God shows love in funny ways sometimes :)

I know God loves me by Jesus die-ing for me but the ways He reminds me of His love can be a little strange.
This morning I was at home thinking about how I was really hungry for vanilla yoghurt with brown sugar and granola and also chicken and noodles. I hand't had my daily yoghurt for about a week and well I can't remember the last time I ate chicken and noodles.
Next, I went to work and in hopes of there being some sort of yoghurt I brought my granola along too. When I got there and opened the fridge to my delight a large thing of Vanilla yoghurt was starting me in the face!!! :O I have NEVER seen vanilla yoghurt at work before! EVER! It was as if God was telling me "I love you! Here is some of that yoghurt you wanted" haha I love God!  Also, right next to the yoghurt was a big pot of... well you guessed it chicken and noodles!!!!!! oh my goodness! I couldn't believe my eyes I quickly grabbed a fork and tested it to make sure it was what I thought it was. I felt as if God was saying to me, "You didn't ask for this but I knew it would make you happy." Thank You God for the amazing food and alone time to get on the internet! This really made my week! I feel extremely blessed right now to be a child of God!

I am frustrated and don't know what to do

So what am I supposed to do when a person I am helping both doesn't completely understand me and is very stubborn in wanting what they want even though he/she doesn't know what they want. Yeah, if that is confusing to you just think that it is even more confusing to me. It's even more frusterating when you try to communicate and the other individual just says no to EVERYTHING you say even if you say "lets get ice cream"  I understand he/she is bored and did a great job at being patient and has a disability but how am I supposed to reward him/her when he/she has sudden bad behavior right before we were supposed to do something fun? I can't so now the individual is upset bored and I don't know what to do. God show me the answer please.

Some more pictures.

A lake on one of the hikes we took last week.

Anja and buddy together on my Birthday or the day after

Pippy enjoying his VERY rare car ride

Seth on my Birthday at the lake. This was right before Buddy jumped up on the table to see him :)

I loved how the water looked in this picture

Blessed to be a blessing

I have noticed recently how not fun it is to not have money to be able to bless people with random things. I enjoy showing God's love through things such as a pack of diapers, a pair of holiday socks or maybe just some cookies.  I guess I am going to have to find other, less expensive things to give like maybe mailing letters via snail mail or pictures or something, watching children without cost. All in all I am striving to be a good stuart of my finances and time so that I may be blessed to be a blessing to others.

On another note here is a picture to think about...
and yes, this is how she sleeps! lol I love Anja!

22 years of being on the planet

Yesterday was my 22nd Birthday. It is a sobering experience to have your older sister tell you that 22 is great just because there is nothing to look forward to anymore you are forever an adult... I am going to darn to challenge that thought and asked God to give me a plan and vision for not only this year but also 3, 5 and for 10 years down the road. The reason I am doing this is I believe my life has purpose and I have a lot to look forward to as I follow God into the destiny he has for my life!

So here are a few words God has given me for the year to come so far:

Change

Maturity

expansion/ growth

A heart

Love

connection

passion

I was listening to a friend's video blog today with a duel effort of both growing in my German language capabilities and also learning about what has been on his heart. In his last blog he mentioned a quote from Mike Bikle that really spoke to my heart and convicted me to change.

“Money is power, but time is life. You squander your time, you actually squander your destiny.” – Mike Bickle

Wow! Isn't that powerful! This made me think, what do I do with my time? Why do I feel so busy but never feel as though I have accomplished anything? and What are my priorities? And Does my hearts priorities line up with the my time's priorities?

So, what are my heart's priorities?

God

family /Seth the boy I work with

others

friends

making connections

myself

What occupies the most of my time?

too much sleep

TV (WAY too much)

Seth

driving to and from places

unfocused activities

such as taking an hour to clean dishes that would take 15min...

Hiking

Interenet

How I am going to minimize the time I waste.

Be strict on a sleeping schedule, 7 hours

make a list of what needs to be done daily and give a time limit to encourage myself to be an effect worker, not a sloppy one

Set specific time each day to dive into God's Word. at least a half hour twice a day of just Word

Use hiking time as prayer time

Go out of my way to call at least one family member 5 days out of the week

No TV until God allows, includes movies

Invest time into others don't just spend time with them. there is a difference

Internet is to be restricted and focused time.

Use Facebook/twitter as tools to connect not as a time waster.....

Okay time to get off. I will continue later.

More pictures

So I am sitting at Starbucks freezing so I've decided to post more pictures and may blog later.

Anja at the Bakehouse the other day

Seth and his Pooh bear

Anja investigating the water on a hike in the forrest

and empty cup from a yoghurt, nut, brown sugar thing I made the other day for breakfast

uninteresting post...

So I have not blogged in about a week. It's not that nothing has happened in my life it is that I never have internet when I have something I want to blog about. On the news front though is that God is most definitely doing something with my heart. :) God is preparing the IU campus for a great awakening so that when it comes our seeds will not fall on barren ground but will land on fertile soil and sprout healthy trees that will grow strong roots. YES Lord!

Also...

Anja and I have been going on hikes ever since we became a duo nearly three weeks ago. A result of this I have started to really enjoy taking pictures. I will put some pictures up of our walks this past week. It is truly amazing to watch all the plants come back to life.

the incredible egg! :)

So a lot has happened recently but the pressing issue right now has to do with this question.

How do you master the ability to peel a boiled egg one day and fail miserably the next?? The people I rent from live under me and have chickens in the back yard so I have fresh eggs to eat (yum) this the main reason I eat so many eggs :).

This is my amazingly near perfect egg from the other day.

And this from this morning.

But no worries it all results in the same thing, greatness! :)

Okay that is all for today.

Things coming up this week...

I am donating blood

Skyping with Manu!!!!!

Working on my German with Georg

The Spring Encounter

Getting Olympic mittens from Victory International Church!

and I am sure there will be a couple of hikes in the monroe/morgan state forrest with Anja too