Things that make me say, "Hmmm..."

1. Boys- they confuse me, sometimes irritate me, make me re-think a lot, and sometimes sad to say- make my heart hurt. Please, by no means am I saying right now that I was "n love" or even really seriously liking a boy, but I am terrible at even beginning to understand them, their motives, and did I say them in general???

Goodness! Lord, would you please just take my eyes and set them upon you and when the time is right put that person in front of me and let me not fall into this pit of destruction that I would be lying in if it wasn't for you!

2. The thought of even thinking about an intimate relationship...ha ha

3. How wonderfully, loving and gracious my God is!

4. Silly people at concerts that clap at the wrong time or clap so loudly you want to turn around and smack them in the face :)

5. Pretty much every time I am reading my Bible...(this is a good thing, I think)

6. What God is going to teach me in the next week, shoot even tomorrow

7. Why God takes such great people that mean so much in your life, out of your life and move you forward

8. school

9. witness strangers do something I think is very, let's say "different", not knowing their motives behind it

10. last but not least....why I am writing this post..hahahahaha


Lord, let me rest in you....

by nature...

In a recent book I am reading by Max Lucado, "He Did This Just For You", Max makes a crushing point on the nature of our beings...
"According to the Bible, we are "by nature children of wrath" (Eph. 2:3). Is is not that we can't do good. We do. It's just that we cant keep from doing bad"..."There is none righteous, not even one...All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:10,23).

As I think about this truth and then my life I cannot help but be forever grateful for the grace and mercy of Jesus. For His perfect life as an example for us that we so often, really let's be honest, all the time fail at. Sure, we can be good people and do good things, but we can't keep from doing wrong at the same time, more of the time.

Last night, I was talking to a friend of mine and sharing different things going on in my life that I have been learning or that I am unsure of. It became so much of the unaware that I am learning this, stage that I became overwhelmed with what was on my 'plate". Being a good friend, she spoke truth into my life and encouraged me to work through it with much prayer and study. I got home and finished reading Ecclesiastes where I had been learning that everything happens at a certain time, at the right time, and at the time that God has ordained it to happen. I was wondering where to read next, and for some unknown reason I started in Lamentations. The book of Lamentations is composed of 5 poems, which are each an expression of grief and sorrow over the fall of Jerusalem. Not really understanding why I was reading this, I dove in and was trying to understand where the writer was coming from...putting myself in his position, you can say. So from studying this sorrow and different aspects of grief, I was feeling even more "down" then previously until I came upon this verse... "Arise, cry out into the night, at the beginning of the night watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord!" Lamentations 2:19

Man, what a clear word from the Lord...Erin, would you just tell me what is on your mind...what your thoughts and worries are...difficulties, fears, unknowns...


I know I don't really have much to say in this post and it is not very specific, but I think I just want this to be an encouragement to you (whoever you are), to pour out your everything to the Lord...the best part, Psalm 121:3-4 "He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep."

Just some fun...

A Time and a Place

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15
"1TO EVERYTHING there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven:
2A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted,(A) 3A time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up, 4A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, 6A time to get and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to cast away, 7A time to rend and a time to sew, a time to keep silence and a time to speak,(B) 8A time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.(C) 9 What profit remains for the worker from his toil? 10I have seen the painful labor and exertion and miserable business which God has given to the sons of men with which to exercise and busy themselves. 11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men's hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 12I know that there is nothing better for them than to be glad and to get and do good as long as they live; 13And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor--it is the gift of God. 14I know that whatever God does, it endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it. And God does it so that men will [reverently] fear Him [revere and worship Him, knowing that He is].(D)15That which is now already has been, and that which is to be already has been; and God seeks that which has passed by [so that history repeats itself ]. (AMP)

After this week with many different things going on; being on vacation with some dear friends, reflecting on my past couple of months with surgery and all, recovering, and recently the verdict of the Casey Anthony trial, I have been rocked by this piece of scripture. Can you even count how many time we, by a multitude of people are told "There is a time and a place for everything"? In this piece of scripture it is said loud and clear in verse 1 "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven"...and goes on to list about 20 different occasions and events that we experience in our lives. It is said that Kind Solomon wrote this poetic piece of scripture from events that were going on during his reign, also known as the "Preacher" he was looking back at the meaning of his life....which I find myself doing at this time.

To move forward with my point about the Casey Anthony trial...I am not going to sit a sulk from the verdict of the case. Do I believe that justice was served, that is a whole other post, but I do trust and know that my God knows exactly what happen and will judge her at the time in her life that will come, whether we like it or not. I am looking at verse 14, "I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him" (ESV) This not only gives me "peace" about this recent event in our lives, but with everything I can even begin to reminisce about.

As I sit and ponder about the meaning of justice, I began to ask myself many questions...according to disctionary.com justice means, the quality of being fair and reasonable...think about that..."For everything there is a season, and a time for EVERY matter under heaven..."