08.31.10
Posted in One Year, Randomness, Songs, Thoughtful at 11:26 pm by SapphiraAdi
When did I arrive?
I don’t recall ever leaving Alaska.
Why do I hate the dark when I’m alone?
I was on my way to a brighter day
I’m still chasing around.
I still can’t really believe that I’m here. I’ve been here for two weeks now and it still hasn’t really sunk in that I’m at school. It honestly doesn’t even feel like I went anywhere. I still feel like I’m “home.” Yeah, I miss my family and friends, and yes some days I wish that I was back with them, but more then that I wish they were here experiencing this with me. I wish I had words to describe the atmosphere here, it’s just something you have to experience for yourself, but let me try.
I go to Convo every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and hear speakers and great worship and see thousands and thousands of college students worshiping together and I can’t believe this is my life.
I stay up late into the night just sitting in the hall with the other girls talking about anything and everything and I can’t believe that we’ve only known each other 2 weeks.
I go to classes where we pray before every class and every subject whether it be Hebrew or Drawing, Theology or Psychology is taught from the perspective that it all of it is important to God and we learn both sides of the issues. That you can be a teacher or a preacher, a mother or a worship leader but that all of us are called to use our passions and professions to be a light in the world and I wish that everyone knew that.
I can be talking to someone about the most random thing and suddenly we’re discussing the Bible and God and different thoughts we have about Him and His call for our lives or how He’s speaking to us and I wish that it was as natural to do that outside of the church as it is to do it inside.
I can go outside early in the morning when only a few people are awake and sit in the grass and read my Bible or walk around the grounds praying or sing along to the music coming from the stadium and no one cares because they’re all doing the same thing and I wish that everywhere was like that.
I am being prayed for every day by name and have an accountability partner who I can chat about anything and everything with and I wonder why I never had an accountability partner before.
I go to school at the world’s most exciting University where we spend our weekends at concerts or the movie theatre or playing games with the Brother Dorm and I forget that I’m actually at school and have homework to do, but somehow it’s okay, because who said school couldn’t be fun?
But somehow I believe that this is home.
It’s so good to be home.
(Alaska by Sky Sailing)
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Posted in One Year, Randomness, Songs, Thoughtful at 11:20 pm by SapphiraAdi
Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another (Hebrews 10:25, NIV).
Over the summer I was a counselor for High School week at Lake Springfield Christian Assembly and the missionary for the week was a couple named Chris and Twila who are going to Thailand. The last night of the week a couple of the girls and I sat with them at dinner and got to talk to them and hear their stories and after dinner was over I sat and talked with them for a while afterward. We talked about a lot of things, from relationships to maturity, to God’s calling, to missions, to what it means to be broken. It was incredible how every single topic we talked about was something that I had been thinking about lately and everything they said was exactly what I needed to hear. I love how God knows exactly what’s on our hearts and knows exactly who and when and where to put people in our lives to encourage us and bless us.
Before the week had started I had kinda been thinking questions like, “Who are you?” “What is your purpose?” “What are you doing to fulfill that purpose?” Those were questions that seemed to keep coming up in messages and conversations and songs and just popping up in my head. And after we finished talking I went to the main session and they were already in the middle of worship and the song was The Stand by Hillsong, “And I’ll stand, with arms high and heart abandoned, in awe of the one who gave it all. And I’ll stand my soul Lord to You surrendered. All I am is Yours.” I realized that all I am is because of what God has done, He gave it all for me, and because of what He did, I stand surrendered to Him in whatever way He wants to work through me. I’m His child and I am loved by God. I just stood there so overwhelmed with how everything that night was like God speaking directly to me. First through Chris and Twila and then through the first song I walked in on…
But it got even better, we then sang the song From the Inside Out, that goes, “Your will above all else, my purpose remains, the art of losing myself in bringing You praise” and it hit me that my purpose was also to lose myself for the purpose of bringing Him praise. I wrote and re-wrote and re-re-wrote a longer explanation of what it means to “lose myself” but then I thought of this song by Tenth Avenue North that perfectly expresses what I wanted to say.
