to busy to notice.

Soccer at one point fulled my schedule. Especially, when i played in college, it was my everything. schedules for classes was picked around it, activities after school, friends, etc. So after i "retired" I didnt really touch a soccer ball. 2 years. And friday was the first time in 2 years.

Thanks to my friend matt inviting me to summit...i was reminded the joy & love i feel when i play soccer. I have pushed soccer out of my life for far too long. I have forgotten how great it felt to run up and down and up and down the soccer field. how great it feels to high five your teammates. to sweat. to kick a ball. to pass. to huff adn puff. to push. to get pushed. to run. to play. O the joy of soccer. I get a feeling i cant explain when i play soccer, like im on cloud 9. my life was too busy to notice what my true feelings were. I forgot the real reason why i went to college to play soccer. I made it my life instead of it making my life.

I think being so YOU HAVE to play soccer, the eat sleep soccer life in college made me forget how much passion and love i have for soccer. touching on this reminds me too, to set back and to look at the things I may be looking over, have taken advantage of, or barely notice due to how busy i am. i am going to work on this. :) like start writing again. or actually pick up the guitar more than once in a while. and to take on things that reallllly freak me out-like driving.

I am so lucky to have such great people in my life. To challenge me, to remind me, to help me, to love me and accept me as I am. For a long time i was lost, but the people and things i have been doing in my life has been helping me find me again. and as each day that goes by, I praise God for His work in me.

Scavenger hunt

so today was the WYLDlife photo scavenger hunt. SO GREAT!! :) I am so excited to get to know them all! anyways, my group was with the 7th graders and 2 8th graders, & what a fun bunch. They were such a riot in the car, such planned/strategic ciaos.

I am so excited with the 7th graders. I had just met them when I went to the middle school on Wednesday. :) And they came tonight. Totally made my whole night. Im finding the more i put myself out there, the more i am actually trusting God, finding myself and I pray the awkwardness just goes away.

Taking pictures was so great. And actually, this hunt was in a reminder to me to enjoy the moments in life. How we need to just stop and take it all in. That moments like these are something that cant be replaced and need to be kept close to the heart. all we have are these memories, the pictures caught in time. So much in life we are "scavenging" in life, trying to figure out the next step, making plans, etc., but what we really need to focus on are the moments, the special "pictures" we capture that stay within our hearts.

November

November 1st we decided to have a pancake feast. After church we invited a lot of people over and it was team effort meal. One of us cooked the bacon, the eggs, pancakes, waffles, sausage, ect. it was amazing.

Community is so great. Days like that reminds you how you can have a little piece of heaven on earth.

"Two are better than one, because they gave a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone, when he falls for he has no one to help him up." -Eccalesiastes 4:9-10

Jesus loves the little children :)

I currently work as an RDH in a pediatric dental office.

Its funny how i thought that would be the LAST place i would work...and now that i have been working there...i couldnt be any place else. It is just so fitting to my personality. However challenging it may be, it is the most rewarding, frustrating, fun job yet. :)

Kids.

I absolutly love them. At times they may be crazy, not sit still, cry...but overall, just to see them smile and laugh is probably one of the greatest things in the world. I see why Jesus loves the little children :)

I think what I love the most is being able to teach the kiddies how to brush their teeth, to show them the dental world, and for them see that being at the dental office is a fun (not scary) place.

Working here and working with kiddies all day is really inspiring me with my new ELWYLdlife'rs. I am so excited to be teaching the middle schooler about Jesus and sharing how much He loves them. I want to show them that Jesus is fun (not scary) and to understand how great a life with Him truely is.

God is so great, and I cannot thank Him enough for loving His children...myself included :)

just breathe.

sleep. shower. eat. cook. clean. brush teeth. leadership. laundry. friends. homework. God. run. phone dates. classes. water. play. friends. dishes. family. groceries. driving. floss. bible study. read. wyldlife. writing. guitar. prayer. BREATHE.

God I am soo thankful that i am living where i am living. You truely know what we need. What a blessing it is to come home from work and leave the city behind me. every time i drive home past the 96 exit, i see country beauty. the tall bold and bright yellow, green, red, orange, brown beautiful trees verses buildings. rows and rows of cornfields and farm life prancing and munching around in the farmland.

Everyday it reminds me to slow down. to take a deep breath. to breathe. to take it in. to enjoy what God has presented to us. the beauty of His creation. To not take forgranted. To live each day to the fullest. To ignore the craziness. To remember whats really important. To live simply. to seriously, to just breathe.

God gives us life to the fullest.

"Therefore Jesus said again," I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate' whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and to have it to the full." -John 10:7-10

God I pray that no one can get in Your way and cheat me of true prosperity.

Babylon

So Im doing a Beth Moore bible study on the book of Daniel. And wow, we are on week 6 and I can already see and feel my thoughts and my self change. We live in world surrounded by the devil, and "I am and there is no other" is the Babylon mentality. Its amazing that although the book of Daniel was written years and years ago, we very much so live in a Babylonian world.

Doing this bible study is helping me better understand this world we live in. Its helping me better understand Daniel, God, and myself. I have never read or really looked into this book so deeply, and God really is reaching out to me.

I need to not have a Babylonian mentality. I need to be aware of how Babylon is influencing me, and how I need to be influencing Babylon. I need to have people see me as a daughter of God, not Babylon. I need to beleive God is who He is and trust Him with my life. We are becoming so desensitized to the things of this world; divorce, cheating, death, sex, drugs, and the list goes on. The devil is so good at it. I need to remember we are the models for the young ones, and I need to beleive I am holy/worthy and to stop cooperating with the devil. (The devils trick is in every way he can will make us beleive we are less that who we are) Am I embracing the fire or the lions knowing God will pull me throught it?

My biggest question to myself is, am I influencing Babylon, or is Babylon influencing me?? Do people see that the spirit of God lives in me? Am I trusting God or letting my doubts get in the way of His plans?

Daniel is quite the example, and reading the word is making me want to be more like him. I want to know and trust God like he did. Every day I as I dig deeper into my inner thoughts and battles, I become closer to God and am becoming such a better daughter of Christ. I can feel myslef changing; thoughts, actions ect. The more I dig into it, the deeper in get into the nitty gritty crap of my life. God is helping me remove my dead branches and helping me acheive the goal of growing and producing healthy fruit. Renewing the mind and cleansing myself. Am I becoming a godly woman, living up to my name.

Its not easy, the devil has a way of convincing us that we arent worthy, or holy. But I am holy, because God allows me to be.

Whats so crazy as my homepage is biblegateway.com adn this was the verse of the day. couldnt be more relevant to my thoughts. God is so cool.

"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will." -Romans 12:2