Wow, it's been like 2 months since I've last written! One word: school. I have managed to slip away from my studies and write a bit. I've also been painting when I get a chance, so that has taken up what little free time I have. I'm going to try to post the pictures of what I've painted these past few months. But that's not the point of me writing. I want to explore a topic on here that I feel that God pointed out to me yesterday as I was sharing my life story with Heidi.
As we were talking about our pasts and how God is working in our lives, I looked at her and said, "You know Heidi, I realized not too long ago that there has to come a point in our lives where we check in the luggage we have been carrying around from our past and trade it in for a stamp on our passports." There are some things that we all have been through in our past that really do hurt a lot. And we carry that with us as we go through life, but God wants to take it from us---remove our burdens and use us! All too often though, we think that because we have dealt with our past problems that they will just disappear, but that is not usually the case. They will still exist and the thought of them will most likely still hurt, but the burden of them will be removed and when we are going through the rougher seasons in life and they resurface, we have a God we can turn to who will help us through.
This above is not necessarily something I'm dealing with right now, but rather an experience I've dealt with and a lesson I've learned. I'm no expert in dealing with the past, but it has certainly been a struggle of mine that I believe God has helped me persevere through.
On another note, here's some little lessons I've learned in these past 2 weeks which have been extremely difficult to go through:
~Friends really are the family we pick ourselves
~God is ultimately in control---in ALL areas of our lives
~rest is a good thing
~sometimes you have to get a bad grade to remind you to work harder in a class
~knowing God at a young age gives us SO much time to do things for God
~it's important to tell people you love them-even if it's not in words
~Doctors are skilled, but the Ultimate Physician is even more skilled
~prayer is powerful-rather God is powerful through prayer
~Sometimes, there's just not enough time in the day to show all the love I have in my heart for people.
