going through this process of moving is a very difficult thing. i have never gone through anything like this before. the only thing i can liken it to is moving from sharing a room with Caroline to sharing a room with Katherine and having to move all of my stuff into that room. but other than that little process i have not been through anything like this.
Moving, packing, saying good-bye are some of the hardest things i have ever had to do. if i was just moving to Marysville or something like that i won't mind as much but moving to Ohio!!! now that is completely different.
I have always just wanted to live here. i even said to my parents when i was younger that when they die they better will this house to me. I thought i would be in this house until i went to college and then come back to it after i was finished at college. But that's not how God wants it and i'll just have to be content with it.
as we are getting everything ready to move and ready to put the house on the market i have been thinking to myself that everyone should go though a process like this. Where they have to put complete trust in the Lord. I mean we should be doing that every day of our lives but for some reason we don't seem to do it until have are in that trial and need help. its sad that we do that. and i am ashamed to say that that is what i did. this moving to Ohio has made me run to Christ more and more. I don't think in my three and half years of being a Christian that i have ever been more close to Christ than now. everyone should be clinging to Christ now rather then when something like, moving across the country comes up so then you are already prepared spiritually and kind of physically for something big in your life to happen.
sorry for rambling. i just have alot lot of thoughts running around in my head that i wanted to write down and then perhaps get some feedback on so then i know if how i'm thinking is crazy or not.
Thank you for reading.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
praising God and being thankful
i LOVE this kind of weather!!! it's clearish sky, alittle windy and nippy but a delight to be outside! you might think that i'm weird but if you do then that probably means that you are not praising God for His creation.
i struggle with not praising the Lord for His amazing lightning, thunder and at times rain. the lightning and the thunder scare me and the rain just is boring and ruins plans. but those are such stupid excuses! we should be praising the Lord for everything He has put on this earth!
i also struggle with not praising the Lord for the bugs, reptiles, and other creepy crawly things that He has made. but, some of them are good for eating some of the other scarier things that crawl on this earth. that i should be thankful for.
I should also be thankful that i live where i live. right now i only have to deal with quarter(maybe alittle bigger) size spiders, ants, beetles, earwigs, moths, mosquitoes and more. but, all of those i can SQUISH!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!
i really don't have it all that bad. i should be praising God and thanking Him for the place where He has put me.
i struggle with not praising the Lord for His amazing lightning, thunder and at times rain. the lightning and the thunder scare me and the rain just is boring and ruins plans. but those are such stupid excuses! we should be praising the Lord for everything He has put on this earth!
i also struggle with not praising the Lord for the bugs, reptiles, and other creepy crawly things that He has made. but, some of them are good for eating some of the other scarier things that crawl on this earth. that i should be thankful for.
I should also be thankful that i live where i live. right now i only have to deal with quarter(maybe alittle bigger) size spiders, ants, beetles, earwigs, moths, mosquitoes and more. but, all of those i can SQUISH!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!
i really don't have it all that bad. i should be praising God and thanking Him for the place where He has put me.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Reading God's Word
how many times do we look out a window and say, "oh, it looks like a good day for a run, or, its so nice outside i should really do something out there." and when we actually don't follow through with it we scold ourselves for it?
well, how many times a day do you look at your Bible and say, "i really need to read that." but then just walk away and don't scold yourself for it? how our minds our set about reading our Bible every day is insane! we don't want to do it!! we are so mad that we didn't get ourselves outside but we don't care that we didn't read His word that day! i'm not saying that i haven't done that cause i have. that is the one main reason why i'm writing this. i have committed that sin, about not caring if i didn't read my Bible that day. i want you guys to see that it is a sin and to watch for it. don't be like me where i went for three months making up excuse after excuse about why i couldn't read my Bible that day. DON'T DO THAT!!!!
PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE!!!! you need to open your eyes to make you see that your time with the Lord is the most precious time you can ever get!! the only way you can share the gospel, the only way you can ward off sin is by knowing God's word!!
well, how many times a day do you look at your Bible and say, "i really need to read that." but then just walk away and don't scold yourself for it? how our minds our set about reading our Bible every day is insane! we don't want to do it!! we are so mad that we didn't get ourselves outside but we don't care that we didn't read His word that day! i'm not saying that i haven't done that cause i have. that is the one main reason why i'm writing this. i have committed that sin, about not caring if i didn't read my Bible that day. i want you guys to see that it is a sin and to watch for it. don't be like me where i went for three months making up excuse after excuse about why i couldn't read my Bible that day. DON'T DO THAT!!!!
PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE!!!! you need to open your eyes to make you see that your time with the Lord is the most precious time you can ever get!! the only way you can share the gospel, the only way you can ward off sin is by knowing God's word!!
Jacquie Porter
It is almost a year ago that i wrote my first blog post. So that means its coming up to the anniversary of Bob Porter's death. But the difference with last year and this year is that He is no longer without his wife. Jacquie Porter, Bob's wife died of cancer Sunday, January 17, 2010.
