I was truly touch by the movie BLIND SIDE. I encourage anyone who has not seen it to make it a priority to see.
I have a few reflections:
We experience our true humanity when we open our hearts up completely and vulnerably to another human being.
What is giving your shirt off your back, if you dont offer your heart to them as well?
Some of us have been blessed with lots of things. Some of us dont have anything. But we are all children of God, loved, adored, and created by an AMAZING GOD. If my sister or brother doesnt have something, I know my daddy would want me to share that something with her/him. I know that if I had nothing, my daddy would want my brother/sister to share with me.
I know people always talk about leftovers from Thanksgiving. Leftover turkey sandwiches, leftover turkey soup. How about this year we dont worry about left overs? How about this year, you invite someone over whom you know wouldnt get a thanksgiving feast......and leave the tupperware in the cabinet this year.
How about next time you drive in a neighborhood you dont like or are a bit fearful of, you dont automatically lock your doors but rather stop and smile at the little kids outside playing and ask God to open your eyes to opportunities to reach out instead of segregate yourselves from them just because of fear, ignorance, and lack of understanding.
Do you have an extra room in your house? Why do you have that extra room? What do you use it for? Think about what God would want you to use that room for.
Lord help me to be aware of the needs of others and help me to be a uniting factor, not a dividing factor for the purpose of humanity. I love you and I love your children. Show me practical ways to do this ....... be a part of the KINGDOM OF GOD now! Your children all deserve the chance to become the person you desire and have designed them to be. Potential, lets all believe in the potential of each other, no matter skin color, socioeconomic status, street address, ect.
All for you, love your daughter KRISSY
Thank you LORD for pressing on the hearts of some of your children....specifically about me.....wow! You used your children to touch and change my life. You chose people who saw potential in me. Thank you. It has been a great and beautiful life!
Saturday, November 21, 2009
FEARLESS LIVING
"Running down a soccer field at the age of 23, I heard the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ for the first time. I didnt hear his voice in my ears.....it was much louder than that. I heard God speak with my whole being. And when He spoke, I knew His voice as well as I knew my own mothers and fathers.
He said to me, Eddie are you going to run after this ball for the rest of your life, or are you going to run after me like you are runing after that ball?
Right there , I responded to the voice of God. I made a decision to stop running after the ball and start running after souls. My goal no longer sits at the end of the soccer field. No my goal is to see souls come to Chris to see you set free from fear by the power of God. This is my mission."
I am reading this book by Edward John and it is really captivating. I feel that I am a BOLD Christian in some ways. I would defend my faiths and beliefs if I felt they were being attacked. But internally, Lord, I realize that I am not living as BOLDLY as you desire me to. You desire a BOLDNESS inside of me to PURSUE all those things you have placed in my heart.
What is the verse...perfect love casts out fear. Yes, LORD, why is I stumbling in fear sometimes. Why do I shrink back from the things you have placed in my heart. I do no want to be complacent, ungrateful, blinded, misguided, changed by my fears but LORD I want captivate your heart and I want to captivate the identity that I have in you.......I heard a voice last night.....write them down, Krissy. 10 things you want to see happen in your lifetime. 10 things you want ME to do in the WORLD through you!!!!!!!!!Really God, I thought. You want to use me knowing all my blemishes! So here it goes.......
1. I want to support a whole village finacially, spiritually, emotionally, academically, and medically/ physically along side my husband and son.
2. I want to adopt a baby from Africa or Asia, and give her/him the life that God desires for that child.
3. I want to raise 30,000 for Samaritans purse through Team Samaritans Purse and my running abilities.
4. I want to live to see my son marry his soulmate, the woman who perfectly completes him and intends to walk with him into eternity going after the THINGS OF GOD.]
5. I want to open a clinic and community center with my husband working side by side me everyday healing and helping the children, women, and families of a tired, hurting, poor, and other wise desolate community. (HANDS OF HOPE)
6. Next year I want to help 5 Christian friends experience their first mission trip and inspire them to make their yearly vacation time, their commited mission time.
7. I want to truly be apart of bringing others to the LORD. I want to pursue people in my life that I know need encouragement and love and need to have a God encounter.
8. I want to go back and work in the Philippines and be a midwife with my family.
9. I want to go to seminary and learn how to more effectively preach and live out the WORD OF THE LORD so that the world may see the beauty of the LORD and come to him one by one.
10. I want to be the WIFE I am supposed to be and be the helpmate that GOD created me to be, to be apart of helping Jason fulfill all the dreams that the LORD has for him too.
Lord I need to get serious. I need to wake up with a zeal for life and for the THINGS that matter to you.
LORD, please help me to collide into the lives of those that need you and make me fully aware that I am intended to be the one to help them, love them and bring them to their FATHER.
I am sick of being small minded, complacent, and selfish. WOW! Lord change me and thank you for your patience. Let my life song sing to you....and yes LORD...may you be proud to sign your name at the end of my day!
Change my being LORD. Make me a new creation. Let people see me and SEE YOU instead! I have so many rough areas. But let love be the thing that heals hearts and touches lives....let me be an instrument of love.....I am nothing without you and I dont know where to go without you...please direct me so that I may serve your children and you more!
