used 8 envelopes with different Bible Verses on the Outside. Then we put the the meaning behind those verses into the envelopes. The kids guessed what God wanted them to do, and then they looked in the envelope to see if they were right. Here are the verses that we used. See if you can discover the meanings.

Envelope 1: “Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.” Proverbs 1:8

Envelope 2: “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”                   2 Timothy 3:16-17

Envelope 3: “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Romans 12:21

Envelope 4: “The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy.” Proverbs 12:22

Envelope 5: “Peter and the other apostles replied: ‘We must obey God rather than human beings!’” Acts 5:29

Envelope 6: “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” John 13:34

Envelope 7: “He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.’” Mark 16:15

Envelope 8: “Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance” Proverbs 1:5

God’s will for our lives sometimes seems like it’s only for a bigger scale and that He only has big things for us to do. But, it’s so important to remember that God has a plan for us, even in the little things like how we act and speak. He has called us to be faithful to Him and to seek after Him with our whole hearts. How can you seek and obey God’s will for you? How can you be faithful to His calling in your life?

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16 Sep 2011

Adventure part 2.

Small towns. Please insert song, it’s our town now, from the movie cars.

Kingston. It’s a quaint little town that you can basically walk in 10 minutes. That is if you dared wander into the unknown and off the sidewalks onto the roads of terror. Dun dun dun… But no, for real. The majority of my day several weeks ago was spent sitting on a bench overlooking the sea and wishing I could smell it. Because I couldn’t.

Kingston is like the town you take your grandkids to, to get crapes or ice cream. And then you walk along the shore. Yes, imagine an old man and two young boys. Go ahead. One of the boys is wearing a baseball hat. And no this never happened, it’s all in your head. Ok, got that small town feel inside your brain now? Good.

I liked Kingston because it was small. And sweet. And looked like it had an amazing pasta place.

I liked Kingston because it half reminded me of a place I dream about.

I liked Kingston because it helped me learn to be alone.

Ok, I know that’s like this creepy sentence. Just say alone in your head in a creepy voice. But, it is the truth. We as a society have to have people near us. We need bathroom buddies. We need someone to go get coffee with. We need fancy pants phones to keep us connected with then world. And realizing that makes me want to learn to be alone. And yes I know I’m on my phone connecting with “people.”

About a year or so ago I came across this video and I wanted to share it with you. Eventually my goal is to do all these things by myself. That’d be pretty great. Ok I’m done.

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29 Aug 2011
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Adventures. Part 1.

One of the joys of having my smartphone is that there is a wordpress app. Which makes my life more convenient. So I am therefore sitting outside in the sun enjoying a beautiful afternoon. The sky was being a little melodramatic today and hid behind a cloud covering and would not show itself until I went out. But it’s shining brightly now…

I’ve been putting this off, but one of my summer goals was to go to Kingston. Or, as I will refer to it, go on my date with Jesus. Yes, I understand that it sounds strange and weird. How do you have a date with someone who isn’t physically next to you? I will admit, that although it sounds cool in theory it is rather hard to do. There are a lot of can’ts and very few cans. Here is a list of things you can do.

1) Make a place for Him. I mean this very literally. Sit with an empty chair. Obviously you can’t stare into his eyes, but you can invite him to join you, to sit with you, and to show Him that you want to make him a part of your life.

2) Talk to Him. I’ve always heard that your “prayer life” isn’t a one-way street. I’ve always thought that that meant that you had to talk too, although it can be meant the other way around. I always loved hearing from the Lord but i never did much of the talking. But i slowly learned that He wants to hear from us too. But there is this balance. Talking to Jesus is good. No, it’s great. But you have to shut up and listen as well. So that leads me to the next.

3) You can to listen to Him. But it is so much more then not talking. There is that quiet moment when the whole world goes away and it’s just you and him. You listening and learning while He is teaching and changing. Yesterday, Wayne(the pastor of my church) talked about Jesus on the road to Emmaus. How great would it have been to have been walking next to
Him and having Him explain how the entire bible points directly to Him?! AMAZING! That would be great. Walking next to Him and to look over and see Him, That would be so wonderful. I just love that these two people whom are never mentioned before, get to be one of the first to see Jesus resurrected. It’s so encouraging to know that although they never so great as to know exactly who they are, God still loves them enough to speak directly to them. To explain to them about God’s plan for their redemption. I imagine them trying to rack their brains in order to remember everything He said to them on the road.

Well this has gotten astray from what I was going to say about Kingston, so I guess that means I’ll write another post about it soon. But I will end with this: be open to listen whenever He calls. You never know where that might be, when it’ll happen, and how He will speak.

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11 Jul 2011
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Well. Time to come clean. I’m Not the most neat person in the world although I love organization. My room tends to get pretty messy at times. And my solution to everything is put it in a box or throw it away. Truth right there. So I had this box of things I didn’t want to get rid of, but didn’t want to put away. So I used the old trick, leave it alone for a while. And naturally it worked. I’m rather in love with recycling. Not because it’s good for the earth but because I like throwing away stuff. And I have a lot of stuff, so why don’t I get rid of it all? Sentimental value, and reusing purposes. Duh! But no, reducing is what I needed to do so here goes(I took pictures) the journey to clean out a box, or as I later found out a box and two bags I had forgotten existed. So here is the box:

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Yep. So I organize it into piles. That’s pretty fun(not). If I recall the piles were keep in room, keep in storage, keep outside or room, throw away. Here are some awesome stuff I found in the box.

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Yippee. Look at that awesome cow cutter. So rad! Yeah I know I’m awesome.

Now here is the hard part of my day. I have a basket of summer projects. I went through and made a list, and organized it. But I didn’t take pictures of it after, so I’ll show you my list which has been added too. But count on it, you’ll be seeing the completion of everything I do! For instance my scrabble magnets. I finished them!!! Yep. Enjoy the pictures cause I’m done.

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