She was like a grandmother to me. She helped my walk with the Lord so much. She live out how a true Christian was supposed to act. Her funeral in this Saturday and it will be very hard....for everyone.
Though her kids four kids are Christians, grown and three are married, they still miss their parents very much. Please pray for their kids. Their names are: Heidi, Rob, Holly, and Ricky. Also pray for Bob's mom. She is still living and was great friends with her daughter-in-law; they took care of each other. Thank you for praying.
She was like a grandmother to me. She helped my walk with the Lord so much. She live out how a true Christian was supposed to act. Her funeral in this Saturday and it will be very hard....for everyone.
Though her kids four kids are Christians, grown and three are married, they still miss their parents very much. Please pray for their kids. Their names are: Heidi, Rob, Holly, and Ricky. Also pray for Bob's mom. She is still living and was great friends with her daughter-in-law; they took care of each other. Thank you for praying.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Just for fun
I just wanted to share this with all you guys. It is a paper that i wrote today. EnJoY!!
It is true when people say that a dog is man’s best friend. They have protected us, helped us, and watched over and kept in line our farm animals. Dogs are a big part of a human’s life.
The first category that I’m going to talk about is the hunting dogs.
There are many different kinds of hunting dogs each for different purposes in the world. But I only have two dogs that I am going to talk about.
Labrador retriever is one of the world’s top 5 best dogs you could ever own. Along with their amazing temperament they are great hunting dogs. Usually they only go and retrieve (hence the name) the animal that their owner has already killed, but they do fish. It is actually quite funny to watch. The dog just stares into the water and suddenly dives his head into the water and when you least expect it he pops his head back out with a fish in his mouth. If you ever have a chance to see a dog go fishing I suggest you go and enjoy it.
A Scottish deer hound, I think you can guess what they hunt. If you can’t then I will tell you now, they hunt deer. My mom owns a dog boarding business and has actually taken care of two Scottish deer hounds. They are so tall! Picture this, my mom is five foot eight inches and the Scottish deer hound goes to her waist. These dogs are amazing dogs.
Herding dogs is the next category.
A Collie is better known as Lassie. That is the kind of dog Lassie was. They are amazing herders. You almost don’t have to teach them how to herd because they seem to already know what they are meant to do. That’s how it seems to be with Border collies and Australian shepherds too. It seems that God has put something in them that tells them what they are supposed to do. It is so amazing that He would do that!
The third and final category is the dogs that are here to protect us.
A Pitbull is a protective dog. But it’s not entirely true how people portray them to be. Pitbulls are very sweet dogs. Even though everyone says and thinks that they are some vicious animal, they are not. The only time that you can say that they are vicious is when the pitbull thinks that his owner is in some sort of danger and needs help.
German Shepherds, Dobermans, Bullmastiffs, Malamutes (sled dogs), and Boxers are just some of the dogs that are said to be mean and vicious but really aren’t. I’m not saying that there aren’t any vicious dogs there are always going at least one dog from a breed that will be a mean dog.
I hope that all of the things that I have stated in my paper make you think of dogs in a better way. Every person should have a dog. After all a man’s best friend is a dog.
It is true when people say that a dog is man’s best friend. They have protected us, helped us, and watched over and kept in line our farm animals. Dogs are a big part of a human’s life.
The first category that I’m going to talk about is the hunting dogs.
There are many different kinds of hunting dogs each for different purposes in the world. But I only have two dogs that I am going to talk about.
Labrador retriever is one of the world’s top 5 best dogs you could ever own. Along with their amazing temperament they are great hunting dogs. Usually they only go and retrieve (hence the name) the animal that their owner has already killed, but they do fish. It is actually quite funny to watch. The dog just stares into the water and suddenly dives his head into the water and when you least expect it he pops his head back out with a fish in his mouth. If you ever have a chance to see a dog go fishing I suggest you go and enjoy it.
A Scottish deer hound, I think you can guess what they hunt. If you can’t then I will tell you now, they hunt deer. My mom owns a dog boarding business and has actually taken care of two Scottish deer hounds. They are so tall! Picture this, my mom is five foot eight inches and the Scottish deer hound goes to her waist. These dogs are amazing dogs.
Herding dogs is the next category.
A Collie is better known as Lassie. That is the kind of dog Lassie was. They are amazing herders. You almost don’t have to teach them how to herd because they seem to already know what they are meant to do. That’s how it seems to be with Border collies and Australian shepherds too. It seems that God has put something in them that tells them what they are supposed to do. It is so amazing that He would do that!
The third and final category is the dogs that are here to protect us.
A Pitbull is a protective dog. But it’s not entirely true how people portray them to be. Pitbulls are very sweet dogs. Even though everyone says and thinks that they are some vicious animal, they are not. The only time that you can say that they are vicious is when the pitbull thinks that his owner is in some sort of danger and needs help.