Listen to my heart, and take out anything that is hindering me from this pursuit! I love you daddy!
He said to me, Eddie are you going to run after this ball for the rest of your life, or are you going to run after me like you are runing after that ball?
Right there , I responded to the voice of God. I made a decision to stop running after the ball and start running after souls. My goal no longer sits at the end of the soccer field. No my goal is to see souls come to Chris to see you set free from fear by the power of God. This is my mission."
I am reading this book by Edward John and it is really captivating. I feel that I am a BOLD Christian in some ways. I would defend my faiths and beliefs if I felt they were being attacked. But internally, Lord, I realize that I am not living as BOLDLY as you desire me to. You desire a BOLDNESS inside of me to PURSUE all those things you have placed in my heart.
What is the verse...perfect love casts out fear. Yes, LORD, why is I stumbling in fear sometimes. Why do I shrink back from the things you have placed in my heart. I do no want to be complacent, ungrateful, blinded, misguided, changed by my fears but LORD I want captivate your heart and I want to captivate the identity that I have in you.......I heard a voice last night.....write them down, Krissy. 10 things you want to see happen in your lifetime. 10 things you want ME to do in the WORLD through you!!!!!!!!!Really God, I thought. You want to use me knowing all my blemishes! So here it goes.......
1. I want to support a whole village finacially, spiritually, emotionally, academically, and medically/ physically along side my husband and son.
2. I want to adopt a baby from Africa or Asia, and give her/him the life that God desires for that child.
3. I want to raise 30,000 for Samaritans purse through Team Samaritans Purse and my running abilities.
4. I want to live to see my son marry his soulmate, the woman who perfectly completes him and intends to walk with him into eternity going after the THINGS OF GOD.]
5. I want to open a clinic and community center with my husband working side by side me everyday healing and helping the children, women, and families of a tired, hurting, poor, and other wise desolate community. (HANDS OF HOPE)
6. Next year I want to help 5 Christian friends experience their first mission trip and inspire them to make their yearly vacation time, their commited mission time.
7. I want to truly be apart of bringing others to the LORD. I want to pursue people in my life that I know need encouragement and love and need to have a God encounter.
8. I want to go back and work in the Philippines and be a midwife with my family.
9. I want to go to seminary and learn how to more effectively preach and live out the WORD OF THE LORD so that the world may see the beauty of the LORD and come to him one by one.
10. I want to be the WIFE I am supposed to be and be the helpmate that GOD created me to be, to be apart of helping Jason fulfill all the dreams that the LORD has for him too.
Lord I need to get serious. I need to wake up with a zeal for life and for the THINGS that matter to you.
LORD, please help me to collide into the lives of those that need you and make me fully aware that I am intended to be the one to help them, love them and bring them to their FATHER.
I am sick of being small minded, complacent, and selfish. WOW! Lord change me and thank you for your patience. Let my life song sing to you....and yes LORD...may you be proud to sign your name at the end of my day!
Change my being LORD. Make me a new creation. Let people see me and SEE YOU instead! I have so many rough areas. But let love be the thing that heals hearts and touches lives....let me be an instrument of love.....I am nothing without you and I dont know where to go without you...please direct me so that I may serve your children and you more!
Listen to my heart, and take out anything that is hindering me from this pursuit! I love you daddy!
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Car Rides home and Phone conversations
It is rather odd; I have not written on this blog for sometime now. I was trying to figure out why not. I guess I was waiting for some GRANDIOSE revelation from God to share- but it hasnt come to mind yet.
So I guess I will just pour out my heart and remind myself again that GOD is present in my life on the most ordinary of days.
I have a good friend whom I often call on my long car rides to and from work. I often feel bad when I am talking to him because I know I am just rambling about nothing- my ridiculously boring and ordinary day at work or other such nonsense. But still I look forward to talking to him, knowing I can just share life with him. Now, lots of times we are also talking about serious things too. It is amazing how quickly we can switch over from work to orphans in Africa, what we ate for lunch to dealing with tragedy in our family's lives. But that is what friendship is I guess. This is how GOD is-I imagine God sitting on a big comfortable red chair near a big phone up in heaven, just waiting for one of HIS kiddos to call. He desires intimacy with us- just sharing the ordinary happenings of one's day- while also being fully available when tragedy strikes and we need a WARRIOR to come in and scoop us up and rescue us.
Matthew 28:20
So I guess I will just pour out my heart and remind myself again that GOD is present in my life on the most ordinary of days.
I have a good friend whom I often call on my long car rides to and from work. I often feel bad when I am talking to him because I know I am just rambling about nothing- my ridiculously boring and ordinary day at work or other such nonsense. But still I look forward to talking to him, knowing I can just share life with him. Now, lots of times we are also talking about serious things too. It is amazing how quickly we can switch over from work to orphans in Africa, what we ate for lunch to dealing with tragedy in our family's lives. But that is what friendship is I guess. This is how GOD is-I imagine God sitting on a big comfortable red chair near a big phone up in heaven, just waiting for one of HIS kiddos to call. He desires intimacy with us- just sharing the ordinary happenings of one's day- while also being fully available when tragedy strikes and we need a WARRIOR to come in and scoop us up and rescue us.
Matthew 28:20
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