But if I let these dreams die
If I lay down all my wounded pride
If I let these dreams die
Will I find that letting go lets me come alive?
So empty my hands
Fill up my heart
Capture my mind with You
It’s so incredible how God can speak to us through so many ways, it doesn’t just have to be an audible voice, it can be through a song, a verse, a book, a person. I love that there are so many ways to hear from God and that He’s not limited to just an altar or a church or speaking through a “priest” but that He actually lives in us and speaks to us through everything. It’s so amazing to think about and I hope that I can live every day of my life to fulfill God’s wonderful purpose for it.
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08.25.10
Posted in One Year, Randomness, Songs, Thoughtful at 10:08 pm by SapphiraAdi
Saviour, He can move the mountains,
My God is Mighty to save,
He is Mighty to save.
Forever, Author of salvation,
He rose and conquered the grave,
Jesus conquered the grave.
Now I surrender.
Tonight during Campus Church the message was about this being the best school year ever and what we could do to make it the best school year ever. And in my mind during the prayer afterwards I was listing all the things I was worried about, all my fears about school, my concerns about what was going to happen, my worries about classes and friends and life in general…
Then we sang this song…
“He can move the mountains … He is mighty to save … author of salvation … Jesus conquered the grave.”
And it hit me.
I was singing to a God who is the author of my salvation and I’m worried about Him taking care of the little things going on my life?
He can move mountains and I’m concerned that maybe I won’t do good in classes?
He conquered the grave because of His love for me and I’m nervous about having to make completely new friendships here?
This year will be the best year ever and it will be that because God is with me and “If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us? And if our God is with us, then what can stand against us?”
So take me as You find me,
All my fears and failures,
Fill my life again.
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in,
Now I surrender.
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08.20.10
Posted in One Year, Randomness, Thoughtful at 6:28 pm by SapphiraAdi
“God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.” – Acts 17:27
Anyone who has been to Cornerstone Festival has probably heard my dad talk about four leaf clovers and how they relate to God, but I thought I’d write my own little note about it since not everyone does go to Cstone and because lately I’ve found more and more four (and even five!!!!) leaf clovers which is really exciting to me. :D
Most people think that four leaf clovers are really rare and yeah, there are more three leaf clovers then four, but there are actually way more four leaf clovers out there then people think. It just takes the time to look and seek out them out. It seems like generally people start looking for a four leaf clover and than give up when it takes a while (me! :P). They don’t know how to pick out four leaves from the multitudes of three leaf clovers because the fourth leaf is kinda hidden behind all the three leaf clovers and mixes in with them, kinda blending in. But the four leaf clover IS there, just waiting for someone to find it.
God is kinda like that too. Some people think that He doesn’t exist, or that if He does He isn’t involved in our lives, or that it is a rare occurrence when God actually works in someone’s life. But God is more real then some think, and He is here with us all the time and He is more involved in our every day lives then we sometimes realize. It’s not like He always reveals Himself in big ways, He’s sometimes in the small things in our lives, kinda mixed in among everything else waiting for us to see Him. :)
I love hearing people’s stories about how they found a four leaf clover, like they were praying and sat down in the grass and there was a four leaf clover, just right there. Or they’ll be walking and be asking God to give them a sign and there’ll be a four leaf clover right by their foot. Stuff like that is so cool and I love when people have those stories. <3 Here’s my story of the first four leaf clover I found…
Last year at Clover Ranch (my dad has found hundreds of four leaf clovers clovers here, where we live, hence the name) I was outside with Susanna after working on something in the house and we were sitting in the grass talking about how neither of us had ever found a four leaf clover before. And I was kinda disappointed that I had never found one and everyone else in my family had. So I was telling her this and telling her how I had been talking to another friend, Zack, who told me that maybe shooting stars were my “four leaf clovers” because I see shooting stars all the time and not everyone sees them as much as I do. I also love stars and my favourite verse is about shining like stars (Philippians 2:15). And as I said what he said “maybe shooting stars are your four leaf clovers” I looked over and there was a four leaf clover!! Like a good inch higher then the other clovers in the grass, just sticking out waiting for me to find. It was incredible and made me so happy. :D
I read this really great quote that says, “To see God in everything makes life the greatest adventure there is.” While I don’t always see God in everything (I know how hard it is to sometimes see Him in the midst of pain and hurt and when nothing is going right) but I have faith that He is there. Because just like a four leaf clover, even if you don’t see Him, He’s always there.
