stir our affections for you, Jesus

I don’t truly don’t know if anyone reads this but nonetheless, oh how I love writing!

Today I visited another church here this cold dreary morning. I enjoyed it! I’m catching the last part of the series the church is doing based on the “Love Dare” from the movie “Fireproof”. Too bad, and too bad Tony isn’t here to listen with me, it would have been good for our upcoming marriage! But oh how good our Lord is! Here it is, almost April!! Not counting this upcoming week, I have 3 full weeks of school left before finals! I prayed this semester would go by fast, and it surely is flying by.

God has been so good to me, this weekend I’ve enjoyed his earthly creations with amazing weather, a couple of storms, and listening to Shane and Shane and Phil Wickham who have the blessed ability to be able to write about it with such beautiful words! I’m listening to a live worship version for “It Is Well” (which happens to be my favorite hymn) that Shane and Shane are leading, and in his opening his prayer he prays that the “stir our affections for you, Jesus”.

Stir our affections for you, Jesus

I love that! Because so many times we become sucked into a day-to-day rut, and once a week find our affection and our praise for God, and really it should be an every minute, daily, plea! I’m writing this and smile because I feel the guilt coming on of not accomplishing this either, but we are human, but we are human that serves a good and gracious and forgiving Father. The creator of the EARTH, the Lord of the NATIONS, who sits on his throne in Heaven and has made us a room in that most perfect place, wants a relationship with ME, with YOU, with US, His children.

So I continue to encourage you, everyday, stir your affection for our most amazing God, and let Him love you with that most perfect love.

halfway point!

oh my goodness! it’s already the middle of the semester and I have only 6 weeks left of actual school left before finals and the end of the semester! I started this year wondering if it would go as fast as 2008 went and I am starting to believe that it will be. It’s already March and just less than 10 months til my wedding! I can not wait to be a wife! To be able to share my life and exciting things with Tony, including graduating from college and internships and starting a new job and to come home and share that with him and for him to do the same.

For my spring break I pretty much slept as much as I could, and we’re talking about sleeping in til 10 or 11 and still taking naps. I didn’t get any homework done pretty much, but that’s what the weekend is for. But really, I am grateful for the sleep, it’s always a good week when all you can do is just catch up on sleep!

This past weekend was a wierd feeling, and a good weird feeling. Sheeva and Brenton came and visited us in Nashville. Sheeva stayed with me and Brenton stayed with Sam and Sam ending up being a pretty good tour guide and showing us all around downtown Nashville and the great eatery’s. And it was wierd because of the fact that I even had visitors! I live here now, and it was wierd that I wasn’t driving back with them to go back to Texas but that I drove back to my apartment here in TN. Oooh the chapters of life..