one of my favorites

I am posting this picture especially for one of my favorite people in the world world. My sweet nephew!!! I don't know if you have met him but he is a pretty cool kid. Since I have moved to Colorado our relationship has gotten a little tougher since he is little and still in Michigan. But everytime I come home we take our katie and hunter dates which usually consist of the same places...But not because I am not creative, but because he loves going to the same places with me. It has become tradition that everytime I come home we spend a day doing this.

Children are precious...especially the ones in your own family. I do not have kids of my own but man when I do I can't wait to love, spoil, and take them out on fun dates with their awesome mom!!! They just help you to realize that life is fun and does not have to be so serious and filled with stress. That and I am really a big kid at heart. There is nothing more I love then being silly with Hunter and laughing our heads off.

I have missed being around little kids since I have been out here because I have worked with teenagers and other "kids" but not little ones. So I decided to fix this and volunteer in the children's ministry this summer. I get to teach 3-5 year olds about Jesus. How great is that!!! And do it in an exciting way or else I am going to have a lot of 3 and 5 year olds running all over the place. So today find a little one you love and give them a big hug and a lot of attention because there are so many children in this world who do not get the love they need or deserve.


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Yesterday there was a tornado warning here and it happened just at about the time I was leaving work....I know good timing huh? So I am dashing out to my car getting pelted by hail and attempting to drive home. I was sitting in my car driving downtown and praying in the midst of this that God would keep me safe and get me home without being hurt. Then I thought to myself why is it that I am always so much quicker to run to my creator when I need something?? Whether that be protection, safety, for my will to happen.

But that is it....I want my will to happen. I pray for God to protect me, but the reason I am a human and GOD is GOD is because He thinks of all creation and I just think of myself. I am selfish and mostly just worried about myself. Which is normal because I am human, but lately I have been trying to praise the Lord out of my daily actions. Asking God not what He can do for me, but how I can serve Him. How I can align my thoughts and words to His will.

After the storm has passed rachel and I went for a walk and we found a path that looked above the city. As we turned around to sit down off in the distance there was lightning going off all over the place. It wasn't loud, just the light. It was amazing. I just sat there and thought what an awesome creator I serve. Someone who is mighty enough to send 100 miles an hour winds and yet a few hours later for the storm to be gone and all is calm.

So there rachel and I sat talking about how both of us feel blah in our current life situations with jobs we don't really love, and just life in general. But the reason why I feel this way is because I try and fill my hole in my heart with temporary fixes or sin. Why is sin so tempting? Because it is illusive. It gives you the look that it will fill you and fix your pain, but it does the opposite after you have committed whatever sin it is whether that be: gambling, sexual sin, porn, gossip, lying, stealing, cheating.

It just leaves you....

more empty.

So I am trying to align myself with God. To seek Him more. To read His word even when I don't want to. To be quiet and still more (which is sooo hard) and just be able to listen to His still calm voice.

The lightning was quiet and magnificent as my Lord is.