“That you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation in which you shine like stars in the universe.” – Philippians 2:15
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Posted in One Year, Randomness, Songs, Thoughtful at 6:28 pm by SapphiraAdi
Live a life of love.
“Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:7-8, NIV). The heart of the redemptive story is that while we were still sinning and being selfish and turning our backs on God, Christ died for us.
Live a life of love.
“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commands.” (Matthew 22:37-40, NIV). The two greatest commandments are to love God and love people. That’s it. Every rule can be summed up in those two. There’s no way around it.
Live a life of love.
“The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love” (Galatians 5:6, NIV). The only thing that counts is that we express our faith through love. Faith without works is dead, but if our works aren’t done in an attitude of love, they’re worth nothing.
Live a life of love.
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38, NIV). Nothing can separate us from Love. Even when it may not feel like God is there, nothing will ever be able to separate us from Him and His love.
Live a life of love.
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails” (1 Corinthians 13:1-8, NIV). Nothing is worth doing if it’s not in love. You can have everything but without love you are nothing. You can do everything but without love you gain nothing.
Live a life of love.
“Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God” (Ephesians 5:1-2, NIV). We are dearly loved children and are called to live life loved. It’s always been about love. “For God so loved the world…” Everything we do is because of that Love. And we’re called to live a life of love.
This is love
Jesus came and died
And gave His life for us
Let our voices rise
And sing for all He’s done
Our fear is overcome
Our God is love
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Posted in One Year, Randomness, Thoughtful at 6:20 pm by SapphiraAdi
Dear friends,
So it finally hit me Monday night that I’m really leaving. Everyone has been asking me for months if I’m scared or nervous or sad to be leaving or if it’ll be hard to be away from home and I’ve just been so excited that I really didn’t feel scared or nervous or sad at all. But that night when we were all laying outside looking for shooting stars I realized how much I’m going to miss everyone. When everyone was leaving I cried and didn’t want the night to end or to have to say goodbye anymore. I wish that there was a way I could never have to say goodbye to any of you guys, but I know that it’s not going to be goodbye forever and even though things will change, it won’t change the fact that you’ll always be my friends, no matter how far apart we all are.
I was just reading Ecclesiastes and read this “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven…a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance” (Ecclesiastes 3:1,4, NIV). And was thinking, as sad as I am now to be leaving, I’m also still excited about going to Virginia. I’m excited about what God is doing and how He’s going to work in my life and I can’t wait to see what happens at Liberty. Even though it will be different to adjust to living away from home and away from you guys, it’ll be fun and just a new season of my life. I’m excited to meet new people and make new friends, and for all the things I’m going to learn, and the ways I’m going to grow and just the experience in general. Even if it’s hard and sad, it’ll be exciting and fun at the same time.
