Happy Birthday Grandma!

Grandma, I love you so much! Happy Birthday! I hope you have a great day and many more to come! Thanks for all your prayers, for loving all of us and just being you. You mean a lot to me!

Yummy times!

Crazy times!

Good times!

Thanks for all the fun we've had!!

Faith in God, or doubt?

I'll start with P.A.T.H. conference. It was amazing, the preaching really helped me out and I'm glad that I went. I didn't want to go at first, and I didn't really know hardly anybody there so at first I felt a little uncomfortable because normally I know people. But God really moved and the preaching was just..wow...I can't even explain it. I had fun getting to be around other young people serving God, staying up late, going to find ice cream around 3 in the morning, etc.

This week has been a little different. After I got back from P.A.T.H. it's felt like my body has been under attack. Strange head aches, a spot on the back of my head, and now stomach pain. God healed me of that sensitive spot on my head and the head aches. But my stomach is still in pain, in a way I can't explain. I was feeling scared and actually really discouraged before church tonight because of the problems I've been having. Last night I was practically delirious and in pain. I don't know if it's an attack on me or what, but I REBUKE it and I KNOW God is in control and has healing and peace for ME! I'm sick of being doubtful about things and always believing God for other people and not myself. I need a touch for ME and God can do it!! He will, I have faith in Him!! He's so amazing! Tonight we had song service and testimonies, and then prayer. Some of what was said tonight really spoke to me and encouraged me. Then we had prayer and I really touched God. While I don't feel the greatest in my body, I know God is still going to touch me. He did something in me tonight and my faith is boosted. I don't feel scared or discouraged anymore. God is so amazing. If you are living in doubt and you don't see a way past your problems, physically, mentally, financially, or whatever the case may be, I want you to know that God is ABLE! I once heard a preacher call doubt "devil faith." The Scriptures about faith and healing are not nursery rhymes, they're real! Your miracle might be depending on your faith. If you don't have faith, ask God for it!! Read the Bible, listen to the preaching. God knows what you need! If you don't know God you CAN know Him. Doesn't matter who you are or what you have done. If you serve God I promise you your life will take an amazing turn for the good. I'm so glad He's with me, I seriously can't imagine not having hope in Him. Without Him I'd be lost. That's what's on my heart. Have FAITH!!

God has a plan for you

We don't see the big picture, but God does. He's perfect and in control!

Powerful thought

Sow a thought = Reap an act
Sow an act = Reap a habit
Sow a habit = Reap a character
Sow a character = reap a destiny

Guard your thoughts...that's where it starts.

Abby, Brady, Gram & Tom

They all came for a little visit the other day. Abby and Brady are my little cousins. They're cute and lots of fun! As you can see, Abby was a little hyper and tormented me! =) But we still had a good time. We went to my work and got frozen yogurt, then went back to the house for a little while and played with the kids. Cute! Here are a few pictures!!


Gram and the little Boo

UT and Abby

Silly girl, playing my piano

CHEESE

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More CHEESE

I like this one....

Wild child!

See what she did to me.....

The right thing

Sometimes doing the right thing hurts...a lot. Putting a lid on the way you feel about things is really hard. The way you feel doesn't go away...but it's learning to control your feelings and your decisions..it's about letting God have His way. Things have to be tested, and sometimes you need to put some things aside so that you can grow in God and get to where you need to be. It's hard to let God have His way because you don't know what will happen. You might not get your way, and we as humans don't like that. But you have to learn to trust His heart. God loves us SO much and if we let Him, He'll do what's best for us. Remember that all things work together for the good if you love God and live for Him and do what's right even when things aren't easy. Things might seem dark but light will come. You just have to prove to God that you're going to live for Him even if you have to give some things up. You have to show Him that you're going to do what He wants even if it hurts. But God WILL bring you through it all. He will bless you and give you the desires of your heart if you really live for Him and do what's right for the right reasons. Stay close to God in prayer and read His word. That's what's going to bring you through. It's the dark and trying times where we grow in Him. God help us to do what's right so that we come out of these dark times being what He wants us to be.

Stay close to God and listen to your elders, they're looking out for you and they pray for you.