I got everything I could ever want in a man.
30 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
I snapped this picture today through the blinds and window of my living room. It makes my heart melt knowing that I am married to an amazing man of God. Ladies, if you aren’t married – DON’T SETTLE!
I am so blessed to know my husband. He is gentle, kind, wise, handsome, funny, energetic, smart, witty, loving, and the list goes on. Our paths crossed back in 2008 and it has been an amazing journey every day since. The above picture is exactly why I fell in love with my husband. His love for God, wisdom, and knowledge. If you are married or soon to be married or want to be married one day, remember; no one is perfect but as long as we keep pursuing God, learn to compromise, are quick to forgive and Ephesians 5:33 then we are destined to succeed. <3
Basically I just wanted to share with you how amazing my husband is. He doesn’t get credit nearly enough for his amazing-ness (in everything he does). So Patrick, thank you for being an AMAZING man of God and leading our family in the right direction. So glad on November 27th 2010, we started this wonderful life together. Excited for what the next 120 years hold.
Love, Your wife.
Morning QT.
29 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
My quiet time was so refreshing this morning. The past couple of weeks I have had this constant “I don’t know what I’m going to do or what path I’m suppose to go down” type of thought (most with school/work related things. Yes I still want to teach, the question is which program to choose to get there). I have several paths I can go down and each one leads to the same outcome but a different way of getting there. Do you ever feel like you are standing on one foot and the other one has no idea on which direction to take the first step in? Yea, well I feel like I have been standing on one foot in certain areas for a long time. Well this morning while writing in my journal, I began to write down what I was concerned about. You wanna know what I felt like God was saying back? “Well this is the first time you have brought the issue’s to me and trusted me to lead you down the right path. Remember, my plans are for you to prosper not to harm”. Dang. So true!!! I have trusted in myself with the decisions when I should have brought my concerns a long time ago to the One who already knows the outcome! oops. Praise God that He is patient and loving because sometimes I really need that.
So, my challenge for you (and myself) is to make sure you are laying all your decisions, thoughts, feelings, worries, stress, everything at His feet and let HIM sort through it and guide you in the right direction. It would be like playing the lottery and not taking answers from someone who already knows the winning numbers. It would be crazy!
Love,
A.
Jeremiah 29:11
New King James Version (NKJV)
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
4 down.
29 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
So, here is my update.
So far I have been faithful to my gym promise! I have been everyday for AT LEAST 30 minutes. Tuesday I forced myself to wake up at 5 to make sure I could get it in. I arrived at the gym at 5:30 in the morning and was locked out because my hand print was not opening the door (everything was resolved and a member let me in). My struggle is the third day of going to the gym. I always try to reason with myself that my body needs a break (which it doesn’t). I worked through it though and tomorrow will mark day 5. Woo hoo for getting back into shape!
Between the Bahamas (cruise) then Aruba then eating all the leftover candy from our wedding…. it added up. I am determined. Focused. Ready to achieve my goals.
Challenge | 25 days.
24 Jul 2011 1 Comment
I just finished with my summer classes and wow, I feel like I can breathe again! The past two weeks I have completely ignored the gym and my physical health. So now that I am class free, I am setting up a personal challenge for myself. I have 25 days of no classes and I want to rock that time out in the gym.
So here is my challenge.
Monday through Friday I will be in the gym.
Saturdays will be optional. 
I will blog about my experience, it will be that simple.
Love,
A.
Pray. Ask. Believe.
19 Jul 2011 4 Comments
That is exactly what I’m doing. I’m speaking the word of God over my life and believing that it will come to pass.
Ok the last picture if the back of my office door with my goals, wants, dreams, desires, etc written on sticky notes. They have dates on the back of them of when they went up there. When I see them come to pass, I will take it down, and tape it into the journal you see above the door picture with the date of when it came to pass and how it came to pass.
How am I going to see it come to pass?
- Speaking the word of God over my life
- Believing it will happen no matter how long it might take
- Speaking the Will
- Shouting before the victory
- Setting my thermostat (Joel Osteen reference)
- Praying
- Do what I can do in the natural to help it come to pass
- Already rejoicing because I KNOW it will happen.
PRAISE GOD!Write what you see.
Write it out in big block letters
so that it can be read on the run.
This vision-message is a witness
pointing to what’s coming.
It aches for the coming—it can hardly wait!
And it doesn’t lie.
If it seems slow in coming, wait.
It’s on its way. It will come right on time.
Cement.
12 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
This is going to be fairly short and sweet. Just wanted to share a little bit of my heart on here.
Sunday. I love my church. I love our worship team. I love my God. I love worshiping Him. I love how amazing, how faithful, how powerful, how loving, how merciful He is. I could keep going on for forever.
Well often I say, “I stand firm on the word of God. My feet are planted. I can not be shaken from the truth”
Well on sunday while one of my favorite songs were going on, (awakening) I sat down in my seat, put my head in my hands and just let the music minister.
I had a vision or whatever you would like to call it. There were two empty buckets and I had one foot in each one. I was standing and then cement was poured to cover my feet. I was cemented in. God whispered, you aren’t standing firm on the word, you are cemented in. Tears began to come into my eyes and for those who know me, you know how much of a cryer I am.
These past couple of months the word of God has been so alive and powerful in my life. Speaking over my life, believing for God to move in big ways, and seeing His power, love, faithfulness move freely in my life. It has been so wonderful.
There are parts of this song that are so powerful.
“In our hearts, Lord, in this nation
Awakening
Holy Spirit, we desire
Awakening
For You and You alone
Awake my soul, awake my soul and sing
For the world You love
Your will be done, let Your will be done in me
In Your presence, in Your power
Awakening
For this moment, for this hour
Awakening
For You and You alone
Awake my soul, awake my soul and sing
For the world You love
Your will be done, let Your will be done in me”
So I pray for an awakening in all of our lives. Every single day. I pray you are cemented into the word of God. I pray that God is showing Himself to you in powerful ways so that in return you can go out in the world and help with the much needed awakening this country needs.
Love,
A.
