Home Is Where The Heart Is

So in case you haven't caught on, I usually don't update until I have something to write about, and sometimes that takes a while. Well, a lot has happened since I last wrote, and one of the major things is that I bought my first house! A real house, and it's mine. I LOVE IT!! This is a picture of the fireplace. This has become my place to come home and just rest. It's like my own private retreat. :) Now onto some other recent developments...

My heart has been so restless lately. It's hard to explain. I have pretty much decided to take the first step in pursuing my life's dream, and apply for graduate school for a masters in youth ministry. As a result, I have found myself facing so many doubts...what if this is what I want to do, not what God wants me to do, what if I am suppose to do something else, what if I'm no good, what if, what if, what if? On a positive note (kind of), I have found myself so convicted of my own sin. It is disgusting how immune I had become to it and how it seems all of a sudden I am so aware of it, and so put off by it. I know that if I'm to serve as an example to young people, there are things that need to change so that His light may shine brighter through me. I seem to have started out on a new leg of my journey, and I think I like what it may bring. Stay tuned for more on this topic, as I continue to learn more myself. Now it may seem like aimless rambling, but I know it will eventually all come together.

I got to go to Tampa this past weekend. I got to see so many old friends. It was such an awesome reminder of how incredibly blessed I am. I got to see and catch up with people I hadn't seen in two years, and some even longer, but we were able to pick up right where we left off. I got to catch up with my old coach, saw my old english teacher, stayed at a great friends' house, spent time just hanging out and laughing with old friends, went to a wedding. It was all great. I was so overwhelmed at church on Sunday- standing and worshipping with people who were instrumental in my high school experience, in a church that served as a foundation for those awkward teenage years. What made it even better was knowing that on the other side of my plane ride, I would be home with the people and the church that are so important to me now. God's grace is more than enough, and I am richly blessed. Home truly is where the heart is!
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