juggle

As I am plowing through my internship and attempting to keep up with work, church, and my beautiful little girl....I have realized that I can only focus on one thing at a time to do it well. I feel like an idiot today because I've spent the last 48 hours trying to figure out how to redo a decision I made yesterday that could have potentially got me in a lot of trouble in several areas mentioned above. It's interesting that sometimes the more we attempt to do, the more powerful we feel...that is until we fall flat on our face trying to juggle all of the plates. I wonder if that's why God wants our whole heart and our whole attention. He knows how powerful we can feel if we are able to even attempt to juggle a lot of things...but He sees the falling flat coming up.

closer

On the day that I created this blog for my friends and family, many things have occured to me. First of all, no matter what pressure I am feeling from the life I have created for myself, or just from simply living life, it is so important to have a sense of thankfulness for what that pressure can do to mold and develop my character. I have been working on one of my last difficult classes to complete my Masters program and tonight, I finished the final for that class and feel a sense of just coming over the top of the mountain. Being over the top of that mountain gives me a sense that all the other responsibilities left is downhill. I've been looking up the side of that mountain, climbing slowly for so many years, that it seems almost impossible to think that there is another side. I think this realization leaves me with a better understanding of thankfulness for each and every step it took to get there. This is true in not just a meaningless example of school, but for any difficult situation in life. Sometimes it seems like each step up that mountain feels as if it will never end...but with each step, character is forming inside your private world. God doesn't allow us to bear more than we can handle...but in those almost breaking moments, its as if He is cheering us on at the top of the mountain encouraging us that there is more on the other side of the steep climb.

Up and running

On this beautiful relaxing Saturday, my loving husband is attempting to teach me how to blog and get my online world up and running. It is something that I have wanted to do for a while, but other things always seem to get in the way and eat up my time. This is going to be a way to communicate with our friends and family about our life in Willmar and with our beautiful little girl, Rayna. This is my very first blog so please bear with me. For those that viewing this for the first time, please come back and see any updated pictures of Rayna.