Why God Created Me

In high school I had a life group mentor who gave us this poem. It has touched my life in so many ways as a woman. I do not know if you remember giving this to a small group of girls back in the span of 2003-2005 but thank you!

“Why God Created Me”

I made her…she is different. She’s unique. With love I formed her in her mother’s womb. I fashioned her with great joy. I remember with great pleasure, the day I created her.

Psalm 139:13-16

I love her smile. I love her ways. I love to hear her laugh. And the silly things she says and does. She brings me great pleasure. This is how I made her.

Psalm 139:17

I made her pretty and not beautiful,

 because I know her heart, and knew she would be vain…I wanted her to search out her heart and to learn that it would be me in her that would draw friends to her.

1 Peter 3:3-5

I made her in such a way that she would need Me.

I made her a little more lonesome that she would like to be…

Only because I wanted her to turn to me in loneliness…

Only because I need for her to depend on me…

I know her heart, I know if I had not made her like this she would go her own way

And forget Me…her Creator.

Psalm 82:5-8

I have given her many good and happy things…

Because I love her.

Psalm 84:11, Romans 8:32

Because I love her, I have seen her broken heart…

And the tears she’s cried alone.

I have cried  with her and have had a broken heart, too.

Psalm 56:9

Many times she has stumbled and fallen alone

Only because she would not hold my hand.

So many lessons she’s learned the hard way

Because she would not listen to My voice.

Isaiah 53:6

So many times I have set back

And sadly watched her go her merry

Ways alone,

Only to watch her return to my arms sad and broken.

Isaiah 66:2

And now she’s Mine again…

I made her and then bought her…

Because I love her.

Romans 5:8

I have to reshape her and remold her

To renew her to what I had planned her to be.

It has not been easy for her or for Me.

Jeremiah 29:11

I want her to be conformed to My image…

This high goal I have set for her,

Because I love her.

2 Corinthians 2:14

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Reflection

I apologize for the absence of pictures over the last few months. I went on a sabbatical from writing and thus taking pictures. I have been told that family is to send them my way so hopefully they will be interspersed at random. The husband and I started our relationship with the one saying "its a God thing". Our spiritual journey has blossomed with God things over the course of the past year. 

Moments from 2011

• The husband received a text late one night about a job opportunity, he woke me up that night to pray over the opportunity....He is now teaching and coaching at an amazing school with godly men. He has grown in ways we never imagined. This position has allowed him to plug back into Fellowship of Christian Athletes (this is the very way we met) and further pursue his passion for ministering to kids.  GOD THING: He was not the most qualified for the job...
•  I graduated! It has been a long road but I finally graduated with a masters degree in occupational therapy. God has placed this vocation on my heart for such a long time and the fact that all I have left is a test is ...GOD THING
•  I have a job! I received a job offer from a big hospital in the area that will provide me with mentoring, learning, and opportunities for professional growth. GOD THING: I have never worked/interned in this setting before. I am clueless but excited!
• GOD THING: Our marriage. The husband is leading our family in ways I never imagined. When I stop to reflect on our relationship I am amazed at how God is growing and using us for His kingdom. Old dreams I once had are coming out of the woodwork in the husband's dreams and pursuits. God is using our marriage in a mighty way and I can only imagine what next year will bring. My passion now lies with being the wife of an amazing man. That role is not easy but it yields beautiful fruit. Our desire is to allow God to use us.(the end) We are the vessels in whatever way He desires to share His gift! 

Why start writing again?

 I was talking to a special family member who was expressing excitement of a God Thing moment that occurred in our life . This person was blessed by God working in our life.  The reason behind the blog was to minister to others through our faith story. It has been incredible and God has blessed us more than I ever dreamed. I know he will use us in big ways in the upcoming year. 

Where to go from here...

Lately I have been in the reflective mood. Maybe it is because of the new year or maybe it is because so many blessed changes have occurred. I think it might be time to start again. Here is to new changes with old roots!

Unbroken Blessings

Hi friends...I have decided to go back to the scrap-booking route once again. To include all the family in what we have been up to I will publish the pages on the blog.

Love ya~

Football in Full Swing

Well we live in Texas which means high school football is king. 

First a little background: I went to a big football school. The whole town shut down for the games. I arrived 2 hours early just to get a seat. My parents have varsity season tickets and no child of theirs has ever played. They schedule their visits around high school football games. It's kinda a big deal.

Well as seeing how important high school football is the husband is required, he is not complaining much, to coach it. It is a new experience being a football coaches wife.

First the Family pictures: 

Note to self: horizontal stripes are not flattering and that recent hair cut was well needed.

 

 

Next seeing him on the sidelines:

Oh and best part...HOMECOMING. Now if only I had a wife mum. 

 

He was Right!

The husband decided that Stevie, my blue Corolla, needed a bath from the inside out. My first thought was no way, too much money for something so cosmetic. After "discussion" he had convinced me how getting your vehicle cleaned is not just cosmetic but important in preserving the life.

So...I went...wow he was right. It was worth my panic in the above drive through car wash ( I hate driving through car washes. I talked to myself to calm down. It must be something with the enclosed space or lack of control.) to see the end results.

Stevie is beautified!