LSOF: Finding value in who we are, where we stand right now

Posted on January 18, 2010 by littlestepsoffaith

I remember when I worked at a pawn shop a few years ago. Besides giving people money, we would also sell the products that were either sold to us(people who couldn’t afford to pay off their debt), or purchased brand new to sell.
One of the key items were ” diamonds”
Jewelers would come into our shop with their loupes in hand, and they would examine every diamond we had in our cases.
When they saw one that didn’t look ” clear” enough, they would tell me to put it back in the case and they would continue on their search for their ” perfect” diamond.

What was always so interesting to me is how much value we place on clear diamonds, when the pieces we see that are inside a diamond are natural and beautiful in their own way. The black specs that are found inside the diamond, were created deep inside the earth. Yet, somehow people are only interested in ” flawless” diamonds.

It’s a little concerning though if you think about it, because we have been taught as a society that ” flawless” is better, in so many aspects. Its something that as plastic surgery, and botox has emerged that we should really be concerned at what our children are seeing.

” There is a pretty girl on the face of the magazine, and all I see is my dirty hands turning the page.” -Jewel

We have to learn to look beyond what can be seen on the outside of things, and look deeper.

Sometimes if you look close enough, the diamond can have other stones like; garnet, peridot, and ruby inside them.
And if you just look at a diamond and assume its just black carbon…you might miss out on something more beautiful anyway.

It’s the way we really need to start seeing ourselves, we can learn a lot if we picture ourselves as diamonds created deep within the earth, and naturally beautiful.

We need to stop letting our situations and our past define who we say we are.

In the book of Ruth, there is a woman named Naomi, who actually says allowed, ” Dont’ call me Naomi, call me Mara”
Mara means ” Bitter”. Right then and there she decided she would call herself a pretty negative name.
And it was all, because she was bitter of the things she had suffered in her life.

How different are we from Naomi? How many times have we said something even as simple to ourselves
as ” stupid”, or ” I am so dumb”, or ” I am never going to be like that,” or ” I’m not that smart…” or something
more extreme as, ” my life sucks”, or ” I am so depressed.”

My mentor told me once, ” Unless you tell yourself that you are something…it won’t be true.”

So let’s stop with the negativity already, let’s take ourselves as we are, and maybe start with are actual names.

My name is Angela, and in the greek it means, ” Messenger from God”. I know I am not an angel by any sense of the word,
but I do know that I have purpose in my life, and that it is bigger than I am. WE ALL HAVE THAT!
I am told my name was supposed to be ” Marisa”, but I don’t believe it was an accident. No matter what
people call you…the truth of who you are does exist in the name you were given.

I was talking to a friend the other night and I learned that in some cultures the name you are given is something that is prophesized over your life, because its who you were meant to be.

So the name you were given…does your life represent that?

Take a look at the book of Matthew 16:13-17

In the scene Jesus is asking the question, ” Who do you say I am?”
The disciples answer with answers ” John the Baptist, Elijah, Jeremiah…etc.”

Jesus then looks over at Peter, and asks him the question directly, ” Who do you say that I am?”
and Peter replies without hesitation, ” You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Peter knew who Jesus really was, not just because of signs and miracles, but because in His heart He saw this
man was so different.

Jesus goes on to say in verse 18, And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

Peter actually comes from the greek word, ” Petras” and it means, ” the rock”
So Jesus wasn’t not only telling Peter what He had planned for his life, but He put emphasis on Peter’s name.

So today I ask that you might take a look where you are standing, and look around you….what sort of life are you living?
Are you happy with who you are, and if you are not…WHY?

If you don’t believe you are living a life you were meant to live, and that you are the person you are meant to be…
then look at your own name…

From there you will find that our life purpose is known to us, and also that beauty can be found in our imperfections.

You are perfect being who you are.

