I am SO excited to share this!! I have received SheSeeks devotionals for about a year now*. One of the writers is Nicki Koziarz, and recently I was browsing the internet and found her blog. Like any good Bible girl looking for a new way to receive my daily time with God, I signed up for her notifications via email. The first one, sent literally hours after I signed up, was about opening your heart to God (link at bottom of post). So if you check that out, this description may make a little more sense.
I was thinking about a heart, just pretend it's a plastic one that usually comes out about Feb 14th! Now, picture that heart broken by circumstances of life. What does it look like to you? To me it has a couple cracks, maybe a bandaid or two, or maybe it's shattered on the ground. This is the hard part to explain... Imagine a burning candle, and imagine that person, instead of letting God heal the wounds, pouring the melted wax into the cracks, under the bandaid, or as glue to put the pieces back together. I'm sure we all know what candle wax does when it cools, it drys and gets harder. If enough candle wax is put down it takes a lot of force to break it back down without any heat.
The She Seeks site can be found at http://www.sheseeks.org/. Nicki's site is at http://www.nickikoziarz.com/ and the post is titled What Does That Really Mean?. She is also on facebook.
Nicki also mentions a Hillsong United song, which I had never heard before. So, for those of you who haven't either, I found it!
Much Love & God Bless,
Jessica
Our walk with God is not one spent sitting on the sidelines, it is one where we are constantly moving and changing.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Remembering 9/11/2001
Unlike so many others, I don't remember a whole lot about 9/11/2001 except that something bad had happened and I was going to my grandma's to get a hair cut. It wasn't until recently, I didn't realize just how much God was all over this situation!
What I do remember is a trip my 5th grade class took to New York City and Boston in June of 2001. For a small town girl like myself, New York was HUGE! You can't even begin to imagine, and the cabs... Well, that's another story, just be careful walking across the street when you have the signal to go... We spent 2 days in NYC. We saw Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty (we didn't know we should have gone to the top :( ), 5th ave (if you're looking for a bathroom, just go straight to Trump Towers! lol), and of course we saw the Twin Towers. Not only do I have a picture with them, we saw them from the Empire State Building too. It was awesome, but I could never live there (It's 3x the size of Atlanta!).
What hit me recently, though, was not the fact that I saw a sight my sister would never see in person, it was that our flight back to Panama City, was from the same airport two of the planes left from as well. Would it had been 3 months prior, I would not be the same person, I might not even be here, but God kept me around. I also thought about today, my 22nd birthday, that I would have missed my last 10 birthdays.
All of this together humbles me. God is so much bigger than any of us will ever be, but he loves us and he keeps us around for a reason. There is a Casting Crown lyric "how refreshing to know you don't need me, how amazing to find that you want me". God is just so great and he has so much love for us. I still can't wrap my head around all of this yet.
So, this Sunday, say a special prayer for our country. Pray for the people that put their lives on the line everyday to fight for people they don't even know (doesn't this sound like a missionary fighting for a God they've never met?). Pray for the families effected to this day by this tragedy. Pray for the air traffic controllers and the passengers flying. But most importantly, THANK God for the life he has given you to live.
Praising Him,
Jessica
What I do remember is a trip my 5th grade class took to New York City and Boston in June of 2001. For a small town girl like myself, New York was HUGE! You can't even begin to imagine, and the cabs... Well, that's another story, just be careful walking across the street when you have the signal to go... We spent 2 days in NYC. We saw Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty (we didn't know we should have gone to the top :( ), 5th ave (if you're looking for a bathroom, just go straight to Trump Towers! lol), and of course we saw the Twin Towers. Not only do I have a picture with them, we saw them from the Empire State Building too. It was awesome, but I could never live there (It's 3x the size of Atlanta!).
What hit me recently, though, was not the fact that I saw a sight my sister would never see in person, it was that our flight back to Panama City, was from the same airport two of the planes left from as well. Would it had been 3 months prior, I would not be the same person, I might not even be here, but God kept me around. I also thought about today, my 22nd birthday, that I would have missed my last 10 birthdays.
All of this together humbles me. God is so much bigger than any of us will ever be, but he loves us and he keeps us around for a reason. There is a Casting Crown lyric "how refreshing to know you don't need me, how amazing to find that you want me". God is just so great and he has so much love for us. I still can't wrap my head around all of this yet.
So, this Sunday, say a special prayer for our country. Pray for the people that put their lives on the line everyday to fight for people they don't even know (doesn't this sound like a missionary fighting for a God they've never met?). Pray for the families effected to this day by this tragedy. Pray for the air traffic controllers and the passengers flying. But most importantly, THANK God for the life he has given you to live.
Praising Him,
Jessica
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