As if learning about Grace on my own last week and two weekends ago from church, I had to hear it again at my small group this past Sunday night but it was good to hear. I still don't get it and never will but it brought a picture to mind that I have to deal with in my job and it was neat to see. I need to make a poem out of the title sometime but this will just explain the, I guess, background if the poem does ever come out. Then a little girl hit me yesterday with a simple thought of grace and thankfulness that I will tell at the end of this entery.
Where I work I have children come in every 3 months and of course it is hard for them. It is a transition and a big one at that. Then they leave after 3 months to a foster home or back to their parents depending on the situations. I couldn't help think about how that is us with God and His Grace. We come into God with being really quite and seeing what it is like and what we can get away with just like little children do at a new place. We really don't understand why or how everything works so we just watch for a little bit. With the children, we they have things firugred out in their new place they open up. They are their normal selves. We can never go by the first week sometimes even the first month because they are so scared and haven't opened up yet. Eventually, they do and they have the energy to do whatever but then they calm down because they know what will work and not work with the staff,
They also get into a routine where for some of the children it is a first time they have ever had a routine in their life. They seems to calm them down because they know what to expect and they don't have to be on edge or be the bigger person. They can just be children. They calm down for about a month and a half and then they start to get crazy again because they know their time is almost up. They get crazy because they don't want to leave and/or they are scared again because they have no idea what is ahead of them. I don't like to see that because then it makes the staff wonder sometimes will they make in in the foster home or make with their parents. Did we make an impression on them somewhat and somehow?
I share this in relation to grace because that's how we are with Grace. We get into a routine where we feel comfortable but then God calls us out and we a scared. I feel like when humans use or relie on Grace or see it that most is when things are changing in our lives and we turn to God for help. We get comfortable in our ways but God is like "nope, you are not going to stay there. I still have a lot more to teach you so let's change some things around." You might have to give Grace to people because they hurt you without knowing or you have been given Grace without knowing it too. Things might be hard to where you have to give Grace because you just need to move on and forget about it.
I feel like children, espically the kind I work with, learns what Grace really is moving place to place but they don't know that word yet. In different areas and season of our adult lives, don't you think God shows and gives us Grace everyday. I know right now in my life He is every single day because I've messed up in so many ways with so many people I feel like but with God all that is forgotten and I'm sure people don't even think about it a lot like I do.
I had a little girl say to me yesterday at work, "God gave me these shoes" while I was bending down to tie them. She said that out of nowhere. Thinking about Grace and how that goes together. This little girl is thankful for a small gift of shoes. Shouldn't we be thankful and notice the gift of Grace and stop trying to work for it as humans. I know easier said then done. HE GAVE US HIS GRACE just like He gave those shoes to the little girl. She didn't have to work for them. He cared enough to provide for her and for a lot of these children I work with.
There is a challenge and a prayer I want you to take away from this entery and here it is:
Challenge: "Am I in a spot where I am transitioning to another part of my life where I need Grace to get through the hardest part?"
Prayer: "God, thank you for beautifully dressing the lilies of the valley and keeping Your Eyes on the Sparrow. Thank you for giving us the simple things like shoes on our feet. Thank you for your Grace even though we can't understand it to the fullest. Help me understand that I don't need to do anything to earn it. You just give it to me because you Love me." -In Jesus' Grace, Amen
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Monday, February 24, 2014
My Godly Husband
You know what the most 2nd annoying question is after "what are you doing for your future?" It is "where is your boyfriend/husband?" This past two weekends I have got asked in some form "where is your boyfriend/husband?" First off, I'm only 26 years old I still got my whole life ahead of me and second off, I don't need one, I'm stubborn enough without one. That question comes at the hardest time for me for many reasons right now but won't go into them all. When someone asks that question, I just smile and/or say "I don't know" but I got to thinking about it and you know what I do know where my husband is. Warning: This entery is going to sound girly and very "religious" to some people.
While I will admit because I'm a girl, it would be nice to have a real man to be my boyfriend/husband and to get presents on Valentine's Day and just for no reason at all. To know that someone loves me all the time no matter what. It would NEVER measure up to my only, true Godly Husband in Heaven who is God. No "real" guy can measure up. I would want to be close to my one TRUE husband and not have one here on earth, then to have one here on earth and to be pulled away from God. I can't believe I'm coming to this idea. I mean I still want to get married someday if it is God's Will for me but if God just wants me and only me. I'm happy with that too. I can have a foster home by myself and let God be the Father of those children. Who is a better Father then our God?
I should say when people ask me that question, "He is up in Heaven and he is giving me everything I need now" and that would be a great convo. starter espically for non-Christians. The Husband of Perfect Love, Grace, Mercy, and Patience. The Healer and Creator of all. I mean He made the sunrise and sunset just for me. He has given the flowers to just me. He is there all the time and everywhere I go. He is quite when I need Him to be but yet speaks when I need Him to whether I know it or want it. He doesn't please me to my liking. He does and knows what is best for me.
It is hard to grasped the idea of God being our Husband but in all ways, He is. We might have to cling to that until maybe even after we get a earthly husband or always if that is God's Will for us. If He wants us to be free of that pain and busyness to serve Him then we need to be okay with that. Sometimes I wonder if uncommitted people are really committed to God so they go where God wants them to go and learn what God wants them to learn but yet in the world's eyes they look uncommitted to anything. Have we ever thought of it that way?
Challenge for Today: "Are you looking to God as your Husband or are you waiting for an earthly one?"
While I will admit because I'm a girl, it would be nice to have a real man to be my boyfriend/husband and to get presents on Valentine's Day and just for no reason at all. To know that someone loves me all the time no matter what. It would NEVER measure up to my only, true Godly Husband in Heaven who is God. No "real" guy can measure up. I would want to be close to my one TRUE husband and not have one here on earth, then to have one here on earth and to be pulled away from God. I can't believe I'm coming to this idea. I mean I still want to get married someday if it is God's Will for me but if God just wants me and only me. I'm happy with that too. I can have a foster home by myself and let God be the Father of those children. Who is a better Father then our God?
I should say when people ask me that question, "He is up in Heaven and he is giving me everything I need now" and that would be a great convo. starter espically for non-Christians. The Husband of Perfect Love, Grace, Mercy, and Patience. The Healer and Creator of all. I mean He made the sunrise and sunset just for me. He has given the flowers to just me. He is there all the time and everywhere I go. He is quite when I need Him to be but yet speaks when I need Him to whether I know it or want it. He doesn't please me to my liking. He does and knows what is best for me.
It is hard to grasped the idea of God being our Husband but in all ways, He is. We might have to cling to that until maybe even after we get a earthly husband or always if that is God's Will for us. If He wants us to be free of that pain and busyness to serve Him then we need to be okay with that. Sometimes I wonder if uncommitted people are really committed to God so they go where God wants them to go and learn what God wants them to learn but yet in the world's eyes they look uncommitted to anything. Have we ever thought of it that way?
Challenge for Today: "Are you looking to God as your Husband or are you waiting for an earthly one?"