LSOF: Writing our way to faith

Posted on January 12, 2010 by littlestepsoffaith

Something that has been sort of a realization to me over the last few weeks as I have really spent a lot of time with God, and just writing.
It is through my writing, that God reveals Himself to me.
I am naturally a pretty “hyper” person. I let my life consume me at times. So when I need to be praying to God…I often can’t get myself to really fall to my knees until I have sat down and just wrote through the day I experienced. I have actually found through the hardest years I have had in my life, I’ve gone back and seen that even though those times were horrible, I saw in my journals how I clung to my faith through it. It was really quite a surprise to me.
I think we sometimes regardless of what we go through if we have ever experienced, hope or faith, that it is always with us; We just forget that its there.
God didn’t create this world to just have pain, and suffering, but love and joy. Sometimes though, we forget that love and joy exist, because we let our pain and suffering overpower us.
That is why I write, because I want to remember that those things exist, I want to remember that there is a crazy world out there, but there is peace within me. It humbles me and reminds me that I don’t have to carry the weight of the world on my shoulders alone, and that the daily demands and things that happen in my life…its apart of life, and as sad as that is to know, it helps me to see that being a slight bit different in who I am in my heart, can be a huge difference in the world.
Something just speaks to me as I write, and I know it a lot of times, because tears just start falling. I remind myself that what I feel at that time, its real, its genuine, and that there are so many people out there in the world, that just don’t know how to feel. I think this helps me to remember.
I never want to write anything that doesn’t have purpose. We got enough junk going out into the world as it is. People forget what real meaning is really out there. I mean how many songs are on the radio that really have depth and beauty? Not many.
I guess I am a girl that should have been born in an earlier time of history. I love Carole King, James Taylor, Linda Rondstadt, Fleetwood Mac(specifically Stevie Nicks), and just so many more. I love them, because they had unreachable depth in their music.
One of my favorite Carole King songs starts out, ” You’ve got to get up in the morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart.” or James Taylor ” Shower the people you love with love..” Linda Rondstadt, ” Life isn’t easy, love never lasts, you just carry on and keep moving fast..” I love I love Stevie Nicks, and Fleetwood Mac ” Leather and Lace”, ” After the glitter fades”, ” Landslide”, and ” Has anyone ever written anything for you.” and I love modern music artists like, ” Enya, Sarah M, Jewel, Nichole Nordeman, Joss Stone, Nora Jones the most… I guess you can say I best moved by music. It just takes my soul back to the level it should be, and then the writing can begin. When I listen to music I can visualize a story, I can add to the lyrics as I listen to them being played.
Writing is a key to who we are on the inside. I think its where we truly live.
I once visualized a story of a girl who had scrapes and bruises all over her body, and a girl who was just so depressed and saddened by her life sat down next to her. They got talking and realized they connected, because of their pain, the only difference was only one was strong enough to show their pain on the outside. God can teach us through our own writing.
If anything, my desire for people is to try to write a little and see what it does for them. I know most people are against writing how they feel, because there is the pride inside them that tries to tell them, ” You are fine, life is perfect, you have nothing to write about.” but really, that is a lie we tell ourselves to get through the day.
When you are alone, do you really think that?
The truth is, we can’t escape ourselves. We just need to accept that thing happen in our lives, that we will go through fire, but that it doesn’t last forever.

My friend Cady(www.cadymcclain.com) and I have been through a great deal in our lives, but we both understand the importance of looking deep inside yourself, And we may have different views on faith, but healing also comes from what we learn about ourselves through others. We are all in this together, and God connects us where we are:)
Because of this, I was inspired to start a project called, ” 30 Days Of Faith”- which more details will come later.
So until then, please go take a look at her blog post called,“You and Me”….

Remember the importance to stay true to yourself in even what you write.

It isn’t always easy to pick up a pen to paper, but take it one day at a time, and eventually words will flow on the paper. Just remember to be real with yourself when you write, don’t hide how you are feeling.
And if you find this to hard…think this way:
Writing is a way we get that prayer to God, that we just can’t get ourselves to speak.

LSOF: The Perplexity of Perspective

Posted on January 4, 2010 by littlestepsoffaith

Hello my dear friend. Whoever you are out there in blogland:) Happy 2010 to you:)

I wonder if you’ve made your ” New Year’s Resolution” as of yet.

