Blessed.

Yesterday afternoon I had a haircut appointment with my aunt, long overdue mind you.  Anyway, I hadn't seen her since the beginning of the summer so, I was excited to see her and tell her everything new that's been going on in my life.  My haircut was over around three and I left there around 4:15.  Needless to say it was a very refreshing and needed talk on both ends. 


I am so in love with how quickly and how much God is revealing Himself to me.  It's blowing me away how a couple of weeks ago I was so completely lost and in the dark and now I feel like I've finally found my way back and I'm sprinting back into the light and not looking back.  I love it.  I feel like a completely different person, or rather I feel more like who I really am.  It's so amazing. I received a comment on my last post and it was from April and Jackie's sister, whom I've never even met, saying that she was continuing to pray for me.  So freaking amazing. I don't even know what to say except that I am so incredibly blessed beyond belief.  This is beyond anything I was expecting.  He has definitely answered my prayers.  A year and a half waiting and He blew me away.  


If you are going through anything at all and are waiting on God, just remember that time does not exist with Him.  Remember that He has said He'll take care of you and He will not abandon you no matter what the situation, even if you are running away from Him. He's still right there next you making sure you always have an escape route.  I was reading lyrics to a new Snow Patrol song yesterday and there was a part that just really hit home and it said, "Just take the hand that's offered and hold on tight.  This isn't everything you are.  There's joy not far from here, I know I'm right."  It's so true.  If you will just take the hand that's offered, there is an unspeakable joy not far to follow. Trust me!




And just a little side note....one of my friends and I bought some retractable vampire fangs last night. So much joy came from that, too. Loves it!


Where I Belong - Cory Asbury


Your presence is all I'm longing for here in the secret place
Your nearness is all I'm waiting for here in the quiet place
Here in the secret place

My soul waits for you alone
Just like the watchmen wait for dawn
Here I've finally found the place
Where we'll meet, Lord, face to face

I've finally found where I belong
I've finally found where I belong, in your presence
I've finally found where I belong, Lord
To be with you, to be with you

I am my Beloved's and He is mine
So come into your garden and take delight in me
Take delight in me

Delight in me, delight in me
Delight in me, delight in me

Here in Your presence, God, I find my rest
Here in Your presence, God

God Loves Harry Potter Too!

So obviously lately some really awesome things have been going on in my life, and just to add to it I have another story.  


This past July most of you know that the final Harry Potter installment was released.  Some of my friends and I went to wait in line for the midnight showing Thursday night around noon on Tuesday.  Most of the day we just got made fun of, which we are used to.  It comes with the territory of waiting over sixty hours for a movie release.  Later that evening though, a mom and daughter drove up and asked if we were in line for HP and after we said yes they turned around and parked and came back to wait in line.  After waiting in line for a while introductions were made; April, the mother, and Madison, the daughter.  The next day April's sister Jackie and her son showed up to wait in line with all of us as well.  Over the next couple days we all felt like great friends considering the fact that we had spent the last sixty hours together.  It definitely brings you closer! We are all Facebook friends and have been keeping up with each other, and actually, plan on getting together at Wehrenberg again for the Breaking Dawn movies.


Last week, after I posted my "Ezekiel 37" blog I received a Facebook message from Jackie letting me know that she read my blog and that she will be continuing to pray for me and my relationship, or lack there of, with God.  Which means the world to me, because I didn't think anyone actually would read what I have to say.  These blogs are more therapy for me than anything.  Then, yesterday after I posted my "An Answer." blog, April messaged me on Facebook to let me know that she and Jackie have been continuing to pray for me and that she is so excited things are coming together finally.  I am completely taken aback by this.  I met these two women at a Harry Potter release and hardly know them, but they are taking time out of their lives to pray for me, someone who they've only spent three days with.  God works in the weirdest ways.  


This is also a way God is showing me he didn't abandon me.  He was there this summer.  There was another reason I waited sixty hours for a movie, other than the fact that I was so excited for the conclusion of Harry Potter.  Everyday I am beginning to see that I wasn't abandoned, I was just shoving Him away because I was pissed off at everything that was going on in my life.  He was patiently waiting for me to finish throwing my fit, all the while He was watching over me and loving me in ways I would not have thought possible.