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Building the Church
You would think after a week being with children that I would want a break from them. Well, that's not the case. I love to get into different places and learn what is out there and what I need to do more of. I went to a center this morning where the poor and homeless people come to church and to get their food and other things. They have church there on Sunday and I got to help with the children Sunday School. It was neat because I like Sunday school and I love children espically the needy ones. It just fitted me perfectly. I could share the Message without being scared or thinking what someone else thought because I knew that they were there for that reason.
We (a friend and me) had 3 little preschoolers. A boy and 2 girls and they were so fun. I played mainly with one of the girls and the boy. They were playing with wooden building blocks. They told me that they were building a church with the blocks. There were actual people in the church and a playground outside the church. They had some help by me but it was just cute seeing that and seeing their thoughts go. They are very imageative. Then they took down the church to build a castle.
I didn't think about it then but I'm thinking about it now. Isn't that what today's world is like? We build up churches and people and then those people go out into the world and tear down the churches and build up castle like things whether with money or other things. There is a connection there somewhere if you really think about it. It was fun and the children were all very talkative.
The other little girl liked one on one time. She "sewed" with animals and played with the animals a lot. She was sad when she first got there and I tried to comfort her but nothing I did worked so the other teacher tried and she was happy by the end of Sunday school. She played mostly with cardbroad animals putting string in and out of their holes. The animals were wearing their necklace (aka her bracelet) and they even came over to look at the "church". It was just so cute! She also sung a song randomly while "sewing" the animals. Cute and Beautiful!
I would go back in a heartbeat and I think I am every last Sunday of ever month because that is when the group I went with does it. There was just 6 of us. My passion is the less needy children of the world. I wish I could do something on my own to help them out. I don't want a big company or place because sometimes you get the vision lost in that thing that is now big but was never meant to be too big.
Challenge: What are you doing to help your community? You could pick a certain group or just help wherever you can. Just get out there! :)
We (a friend and me) had 3 little preschoolers. A boy and 2 girls and they were so fun. I played mainly with one of the girls and the boy. They were playing with wooden building blocks. They told me that they were building a church with the blocks. There were actual people in the church and a playground outside the church. They had some help by me but it was just cute seeing that and seeing their thoughts go. They are very imageative. Then they took down the church to build a castle.
I didn't think about it then but I'm thinking about it now. Isn't that what today's world is like? We build up churches and people and then those people go out into the world and tear down the churches and build up castle like things whether with money or other things. There is a connection there somewhere if you really think about it. It was fun and the children were all very talkative.
The other little girl liked one on one time. She "sewed" with animals and played with the animals a lot. She was sad when she first got there and I tried to comfort her but nothing I did worked so the other teacher tried and she was happy by the end of Sunday school. She played mostly with cardbroad animals putting string in and out of their holes. The animals were wearing their necklace (aka her bracelet) and they even came over to look at the "church". It was just so cute! She also sung a song randomly while "sewing" the animals. Cute and Beautiful!
I would go back in a heartbeat and I think I am every last Sunday of ever month because that is when the group I went with does it. There was just 6 of us. My passion is the less needy children of the world. I wish I could do something on my own to help them out. I don't want a big company or place because sometimes you get the vision lost in that thing that is now big but was never meant to be too big.
Challenge: What are you doing to help your community? You could pick a certain group or just help wherever you can. Just get out there! :)
Friday, February 21, 2014
Grace Patches Up the Holes
"When Jesus heard this, He told them, "Healthy people don't need a doctor-sick people do. I have come to call sinners, not those who think they are already good enough." -Mark 2:17
"Jesus replied, "Do wedding guests fast while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. They can't fast while they are with the groom. But someday He will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. And who would patch an old garment with unshrunk cloth? For the new patch shrinks and pulls away from the old cloth, leaving an even bigger hole than before. And no one puts new wine in an old wineskin. The wine would burst the wineskin, spilling the wine and ruining the skin. New wine needs new wineskin."-Luke 2:19-22
These verses say a lot about what Grace is. Grace can bind up the holes in your Heart everyday. It needs to be new everyday. We need to get rid of the old and put in the new. When we are "healthy" we don't need a doctor to help us. It is when we are sick that we need the doctor. As Christians, we a sick in sin. We need Jesus to be our Healer and heal us with His Grace everyday. He did it once on the cross and that was big but He does it everyday too. Sin is all over us like sickness can be. We could "catch" sin like we catch a sickness. We could gossip, tell lies, or treat someone badly. We could also talk about doing things but then not do them.
We cannot try to cover sin up with good works like verses 19-22 says. Good works is the old way of doing things. That is the main treatment everyone tries but it does not work. People try to fit good works (old wine) into the new skin (their new life) but it doesn't work that way. The old garment will eventfully get rid of the new patch because it is not the same size. It will shrink and pull away from the old garment. You will eventfully lose hope if you keep trying to path the old with the new cloth. It leaves a bigger hole and problem to be fixed.
When you put a new patch (grace) on a new garment (life in Christ) then it can grow "old" together. Grace is a gift that you can get with your new life in Christ. We don't do anything to get the Grace it is give to use because it fits the "garment" perfectly. It fits us perfectly where good works can never fit. We try to cover up our bad spots by doing good works but it wears us down. Grace gives us the energy and hope that we need to move forwards. With Grace, we keep growing old but we learn so many new things in Christ. Christ's Word and saving Grace never gets old. It is new each morning so new that it fits us perfectly where we need it to fit for that day. It fits our lives and the situations we are in at certain times in our lives but we never run out.
Thought for Today: "God's Grace is new EVERY morning/day. It can patch up the oldest and biggest hole in my life."
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Grace in Every Situation
"We need to give Grace in every situation even if it is a situation we don't understand. That's all the more reason to give Grace. God might be working through that certain situation so giving the Grace that that person needs and giving God room to work it all out is worth it in the end."
This saying is something I have came up with during this past week and learning a lot about grace through everything that I can. I feel like I have seen God's Grace work and is working through my life a lot right now and He is teaching me how to give it and recieve it. It isn't a one time gift like we usually think it is. We give our lives over to God and then that's it. Grace is a gift He gives us everyday because we, as humans, are sinners and we mess up everyday. Why I'm just now seeing and understanding this I have no idea. Maybe it's because I have situations in my life now that show me it? Maybe it's because I need to give grace a lot more at my job? I have two examples that I will write about here.
First is one about the little girl with two colored eyes. She gets me every time and she is a girl I will remember for sure even if she is the only one I remember. To me, she showed grace to people as a 5 year old but she probably doesn't know what that is. Here is how. Instead of getting mad at people for asking about her eyes, she would just say "God made me that way" and smile and that would be it. She wouldn't let it get to her or she wouldn't let it show anyways if it did. It's like she was saying "I might be different and it might be strange to you but it's okay with me because God made me like this." She is giving them grace by not making and big deal about it and forgiving them. I know when people use to wonder why I talk the way I do I would say nothing and be mad at them and ashamed at myself on the inside. That's when I would usually shut down in a new place. Now I look past it and it doesn't bother me anymore because I'm okay with it and I should be by now. That's me seeing someone else give a person or people Grace.