If you haven’t, if there are just somethings that you can’t get yourself to give up from a materialistic point of view,
but perhaps you do have something to give up that might be a little easier…

The way you have lived your life to 2010; the perspective you have had on your life, as well as yourself.

What do you think of how your life is right now, and how do you think of yourself?

Well, as you ponder those questions, I felt I would share a little bit about something God spoke to my heart today.

The message at church was , ” Baby steps, to Big Steps”, and I can tell you it was probably the most profound message I’ve heard in a long time.

It was a message for me.

If you are here for the first time to Little Steps Of Faith, I want to tell you that the name of the blog is how I’ve gone through my life, and my faith in God. One step at a time, one day at a time.
But the message God gave to my heart this morning was,
” I need you to stop being so careful with those little steps of yours, I need you to take more risks in trusting me, I need you to take bigger steps now.”

Why this spoke to me so much is, because I have been fighting with my old life in FL, and my new life in Savannah, GA.
I am fighting with myself, and I think I am just going to say that with a huge PERIOD.

There isn’t one part of my life there that I wasn’t fighting with myself to remain the same here. I had to understand that God moved me here so things would be different for me, so I would get out of the comfort zone.
I wasn’t growing where I was. I may have had a lot of people around that loved me, and I do miss them, but for whatever reason God brought me to Savannah not to just ” move me”, but to do bigger things in my life, and around me.

I started going to a church here, that has the same number of people my church in FL started with 12 years ago, and that is just one example, I feel like so much that God is showing me visions in front of my face of my past in so many situations and people.

I keep hearing myself say, ” I have been there…I remember that…This is just like that…”

So I am going to ask the question one more time now;
What do you think of your life now, and what do you think of yourself?

I’ll answer on my side here.

I think my life now could be described with ” possibilities” and the same verse that stalked me from my home in FL, to a Deeper Still conference, and to the ending verse at church I attend now.

EPHESIANS 3:20-21
” Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”

God can do more than we could ever ask or imagine, my life is a testimony to that. I never planned on leaving FL, and I never planned on living here in Savannah and having the things happened the way they have, the good and the bad.
But I do know this; I’d rather have God handle every part of my life then ever think I could plan it for myself.
We have the power to destroy ourselves, before God can ever use us. I have done enough destroying of myself.

I may not be great at a lot of things, but I have the capability to do what I can. Its about effort in this world,
and you can’t pay attention to who thinks what about you or your life…its not about them.

We have a amazing God up there in heaven who loves us, and is there for us at every moment of our lives.

So this year, I want you to focus on the two questions I asked a few times before…and ask them to yourself everyday.
And add God into the mix of it. God knows we are not perfect, the Word says, ” When perfection comes the imperfect disappears.” SO right there is telling us that imperfection is just something we have to face, we can’t fight it, but we can do what is possible to do things a little differently then we’ve always done them just by changing the perspective.

It’s not easy to get yourself out of the rut you’ve been in right away, it takes time.
But we all have amazing things to offer to this world, whether it be doing something for someone, or
saying something to someone.

I encourage you if you don’t blog yet, to start a blog. It will change your life.
Because what happens is you see who you are showing the world you are on your blog.
People will know your heart, because it is right there in front of them on the screen.

I have no problem telling you that I struggle everyday to stay positive and happy, because in reality things are not that way, we have daily demands and all kinds of things to deal with everyday, it takes work to keep yourself happy, and so that’s a great reason to spend time with God, and get to know who you are in His eyes. Let Him speak to your heart and tell you that you’re special. That you have something to give to this world. We all have something. We were created because we have something to give out into the world

We have love. We carry that within us. We carry it and sometimes forget it. But its the greatest gift, and the most
worth giving.

So this year, don’t focus on anything more than to ” Just believe” that you are someone who is valuable to God, and to others. Of course there will be people out there who try to say otherwise, but they just don’t know how much they need people who have the desire in them to love, to be givers.

They will come around. Change how you see those people.

At the end of the day, and at the end of it all…

Who you were to the world in your heart will be the only thing that matters anyway.

