My Favorite Blessing

I wanna start adding a "BLESSING" to each blog post. If I don't have something to write one day... I may just post a picture of one of my blessings! My first blessing is my FAMILY. I am the luckiest girl on the planet! My family is awesome! My mom and dad are like 2 teenagers in love. They are each other's best friend and are an amazing example to me of what love is and how christian parents/ a christian couple should act and lead. My dad is the closest to the perfect man you can get and a machine when it comes to work! My mom is the greatest mom God ever created. She is one tough cookie :) My oldest sister, Laura has the SWEETEST little family. She is such a good little hot momma and is so strong. She has a huge heart and is an amazing, spunky little thing and is hands down one of the funniest people I know. I am very proud of her ;) My middle girl, Moni, is my other little momma!. haha She pretty much thinks I am hers. She is one of the most caring, big hearted people you will ever meet (which makes her an amazing nurse). GIRLY LITTLE PRINCESS :) I LOVE MY FAMILY SO BIG!!!!

Love,

me

God blesses us EACH day... THANK HIM FOR IT :)

SO... a little of me :)

RECENT EVENT: BARABARIAN CHALLENGE! Was so fun! Another one in October in Savannah, Georgia! Who's in?!?!

So, I decided to jump on the blog train. I post a lot of things on Facebook and I figured... why not make a blog. My statuses always end up being too long for Facebook to let me post and I have to turn it into a note... so I figured why not start a blog! I am at a point in my life right now that I somewhat feel stuck yet still moving. Almost like one of those cartoons that is running and running but not going anywhere. Certain aspects of my life like my career are moving along and about to start (Praise the LORD for that!). Now, on the issue of BOYS... haha! That one is a blog post in and of itself! I feel like the Lord is still working on me and tweaking some things (or maybe working in the life of whoever the hunk-a-licious guy he has for me) before he reveals it all to me ;) With all the things I have been through in my short life, I have seen God move in so many ways. It is hard to see Him through the storms and see the GOOD come out of tragic events, but each and every time, He is given the glory. The thing I have learned, which has been super hard, is that trials ARE GOOD FOR YOU. They do make you a stronger person. They do give you experience to be able to comfort and console other friends who may go through similar situations. It gives you wisdom (which is SCARY to pray for ;) I came across these verses one day while I was searching for answers for a broken heart over my friend:

^{2 Corinthians 1:3-7 (NAS)}

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, ⁴ who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. ⁵ For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. ⁶ But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; ⁷ and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.

I knew after reading those verses that God brought me through a similar situation in my life and remembered how it felt through out my trial. I remembered what made me feel better and what only made things worse. I knew that GOD was the one that I relied on and He gave me friends that gave me great words of comfort and helped me so much (AND TO THOSE PEOPLE I LOVE YOU SO MUCH) God gives us things in our lives to better us and to help us make other people better. For my first blog, I just want all to know that God works in mysterious ways. He brings people in and out of our lives for a reason. Although the reason may not be what you originally thought it was going to be, they served a purpose in your story. Trust in God. He sees the big story book. Until the next blog, love today, live today.

"For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline."

Love,

me