Karis <3
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07.14.10
Posted in One Year, Randomness, Songs, Thoughtful at 9:26 am by SapphiraAdi
So you thought you had to keep this up
All the work that you do so we think that you’re good
And you can’t believe it’s not enough
All the walls you build up are just glass on the outside
So let them fall down
There’s freedom waiting in the sound
When you let your walls fall to the ground
We’re here now
This is where the healing begins
This is where the healing starts
When you come to where you’re broken within
The light meets the dark
Sparks will fly as grace collides
With the darkest side of us
So please don’t fight this coming light
Let this blood come cover us
His blood can cover us
This is a song off the new Tenth Avenue North CD called Healing Begins. A friend of mine and some of her friends who are students at Regent University made a music video for the song that you can watch here. They did an incredible job and I highly recommend watching it. :) Anyway, this song reminded me of a post I had started a long time ago so I thought I’d pull it back out and finish writing it. I kinda wrote it in mostly questions, partly because I don’t have the answers, and partly to make you think. :)
One of the LU podcasts I recently listened to was by Ergun Caner who was talking about hypocrisy within the church and how the #1 problem that those who are non-believers have with the church is that those who claim to be Christians don’t act like it at all. When I was thinking about this message I was realizing that everyone deals with hypocrisy on some level. Even if it’s not intentional. How many times has someone asked you “How are you?” and you’ve answered “Fine” when really everything was horrible? I know I have. Sometimes it’s just a matter of trust, and how much you think the other person cared. And other times it may be that you were in a hurry and didn’t want to take the time to explain.
So you thought you had to keep this up
All the work that you do so we think that you’re good
And you can’t believe it’s not enough
But other times, many times, hypocrisy can become a mask we put on. We want people to see that we have everything together so we pretend we do. I think sometimes that especially Christians do this, maybe because we think that if we don’t have everything together then we’re doing something wrong. We’re not praying hard enough, we’re not pleasing God, we did something wrong. So we pretend everything is alright. But something I’ve learned is that the Church (as the Body of Christ) should be the one place we should feel comfortable enough to open up about things that we are struggling with, the problems that we are going through, and the things that are happening in our lives.
So why isn’t it? Why do we not feel comfortable admitting we don’t have it all together? If we as Christians can’t even be real about our lives, why should we expect others outside the church to open up to us about their lives? If those outside the church think that we are going to judge them because of the things they’ve done and that they’re not good enough to even come to church, how is that being Jesus to them?
This is where the healing starts
When you come to where you’re broken within
The light meets the dark
I think that no one wants to say that they don’t have everything together because that involves being vulnerable. And what if people don’t care, or blow you off, or tell someone else, or condemn you? But the thing is, no one is perfect, so why do we expect people to be? It’s like we think that once you become a Christian your life is going to be automatically perfect and nothing bad will happen. How would things change if we felt safe enough to be open about everything?
Sparks will fly as grace collides
With the darkest side of us
So please don’t fight this coming light
Let this blood come cover us
Like the main idea of Christianity, is that we CANNOT do it by ourselves. We realize that there is no way we could do it ourselves and that only through God’s grace can we be saved and changed. If we really grasped that than why is it that we think we can live the rest of our lives on our own?
(about their CD “Light Meets the Dark”)
It’s a cry for confession, exposure, and the laying down of our pride. It’s a cry for honesty, for truth, and for an encounter with the One who is truth, and having that encounter change the way we see the world. You see, when we believe this thing we call the gospel, it allows us to be honest about who we really are. Or should I say, it forces us to come to terms with who we are. It frees us to not only be exposed but to be ok about being exposed; to speak our pain and fears out into the open. It frees us to be poor in spirit. Which, isn’t that the goal after all?
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07.11.10
Posted in One Year, Randomness, Thoughtful at 4:49 pm by SapphiraAdi
The night we went to Fuel and heard Brandon preach on ziggurats and the myth of human goodness, one of the other things that he talked about was our testimonies. He asked how many of us thought we had a radical testimony. One of those testimonies where you’re like “Wow, I was so lost and messed up and God like totally radically saved me.” And only one person raised their hand. Then he said something profound…He said that every single one of our hands should’ve been up because last he checked we were all lost, dying and going to hell and God because of His love and mercy saved us when we didn’t deserve it.
We all have a radical testimony.