Blessings,

LSOF: Walking the road

Posted on December 26, 2009 by littlestepsoffaith

When I was a child and I would tell my dad I was bored, he would reply to me,
” I got an idea, go outside and that white line on the side of the road go ahead and follow it and see where it goes.”
I am pretty sure most parents wouldn’t say that to their child, but I was raised to
know better on the things I should do and the things that I shouldn’t have.
I never did go aimlessly follow the white line…

But our lives though, don’t they seem to make us feel like we are just following the side of the road and it just goes on forever…

Its easy to be discouraged when the daily demands seem to become more than the patience you can take. It takes real self-control sometimes to just deal with our own issues, but dealing with others…I think that is when we have to call for back up.

We can’t take on someonelses road too, we can only walk our own.

You are the one walking in your shoes, you KNOW how worn they are, you know how many blisters you have, and only you know how far of a distance you have walked in them shoes.

I had someone have a conversation with me the other day, one that was one I really rather not have discussed,
the subject was too personal for me, and honestly has stayed with me since that day.

That person hasn’t walked in my shoes. It’s hard to just respect that, because they really did some harm without knowing it, but people that havent’ walked the same road you have…they don’t get it. We can’t hold it against them.

I think most people try to be sincere when they ask about our past, or story, what we are about, where we come from etc.
but they fail to realize that they are treading on the same soft spots of the heart that they have, but just in slight different context.

We all have soft spots, we all have things in our lives that have happened that we don’t want to talk about when we are asked right then and there.

I kind of believe within the sincerity that their is also a hint of selfishness too. That person is thinking more so of what they can learn from you, instead of what it could do to you if you were asked about it.

But still, those people will find themselves alongside of our roads. We have to just bite our lip and know that maybe us telling our story would encourage them someday to tell theirs.

Only your friends, and people closest to you should know your story, unless you want someone at your grocery store or whatever knowing it, I would be careful in who you share it with.

However, I do share on this blog that I have walked a rough road, but that my faith in God has been what has kept me going every step of the way. People have come and gone in my life, but God has always been right at my side.

We are going to walk roads that are going to make us stumble to the ground, we are going to find ourselves face flat from our trials, but we have to remember through our trials, that is where the strength inside of us comes from.

How can you know hope if you never been hopelesss?

Anyway, thanks for letting me ramble a little. I know times our rough sometimes, and I know people arent’ always the easiest to deal with, but in the end…

it is all worth it.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

LSOF: A Promise

Posted on December 11, 2009 by littlestepsoffaith

In Genesis 9, the story of ” Noah and the Ark” is found. Most people know the story pretty well. God had planned on destroying the entire earth; basically He was fed up with their rebelliousness, and was pretty sure that there wasn’t a soul left on the earth that still could be called, ” blameless in sight.”

I know that a lot of people look at this story and look at God as this mean God who just decided to destroy the earth because of the sin, but it was not out of anger.
He wanted to do it out of his own pain, He actually grieved at all He created.
I kind of remember the part in the movie, ” Bruce Almighty” and their is chaos everywhere and Bruce looks at a sign that a homeless man is holding, ” Kingdom come” or something like that, and that man was really God in disguise waiting to see if someone would just ” get it”. If someone could really stand in his shoes for a day.
We can also see the same concept in Nichole Nordeman lyrics to the song ” Why”

And it said, “Father, why are they screaming?
Why are the faces of some of them beaming?
Why are they casting their lots for My robe?
This crown of thorns hurts Me more than it shows
Father, please can’t You do something?
I know that You must hear My cry
I thought I could handle the cross of this size
Father, remind Me why
Why does everyone want Me to die?
When will I understand why?”

“My precious Son, I hear them screaming
I’m watching the face of the enemy beaming
But soon I will clothe You in robes of My own
Jesus, this hurts Me much more than You know
But this dark hour I must do nothing
Though I’ve heard Your unbearable cry
The power in Your blood destroys all of the lies
Soon You’ll see past their unmerciful eyes
Look there below, see the child
Trembling by her father’s side
Now I can tell You why
She is why You must die”

I mean I think sometimes we perhaps forget that God was just as grieved in having to destroy the earth as he was when His son Jesus died on the cross.

