Man it’s been forever since I’ve written! Hopefully I’ll do a much better job keeping up with this in the future, starting today. I can’t get over how much God has been showing himself to me lately. It’s amazing how faithful he is when we truly run to him and ask him for guidance and to show us his will, not ours. This past week and a half or so has been great, and has only made me want to run after him harder and faster. For a while after Mexico I was feeling like God wasn’t there and I couldn’t figure out why. During that week in Mexico and a little bit after I was going through a lot and God was showing me how and why I need to turn to him always. And when I did, finally, listen to him and put all my trust in him, I never felt closer to him. He got me through that time in my life and it was an amazing way for him to show me his grace and mercy. But then it all got stagnant. And I didn’t understand why, where I should be going next in my walk with him. And there were so many other times before in my life that this happened, and I would run to other things to fulfill that gap in my life, whether that be family, friends, boyfriend, whatever. Well this time I decided not again. I would continue to seek God and his will for me no matter how hard it was or how often it seemed like he just wasn’t there. And I can’t tell you how glad I am I made that decision. Throughout this past week God his blessed me in so many ways. And in little ways too, not even these huge things. And it could have been so easy to write it off as “luck” or due to my hard work or whatever. But I know that’s not at all what it is. It seems we all have a way of doing that. When it’s something huge, then it must be God. But when it’s something as small as really hitting it off with new coworkers, then that was really just our personalities and it was all luck it worked out that way. I’m starting to see that God is all over the little things just as much as he is the big things. It’s all part of his plan, and if it wasn’t for the little things we wouldn’t be able to see the big picture. I just hope we all keep that in mind and realize how important it is to thank God for everything he throws in our path, good or bad, and know that he has a plan and he is faithful.

Ok, I know this is getting long, but I just have one more thing to share that I am really excited about. Some of you know details about my little sister, others not so much. So I’ll be quick. My sister got pregnant when she was in high school and I now have the most adorable niece ever! But my sister has had some really hard times and has been going back and forth for many years on whether to live her life for God or not. Sometimes she’ll talk to me about it, but most of the time she gets frustrated or feels like I don’t understand cause my life is “easier” than hers. She got married last year, and they have had a lot of problems and she’s not sure if they’ll stay together or not. Also she just had a miscarriage which adds to everything. Ok. So last night we went out dancing and had a lot of fun. When we got home we were laying in bed talking (which I miss the most since us moving out of the house). Then she just started to tell me all of these things about her life and her relationship with God and how much she wanted to follow him but didn’t know where to start and just a lot of stuff. And I was able to use what I went through in Mexico and after and how God showed himself to me to show her that God will break all of us down to get us to follow him. It was great. She hasn’t talked to me like that since high school! I was so excited and I could just feel God working and speaking to her and really calling her to him. So please, pray for my sister. Pray that she is able to be strong and get close to God and really give her life to him. And pray that God continues to give me opportunities to talk to her about him and be there for her. Thanks guys!