S.A.S Weekend!

This is a song that I find really convicting because so often I find myself 'waiting for tomorrow' of what I should be doing today:

I pray that both you and I can get done today what we so often want to put off till tomorrow

Purpose

It's one of those days were your sitting at home; The clouds are drifting through the endless blue hue of sky, the birds are singing their continuous song, and the grass sways in harmony. I'm looking out the window and a thought just happens to occur to me; What can I do to make a difference? I know that that is a pretty heavy question, I mean, a difference in what way? I hear about people making an impact in the lives of others and fulfilling various needs of the world, and I am amazed and also longing to do the same. But what is God's purpose for me?
I'm just surprised at how I thought that I knew what I was doing with my life and all of a sudden it's like I am questioning whether what I have planned is really what God has planned for me. Do you ever feel this way? I started trying to do Google searches of different needs in our country, hoping to be inspired by something, but found that pointless. I ended up not finding any of the answers I was looking for, and rightly so; what gave me the idea that Google would solve my problems? Really what I needed to do was go straight to the source, pray, and read my bible about it. Anyhow, I've just been pondering on that for the past month and still am, which is driving me crazy since I tend to be the type of person that when I get an idea I want to act on it right away. So perhaps this is making me work on patience and teaching me to wait on God and his timing?

Anyways, I just thought I'd let you know what all I have been thinking and praying about lately (I'd appreciate your prayers as well! :) .

I hope that you all have been doing well, and thanks for reading :)
~Adriana C.

Jamie Grace - Hold Me

I absolutely love this song! It's a duet by Toby Mac and Jamie Grace, in case ya don't know, Toby Mac decided to invest in Jamie Grace as a new singer and has been helping her get started on her new career.

Sky Photo Entry

My Polka Dotted Life is hosting a photograph contest, and the theme is skys!

In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. 

~Matthew 5:16

Be sure to visit her site; http://movies4him.blogspot.com/2011/09/photography-contest-children.html

~Adriana

S.A.S Weekend!

Wow, this is the first Sing A Song Weekend for the month of September!

I am not sure about you, but I have a ton of schoolwork this year and therefore am begining to dread the upcoming semester.... I found a song though that has brought a bit of comfort to me;

 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. 

~Matthew 6:34 

Worry v.s. Trust

Recently I read a book written by Lauraine Snelling (A fantastic christian author!), and I loved what one of her characters said in the book; The mother Ingaborg, pretty much said that when we worry it shows that we are not placing our trust in God. The Bible says “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7). As Christians we are called to give our burdens to God and to trust that he will take care of you through the hard and laborious times.

By reading what I wrote above I just have to chuckle to myself, because exactly what I just wrote is something that I need to learn myself. I can think of countless times that I have just worried about such silly little things, and am ashamed to say that I haven't always trusted God to the fullest. You know what I mean? It's like I pray to God and am like 'Yes God, I trust you will take care of everything', but yet in my head I am still worrying about whether we will find the right house, or whether we will be all right financially, ect....

By coming to the realization of this, I have started to try and solve the problem by reading what the bible has to say about trust/worry and telling myself those verses when I am feeling worried.  Here are some that I have found:

Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

~John 14:27

My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. 

~Psalm 62:1-2

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

~Psalm 56:3

I challenge those who are reading this to put your full trust in God this week when worry's arise. Who knows, you might just find yourself closer to God; I know I sure have.

Have a blessed week!
~Adriana

Where I have been this summer

There has been so much change in my life lately. I guess that that is part of why I love Summer; there is always so many things that happen unexpectantly and I never quite understand why, but always later on God shows me his purpose. Do you ever feel that way?

Well, this Summer has been exhilarating and busier than any other; Which is ironic considering that in May I was worried about what I would even do to fill up my time. I remember being upset because I could not go on a mission trip like I had before and my usual position of camp counselor was unavailable since the summer camp I used to work at closed down. I know that my attitude at that time must have been terrible, but to me it seemed like my whole summer would be.... shall we say, boring. And to top it all off, I was not able to go on the youth beach retreat because I had signed up to doggysit my grandmothers dogs (And I don't even like dogs!). -You can probably tell from this paragraph that I have had my fair share of complaining moments, which is something that I am still working on.

I ended up unexpectantly getting signed up for 2 VBS's, the first one I was a leader and the second one I was the photographer. I absolutely loved doing both, and can now see some of what God was teaching me at that time; I learned how to lead a group, have more patience, and have fun :) . I also was an assistant art teacher for a week.... I am still wondering what all God's purpose was for me on that one. It was definitely a new experience though. Then I got to Doggysit. I was kind of nervouse about this one because it required me to stay the night at my grandmothers house... alone.... and for 10 nights..... I know for sure that I most definitely relied on God during that time because it was a bit (more like a lot) scary. Especially considering that my house always has 8 people sleeping in it and my dad is always the one to lock the place up at night. But I did have three dogs with me and they would bark if anyone or thing came near. And last but not least, our house sold after being on the market for 6 weeks :) . Which also means that we have been busy packing and boxing things up. And in about two weeks we will be out of this house and staying with my aunt until we find a new house for us to buy. We feel so blessed though to have sold this house so quickly and in time for the new school year.

I guess now you can see a little of why I haven't been blogging for a while.... It will be good though once school starts because I get my own laptop from the school since it's a web academy, and then I can blog even if the rest of my family is using the home computer.

Oh, and the other thing I've been doing is helping my mom with our homeschool soccer league. It's almost time for the season to start and so we have been receiving registrations and entering them into our database and such. I'm looking forward to another good year of soccer! :)

I hope all of you have had an amazing summer full of surprises and that preperation for the coming school year goes well. I'm looking forward to catching up on all of my blogging friends posts from the past few weeks! :)

I have another post in mind, so stay tuned ;)
~Adriana