just because

I have days where my heart aches...my heart aches to go to Heaven. I don't know what heaven is going to be like, but I like to imagine. I like to picture it in my mind. I like to think about how it might be. I imagine things like sitting down with my aunts and just talking... :) I imagine getting teased by my uncle and laughing and joking with him. I imagine seeing mom's reunited with their children. I imagine Dad's seeing their daughters that they lost at a young age. I imagine husbands being reunited with their wives. I imagine one of the biggest and best reunions you could ever imagine. I imagine Grandparents seeing grandkids that they havn't ever met. Have you ever watches any videos on YouTube of soldiers coming home to their families? I imagine that some of the reuniting that will be going on will be somewhat like that only 100 times better yet! And then there is the scenery....I can't even put into words how beautiful I think it will be. If we have things...

This past weekend me and two other of my friends did a girl’s weekend using dvd’s done by Leslie Ludy for her set-apart weekend. We would watch the sessions and then discuss them after.  What I have been thinking a lot about over this past week from the weekend is how God has asked us to completely give up every aspect of our life and let him take complete control. He asked us to forsake everything and trust Him. Is this really possible? Am I at this point yet? Nope, but I hope to get there. But see its not something that you just do once. Leslie uses the illustration of letting God have to the pen to write your life story. She talks of how you might hand it over to Him but the very next day you find you have grabbed it back and again need to dedicate back to Him. Its continual. These are a few of the quotes I heard over the weekend that really stuck out to me: “What does it mean to be a Christian? Your life is hid with Christ; you are not your own. You have no time ...