Second is one about where I have to give someone Grace. Just as the little girl respected the other people around her no matter what they said about her eyes, I need to give grace and respect the people around me too. People might not think it's a big deal to me but I don't let go of things even of the smallest things very easily. I try to firugre out why that person said what they did or do what they do but I can't firgure it out even if I did I can't change their ideas or what they think of me. I don't have that power. Only God does. :) I won't tell any thing out of respect for the person but I'm in a middle of a situation where I have to give that person Grace and go on. I have to respect them for them and move on in my life. I have to stop trying to fix things with "my" grace and "my" way and let God have His Way in it. His Way is always better. If you don't let go of a situation there is no room for God to work through or with it. This is with everything in my life not just that one situation. It's mainly with my future because I'm so scared that I don't have a plan for it and have no idea what is next.
I have a favorite saying that is: "As children bring their broken toys to us to mend, I bring my broken dreams to God. I asked Him, "What is taking so long?" and He said, "my child, what could I do you never did let go." It's not mine, it's from a poem that I do not know who wrote it and it's not excat words but close. It was just on my bathroom wall while I was growing up. It desicrbes what Grace does so perfectly not that I think about it.
A challenging thought: "Grace is not just for me. Grace is more for the people around me. Grace is showing that God still Loves them and me no matter how many times we mess up. When God shows me Grace, then I should show other people Grace too."
This saying is something I have came up with during this past week and learning a lot about grace through everything that I can. I feel like I have seen God's Grace work and is working through my life a lot right now and He is teaching me how to give it and recieve it. It isn't a one time gift like we usually think it is. We give our lives over to God and then that's it. Grace is a gift He gives us everyday because we, as humans, are sinners and we mess up everyday. Why I'm just now seeing and understanding this I have no idea. Maybe it's because I have situations in my life now that show me it? Maybe it's because I need to give grace a lot more at my job? I have two examples that I will write about here.
First is one about the little girl with two colored eyes. She gets me every time and she is a girl I will remember for sure even if she is the only one I remember. To me, she showed grace to people as a 5 year old but she probably doesn't know what that is. Here is how. Instead of getting mad at people for asking about her eyes, she would just say "God made me that way" and smile and that would be it. She wouldn't let it get to her or she wouldn't let it show anyways if it did. It's like she was saying "I might be different and it might be strange to you but it's okay with me because God made me like this." She is giving them grace by not making and big deal about it and forgiving them. I know when people use to wonder why I talk the way I do I would say nothing and be mad at them and ashamed at myself on the inside. That's when I would usually shut down in a new place. Now I look past it and it doesn't bother me anymore because I'm okay with it and I should be by now. That's me seeing someone else give a person or people Grace.
Second is one about where I have to give someone Grace. Just as the little girl respected the other people around her no matter what they said about her eyes, I need to give grace and respect the people around me too. People might not think it's a big deal to me but I don't let go of things even of the smallest things very easily. I try to firugre out why that person said what they did or do what they do but I can't firgure it out even if I did I can't change their ideas or what they think of me. I don't have that power. Only God does. :) I won't tell any thing out of respect for the person but I'm in a middle of a situation where I have to give that person Grace and go on. I have to respect them for them and move on in my life. I have to stop trying to fix things with "my" grace and "my" way and let God have His Way in it. His Way is always better. If you don't let go of a situation there is no room for God to work through or with it. This is with everything in my life not just that one situation. It's mainly with my future because I'm so scared that I don't have a plan for it and have no idea what is next.
I have a favorite saying that is: "As children bring their broken toys to us to mend, I bring my broken dreams to God. I asked Him, "What is taking so long?" and He said, "my child, what could I do you never did let go." It's not mine, it's from a poem that I do not know who wrote it and it's not excat words but close. It was just on my bathroom wall while I was growing up. It desicrbes what Grace does so perfectly not that I think about it.
A challenging thought: "Grace is not just for me. Grace is more for the people around me. Grace is showing that God still Loves them and me no matter how many times we mess up. When God shows me Grace, then I should show other people Grace too."
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Two-Colored Eyed Girl
"God made me this way", said a little two-colored eyed girl. Yesterday just broke my heart to pieces because of what one of my little girls said. I learned so much from her yesterday then I have in years. It's funny how we get so caught up in who we are even though our parents try to teach us that we are spiecal no matter what. I know my parents did a great job of teaching me that. It wasn't til high school that I really cared about the way I talked and I don't even think about it anymore really but I love this story to share with any other little child that I come across that needs reminders of how beautiful and speical they are in Christ.
I have a girl at my job where she has 2 different colored eyes. One is blue and the other is brown. It catches you off track when you first look at her but you get use to it the more time you spend with her. I think they are beautiful every time I look at them. It reminds that God made us all spiecal in different ways. Earlier last week, I think it was a Friday, she told me that she wanted to be a supermodel, teacher, and to be on TV. I remember thinking "how neat it would be if she really got to be a model with her eyes like that", "how neat it is that she still dreams that with how she is made", "still has that courage". That got me first because knowing today's world that is no way she could me a supermodel but maybe sometime in her time she can be.
What really catches me about this girl is her answer to everyone that asks about her eyes. Her answer is "God made me that way". She is not ashamed of her eyes because someone in her life has told her that God made her that way and she believes it or at least keeps saying it. She has had a lot of other children ask her "why are your eyes different colors" and that is her answer every time. No matter the age of the child that is asking her young or old. She said it to a older girl yesterday and that is what got me started on our bedtime talk last night.
I wanted her to know that she is beautiful no matter what anyone says and that God made us all different for a reason even me. Then I went into the way I talk and how people use to comment on it all the time when I was younger. I don't know how much of that she got but I hope some of it or at least the important parts of it. I hope and pray that she won't let anyone put her down because of her differences.
I got to thinking last night too while saying prayers for her that her differences aren't that easy to hide like mine was. With the way I talked I could just be quite and act shy and no one would know that I was any different. I even took speech classes to try and fix my speech but that helped very little it seems like. If I worked really on on the way I talk it could be gone for good. She can't do that with her eyes because when you look right at her you see them. I mean when she gets older she could get those different colored contacts but still you can never get rid of them permentantly.
This little girl doesn't have a good home but yet she is still happy and positive about the way God made her. She can still say, "God made me this way" and you know what with the kind of life she started out with and may have most of her life that is a good "phase" to live by. I can see her has some kind of big speaker/supermodel on TV when she grows up just telling her life story and how God has changed her life. I don't know about you but I want to be a part of that story.
Through this story my challenge for you is: Why don't we get up everyday starting it with the phase "God made me this way"? What little things do we have that we take for granted, whether good or bad? Do we make big deals out of the smallest things? God made us different for a reason.
I have a girl at my job where she has 2 different colored eyes. One is blue and the other is brown. It catches you off track when you first look at her but you get use to it the more time you spend with her. I think they are beautiful every time I look at them. It reminds that God made us all spiecal in different ways. Earlier last week, I think it was a Friday, she told me that she wanted to be a supermodel, teacher, and to be on TV. I remember thinking "how neat it would be if she really got to be a model with her eyes like that", "how neat it is that she still dreams that with how she is made", "still has that courage". That got me first because knowing today's world that is no way she could me a supermodel but maybe sometime in her time she can be.
