For Everything there is a season

As I think about my life, and reflect on all that God has given me the ability to do. So much has changed over the last couple of years, and what would make me think that things would stop changing because it is inevitable that things will continue to change. I look at my life and I am so thankful, God has given me so much and I truly believe that He has blessed me with so many amazing new opportunities! I have been blessed by my church, and the amazing family it has provided me. I have been given the ability to speak into peoples lives that I never would have thought would be possible. I am so humbled because that was never a goal for me, and yet it has blessed me beyond all words.

Lately God has started to shake things up a bit for me as well, and I am still learning that I have so far to go. I am learning so much about where I am that it is crazy. But I am loving that God is providing so many people to speak into my life and stretch me so that I do not remain complacient. I never want to grow bored because I know that I have come so far, but yet have so much further to go.

Our lives flash before us in the blink of an eye. 24 years has flown by, and so much has changed. Friends have come and gone. I have learned that seasons are constantly changing we always entering and exiting them. Which can be exciting, but also scary at times. I trust in the Lord that he will get me through everything because he has brought me here and I know that he will never lead me. I am no better than David and Daniel two amazing men in the bible, so why would I not be expected to go through seasons of difficulities and hardship? 

I have truly loved having people around me that believe in me because it motivates me to reach higher, my God is big and I know that together we can achieve anything! 

This past week I have learned so much, and it hasn't all been so ideal. My job has been a rollercoaster, my faith has been tested, and we lost a youth student this week.

Although I wasn't the closest to Paige she made impact on my life, I remember her smile, and the impact she has on my friend Sarahs life, as well as so many people in my church as well as our youth. It is hard when you lose a teen at such a young age, because you can't help but wonder why. You can't help but think how much of an impact they could have made on this world, but I know that God brings beauty from the ashes and I know that her life was not in vain. I truly believe that we will see so much fruit from her life for a long time. Being at that service Saturday and seeing hundreds of people raise their hands and surrendering to the Lord, was indescrible. I think it is so truly amazing what strength has been shown from my leadership Pastor Chris and Nicole as well as Paige's mentor Sarah Weeks. I know that God is using them in amazing ways because they inspire so many people both young and old. I pray for Sarah because I know what it is like to invest in someones life like that, and I know that when you invest we pour our wholeselves in it both spirtually and mentally. It is not an easy challenge, and you know it's God because if it wasn't you would walked away a long time ago, but our eye of potential see's so much more, we believe so much more for them. I know that if any of the students in Velocity were to pass it would be extremely hard for me, but my mentee that would seriously bring so many questions because I value my mentee's so much. I can truly tell what an amazing woman Sarah is because I see the strength the Lord has provided to her in these challenging times.

I don't have any answers the only thing I do know is that my God is good always.

When we don't know why, we must trust and pour ourselves into his promises because it is in them that we find our strength.

My life has had highs and lows, and it is in the lows that I have learned so many things about myself. I may not always like what I find, but it is so important to be working on it, rather than ignoring it.

This scripture really spoke to me in this time of transition regarding the seasons of our lives and how changes are always coming before us and it is how we adjust to them that will be the takeaway.

A Time for Everything

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

~Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

I don't know much, but I know this much is true, God is up to something, he is up to something for the good in me and you.