Louder Than the Voices

I have a confession to make. I am addicted to my bullet journal. If you don't know what a bullet journal is, go see it at www.bulletjournal.com . There are tons of layouts for bullet journals on Pinterest but honestly, mine isn't pretty, I don't have that kind of time, mine is a little bit of heaven as far as organization and goal- setting, but pretty, it is not. I have been also slightly obsessed with goal-setting lately as well. Yesterday I spent an entire day in a training centered around goal-setting. This was a training meant to teach us how to help our clients set goals in their lives but I think we all realized we have to be able to set good goals for ourselves before we can effectively help others. It definitely fed the fire. And once again, God was preparing me before I ever left home. I just finished Leviticus yesterday, a book that basically is God saying do this, don't do that. I spent most of my time reading thinking, man I am glad we no longer live u...

Within hours of finishing my blog Monday, I received a text from one of my friends. I had just blogged about how important friends in your life are, but it is just as important, or maybe even more important that you are a friend. I was thinking of the academy awards  and how you always see the Oscars for best actor and best actress, but you also see the ones for best supporting actors. The ones who are playing second fiddle to the main star but making the story amazing. One of my favorites was Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln. I loved his character and though the movie was not about Thaddeus Stevens, his portrayal made me want to learn more about the character. There are times when our main goal is to be that supporting role in real life. I feel like most of this week, that has been my main reason for existing, to be support to friends and then to family members who were going through some pretty scary times. There are times you know exactly what to...

Since my Saturday post is two days late, it probably doesn't have the same flavor as normal. This is the first time I just plain out let my life get in the way of my blog post and I now know one of these days, I am going to write a post and just not post it so I have an extra. Kinda like having that zip lock bag stuffed in the freezer that is a last minute Crockpot meal if things happen to not go as planned one day. It is on my list. I have had so much fun this last weekend, and it has all been due to having fantastic friends. A couple of weeks ago, our preacher was on vacation and we had a friend of ours filling in. On that Sunday night, we looked at the teachings of Paul and studied Timothy. He told us that we should all concentrate on finding a Paul in our lives, someone to look up to, and then we should have a Timothy in our lives, someone that we know is looking up to us, and then we need at least one Barnabas. (He presented this lesson to his college youth group first, and ...

I love the way God speaks to me sometimes. I have to admit there are times, I wish I weren't hearing what He was saying, just needed to throw that out there because I am sure we are all there at times too. This week though, He has made some loud and clear points. I finished reading Job this week and started on Exodus. We saw how Job, through no fault of his own, was tested and tried and praised God through all of it, even when his friends tried to bring him down and was sure Job had done something wrong. When we move into Exodus, we meet Moses, who got upset with the way an Egyptian was treating a Hebrew and killed the Egyptian. He thought he did that and nobody knew, but he found out the next day, they did and someone called him on it. Moses took off. God found him. God didn't jump onto him for running, or for the murder; God told Moses He had a job for him. When Moses questioned him, God said, "I AM WHO I AM". We have had some discussions in our house this ...