What really catches me about this girl is her answer to everyone that asks about her eyes. Her answer is "God made me that way". She is not ashamed of her eyes because someone in her life has told her that God made her that way and she believes it or at least keeps saying it. She has had a lot of other children ask her "why are your eyes different colors" and that is her answer every time. No matter the age of the child that is asking her young or old. She said it to a older girl yesterday and that is what got me started on our bedtime talk last night.
I wanted her to know that she is beautiful no matter what anyone says and that God made us all different for a reason even me. Then I went into the way I talk and how people use to comment on it all the time when I was younger. I don't know how much of that she got but I hope some of it or at least the important parts of it. I hope and pray that she won't let anyone put her down because of her differences.
I got to thinking last night too while saying prayers for her that her differences aren't that easy to hide like mine was. With the way I talked I could just be quite and act shy and no one would know that I was any different. I even took speech classes to try and fix my speech but that helped very little it seems like. If I worked really on on the way I talk it could be gone for good. She can't do that with her eyes because when you look right at her you see them. I mean when she gets older she could get those different colored contacts but still you can never get rid of them permentantly.
This little girl doesn't have a good home but yet she is still happy and positive about the way God made her. She can still say, "God made me this way" and you know what with the kind of life she started out with and may have most of her life that is a good "phase" to live by. I can see her has some kind of big speaker/supermodel on TV when she grows up just telling her life story and how God has changed her life. I don't know about you but I want to be a part of that story.
Through this story my challenge for you is: Why don't we get up everyday starting it with the phase "God made me this way"? What little things do we have that we take for granted, whether good or bad? Do we make big deals out of the smallest things? God made us different for a reason.
Sunday, February 16, 2014
15 Examples of God's Grace in my Life
-Saying "no" a lot in high school
-FFA
-Going to College of the Ozarks
-Changed my major
-BSU in college and on the leadership team there
-Went to Mexico, London, Ireland, and Guatemala
-Certain friends and situations with those friends
-Moving to AR
-Deaths in family
-Losing my 1st job in AR
-The THG
-God not giving me what I wanted at the time that I want it
-Being single at 25 and beyond :)
-Working at different children's places (aka headstarts, daycares, children's shelter, and different nations)
-Boundaries in my life
-FFA
-Going to College of the Ozarks
-Changed my major
-BSU in college and on the leadership team there
-Went to Mexico, London, Ireland, and Guatemala
-Certain friends and situations with those friends
-Moving to AR
-Deaths in family
-Losing my 1st job in AR
-The THG
-God not giving me what I wanted at the time that I want it
-Being single at 25 and beyond :)
-Working at different children's places (aka headstarts, daycares, children's shelter, and different nations)
-Boundaries in my life
God's Everyday Grace
God's Grace is not something we
Get once and we are good. We
Get it everyday because we need
To be healed that often. We couldn't
Get through a day without God's
Grace.
As humans, we think grace is really
Big and only working in our lives
When big things happen. Even the
Small things in our lives can happen
Because of Grace. We never think
Like that because we don't fully
Understand what Grace is. There
Are not enough words to explain
Or actions to show what God's
Grace is but that is the beauty of it.
To me, it is God's way of saving and
Leading me. We always look at the
Cross for grace and that is a big part
of it and where it all started but then
We stop there. We think grace is a
Thing of the past but it's not.
Grace is at work everyday of your
Life. It could be in form of someone
Talking or not talking to you, a situtation
Where you left let but you were saved
From something because you left
Late, you moved to a different place,
And a friend giving you encouragement.
It could even be in the eyes of an
Innocent child.
Grace didn't stop at the cross. It got
bigger and better from there on. If
We took the time to slow down and
Look for grace in the world around us
We could find it.
Grace is God's way of saving us
Everyday. Grace is more real then
We think. Hard to understand why
We get it but something to be
Thankful for. We can't earn grace
By doing good works. It is given
To us by God as a gift for life. It
Is really amazing and saving grace.
God, thank you for Your Amazing
Grace that Saves!
Written On: Feb. 16th, 2014
Get once and we are good. We
Get it everyday because we need
To be healed that often. We couldn't
Get through a day without God's
Grace.
As humans, we think grace is really
Big and only working in our lives
When big things happen. Even the
Small things in our lives can happen
Because of Grace. We never think
Like that because we don't fully
Understand what Grace is. There
Are not enough words to explain
Or actions to show what God's
Grace is but that is the beauty of it.
To me, it is God's way of saving and
Leading me. We always look at the
Cross for grace and that is a big part
of it and where it all started but then
We stop there. We think grace is a
Thing of the past but it's not.
Grace is at work everyday of your
Life. It could be in form of someone
Talking or not talking to you, a situtation
Where you left let but you were saved
From something because you left
Late, you moved to a different place,
And a friend giving you encouragement.
It could even be in the eyes of an
Innocent child.
Grace didn't stop at the cross. It got
bigger and better from there on. If
We took the time to slow down and
Look for grace in the world around us
We could find it.
Grace is God's way of saving us
Everyday. Grace is more real then
We think. Hard to understand why
We get it but something to be
Thankful for. We can't earn grace
By doing good works. It is given
To us by God as a gift for life. It
Is really amazing and saving grace.
God, thank you for Your Amazing
Grace that Saves!
Written On: Feb. 16th, 2014
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Change the Story-The Compassion Experience
Today was an amazing day for me. I got to help out an organzation that I have loved and helped out with since I was a little child. That organzation is: Compassion International. They have a speical place in my heart and always will. I started sponsoring a child through them about 10 years ago. I can tell you my story about how I got hooked up with them and how my experience has been with them for so many years.
I was 18 years old when I sponsored my first child from them. My girl was and still is the same girl and my only girl so far. I started to help her out when I went to a youth conference in high school with my youth group. Compassion was there and I felt the need to help a little child out because I have always been a person to help children out that are in proverty. I started out donating money to her and her family and then I had to stop for awhile but my mom kept paying Compassion for her but then I started up again in my later years in college. It is amazing to see her growing up so fast from this 5 year old little girl to this 15 year old lady. Seeing how her handwriting has progressed and just her letters and writings and drawings in general is so neat. I need to write her a lot more then I do.
My little girl is from the Philppians. Why I picked the Philppians at age 18 I do not know. I had no desire to go there. It was porbably because she was cute and I didn't know or had any country that I truely loved back then because I didn't travel at all in high school and I probably thought I never would get the chance so why pick a close one. Now since I have been to other countries and places I regret not picking one closer but I will stick with her until she is done with school and there's no doubt about it that I will get another child but this time it will be closer like in Guatemala so I can travel and visit that child.
I got to vounlteer for the first time too with Compassion today. They were at a church in my town sharing a "program" called "Change the Story-The Compassion Experience". It was so neat to do and be a part of. It just made me want to sponsor another child form Guatemala and go help them out in other country mainly with their child development programs like teach in the centers. What was it like you may ask? It was a trailer filled with 3 sponsor children's stories about how their lives were changed because of their sponsors. People got to listen to the stories on an ipod and walking through every room and every part of their stories. The childrens' lives before Compassion, during Compassion, and after Compassion.
