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Today, there isn’t going to be much of a Bible lesson, instead, it is the lesson that I have been learning in life this past 6 months.   Pressing refresh on my e-mail yesterday I held my breath, no new messages.   Thinking the e-mail had been sent in the split second that it took to re-load that page, I hit refresh again.   Nothing…   All day I was checking my e-mail obsessively waiting for news that would change my life as I know it.   Either I would be going to Grad School, or I would be figuring out the new direction and purpose of my life.   Finally, when I convinced myself it was too late to get the e-mail, it came! In December 2003 when I graduated from college, I had a small desire to continue my education and to get my Masters Degree so I could change the world.   I also had a much larger desire to be done with school and get one with real life, and that course of action won out.   After working at a florist for a short time an...

Sometimes God just works things out in your life.   Currently, I am following God’s direction on a big decision in my life.   It has been a very slow process that started way back in September and is just now coming to fruition.   During this time I have questioned this calling.   I have been presented with multiple opportunities to go away from the direction that God was leading me.   During this time of waiting, it has been hard for me to stay focused, instead I have been pursuing other avenues, I have been questioning my calling and going down different paths.   God is so good to me, He is so patient and He has no problems SLAMING the door in my face either, which I needed a couple of times. Recently, I was presented with 2 opportunities to go a different direction than what God is leading me both through friends of friends.   Both opportunities I investigated but felt no peace about and both opportunities ended up not being what I thought t...

Have you ever given up food for a few days?   Have you ever lived on less than 1000 calories a day?   This is how a lot of the world lives.   They survive on the food they get, eat it slowly and treasure every bite.   It bugs me when I throw away good food, not that I could package it up and send it anywhere, but it still bugs me.   After giving up food unintentionally for a few days, I am realizing that less than 1000 calories a day is rough.   I can still function, but my brain isn’t quite working as well, my body gets tiered really fast and I am definitely more irritable than I should be.   Yesterday I talked about the water, everlasting water.   Today, looking at the same chapter, Jesus then talks to His disciples about how he has food even when nothing has been brought to Him to eat. John 4 31  Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32  But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing ab...