whatcha want?

at church last week we talked about something so simple that seemed kind of like a "duh" moment.

i can't stop thinking about it, and realizing how complex I was making it all. 

"if you want God to bless something, you must give it to him."

well, okay there Sherlock, great realization. 

but really. 


you want to be blessed in your relationship with your husband? give that relationship to him.

your job? give that too. 

while the concept of Heaven is mighty fabulous, sometimes I must admit it frustrates me. Yes, it will be easy to pray and not worry and have un-nerving faith when we don't have bills to pay, jobs to go to that we may not LOVE, or just plain sucky things that happen in our lives. 

we can't keep seperating our "godly things" from our "worldly things"

my "I HAVE TO DEAL WITH" list?

~my finances
~my graduate school application
~my issues with eating
~when will we have babies? ("it can't be after I'm 32, but not before I finish grad school blah blah."etc. etc. 
blah, blah, blah

i can't continue to pray "Dear God, PLLLEEASSEEEEEEEEE let me be accepted into the WWU masters of school counseling program. PLLEEEASSEEEEE," but then continue to stay awake all night tossing and turning about how I haven't studied enough vocab words to get a good score on the GRE.

took this on my run today (after a guy told me that Seattle should have drafted Tim Tebow instead of our quarterback. I was wearing a seahawks shirt after a sad loss :( )

just a great reminder that God's grace and blessings can be around us ALL the time, we don't have to wait until Heaven. :) We just have to give Him the chance.  

“God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.” 

                                            ― C.S. Lewis