Be still and know

"Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." Psalm 46:10


If I can just be still and let go.........................If I can just shut up and let God, he's going to make paths where I think there is no way.

The last couple of weeks God has been trying to tell me. He's trying to tell me that if I'll be still, he'll be God, and that will be more than enough to break any barrier that holds me back.

It's so simple, but so hard to do, and I have to pray everyday for God to help me to loosen my grip so that he can tighten his.

And I know that it'll be in that surrender that I'll be found in the center of God's perfect will for my life.

If I can just be still.

The Parting of My Sea

"A Living Prayer"

In this world I walk alone with no place to call my home
But there's One who holds my hand
The rugged road through barren lands
The way is dark, the road is steep
But He's become my eyes to see
The strength to climb, my griefs to bear
This Savior lives inside me there

In Your love I find release
A haven from my unbelief
Take my life and let me be
A living prayer my God to thee

In these trials of life I find
Another Voice inside my mind
He comforts me and bids me live
Inside the love the Father gives

In your love I find release
A haven from my unbelief
Take my life and let me be
A living prayer my God to thee
take my life and let me be
A living prayer my God to thee

~Ron Block~


For whatever reason, I've needed something to sing me to sleep the last few nights. I don't really have an explanation, other than everything in my life is changing. I'm on new ground and quickly moving to even newer ground, and I am very excited. I'm finding that with that excitement comes fear, fear that can only be covered with a deep, and growing even deeper, trust, in a love that has never let me go. Comfort.Release.Security.Safety. I find it all there, there inside of that love.

I have the strength to know that my God is in control, and no matter what sea needs to be parted for his child to make it to the "Promised Land," she WILL make it there. :)(hopefully without wondering in the desert for 40 years, but then again maybe that was all a part of their process. If I'm remembering right it was because of their unbelief that they wandered. Hmmmm that's a message in itself)

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31

Dirty Blonde

I woke up this morning as usual and went through all the normal motions. As I came to the portion of my morning that pertained to drying my hair, which by the way, takes a good 45 minutes, I discovered that there was a single strand that appeared off kilter. As I examined it more closely I realized that it appeared to be taking on the color that is sometimes referred to as gray.

I thought for a moment................................
What should I do?
I'm not ready for this.
I am only 22.
And I won't stand for it.

So, without another conscious thought, I pulled it out.

As I examined it, I came to realize (tell myself) that it was just extremely blonde; bleached from the cruise I just went on, but somehow part of me was still in disbelief.........

So, I Googled. (yep, I just used that word as a verb.)

Found this first
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223131123.htm

While I was pleased to find that significant research had been done, my "I'm getting wiser" theory was busted. (DARN)

Next place
http://www.skinsheen.com/article-how-to-prevent-gray-hair-naturally-235.aspx

And this one just freaked me out. (Oh God, now it's my thyroid or vitamin deficiency, or maybe it's menopause(JK-ing on that last one))

At this point I had to make a rationalization, and I had to make it fast. I decided that the hair that I had removed was simply, bleach blonde. That's all there was to it. No Gray. No thyroid issues. NOTHING.

So, until my own further research is done, I'm still, fully, a dirty blonde.

(Dear lord,
I think life may have been easier before the internet was here for research, before I could see, so easily, all of the things that "might" be wrong with me)

And for anyone that reads this, I am not a hypochondriac.

What am I reading in 2010?

"My connection is that you are right where you are supposed to be. This may look like barren sand to you, but nothing could be further from the truth. I say to you that as you lay your head down tonight, you are sleeping on fertile ground. Think, learn, pray, plan,dream. For soon......you will become."

These lines come from a book that I am reading called, "The Noticer" by Andy Andrews

This book is about perspective, stating on the cover "Sometimes all a person needs is a little perspective."

As I've read this book I have begun to watch the story come alive, and of course I compare the situations with others in my very own life. I want to relate to it, use it, and I do and will.

The storyline consists of a man that helps people to realize things in their lives, or "notice." He helps people that are within the valley's of their lives to realize that all they need, is a little perspective.

GREAT READ!