love

Lately God's been teaching me more about love. Life situations have crept up & twisted my view of it, but He is slowly beginning to correct those false ideas. I am once again realizing that in order to have healthy, loving relationships I need to model my love after Christ's love for me. He doesn't love me only on my good days or only when He feels like it. He loves me unconditionally at all times & nothing I've done will ever be able to separate me from Him. I think applying this concept to the relationships in my life will make me a better friend, daughter, sister, aunt, & one day hopefully a wife & mother.

heritage

I have spent much of this past year meditating on the words in various hymns. I developed a new found respect for hymns when I was in college; a professor (& good friend) of mine encouraged the singing of them through choir & other musical opportunities. When I meditate on them I feel a deep, powerful connection with generations of past Christians. That heritage is a wonderful thing to claim for my own life- to know that someone a thousand years ago worshiped God with the very same song I am now. God has shown me lately that the less we talk about & remember what He has done for us the less we expect from Him, when this happens faith actually decreases. It's important to remember the amazing things He did in the days of the writers of the Bible, in the days of the writers of the hymns, & in our own lives.

On that note, this is what He's done for me: He healed my sister of cancer fifteen years ago, He always provides for me, He healed my voice five years ago, & He reminds me daily to 'cast my anxieties on Him because He cares for me.' The list goes on & on...I'm actually starting to write them all down so that I can remember how faithful He's been to me.

We need to remember the stories...we need to claim the stories...& we need to have faith that God hasn't changed & He will still do awesome, amazing, glorious things for us daily.

'How marvelous, how wonderful, & my song shall ever be.
How marvelous, how wonderful is my Saviour's love for me!'