I definitely didn’t even think about raising my hand. I mean, yeah, I know I was a sinner and that it wasn’t by any of my good deeds that I’m now saved but like…when I share my testimony it doesn’t sound like anything special. People ask, “What did you even do wrong?” And when I really think, I can’t think of many “big” things I’ve done wrong… I’ve always grown up in a Christian home, was saved and baptized when I was little, and have continued to grow in my faith since then. I don’t really ever remember a “time before Christ” and a “time after Christ” like people always ask you to divide your life when you share your testimony. :P I don’t really feel like my testimony is ever going to change anyone because, well, I guess because it seems like my testimony is nothing special.
But the more I was thinking about this message and trying to convince myself that my testimony really is radical I remembered a passage in Matthew, actually the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus says,
“You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not murder,’ … But I tell you that anyone who is anger with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.” – Matthew 5:21-22
(My comment: calling someone “idiot” or “stupid” is the same as calling them a “fool.”)
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” – Matthew 5:27-28
(My comment: I’ve heard that lust is the opposite of love, love seeks the best for the other person, lust seeks to please only yourself.)
Those are 2 of the 10 commandments that I thought I’d never break. I hate hurting people so why would I even be tempted to kill someone? Yet I know I’ve been angry with a lot of people… And I would never commit adultery, yet I know that I have lusted. And that’s just 2 of 10! Going by the standard Jesus set, I betcha I’ve broken all the rules in the Bible. :P This was written in my Bible from a sermon I heard on this passage, “It’s about your heart – not about what you can get by with but about your attitude in doing it.” The way Jesus re-explained those two laws was all about your heart, the inward thoughts behind the outward act. And like my post “the myth of human goodness” said, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). While it may seem like I haven’t done much wrong, my heart is deceitful and wicked and while sometimes maybe my actions aren’t bad, my heart and attitude can be.
Maybe I need to really grasp the depth of the statement Brandon said, “We are completely undeserved. And God saved us. That’s radical.”
“Completely undeserved” …maybe even beyond completely undeserved. We deserved nothing, actually what we deserved was death. lol Kinda sobering huh? We say “God I don’t deserve this!” when things are going bad, and yet, any “good thing” that happens to us, that’s actually what we don’t deserve. We don’t deserve anything that God gives us, but thats why it’s called grace. :) We were lost and He found us and gave us a purpose. We were hopeless and He gave us hope and told us to go share that hope with everyone. We were unlovable, but He choose to show us unconditional love and commanded that we love as He loved us.
I’d say that’s radical. :)
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07.07.10
Posted in One Year, Randomness, Thoughtful at 3:33 am by SapphiraAdi
“That they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will” (2 Timothy 2:26, NIV).
Have you ever been taken? Ever been sucked in to something that looked pleasurable at first but was really destructive? Have you ever been taken from someone?
Maybe you don’t know this, but we all at one time were taken. Through some form or another, we have been enticed by Satan and stolen away from the One person who loves us inexpressibly. Some don’t know they have been taken. Some are still in that moment of life where everything is going good and where sin is pleasurable. They don’t see that they’ve been taken by Satan, they don’t know that under the cover of things that look good is evil, ugliness, and death.
In the movie Taken, Bryan’s daughter goes to Europe with a friend on what seems to be a fun few weeks of following a band. But before they’ve even spent one night in Europe, both Kim and her friend are taken. In the movie they are both sold into sex trafficking and Kim’s father does everything in his power to find her and get her back.
While I doubt any of the people reading this have actually been sold into sex trafficking, the premise and theme of the movie is true for all of us. We’ve all been taken.
And get this… God is the Father who does the same for us.
There’s this haunting line in the beginning of the movie where Bryan is talking to Kim on the phone as the traffickers are moving through the house looking for her and she’s hiding under the bed in what she thought was a safe place and than Bryan says, “They are going to take you.”