The 3 stories that I got to listen to today were from Boliva, India, and Urandga. There were 2 girls and one boy. They are touched me in different ways. I remember one of the girls' stories was about her mother and human trafficing because that was the only way they could make a living. After I walked through all of the stories, I got to help set up ipods for other people that came to listen and see the stories too. It was a joyous time for me. I was happy all the time and not worrying about a thing. I also remember one of the other girls' story was about how her father had left the family and how she wanted a real loving father in her life and that is what lead her to God. He was the Loving Father to her, not her Indian gods. It is so strange to think about how children think that way sometimes even here in the states.
It just made my heart going more and more for different nations but espically Guatemala where I love and to sponsor more children but I can't right now. That place is so dear to my heart no matter where I go in life. I want to do so much more with Compassion like go visit my "little" girl in the Philippians and help them with more events if possible around the area in which I live. I've never seen anyone do anything like this experience before. It is a great and neat idea. Very different but wonderful. God bless the children that get sponsored with weekend and if you are in NWA area please ask questions and go. It will change your life for sure.
I was 18 years old when I sponsored my first child from them. My girl was and still is the same girl and my only girl so far. I started to help her out when I went to a youth conference in high school with my youth group. Compassion was there and I felt the need to help a little child out because I have always been a person to help children out that are in proverty. I started out donating money to her and her family and then I had to stop for awhile but my mom kept paying Compassion for her but then I started up again in my later years in college. It is amazing to see her growing up so fast from this 5 year old little girl to this 15 year old lady. Seeing how her handwriting has progressed and just her letters and writings and drawings in general is so neat. I need to write her a lot more then I do.
My little girl is from the Philppians. Why I picked the Philppians at age 18 I do not know. I had no desire to go there. It was porbably because she was cute and I didn't know or had any country that I truely loved back then because I didn't travel at all in high school and I probably thought I never would get the chance so why pick a close one. Now since I have been to other countries and places I regret not picking one closer but I will stick with her until she is done with school and there's no doubt about it that I will get another child but this time it will be closer like in Guatemala so I can travel and visit that child.
I got to vounlteer for the first time too with Compassion today. They were at a church in my town sharing a "program" called "Change the Story-The Compassion Experience". It was so neat to do and be a part of. It just made me want to sponsor another child form Guatemala and go help them out in other country mainly with their child development programs like teach in the centers. What was it like you may ask? It was a trailer filled with 3 sponsor children's stories about how their lives were changed because of their sponsors. People got to listen to the stories on an ipod and walking through every room and every part of their stories. The childrens' lives before Compassion, during Compassion, and after Compassion.
The 3 stories that I got to listen to today were from Boliva, India, and Urandga. There were 2 girls and one boy. They are touched me in different ways. I remember one of the girls' stories was about her mother and human trafficing because that was the only way they could make a living. After I walked through all of the stories, I got to help set up ipods for other people that came to listen and see the stories too. It was a joyous time for me. I was happy all the time and not worrying about a thing. I also remember one of the other girls' story was about how her father had left the family and how she wanted a real loving father in her life and that is what lead her to God. He was the Loving Father to her, not her Indian gods. It is so strange to think about how children think that way sometimes even here in the states.
It just made my heart going more and more for different nations but espically Guatemala where I love and to sponsor more children but I can't right now. That place is so dear to my heart no matter where I go in life. I want to do so much more with Compassion like go visit my "little" girl in the Philippians and help them with more events if possible around the area in which I live. I've never seen anyone do anything like this experience before. It is a great and neat idea. Very different but wonderful. God bless the children that get sponsored with weekend and if you are in NWA area please ask questions and go. It will change your life for sure.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Commitment is a Lifetime Lesson
I thought that since it is Valentine's Day tommrow that I would write something along that line that can help everyone out or get everyone thinking at least. "Commitment is a Lifetime Lesson" or "Commitment is hard in any level of life." I've been thinking about that word "commitment" lately and what it really means but it hit me hard yesterday when I didn't get up and go to my Bible study at church. I started to wonder how many little things like that do I just drop because I'm too sleepy or don't have the time to do. Then I got to thinking what are some things I am committed too right now in this part of my life.
I have two things that haven't changed since I moved here and won't change for a long time. The first one is my job and the kiddos I help. It seems like I've became so committed to them that I'm becoming the leader for them which is good but strange for a shy girl like me. I will say that the reason I missed yesterday's study was because I was sleepy from working. The children take a lot of my strength right now because I'm the main one there. We also have a challenging child so I'm trying to firgure him out and I love it but it is hard at the same time. People are really seeing me taking command and stepping up to the job. I've been told twice this week that I'm doing something along those lines. It feels great but then again I feel bad for the other people because it is just me doing what I love and was made to do. It really is my passion.
The other thing is encouraging and be there for friends and praying for them. I keep up with what they are doing and drop a little comment on Facebook every once in awhile. I pray for them when they have things going on like they do now big things espically. I been encouraging them since the start of their dream. I can do 2 big things at once but the small things seems to slip to the side espically when people don't understand me at all. I've also gave up a lot of things just to focus on my job.
What gets me is commitment can change, for me now, day to day and month to month, which I think sounds bad but that is my life now. I'm at the exploring and having fun stage I guess even though some things I want to have a part of for good it's just not time yet for it to happen. With my job though, it is understandable for things to change and you have to be flexible because you know never know what kind of children you will get or who will be there the next time. I know the importance of commitment and trust me I would love to have it and not worry about a thing but life doesn't let us have that. Through all of life, you have to me committed to something whether job, spouse, friends, or yourself, you are committed to something all the time.
I think that God teaches us a lot about commitment when we are committed to Him. He tells and shows us what it is like to be committed to something or someone when He Loves us the way He does. He is committed to making our lives the best that He knows how better then we do. He is committed to making sure we are happy. He is committed to making our dreams and desires come true. He is committed to giving us what we need whether strength, wisdom, and such day by day. He is committed to being by our side all the time so we don't have to go far at all. He is committed to us by making sure we have such a beautiful world to live in.
I have a challenge for you all: The challenge is and I will be thinking more about this too in the next few days: What are some other examples of how we can be committed in our life by God showing how He is committed to us? What are you going to be committed to for Him? Mine is the children and people that I'm serving.
I have two things that haven't changed since I moved here and won't change for a long time. The first one is my job and the kiddos I help. It seems like I've became so committed to them that I'm becoming the leader for them which is good but strange for a shy girl like me. I will say that the reason I missed yesterday's study was because I was sleepy from working. The children take a lot of my strength right now because I'm the main one there. We also have a challenging child so I'm trying to firgure him out and I love it but it is hard at the same time. People are really seeing me taking command and stepping up to the job. I've been told twice this week that I'm doing something along those lines. It feels great but then again I feel bad for the other people because it is just me doing what I love and was made to do. It really is my passion.
The other thing is encouraging and be there for friends and praying for them. I keep up with what they are doing and drop a little comment on Facebook every once in awhile. I pray for them when they have things going on like they do now big things espically. I been encouraging them since the start of their dream. I can do 2 big things at once but the small things seems to slip to the side espically when people don't understand me at all. I've also gave up a lot of things just to focus on my job.
