Anticipation

Sometimes you just know that God is going to do great things - that’s called faith. 

Sometimes you can feel that lives are going to be changed - that’s called hope. 

Sometimes you can’t wait for what’s about to happen - that takes patience.

What will God do tomorrow?? Well, we’ll have to see :)

Waiting. Hoping. Anticipating.

Getting Your Hands Dirty!

Today, I decided to tackle the garden. It was a daunting task: there were weeds growing on top of weeds! So, armed with a nothing more than a shovel and a wheelbarrow, I set to work! 

3 or 4 hours later, there was one neat garden bed. It is completely free from stones or weeds, and is ready for planting! Then, I saw my poor hands. They were completely smeared with mud, dirt was caked under my fingernails, and there were several spots where I had been scratched by thorns.

The garden looked great, but the price? Getting my hands dirty. 

Getting involved with other people’s lives can be a messy business. It’s easy to look at a life, see a weedy mess, and simply decide to keep our perfectly manicured nails out of it. However, in Galatians 6:2, we are instructed to bear one another’s burdens, or in a different translation, “Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the laws of Christ.”

Will we be able to deal with some scratches? Can we look past some mud and dirt? We had better. To fulfill the mandate in Galatians, we have to roll up our sleeves, and get our hands dirty!

My First Blog Post!!

Ah, my first blog post. I think I’m going to need a moment to contemplate this historical milestone ~ there. Moment past. We can all move on. 

Originally, I wanted to name my first blog, Little Red Head - Big World. However, after reading several articles about blog-naming, I decided to go with something that would reflect the nature of my posts. I fully intend for them to be deep, meaningful, and a poetical reflection of my very soul...but we’ll have to see. As evidenced so far, I’m not really the deep, poetical, or soul-baring type :)

Just to address the elephant in the room (well, maybe it’s not, but I’ve always wanted to say that), no, the name of my blog is not the words to my favorite song. I do like the song, but I chose this because I feel it describes where I am in my life.

When you’re little, you truly believe the world revolves around you (despite parents assuring you that it doesn’t). Eventually, reality either gradually sets in, or it hits you in the face like a ton of bricks. For me, thankfully, it was the former. I came to the realization that life isn’t all about me, that the people around me don’t exist to cater to my every wish or need, and that I exist only for my Creator: Jesus. 

James 4:14 asks, “For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.”

This is the challenge I’m taking upon myself: Will my life be a meaningless vapor, filled with these and thats, or can I rise to the call God has placed on my life, no matter what it may be, and make a lasting impact on my culture for Him?