Satan has taken us. He has kidnapped us from God and tried to get us addicted to other things, like popularity, wealth, and love. But God is the perfect Father who knew His precious children would be taken but allowed it to happen because He can and will do everything to rescue us back. He will chase us to the end of the world to rescue us and show us how much He loves us. “He chooses, He pursues, He rescues, He woos, He protects, He lavishes.”
The movie was such a great reminder to me of how much God loves me and how He loves me enough to pursue me when I run away, and rescue me when I’m in danger, and protect me from evil when I lose my way.
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06.07.10
Posted in One Year, Songs at 7:30 pm by SapphiraAdi
I’m Still Yours by Kutless
If You washed away my vanity
If You took away my words
If all my world was swept away
Would You be enough for me?
Would my beating heart still sing?
If I lost it all
Would my hands stay lifted
To the God who gives and takes away?
If You take it all
This life You’ve given
Still my heart will sing to You
Even if You take it all away
You’ll never let me go
Take it all away
But I still know
That I’m Yours
I’m still Yours
In my Bible reading I’ve been reading through the book of Job. I actually really like the book of Job, I think because Job is very honest about his pain. He doesn’t pretend that it doesn’t exist, he doesn’t pretend like the pain is all good and that he’s enjoying it. He actually questions God and asks God why and really vents his frustration at God for what all was going on in his life. But through all that and even during his questioning of God, he continues to praise God. It actually says in Job 1:20, “Then he fell to the ground in worship.” He WORSHIPED God when everything went wrong. He may not have understood it all, but that didn’t stop him from praising God. He says just a few verses later, “Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” (2:10).
The thing about what Job’s friends said is that they thought they were helping, and they kept making these huge speeches about how Job must have sinned or God would not have allowed the bad things to happen in his life and how Job should repent and turn away from his sin and everything will be alright. But Job knows that he did nothing wrong and maintains that he is righteous. And the crazy thing is, he was right. It wasn’t because he had done anything wrong that God allowed Satan to attack Job, it was because of his righteousness. Chapter 1 shows the discussion between God and Satan where God says “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” Crazy huh? We hear people ask all the time, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” and yet, right there we see that it’s really not that weird to have bad things happen to good people. I think the question is actually wrong. Kinda like I wrote in my last post, we don’t “deserve” anything. We’re not really “good people” and God doesn’t “have” to give us anything. God does give good gifts to His children, but that doesn’t mean that He protects us in a bubble of good.
Sometimes it takes us going through suffering to see how much we truly need God. When things are going good it’s easy for us to not “need” God. Things are going great, so why rely on Him? Some of the times I’ve felt the closest to God is when I’ve been at my lowest point. Because it’s then that I turn to Him for help and He gladly reaches down to help me, when I should’ve been holding on to Him the whole time.
Throughout the whole book of Job you see Job questioning God, he asks “why?”, he says that he wishes he had never been born, he questions God about why everything happened, and then God replies. God answers Job and says “Where were you when…” “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow…” “Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?” God makes the point that Job is not God, and that God is in control. Job humbly and very shortly replies, “I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted…Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.” Job realized that God was God, and that He had a plan, and that it might not have been for Him to know why, but that God was in control.
It feels like chaos but I believe,
You’re up to something bigger then me,
… And I’m giving into something heavenly.
Something Heavenly by Sanctus Real
There are a lot of things I don’t understand in the world. I don’t understand why bad things happen, I don’t understand why there are wars, why there are famines, why there are hurricanes and floods and natural disasters. I just don’t know. But I have to trust that God is in control and that when it feels like chaos, He’s up to something bigger then me. I know that when you’re in the middle of a hard time it’s really hard to see what good could come out of it. It’s easy to question God and His plan. But now looking back, I would not change a single moment of my life because I know that I would not be who I am and where I am today. I know it’s still hard when you’re in the middle of a hard time to see how it all is supposed to be good but from experience I know that God is faithful and that He does provide and take care of us. And that every thing we go through is part of His master plan. And I definitely trust His plan a lot more then mine. :)
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