What gets me is commitment can change, for me now, day to day and month to month, which I think sounds bad but that is my life now. I'm at the exploring and having fun stage I guess even though some things I want to have a part of for good it's just not time yet for it to happen. With my job though, it is understandable for things to change and you have to be flexible because you know never know what kind of children you will get or who will be there the next time. I know the importance of commitment and trust me I would love to have it and not worry about a thing but life doesn't let us have that. Through all of life, you have to me committed to something whether job, spouse, friends, or yourself, you are committed to something all the time.
I think that God teaches us a lot about commitment when we are committed to Him. He tells and shows us what it is like to be committed to something or someone when He Loves us the way He does. He is committed to making our lives the best that He knows how better then we do. He is committed to making sure we are happy. He is committed to making our dreams and desires come true. He is committed to giving us what we need whether strength, wisdom, and such day by day. He is committed to being by our side all the time so we don't have to go far at all. He is committed to us by making sure we have such a beautiful world to live in.
I have a challenge for you all: The challenge is and I will be thinking more about this too in the next few days: What are some other examples of how we can be committed in our life by God showing how He is committed to us? What are you going to be committed to for Him? Mine is the children and people that I'm serving.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
To my Grandma and Grandad
Dear Grandma and Grandad,
I wish I could tell you this in person instead of writing a letter that will never be given to you. It has been 2 years and 1 year since I've seen you both. I couldn't help but think about both of you today on your annverisery. I was looking at the bullet that was shot during Grandad's burial and started to think and cry. My job has been really hard lately but I know you both would be proud of where I am today. I got to thinking about where Grandad used to work and in a way I'm kind of doing the same thing only for innocent children. I'm in a shelter that opens 24 hours and had it challenges every now and then. You are learning everyday. It can be scary at times too because you are wondering if you are doing the right thing or enough for that person. You never know what a person might do. It is the biggest shelter around NWA and it is well known. That's you in me, Grandad. Now for Grandma, I feel like I am in a big house cleaning and watching, right now, 6 children and trying to do what is best for them. I feel like a stay at home mom in my work. Loving on the children and playing with them every chance I get. Trying to understand their needs and meeting them even through the hard times. I know you both would be proud of where I am today living out what I learned and saw in both of you. It is that if you have a passion for something then go towards that passion by working hard and keep your mind on it. Something I remember Grandad telling me, "You might be working in a goat farm at first, but if you work hard enough you will reach bigger and better things." He told me that while I was searching for a job in AR and even though my first job didn't work out. I love my 2nd job and might be there awhile. It is funny how my 2nd job is a lot like his and grandma's combined. I have so much respect for you both now that I fully understand what it was that you both did. I wish it didn't take me til now after you both were gone to firugre that out. I never giving up and my dream will just keep getting bigger and help more children and people because of you both.
Love Your Granddaughter,
Tiffney
P.S. Grandad, I miss hearing "Come back and see me" (wish I actually took you up on that offer more often then I did) and "you are going up so fast and getting so tall".
Don't let what you want to say to people you love slip by because you never know what will happen after they are gone.
I wish I could tell you this in person instead of writing a letter that will never be given to you. It has been 2 years and 1 year since I've seen you both. I couldn't help but think about both of you today on your annverisery. I was looking at the bullet that was shot during Grandad's burial and started to think and cry. My job has been really hard lately but I know you both would be proud of where I am today. I got to thinking about where Grandad used to work and in a way I'm kind of doing the same thing only for innocent children. I'm in a shelter that opens 24 hours and had it challenges every now and then. You are learning everyday. It can be scary at times too because you are wondering if you are doing the right thing or enough for that person. You never know what a person might do. It is the biggest shelter around NWA and it is well known. That's you in me, Grandad. Now for Grandma, I feel like I am in a big house cleaning and watching, right now, 6 children and trying to do what is best for them. I feel like a stay at home mom in my work. Loving on the children and playing with them every chance I get. Trying to understand their needs and meeting them even through the hard times. I know you both would be proud of where I am today living out what I learned and saw in both of you. It is that if you have a passion for something then go towards that passion by working hard and keep your mind on it. Something I remember Grandad telling me, "You might be working in a goat farm at first, but if you work hard enough you will reach bigger and better things." He told me that while I was searching for a job in AR and even though my first job didn't work out. I love my 2nd job and might be there awhile. It is funny how my 2nd job is a lot like his and grandma's combined. I have so much respect for you both now that I fully understand what it was that you both did. I wish it didn't take me til now after you both were gone to firugre that out. I never giving up and my dream will just keep getting bigger and help more children and people because of you both.
Love Your Granddaughter,
Tiffney
P.S. Grandad, I miss hearing "Come back and see me" (wish I actually took you up on that offer more often then I did) and "you are going up so fast and getting so tall".
Don't let what you want to say to people you love slip by because you never know what will happen after they are gone.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Psalm 16:1-9
Psalm 16:1-9
"Keep me safe, O God, for I have come to you for refuge. I said to the Lord, “You are my Master! Every good thing I have comes from you.” The godly people in the land are my true heroes!
I take pleasure in them! Troubles multiply for those who chase after other gods. I will not take part in their sacrifices of blood
or even speak the names of their gods. Lord, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing. You guard all that is mine. The land you have given me is a pleasant land. What a wonderful inheritance! I will bless the Lord who guides me even at night my heart instructs me. I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me. No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice. My body rests in safety."
or even speak the names of their gods. Lord, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing. You guard all that is mine. The land you have given me is a pleasant land. What a wonderful inheritance! I will bless the Lord who guides me even at night my heart instructs me. I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me. No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice. My body rests in safety."
These verses has really spoken to me in the past week. They go along with what I have been learning and that is that Christ is King and He is in control and He will bless me through everything. They remind me that God will watch over me and the people and things I love dearly so I don't have to worry. When we go after the earthly things, we get so confused and messed up but when we focus on God and His Plan for us then there are not troubles that He cannot help us fix. He has given me the chance (land) to change lives in the here and now and I'm learning so many things from the experience. God tells me what way to go if I would only listen even at night my heart is still working to keep me alive because He has more things He wants me to do. The Lord is always with me even when I feel alone. He is right beside me and I should not doubt that a bit. I know I do because I'm human but how can I after everything I see throughout the day. I'm happy where I am right now and I rejoice. I get to rejoice everyday with a child when he or she learns something new. I feel at peace with this job that I am in because I know I'm in the safety of other people. They care about the children like I do and wants what is best for them.
Challenge: What are some of the good things (blessings) that God has given you lately? Are you following the Plan God has for you? Are you finding rest and safety in God?
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Christ is King!
Some of you might be reading the title and saying "Duh, of course He is King!" but that saying hit me hard last night at church while the sermon was going on. The preacher would just keep saying it and I would keep hearing it but that would be the only thing I hear that kept touching me in a different way. I have been going through a lot of ideas and options for my life and just thinking a lot. I would hear one thing there that I wanted to do and then another thing from over there. I have been going through what I call little storms lately too.