I get tired of hearing that God was meaner in the Old Testament, He is the same God then as the New Testament, I think the only difference was the people actually started to listen.

I mean thinking about it, could we begin to imagine how frustrating it was for Him to get his children to acknowledge His existance and obey?

Noah did obey God, scripture says, ” He walked with God” and I am pretty sure that means that He knew God was God and he was not, but that it was right to fear God.

I kind of wonder how God looked at Noah, I wonder what it was like for him to have looked over everyone in the world, and just hurt more and more, and then see Noah down below. Taking care of his land, and his family. Teaching his family about God. It almost brings me to tears to think of what it was like for God to finally know someone was still listening.

Another level we might see is that even though the ” church” hadn’t started yet back then, maybe God also knew Noah as someone who believed in Him, while the rest of the world turned to idols.

I am writing about this story today, because the picture I have above is what I saw today in the sky. I was just looking at the clouds and it was as if God just wanted to dab some ” rainbow” on a cloud enough to be seen for a moment or so.

I am working on somethings obviously in my heart right now, and I really needed that reminder that God still saw where I was and what I was going through. I wonder if you may have felt the same way at times, or maybe even right now.

I don’t take any rainbow for granted, it is a miracle that they are created in the sky. I always thank God when I see one, because they don’t always appear at times you expect them to, its all by God’s timing.

I also placed, ‘ I have a colorful inheritance” inside, because seeing that rainbow today reminded me that I have led a life full of color, and though they haven’t always been my favorite colors, still they were a color God would recognize happening in my life.

I was reading a friends blog yesterday, and she talked about a lot of tough things that have happened in her past, and at first I was like, ” Wow, this is a lot, and in someways I can relate to this.” and from there I started thinking back to my past of things and ultimately became a little depressed.

The rainbow today though taught me a lesson.

For everything we go through in life, I think if we see if as having a color to it, I mean perhaps it will be easier to organize in our minds, and perhaps we start to heal because we may not understand the situation, but we understand what the color is we are looking at. We know the color that we have given the situation.
I mean colors are beautiful in a rainbow, and I think what I am trying to say is, because of God the worst of our situations can sparkle where God can use it in our lives for good.

We just have allowed our problems to become bigger than the life that is there for us.

Somethingelse that I will add here is that I was watching ” The Inheritance” today, and I would have added something to Beth’s message that God brought to my own heart as far as possession goes.

I think having too much possession on our past hinders us. I think we keep it too close daily, and I think we live with it at our side, because its what we are used to. We don’t have to keep our past with us, and we don’t have to move to another state to do that either.

We have to realize we are people that are free from our past, and we must let it go into the wind.

LSOF: Creating our own prisons

Posted on November 27, 2009 by littlestepsoffaith

In the beginning of Ephesians, we see that Paul is writing his letter while in prison. It is also the book that is known as,
” The Prison Doxology”, and with good reason if you read on through.
My purpose today though, isn’t to share about the letter he was writing, and the lessons that were taught…
while all so vitally important, I think the focus should be that he was writing from a single candle light, if any,
he could hear the screaming of the prisoners from all around him. He may have been without food or water for days…
we don’t know what his conditions were at that time,
our focus shouldn’t be the prison, but how he pushed his mind through to a deeper place,
that he could possible close his eyes and picture his meeting with Jesus on the road.
That even though he was in an unfamiliar place, he still had a very FAMILIAR God close to his side.
And God knew every moment what would happen next in every little breath.
I think Paul knew that being in the prison was just another test of his faith, and the test wasn’t how long he could keep
his sanity, I think it was how long it would it take to remember Jesus each morning he awoke from his situation.

I think we can all very much relate to this.

Have you ever had something happen to you in your life, that truly left scars on the inside?
Something that even though you’ve had years of counseling, and praying to be set free from…you still
remember every now and then?
Perhaps it was a person; a relative, a friend, a boss, or a teacher in your past that perhaps hurt you in some way,
or maybe it was a loss of something or someone…whatever it is, whatever you did or didn’t do, or they did, or didn’t do…
The prison bars are up.

