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Name: Gracie
Gender: Female
Interests: My Abba, My family: both biologically and my fam in Christ, music, chocolate, the chicago skyline during a sunset, waterfalls and covering my walls in pictures:)
Expertise: Laughing, crying, and smiling, traveling fulltime for JC.
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Member Since:
12/14/2004
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| How hard we humans try to please, others, family, ourselves and God. It's too much to do. Give it all up. We're not even meant to be our own top priority! How hard we m ust seek to please God is what we should strive for. Lord, give me the courage to continue to bring you honor and glory by my yes and my no. May my life be a sweet aroma to you. Give me renewed strength and power to not give in and break but to stand tall and strong for you! | | |
| I registered for classes this week for the fall and I'm really excited about furthering my education! The thought of everything ahead at one time felt so far off but now the future is now, tomorrow, next week. So many times we talk about life a year from now or when we're all done with school, but lately it's right at my front door. My job with my kids is the best and I am further astounded by them daily. On Sunday I ran an errand and came back during our teen worship and I just stopped outside the door, listening to all those kids, all those accents and languages singing praise songs and I started to cry. That was one of those moments where I just knew I was right where I was supposed to be. That's what fills me with joy and fuels me on every day when I'm tired or super busy. Today I ran into one of my boys from Burma who just came back from a mission trip tp Louisiana. He was just bursting to tell me about the trip and how his favorite part was witnessing even though he couldn't cause of his difficulty with English but his enthusiasm just bubbled over into everything. We then started talking about how great it was that our lives could be a witness universally. Anyway, I was just so excited about all this today that I had to write about it! So thanks for reading if you did! Hugs!!! | | |
| So vacation was great but didn't include much sleep! So I'm making up for that this weekend. I also got to read a couple books on the planes which was great. I have stuff to do but I'm very excited about continuing life this summer, enjoying myself and getting everything in order for the fall. I register for classes next week and I'm excited about that but at the same time I am ok with just going slow this summer and enjoying my kids. So many things are fitting in so perfectly and I'm really happy with life which I know sounds cheesy and shallow but really, I have so much joy everyday and can't wait to see what happens next. Ok, done prattling on... Hugs! | | |
| So this life we lead is an insane one.
My not so little baby brother is in a Beauty & the Beast musical this week which means driving over twenty miles for dress rehearsal from 6-midnight for four days and then performances from about the same time for four days. Also, We leave in a week for Pennsylvania for a big family arty for my mom's 50th which I've been planning from Dallas :) Other than that, just finished school this semester myself and with the kids as well as working at the church which is amazing to me daily! Be inprayer this week though. A local young man, 16 years old committed suicide and he was a personal close friend of one of my young men in youth group. Praty for peace and wisdom as I help him, the school and the family this week. We'll see. Sometimes it amazes me that the Lord has chosen me for this job and that He sees fit to equip me and mold me for this chosen path! Well, gotta go, busy but I'll try to update again!
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| So I did get sick again, sad. But now I am better and am hoping that I've seen the last of those pesky germs... I've had something on my mind a lot lately. How do I measure my Godliness? Is it based on the standard of unbelievers, atheists, other believers, the N.T.? What? Sometimes I feel bad that people in the Bible struggled with not living a Godly enough lifestyle and yet today, I have so many more distractions, pulls on my heart and mind and I think I'm ok. Thankfully the N.T. law has now put us under grace, but do I take advantage of that? Why have I looked at some in the past as fanatics when they probably had it more together than I did? I don't have any answers, just trying to see if there are more things that should be excluded from my life with Christ... Still waiting for the answers:) | | |
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