I was home last weekend and went to my parents' church and the preacher talked about storms of life that we go through and how we need to step out on faith. Strangely enough, I come back to AR and go to church and the sermon is the same but they add an important truth that during all this Christ is King and He is in control. The two sermons went together but they were from two different churches. Amazing how God works, huh? It is strange too because all of these things I'm going through seem like small things. I mean I have been in worse storms then this where I could of used the stories of the Peter walking on water or the man laying on the mat because he couldn't walk and people helping them get to Jesus but God chose to show me those stories now.
Work is stressful some days even been more with this snow but I love it. I have these ideas and made up options that could happen at work but is not happening right now. I have these options with friends that I would love to help with but can't because it is something I would have to commit my life to. I got all these little storms or ideas in my head yet nothing is happening but I feel like I can't do any of these things on my own like God would have to make a way, show me a way, to go about it.
The phase "Christ is King" is a great reminder that Christ is in charge of and in control of everything in our lives and He knows what is best for us. I love what my preacher said last night. He gave us three words or actions, is a better way to look at them, to do and they were: BELIEVE, TRUST, AND CONFIDENCE. A lot of times we, as Christians, do believe and have the trust that we should in God but do we have the confidence to go do what God is telling us to do. Do we have that confidence to step out in faith and let Him have control? I know I will be praying a lot more for the confidence that I need to do whatever God wants me to do in my life.
It is so neat to have people in my life where I see what God has done for them and is doing for them. I either want to be a part of that or I want it to happen in my life but I know they didn't just get there by luck. They were blessed and lead my God. They put their trust in Him and gave it all they got and God did the rest. The part that they could not do.
I look at it as a 3 step process: I have believed and seen what God can do.
I'm working on the trusting Him part right now and I feel like where I need to be for the next step in my life on the trusting.
Now it's time to do the hardest one for me and that is to have CONFIDENCE and go get what I know God wants me to have and do. CONFIDENCE in know that CHRIST is MY KING and that He is in CONTROL of my LIFE.
Do you have the belief, trust, and confidence to do what God has called you to do? I know I don't but I am working on it everyday and growing closer to Christ because of it.
I was home last weekend and went to my parents' church and the preacher talked about storms of life that we go through and how we need to step out on faith. Strangely enough, I come back to AR and go to church and the sermon is the same but they add an important truth that during all this Christ is King and He is in control. The two sermons went together but they were from two different churches. Amazing how God works, huh? It is strange too because all of these things I'm going through seem like small things. I mean I have been in worse storms then this where I could of used the stories of the Peter walking on water or the man laying on the mat because he couldn't walk and people helping them get to Jesus but God chose to show me those stories now.
Work is stressful some days even been more with this snow but I love it. I have these ideas and made up options that could happen at work but is not happening right now. I have these options with friends that I would love to help with but can't because it is something I would have to commit my life to. I got all these little storms or ideas in my head yet nothing is happening but I feel like I can't do any of these things on my own like God would have to make a way, show me a way, to go about it.
The phase "Christ is King" is a great reminder that Christ is in charge of and in control of everything in our lives and He knows what is best for us. I love what my preacher said last night. He gave us three words or actions, is a better way to look at them, to do and they were: BELIEVE, TRUST, AND CONFIDENCE. A lot of times we, as Christians, do believe and have the trust that we should in God but do we have the confidence to go do what God is telling us to do. Do we have that confidence to step out in faith and let Him have control? I know I will be praying a lot more for the confidence that I need to do whatever God wants me to do in my life.
It is so neat to have people in my life where I see what God has done for them and is doing for them. I either want to be a part of that or I want it to happen in my life but I know they didn't just get there by luck. They were blessed and lead my God. They put their trust in Him and gave it all they got and God did the rest. The part that they could not do.
I look at it as a 3 step process: I have believed and seen what God can do.
I'm working on the trusting Him part right now and I feel like where I need to be for the next step in my life on the trusting.
Now it's time to do the hardest one for me and that is to have CONFIDENCE and go get what I know God wants me to have and do. CONFIDENCE in know that CHRIST is MY KING and that He is in CONTROL of my LIFE.
Do you have the belief, trust, and confidence to do what God has called you to do? I know I don't but I am working on it everyday and growing closer to Christ because of it.
Saturday, February 8, 2014
What Is The Only Thing That You Want?
It has been a week since I last wrote on here. I'm so sorry but as most of you know it has been a crazy week or more with this snowy weather. I stayed two nights/days at work this week so I feel like I'm behind on everything now. It was a good two full days at work though and it was fun staying over night because it felt like a small mission trip and I got to know the children better for 2 full days of working. I was almost thinking about staying for 3 nights and I would have if I had packed enough. I learned a lot and we got 2 new children at the end of this week when it was safe to drive. I will tell you about one of them later. Right now, I want to tell you about something that one of my older children said to me one night this week and I will be honest I cried right beside his bed when he said this.
He is the strong boy where is something would be bothering him you would never know until bedtime because he would hold it in and he did during this week. One day this week he had a visit with his parents and that night he just started crying when he laid down in bed. I comforted him and talked to him about it and if you know me you know my heart and it just broke it to pieces. He was talking about his mom and dad.
He said things about his mom that I guess every mom would want to hear. I know if I was a mom I would want to hear those things from my children and I guess that why I cried a lot because my dream is to be a stay at home mom someday. He was saying things like "my mommy teaches me what is right and what is wrong", "she loves me", "she cooks for me", and "I miss my mommy and daddy". I couldn't help thinking right there that when he says "she teaches me right from wrong", only if you really knew what she was doing and knew that it was wrong you would be so much better off but I know those children don't understand those things.
He said something else that really got me thinking about my life and what I really wanted to do with it and it didn't help when he said it with these other things. He said, "THE ONLY THING I WANT IS TO SEE MY FAMILY ALL TOGETHER AGAIN." If that doesn't brake your heart then. I'm sorry, you are a cold person. I got to thinking about that in my life and things started to come to mind. I thought, "well, I have a family that cares for me and friends that do the same." I also thought that "I should only want God and I do but in earthly terms what is the only thing I really want?" I can't tell you all of it because I don't want to talk about anyone on here but I will say that I really want to be a stay at home mom and make things like crafts and sew. I really want what is best for a friend of mine. I haven't cried that hard in a long time and it could be a mixture of not enough sleep and feeling sorry for this child.
As Christians or even just people we take a lot of things for granted sometimes. I know I do. My family lives close enough now where I could go visit them every weekend if wanted and had the money. I have friends I need to go see and talk to. We think, sometimes, family is not enough in this world but to a lot of people that is all they have and when they lose that they lost everything. I would never have 6 children of my own but I'm glad I have 5 other brothers and sisters to talk to and then a lot of nephews and ninces to play with or talk to too.
My challenge for you from this entery is: WHAT IS THE ONLY THING THAT YOU WANT? Think on that question for some time and then go get it if you can and never give up. It would be neat if you would even share it in a comment on this entery. Get some interaction going on my blog so I can see how many people actually read it.
