My Cup is Overflowing!

THANK YOU JESUS!!! That's all I can really say right now. I'm so excited about the next two months. My cup is full. Anyone who has been around me can testify that I have a ray of emotions running through me. Excitement, sadness, joy, etc... you name the emotion I'm sure I have felt it. Instead of writing about my blessings just in the next two months I thought that I would share pictures so you can see their happy little faces too. Jesus is good to me!

This is Bethany. She is my new roommate and has become one of my closest friends. I CAN NOT tell you how excited I am that God has blessed me with her and is going to allow us to share a two bed and two bath in Gretna! I'm sure that there will be other posts with her in it so stay tuned for those.

This is Hodge and Tiffany. Tiffany and I have been friends for what seems like a lifetime and like any friendship you go through bad relationship with them. But in the end you get to see the one that God had for them all along. Hodge and Tiffany are joining hand in hand this month and I wish them the best.

My family!! I get to see them for a whole week this month and I can't wait. Laci and I will enjoy a whole day of me and her and Mama and I will get to spend some good time together! I have been blessed with getting to go home and see them every other month this year. I guess what they say about absences makes the heart grow fonder is very true. I have found a different love for my family.

Along with my every other month trips home this is someone else that I have the blessing of being around. MaryAnn aka BFFE is one of the dearest friends that God has placed in my life. Under seeing my family this girl is on the top of my list of people that I get most excited about seeing. We never seem to have a dead moment and I don't have words that express my love for her and her family.

This is my best friend! She has lived and served Jesus for the past 20 months in the Dominican Republic. While I'm in Tennessee for the 10 days at the end of this month I will get to go with my family to pick her up at the airport for her to move back home. I'm super stoked that I get to be there to hug her neck when she gets off the plane. I will get to spend the first 15 hours that she's home but then its time to get back to Nebraska. However, the fact that I can pick up the phone and talk to her without it costing either of us a boat load of money is comforting and she is going to come see me at the end of July! Please pray for her move back.

This little guy with be the first of the two exciting things that are happening in June. My dear friends Wade and Kelley are having their first born! He is going to be spoiled by this girl. I'm super excited about becoming this lil' man's Aunt Stephy. I hope he holds off his arrival into the world until I come back from my trip to Tennessee.

What's crazier than having one close friend get married? Having two close friends get married with in a month of each other. I can't not say how happy I am for Jennifer and Nathan. These two have become two of my best friends here in Nebraska and they are due to be wed on June 25th. I can't wait to see where God leads these two with their life together. I'm so happy for them and honored that they have asked me to be apart of their big day.


These are only the big things that are happening in the next two months. I also will be starting a new job June 1st and I can't tell you the excitement that I have. I don't have a picture of them or I would have posted it. I'm sure that you will get stories of them too. Please take the time to step back and see the blessings God has in store for you too.

Seeing God

Awhile back I was callenged to start finding God in ways that you have never seen him. To look for Him in the small things as well as the big. Things that don't even have anything to do with God on the surface but how everything can tie back to Christ. I try whenever I remember to do this action. To look for God in places that He is not 100% showing Himself and He wants you to seek Him. However, this time I wasnt looking for it when it appeared right before me.

A week or so ago I was out on a morning walk with the twins, Sam and Milena. While strolling past the grade school that Dylan attends I couldnt help but notice a father dropping off his daughter. Now don't get me wrong I have watched many parents drop off and pick up children in my day. But this time was different. This man and daughter had walked to school instead of the easy drop off at the sidewalk and go about your marry day. I watched as this man and daughter laughed on their way to school hand in hand. And when it came time for them to part and for her to cross the bridge and walk into the school I could help but see God. Actually see Christ in the way that He sees me. Ive always been told that Jesus thinks you are beautiful and that to Him you are one of the most beautiful if not the most beautiful thing He has ever made. No Im talking about myself personally but as women in general. But back to the father and daughter. When the seprated their hands and she went about her way the dad kissed her one the head and let her go. It was sweet because as she was walking away she would turn, figure out where he was, and then wave. He would stop where ever he was and do the same. It was comforting to see Christ in this way. Let me explain. We walk hand in hand with Christ and sometimes we think its time to let go just enough to figure out what's on the other side of the bridge. And like the father that I had the honor of watching that morning, he just released her enough for her to go. Now I know that he had to let her go to school but like I said Im suppose to find God and figure out what He is teaching me. As we decided to venture out and "try and figure things out on our own" no matter when we turn around God is going to be there standing waiting for us to wave at Him. To give Him a smile.

Now Im pretty sure, judging by the fact that a kidnapping in my neighborhood was not reported, the litte girl got back safe and held her daddy's hand yet again. And You can bet there was a hug involved and he more than likely picked her up too. How comforting to know when we cross that bridge and we can still see God and we wave at Him he waves back. How when we want to come back over the bridge he is there to greet us with open arms and to hold our hand again. For me, I actually saw how God sees my relationshp with Him that morning. Praise be to the Lord that even in something as small as a parent walking their child to school God teaches me.

Repeat Play

In this season of my life God has made my cup overflow. As this might be the craziest month in my life thus far, I can't help but count my blessings. I would name them one by one but that would be super long list and you would get board or have hurt feelings because I forgot about you. So Im going to cover it all with saying this. PRAISE GOD FOR EVERYONE IN MY LIFE. There. Yes, you were included in that. But I wanted to share a little bit of my life here in Omaha.

In August of 2008, when I drove out of the driveway from the house that I grew up in and left every comfort that I knew I never would have thought that I would fall in love with Christ like I feel I have. I feel that my new church home is a big instrument in that new level of love. Now I don't give them all the credit, just a little. But Christ and Christ alone gets all the credit. However, the worship service at Westside church is different than at Calvary for me. I think mainly because I don't know really anyone around me. Most Sunday's I get to sit alone and be alone with Christ. I don't have to worry about who is there and who isn't. I think that God has also brought me out of my shell when it comes to outwardly praising Him. I feel more free to raise my hands, dance a little, or even cry to the point of where I cant breathe. Please know that Im not saying I couldn't do these things at Calvary but I myself was worried about what "others" would think. How they would handle it.

Recently at church we were introduced to a new song. After being introduced to it I feel in love with the meaning of the song. It is titled Desert Song by Hillsong and has played 109 times in the last week. The main point that it drives home is, "all of my life, in every season, You are still God. I have a reason to sing. I have a worship."

Think about that for a minute will you? In every season... God is really teaching me about seasons and how to love the season you are in and look for the reason why you have been brought there. Know that He wants to teach you something during that time. A challenge that I have been presented with was look for that reason. Once you find it, listen to God in it and when God tells you to move on. Do so.

In the last 20 months I have repeated in my head leaving Tennessee and driving to Omaha. Not knowing what laid ahead of me. Not aware of the love that I would find. No this time Im not talking about my friends, Im talking about the Love of Jesus that I found. Like the song lyrics say, there is a faith found more pure than gold. I hope that God is your victory and that through those Seasons you hold your head high and sing those lyrics, " all of my life, in every season, You are still God. I have a reason to sing. I have a worship."

Be Blessed!