Paris in June

I will be traveling to Paris in June and I am so unbelieveable excited. So many beautiful people have made a way for me to go and spread the Gospel through conversation and the arts. I cannot wait and I'm going to begin to use this blog to keep you updated on my travels, hopes, prayers, plans, and much more. I cannot wait to see what God has in store.

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AbbyElaine

Spring dreaming

Spring time makes me think of this...

Beautiful Life

I want to do beautiful things with my beautiful life.

I sometimes get insecure or scared that following Jesus will not bring me to the best of what life can offer. That's a scary statement. Though I step into the presence of God and come into the conclusion that nothing could taste or be better, I have this growing fear as soon as I step out that there is nothing more.

Then it might make sense that I should choose to never step out of the presence of God.

I haven't figured out how that works yet. But when I pray, I literally feel the presence that I call the Holy Spirit surrounding me and I've had the most honest worship times with him this month.

I feel like i'm on to something at least.

>>>--------> I can't help but to get away from a God who knows me <--------<<<

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 AbbyElaine

To New Beginnings… | 2 0 1 4

2 0 1 4 : As i'm reflecting on my year I realized I began to put value in the simple things. I started asking Jesus what to value. As cliche as it sounds Love became a character known to me this past semester like it never has before. For the first time in my life, I have been seeing the people I look at. Jesus pours love into my heart for conversations and community and i've come to the greatest realization. Love is all you need. A radical love from a father who truley see's me and wants everything to do with me. A wandering love for a Father who STILL see's me and STILL wants everything to do with me. As I step into this next year i'm telling everyone of my one true love and his radical love for my wandering heart.

{For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and wordly passions, to live self-controlled, upright and Godly lives in this present age…}
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{Forget the former things: Do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing A New Thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.}
>>----->Isaiah 43:18-19<-----<<

{And I will always guide you & satisfy you with good things}
>>----->Isaiah 58:11<-----<<


R E A L I Z A T I O N S : I've had a semester of self-discovery. College allows you to sift through all the information and desires inside of you and so I began to strip away what was just because of my enviorenment and decided to form me. And here's what i've discovered in 2 0 1 3:
I am an introvert. I like black coffee <-- weird. I desire adventure. I like chocolate milk. I actually love music. I really love people. It's not about me. Jesus knows the desires of my heart and he wants them too. I don't have to pull apart the darkness by myself. God loves me. I can question. I want to be a hippie. I like the mountains. I don't need to be concerned with others opinions in order to become who I fully am. Just because I'm trying to change surrounded by people who have known me my whole life, that shouldn't hold me back. The Church is the answer and I really like BBQ wings… oops.

R E S O L U T I O N S :
1. Be with Jesus consistently
2. L O V E my friends and people I come in contact with
3. Be a good girlfriend
4. Hang out more
5. Be 100% myself everywhere I go

I'm excited for what's to come and this blog will be a place to document all of what is happening. You are beyond welcome to come along for the journey. Here's to New Things and New Adventures
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 AbbyElaine