I believe I finally allowed myself to be set free from something recently that has bothered me for almost 15 years or so,
it was something that deep down inside me hurt to even think about at times. It literally has kept me from being close to people that love me. I have always loved people from a distance.

Without sharing that situation I will tell you that in a simple email, I was able to see straight to my face that this was something that had no reason to be holding me back.

I want to say that we can’t allow a few things that happen in our lives to define how the rest of our life will be like,
because in a way, aren’t we trying to play God? Aren’t we throwing ourselves to the darkness?

I have decided that I am going to be more vocal when it comes to helping people find the best of themselves, because concentrating on the things that have been God given gifts…that is what defines us, the beauty we can help God create into the world.

Living here in Savannah, it hasn’t been an easy start.

I almost did the Thanksgiving thing by myself, I planned on my friend going to her dad’s and I would make myself some
chicken fahitas.

I ended up going with my friend Nicole to her dad’s house.

She lost her mom last year, and she was the one telling me to my face today,
” Angie, at least you came to Savannah knowing someone, you could have moved somewhere where you didn’t know anyone,
and you need to just appreciate that.”

It’s the truth, I moved here and the enemy gave my mind a good materialistic view on what I didn’t have here,
my family for example, but I completey didn’t realize the things I did have here.

I hope if you are reading this that you look around you today…and appreciate the little things that are right in front of you.

Be thankful for them. Because YOU HAVE THEM:)

LSOF poetry: Deep

Posted on November 21, 2009 by littlestepsoffaith

Deep
By: Angie Sarich

Sometimes the depth of my heart
is to heavy to bring to the surface
of my mind.
Its as if my thoughts dived into
my veins and the blood circulation
beats of new days.
The sun shines from a different side of my
world, and reflects
from the surface of monarch butterflies
and honey bees.
Its rays seem to be caught in the scent
of the magnolia tree.
Yet the same blue sky and white clouds
capture my view from above me.
There is a strange serenity around me,
and I’ve never been one to fear peace,
but sometimes in the stillness of the moment,
I feel a tear fall from my eye…
and wonder if maybe
I still need the noise.

LSOF: The Faith Storm Part 2- ” Gone with the wind”

Posted on October 28, 2009 by littlestepsoffaith

Out of the stillness, the trees start to dance. Sway back and forth. You can smile now, because the wind has returned,
and God is moving!

Something that you notice though…the branches of the trees start to crack and whistle. And all around its like a symphony of a breaking tree limbs.

The wind has changed direction.

I wonder if maybe you are in the ” eye of the storm” stage, and I wonder how you might be handling it.
Are you believing He will get you through, are you believing that He knows what is best out of the situation?

I hope that my story has encouraged you, because the next part will blow your mind as it has completely for me.

I will begin by saying, I’ve posted about ” Spiritual vs. Earthly timeline” and how there is the whole other part we don’t realize is happening in the background of our life, but we concentrate so much on the earthly.

Here is my timeline for ya:

I got a blessing in the mail—>I went to Deeper Still and met Beth Moore:)—>I received a class grade for all the effort and not the intelligence—>I went to Savannah and got to spend sometime with great friends…

OKAY, the next part is where it gets crazier.

I have been praying to God about showing me what the next step is. I knew it in my heart that He wanted me to leave FL, but I wasn’t quite sure where. So I had it on my heart that He wanted me in Savannah…I wasn’t sure.

While I was in Savannah, I needed to attend a church service. Nicole and I found a church locally that seemed to be a religion I was used to. We walk in, we sit down..and um, realized we were a little different.
The music was amazing, but the message…not the best.

The Pastor was supposed to be speaking on Joshua 4, ” If these stones could talk, what would they say?” well,
without going into it, I’ll just say I had five sentences of message notes…and the Word wasn’t mentioned for an hour in a half!
I ended up walking out.