He is the strong boy where is something would be bothering him you would never know until bedtime because he would hold it in and he did during this week. One day this week he had a visit with his parents and that night he just started crying when he laid down in bed. I comforted him and talked to him about it and if you know me you know my heart and it just broke it to pieces. He was talking about his mom and dad.
He said things about his mom that I guess every mom would want to hear. I know if I was a mom I would want to hear those things from my children and I guess that why I cried a lot because my dream is to be a stay at home mom someday. He was saying things like "my mommy teaches me what is right and what is wrong", "she loves me", "she cooks for me", and "I miss my mommy and daddy". I couldn't help thinking right there that when he says "she teaches me right from wrong", only if you really knew what she was doing and knew that it was wrong you would be so much better off but I know those children don't understand those things.
He said something else that really got me thinking about my life and what I really wanted to do with it and it didn't help when he said it with these other things. He said, "THE ONLY THING I WANT IS TO SEE MY FAMILY ALL TOGETHER AGAIN." If that doesn't brake your heart then. I'm sorry, you are a cold person. I got to thinking about that in my life and things started to come to mind. I thought, "well, I have a family that cares for me and friends that do the same." I also thought that "I should only want God and I do but in earthly terms what is the only thing I really want?" I can't tell you all of it because I don't want to talk about anyone on here but I will say that I really want to be a stay at home mom and make things like crafts and sew. I really want what is best for a friend of mine. I haven't cried that hard in a long time and it could be a mixture of not enough sleep and feeling sorry for this child.
As Christians or even just people we take a lot of things for granted sometimes. I know I do. My family lives close enough now where I could go visit them every weekend if wanted and had the money. I have friends I need to go see and talk to. We think, sometimes, family is not enough in this world but to a lot of people that is all they have and when they lose that they lost everything. I would never have 6 children of my own but I'm glad I have 5 other brothers and sisters to talk to and then a lot of nephews and ninces to play with or talk to too.
My challenge for you from this entery is: WHAT IS THE ONLY THING THAT YOU WANT? Think on that question for some time and then go get it if you can and never give up. It would be neat if you would even share it in a comment on this entery. Get some interaction going on my blog so I can see how many people actually read it.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Two Very Different Children
I need to come up with better titles for my enteries, I know. This one is hard to come up with though. all of my children that I work with are different and been in different situations. We never know what a child has been through until when get the child. I have two very different children that I have to learn a lot about and remember a lot about.
I had a little girl that was going to be my challenge for three months. She came in with a bump on her head and her left arm broken. I had to start giving her baths with a Wal-Mart bag on her arm. She got the cast off after a week of working with her. She would spit at friends and any workers that when she didn't like what we made her do or when another child had something she wanted. She was so anxious that she had a kitty that she would carry around everywhere with her. If she lost the kitty, she would ask, "where's kitty?" She couldn't stay or work with one thing for more then 3 mins. She did play with the chain links and chalk for a long time. She would talk and talk and talk even at bedtime and she would keep sitting up and laying down at bedtime. She would not lay still until she knew I was serious about it. She was my next challenge but she left before I felt like I did anything but I believe I did something in that short amount of time. She had the most pretty smile and laugh when she would do it but she didn't do that very often either, mostly when I just held her.
It was neat to take care of a child with a broke arm. It's not neat how she got it but it was a way I could relate to her and it brought back memories of my broken arm. I knew what to do for a bath because I had to have it done to me. I was always scared that water would get in her cast but it never did. It was hard to see her do things with the cast on but it was neat when she got it off. She would use it like nothing was ever wrong with it and it was neat to see that. She used it to play with toys, swings outside, and eat but she still had a hard time climbing and pulling up on things. She was scared to climb the treehouse or out of the ball pit.
I have a little boy that is very smart and happy. I really have to watch him though. He is the kind of child that is allgric to everything so bad that he needs meds for it. He also comes from a family of 6 with him being the 6th one. He has a positive outlook on life and is very polite. There is nothing much to tell about him but this. He is just different because really he can't eat anything because he is allgric to so many things. Even the smallest thing like "may have milk in it" might make him sick. It is so funny because when you get the whole family together at suppertime, they take up a whole table and need a worked to sit with them. Something else that is very strange about this family is that it is mixed with different children. I know that happens a lot but I guess with that big of a family you can really tell a difference and it is strange. I am scared that I will give him the wrong thing on accient because I'm busy or not thinking but know I can't mess up.
These 2 are my 1st different children and by that I mean by very 1st different children. I never had to take care of a child with a broken arm or that is allgric to so many different things. My job has been an experience for me in this past month but I still love it because I'm learning a lot of new things and becoming more outgoing. My workers are seeing the smartalike side of me and that is something that suprises everyone when that side comes out. Like I tell my co-worker, some days I have to be that smartalike because that is what gets me through the day and that is how I make people laugh because they don't expect it from me at first.
I had a little girl that was going to be my challenge for three months. She came in with a bump on her head and her left arm broken. I had to start giving her baths with a Wal-Mart bag on her arm. She got the cast off after a week of working with her. She would spit at friends and any workers that when she didn't like what we made her do or when another child had something she wanted. She was so anxious that she had a kitty that she would carry around everywhere with her. If she lost the kitty, she would ask, "where's kitty?" She couldn't stay or work with one thing for more then 3 mins. She did play with the chain links and chalk for a long time. She would talk and talk and talk even at bedtime and she would keep sitting up and laying down at bedtime. She would not lay still until she knew I was serious about it. She was my next challenge but she left before I felt like I did anything but I believe I did something in that short amount of time. She had the most pretty smile and laugh when she would do it but she didn't do that very often either, mostly when I just held her.
It was neat to take care of a child with a broke arm. It's not neat how she got it but it was a way I could relate to her and it brought back memories of my broken arm. I knew what to do for a bath because I had to have it done to me. I was always scared that water would get in her cast but it never did. It was hard to see her do things with the cast on but it was neat when she got it off. She would use it like nothing was ever wrong with it and it was neat to see that. She used it to play with toys, swings outside, and eat but she still had a hard time climbing and pulling up on things. She was scared to climb the treehouse or out of the ball pit.
I have a little boy that is very smart and happy. I really have to watch him though. He is the kind of child that is allgric to everything so bad that he needs meds for it. He also comes from a family of 6 with him being the 6th one. He has a positive outlook on life and is very polite. There is nothing much to tell about him but this. He is just different because really he can't eat anything because he is allgric to so many things. Even the smallest thing like "may have milk in it" might make him sick. It is so funny because when you get the whole family together at suppertime, they take up a whole table and need a worked to sit with them. Something else that is very strange about this family is that it is mixed with different children. I know that happens a lot but I guess with that big of a family you can really tell a difference and it is strange. I am scared that I will give him the wrong thing on accient because I'm busy or not thinking but know I can't mess up.
These 2 are my 1st different children and by that I mean by very 1st different children. I never had to take care of a child with a broken arm or that is allgric to so many different things. My job has been an experience for me in this past month but I still love it because I'm learning a lot of new things and becoming more outgoing. My workers are seeing the smartalike side of me and that is something that suprises everyone when that side comes out. Like I tell my co-worker, some days I have to be that smartalike because that is what gets me through the day and that is how I make people laugh because they don't expect it from me at first.
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