This has become my haven in Cookeville. Before, I would sit at Fido all day doing homework, people watch, and just be... but this is totally different. And definitely amazing!
As of lately, my life has been taciturn. Not in the sense that nothing is going on, but that I haven't felt the need or desire to spill my guts to people... and the strange thing is... it's been wonderful. God has been speaking to my heart so strongly and I've just been relying on Him day after day. It's a beautiful thing: the growing of a relationship. Much like when you first fall in love and you have butterflies everytime you talk to that person or get chill bumps when they happen to brush your hand. I'm not in the begin of a relationship with Jesus, but I'm in a new place. It's honestly a place I never thought I'd get to... or even imagine. He's actually real to me. He's alive and very active... He's teaching me and deepening my knowledge and comprehension.
In the past week, it would be hard to even write down all the divine appointments that have happened. God has just been strategically placing me and other people at certain places at specific times and doing His work EVERYWHERE! Often times, multiple people in one place on the same day. It's crazy! Why do we underestimate God's plan so much when He's working on it every moment?!
Lately I feel like in a way people that I'm close to have seen me as distant, but really the case couldn't be more opposite. I've really been able to branch out more than I'm even comfortable with and I've felt so much freedom from my own self insecurities. New people have been placed in my life for a reason and I'm just thrilled to be able to get to know them and hear their story and be able to talk about things that actually matter but also feel comfortable enough to just laugh. Even if it's not about anything in particular. I went through a long period without laughing and man... it is God's medicine for our hurts. How many times do we forget to laugh?
Here's some of the scripture that's been on my heart lately:
- Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. (-1 Corinthians 15:38)
- "Even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity." (-Joel 2:12,13)
- I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love; I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them. (Hosea 11:4)
- But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. (-2 Corinthians 4:7-12)
- "I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. (-Luke 12:4-7
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