Change

Well, following off of Baylie's post, I picked one word. Change. Such a small word that has been
having a big impact on me.

It started about a month or so before Christmas when my cousin and his amazing fiancé decided to move their wedding date up from 2 years from now to about a week before Christmas, and before he went on active duty. That is a change I can handle. In fact, it's a great change! So we were getting ready for the fantabulous wedding when 2 weeks before Christmas, my life changed.

It started with my sister passing out on the kitchen floor (she is doing much better now thank God!), then my uncle announced he was going to marry his girlfriend, my dad got sick, and my cousin got married...all in one week. One at a time I might be able to handle, but all together brought me to ground zero. But that's the amazing thing about our God. He's got a plan for it all. My ground zero was His building block.
My cousin and his newlywed wife are living in Montana now (before he heads off for the military), my sister is still sick (but doing better), and my uncle is still engaged. All of these things are new for me...new is hard for me to get used to. But with change, comes God's grace and His strength to embrace the change. So my word for this year: Change.

I purpose to accept the change that God gives me whether difficult or easy, I choose to accept it...with God's strength. Who knows what lies ahead, but this I know. With Chirst, all things are possible. (Even changing things)

One Word

Not too long ago I was over at a friend's blog and she was sharing how that instead of making a resolution for the new year, she was simply choosing one word to focus on in 2011. Just one, simple word to ingraft into her life. I thought that it was a pretty cool idea, so I finally settled on a word as well! :-)

Choose. That's my word. This year, I want to focus on simply choosing. Choosing to seek God, to love Him more than anything, to serve, to forgive. Choosing to love the unlovely.....Choosing to open my eyes to see God's loving hand in the small things, the huge things, the hard things, the painful things. I tend to be a person who relies waaay to much on my feelings; I'm sure I must be the only person with this inconvenient problem). :-) God's been teaching me lately to use the faith He has given me to break through the lies that Satan enjoys constantly pushing at me.......to not focus on how I feel, but to focus on His truth, because He never changes (yay!).

So what is your one word? I encourage you all to prayerfully choose (pun totally intended) one to set before you for 2011!

Okay, so I was working out this afternoon, listening to my MP3 player, and this song came on. It really spoke to me in light of all that God's been teaching me. :-)

What Faith Can Do by Kutless

Everybody falls sometimes

Gotta find the strength to rise

From the ashes and make a new beginning.

Everyone can feel the ache

You think it's more than you can take

But you're stronger

Stronger than you know.....

Don't you give up now

The sun will soon be shining

You've gotta face the clouds

To find the silver lining

I've seen dreams that move the mountains

Hope that doesn't ever end

Even when the sky is falling

I've seen miracles just happen

Silent prayers get answered

Broken hearts become brand new

That's what faith can do!

It doesn't matter what you've heard

Impossible is not a word

It's just a reason for someone not to try

Everybody's scared to death

When they decide to take that step out on the water

But it'll be all right

Life is so much more than what your eyes are seeing

You will find your way

If you keep believing

Overcome the odds

You don't have a chance

When the world says you can't

It'll tell you that you CAN!

I've seen dreams that move the mountains
Hope that doesn't ever end
Even when the sky is falling
I've seen miracles just happen
Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That's what faith can do!

That's what faith can do!

I love you all tons and bunches!! Miss you!

Herman

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a fantastic holiday. This was one of the highlights of mine, strange as that may seem =) My siblings and I created this out of frozen snow chunks at my Grandma's, since that snow was horrible packing snow. I think it's special =) Anyone else have some neat memories from this Christmas?