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| So, I was thinking that I was going to come on after being away for a long time and update what's been going on in my life. But this would take a very long time. I don't really feel the need to do all of that because I want to just start blogging again like I used to and not take a year to update my life. Possibly I will find some energy to do this later, but if not, and you are reading this, don't take it personally. I just really want to blog about the present.... So, currently in my life I have been dealing alot with watching people in my life that I am really close to hurting. I really think that this is am awesome tactic that Satan uses in my life to bring me down and make me question how I view God. Not that I like to give Satan credit at all, but he know's what he's doing. It's just a matter of clinging to God and undertanding that no matter how close Satan feels, God promises me that He is closer than my breath of air. That's closee than I ever realize. He also knows me and promises me that He will see me through and give me a way out of the scary situations I find around me. The bible says that "No temptation has siezed me except for what is common to man, and God is faithful. He will not tempt us with more than we can bear, and when tested, He will always give us a way so we can stand up under it." (paraphrased) This is true and God will sustain us. Even when we are down and out, He will provide for us a way to stand for Him. Praise God!!! | | |
| So, this makes 2 days straight. That's gotta be some kind of record in my book! Anyways, a lot has been going down here in the past couple weeks that I have been back for Spring semester that really make me see God as one BIG God! And for this I am grateful. Since I came to ENC, I have felt like there was a whole spiritual part to ENC that I was not tapping into and it frustrated me to no end. I didn't know how to fix it and it was bugging me profusely. When I was home over J-term and Winter break I realized that, as Ghondi put it best, I must "be the change that I wish to see!" This has challenged me to get into my Bible and have some good quality time with God for me and Him, not just so people around here know that I do it! I have time with God for our relationship. It's been challenging and I'm not always on the ball, but since i have stopped caring what others perceive my relationship with the Lord to be, and i have started really living it, I have felt so free to be me! And , if that isn't a blessing enough, I have since heard others that have the same convictions and are struggling as I am to ge it right with God. So, naturally, we started our own little bible study/accountability/prayer time. And, can I tell you, it's amazing. Being honest in the presence of the Lord and others...is there anything sweeter!?!?!?! That's all for now! Love ya'll MISSA | | |
| Oh Lord! It's been a while since I updated this thingy but I figured after trying Facebook and MySpace that , where they are good for networking, I really just like this kind of format to write on. So I am back from a long break! So, I have some updating to do, but for a short re-cap, I am attending Eastern Nazarene college which has been wonderful! I am making alot of awesome friends and really loving the opportunity to learn from my peers and their experiences with God. I'm shocked at times some of the things that go on here, being as I had huge expectations for a Christian college but now that I am settling in, everything seems to be the norm for me. Here are some updates of what has been going on here:  This is me and Becca on the T on Homecoming night! We were daring and 'T'-ed it into Boston to go to the movies where we saw Employee of the Month! good times!
 This is the other Beka, my roomie! I love her alot! The college could not have matched us better! We compliment each other. She makes me laugh and has a great sense of humor and loves to laugh and plays my counter balance when I want to be alone and sad! She's great!
Well, that's all! And I will be posting soon! MISSA | | |
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| So, a girl named Lindsie from my church died yesturday suddlenly after having a brain anurism that shut down her whole brain within days. No one saw it coming and once it happened, nothing could be done to prevent it. She was 8 months into her marriage and they had just bought s house together. I have a few thoughts on this. The first, semi-irrational one says that I desire the get CAT scans every day of my life if that would be ok because I don't want to be outta the loop. And second, it challenges my faith and my consistancy with the Lord, which isn't always what it should or could be. Would I be ok and right with the Lord for that to happen to me at any given random moment of my life?? Sadly, I believe that my answer would be no. That challenges me a bunch to really understand what the Lord says when He compares our lives to a vapor in the wind, here today and gone just as quickly the next day. Will I be ready to go at the very moment that the Lord calls me??
I got an opportunity to talk to Ryan, Lindsie's brother last night and I would ask for all your prayers. When he was younger, he lost a baby sister and it has haunted him his whole life. His depression, obsession with young girls, cutting...you name it, he has gone through it and if you weed through all the tough "Ryan act" and get to his heart, you will find that the death of that little sister is at the core of all his anger rebellion and misunderstandings of God. Well, now his only other sister has been taken from him and I'm worried. I know that he's grown up alot but still. He's Ryan and he needs your prayers.
So, yeah!! Pray and if you know Ryan, make it a point to spend time with him. He's going to be home until the morning after her funeral (her funeral in on Monday). Then he's going back to Cali to wait for his girlfriend to finish college. Then he will move back here to PA with his girlfriend and her son Tyler and live with te 'rents fora couple months until they can get up money to get thier own apartment.
Missa (Gal 6:1-2) | | |
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