I know its been a while for me to add some insightful words today. Things have been really busy lately. School has started. This means that I am spending fifteen hours a week in class at ISU. This means that my free time is severely diminished.

A quote that I came across the other day that I has been on my mind.

"God is too good to be unkind
God is too wise to be confused
Whenever you can't trace his hand
You can always trust his heart"

This goes to the very core of who God is and how we have to let him work in our lives. There are times when we have to trust him. It is hard when things don't look promising in our eyes. But sometimes we just have to remember that God is always at work preparing us for the next step.

Is it really hard to believe...

that God answers our prayers?

Last night, I crawled into bed about 12:30 AM or so after watching the men's gymnastics from Beijing and doing some late night laundry. I was trying to get comfortable, but not having any success. For about the last week, I have been soar from an attempted dive for a volleyball during our concert in the park. I don't know what happened, but it has been bugging me ever since. So thinking about how annoying this little injury. While laying there, I thought why don't I pray for a healing. He created the universe and he has raised the dead, surely this isn't too big for Him. So I prayed in confidence that he was going to heal it. But upon finishing my prayer, I found myself surprised that it didn't hurt.

Mark 11:24 says "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." It shouldn't come as a surprise that prayer gets answered. But how often do we pray and really have the faith to believe that it will be answered? God wants to answer us when we pray. It is who he is; we just have to trust that he will come through.

The Wheels on the Van

This week I had the opportunity to go to Magic Waters in Rockford with the youth. It was the first time I had been there in about ten years. It was a blast. It is a weird sensation, though, when an intertube squeezes your bottom when going down a slide.

In the van on the way home, something was said that really made think. As we passed a FedEx truck she asked if we see the arrow? Do you see it?





See it. It is in between the bottom space of the E and the left side of the X. I don't know if it is intentional or not, but it's there. I had never seen it before, but now every time I see a FedEx truck the arrow is all I see. It is all about perspective. Our perspective is what forms our attitudes and opinions of the way things are. Our perspectives are so easily changed.

It makes me so glad that God's perspective of us never changes. The fact the he always looks at us, his children, with love and mercy regardless of all of the sinful, selfish, and sometimes even stupid things we do. He always carries and leads us through whatever trouble we get ourselves into.

What's a blog?

This is the first blog I have ever written. I really don't know what someone is supposed to write about in a blog. Someone told me that the ideal blog has a great deal of humor with an inspirational twist. My inspirational twist is gone for today, so I hope humor will do.

Things that you go Grrrrr:

1. Slow drivers- I know I need patience, but I am not a doctor.
2. The Brett Farve situation- enough already
3. The Yankees and the Red Sox- they seem to play everyday and its annoying
4. Spam email- will it ever stop
5. Bloggers- Doesn't that make me grrr at myself?