I walked into the CVS and I was there to get a drink, noticed the line was insanely long.
So before I walked out the door I stopped and decided I would give my name to the manager there,
” I am a manager at the store in FL, and will eventually be looking to transfer maybe up here
if anything should come available in a few months or so.”
The girl took my name and said sweetly, ” We will keep you in mind if anything should come up.”
Nicole and I then left and proceeded to a coffee shop.(as if that should shock you.)

I went home got on the computer and decided if I could hear something good
Beth Moore would have a message on, oneplace.com.
I put the most recent message on the player and listened.
Beth began speaking on Joshua 3 and 4! I am NOT joking.

” God is going to take you to a place you might not be ready to go yet, but you must go. Have courage”

I didn’t really know why, but I began crying, something in my spirit felt God moving, and I wasn’t sure what He was going to do.

I got a phone call the next morning as I was watching Joyce Meyer, she was talking about ” Do it scared.”

It was a store manager at another CVS. He had contacted the store I dropped my name off at, and said his manager had given notice and wondered if they knew of anyone. The girl I had spoken to that day had given him my name.
And that He would like to meet with me.

I got off the phone with..” What was that?” to Nicole. She and I laughed our heads off..could this be for real?

It WAS for real…and I did meet with him, and I leave to move my state of FL…and move to Savannah Georgia,
in 9 days!

Everything is falling into place so this can happen..

I almost can’t finish this post, because the tears are welling up in my eyes…

God heard my prayers. He answered me. He said ” I want you to go to Savannah, Angie.”

So here I go, I am packing up, and I am moving away from everyone I know and love! and I am moving to a state to friends that I met in 2001 and I would never thought would still be in my life today…

It was all part of His plan..

It was always apart of His plan…

He is amazing.

And on a side note, I saw ” Life Today” this morning, and Beth is talking on Psalm 139…” I am fully known”
and I loved it!

Love you all.
angie

LSOF: The Faith Storm

Posted on October 23, 2009 by littlestepsoffaith

A rainbow that appeared in the sky after precious time with God:)

I am standing here at the wall of Lake Monroe. Above me ominous clouds seem echo visually over the entire horizon.
Sweet drops of rain fall over me, and on this page.
The water is so calm, barely rippling…
My friend showed me this morning a verse she is learning in her bible study, ” The Truth Project”.

Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

God’s attributes can clearly be seen if we look hard enough.

The Lord brought to my heart on the drive here the hurricanes that we’ve had here in FL in the past.

I remember standing outside as the winds became more severe. The rain pelted everything around, and the trees held onto their roots for dear life…

He showed me that our faith in Him is just like being inside a hurricane.

The roughness of the winds are just really if you think about it the force of God’s blessing and will over our lives.
Something else that my friend and I discussed was that you don’t know what it is like to experience something good or something bad, until you experience it.

It is just so when it comes to walking through God’s will.

Thing after thing can happen, and make you smile or bring you straight to your knees, and then…
things seem too still for comfort. The sunshines on you, and blue skies are clearly above, but
you don’t feel like you are really in God’s will…because nothing is happening.

It’s what is called being inside the eye of God’s will.

This is the part where He looks down from heaven and sees that in the stillness, if we will still believe.

This is the place our souls wait for the Lord to take us into another direction of wind.

I am in that place right now. But something that made me cry when He spoke it to my heart.
The eye isn’t the only place we have blue skies, that they are all around us through the storm,
He is always in control.

To think that God even decided the shapes the clouds turn every moment.

The wind blows gently on me…its God’s gentle spirit.
Reminding me He is love…and He is still in everything.

This one part of Hebrews 3:12 really struck me today.

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

I look out at all this, and think to myself…How can I think for one second that God couldn’t handle my little world?

I saw the movie, ” Amelia” today. I wanted to watch a movie that was going to clearly reflect God.

Maybe Amelia didn’t make it across the ocean, but I think her heart met with God clear before she ever took flight that day, and was already prepared to meet Him.

I want to have a faith that reaches to the skies.

Of course it would take more that saying it…for it to happen.

Right this moment, as I hear the rumble of the airplane behind me…I say…

I’ll believe you Lord, in even this.

Blessings,
Angie

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