Coming and Going

Whew! What a wild week! I hope that all of you had a fantastic break and Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving!

I got to spend some wonderful time with my family at my grandma's house. 15+ people in a house that is less than 1000 square feet. AWESOME!! My family was so funny and they have a power to restore me like no other. My brother was married on Saturday too! I will talk more about that in person perhaps...but I don't think that I have been so truly myself in years!

Anyway, I can't wait to see you girls tonight, but for this morning....I read 1 Timothy 6: 1 - 10. The part that was most effective for me was "For we brought nothing into the world, just as we shall not be able to take anything out of it." A lovely little side note to my self-conscious personality that I have housed for almost two years now is that I feel like everyone's got it all together. Their cars will take them wherever they want, their clothes are always cute, they don't have to worry about family finances, they never worry about being able to pay for dinners that they are invited to....on an on the list goes. I don't struggle with these things all of the time, but when I do, it just makes me nuts! Money and stuff is seriously the bane of my existence. It annoys me to no end how commercial our lives have become and how market driven my own happiness can be. LAME!

This passage was great! I don't know about you girls but I need reminding all the time that I should be day dreaming about Heaven (which I often do, but not enough) instead of that really wonderful outfit I envision. What will I look like to Christ when I get to Heaven? (instead of what will I look like to that really cute boy) What an important question! I can take nothing of this world with me to Heaven except my body and my track record. When the Lord whips out that filing cabinet that says, "My Daughter, Sam" what is He going to say about it?

Woah.

I hope that it makes Him mostly proud, instead of having to forgive all of its contents (although there will be a considerable amount of that too, I'm sure) I hope that the section He might label "Worries on My Behalf" is fuller than "Worries about Appearance."

I get so impatient with my appearance and success sometimes. Time for a breather. :)