German Shepherds, Dobermans, Bullmastiffs, Malamutes (sled dogs), and Boxers are just some of the dogs that are said to be mean and vicious but really aren’t. I’m not saying that there aren’t any vicious dogs there are always going at least one dog from a breed that will be a mean dog.
I hope that all of the things that I have stated in my paper make you think of dogs in a better way. Every person should have a dog. After all a man’s best friend is a dog.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
late update
i kind of forgot to tell y'all this but i got my license!! it is very exciting!! yep, so there is that.
and then.....
the man that got killed in Afghanistan on september 24, was the husband of a friend that went to my old church. Joseph is the husband's name and Jessica is his wife's name. they were married in may of this year. she is doing really bad. so i would ask you all to pray for her and their families. i would greatly appreciate it and i know that they would also.
and then.....
the man that got killed in Afghanistan on september 24, was the husband of a friend that went to my old church. Joseph is the husband's name and Jessica is his wife's name. they were married in may of this year. she is doing really bad. so i would ask you all to pray for her and their families. i would greatly appreciate it and i know that they would also.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
confronting people
so i might not make sense on this post. i'm not really sure how to explain what i want to say. so if you know what i'm trying to say but don't think others will please write a comment. or even if i am completely wrong with how i am writing this write a comment. i would greatly appreciate it.
why don't friends confront their friends when they are sinning? why do you just let them keep scooting backwards from God? why don't you just ask the Lord for strength and confront them in a godly, i want to help you follow Christ way? is it because you don't want to lose them as a friend or is it because you just can't do it? those aren't very good reasons. do you know how important it is to tell someone that they are sinning? if no one ever did that we would have really no Christians.
i have recently confronted one of my friends and if i hadn't who knows what would have happened if she kept on sinning (just so you know she repented and is right with God now). who cares if you lose their friendship? well, you would. that is what kept me from going to my friend. i had told myself for the longest time that i needed to talk to her but i then told myself that she would not be my friend after i talked with her. that was on my mind alot. i was thinking like a week later and this is what i thought, "trying to win her back to Christ and telling her that she is sinning is way more important then our friendship." it might seem like i don't care about my friend but i do. i love her to death!! i had wrote everything down that i wanted to say to her and was going to call her, actually i was going to call her today, but Christ had His own plan and brought it before today. but i was prepared to talk to her. and like i said she saw that she was sinning and repented! that made my day! to see her come back to Christ was just wonderful!
but if you are planning on going to someone and tell them that they are sinning you need to first make sure that you are not going to be a hypocrite and tell them something that you yourself are doing. you need to get the log out of your own eye before you go after the speck in your friend's. (Matthew 7:5). BUT if you are the one who is being confronted and the person who is confronting you didn't get the log out of his own eye first don't go and attack him (so to speak). say to him, "thank you for telling me. i appreciate you coming to me." and if it's true, then you should go and take care of your sin and repent. then after you have done that you can go to that person, IF they have not themselves repented of that sin, and tell them that you have seen a pattern of sin recently that you think they need to take care of. it is so important to go to or friend or your sibling and tell them that they are sinning. if you don't that sin might cause them to keep scooting farther and farther from God.
why don't friends confront their friends when they are sinning? why do you just let them keep scooting backwards from God? why don't you just ask the Lord for strength and confront them in a godly, i want to help you follow Christ way? is it because you don't want to lose them as a friend or is it because you just can't do it? those aren't very good reasons. do you know how important it is to tell someone that they are sinning? if no one ever did that we would have really no Christians.
i have recently confronted one of my friends and if i hadn't who knows what would have happened if she kept on sinning (just so you know she repented and is right with God now). who cares if you lose their friendship? well, you would. that is what kept me from going to my friend. i had told myself for the longest time that i needed to talk to her but i then told myself that she would not be my friend after i talked with her. that was on my mind alot. i was thinking like a week later and this is what i thought, "trying to win her back to Christ and telling her that she is sinning is way more important then our friendship." it might seem like i don't care about my friend but i do. i love her to death!! i had wrote everything down that i wanted to say to her and was going to call her, actually i was going to call her today, but Christ had His own plan and brought it before today. but i was prepared to talk to her. and like i said she saw that she was sinning and repented! that made my day! to see her come back to Christ was just wonderful!
but if you are planning on going to someone and tell them that they are sinning you need to first make sure that you are not going to be a hypocrite and tell them something that you yourself are doing. you need to get the log out of your own eye before you go after the speck in your friend's. (Matthew 7:5). BUT if you are the one who is being confronted and the person who is confronting you didn't get the log out of his own eye first don't go and attack him (so to speak). say to him, "thank you for telling me. i appreciate you coming to me." and if it's true, then you should go and take care of your sin and repent. then after you have done that you can go to that person, IF they have not themselves repented of that sin, and tell them that you have seen a pattern of sin recently that you think they need to take care of. it is so important to go to or friend or your sibling and tell them that they are sinning. if you don't that sin might cause them to keep scooting farther and farther from God.
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