Blessed.

Hi World!

Well, this is my first blog ever and I am pretty excited about it! I am now offically a blogger =) hehe. I hope that I can write about my many travels and adventures in life but for now I will talk about how wonderfully blessed I am.

God has given me an amazing family, amazing sisters whom love and accept me for who I am, a support group that I would not survive without, a warm house, clean water, abudance of food (I don't remember the last time I was starving, ever.) and soo much more. I just cannot express how thankful I am.

My wonderful friend Camy is here to visit me. Tonight we went bowling with my dad and than got some yogurt. I sat while we discussed her Ethiopia trip at Braums (a wonderful Oklahoman restaraunt you all should try) and realized how blessed I really am. The simpilist things we take for granted, such as, clean water, warm showers, ice cream, sharing our faith freely. I find myself in pity parties often because my life is not going the way I planned. Such lack of faith I have at times, how many moments I make it all about Heather. But how many times has God forsaken me or proven that He is unstrustworthy? Zero. Yet we constantly think our plan is much bigger than the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Camy shared with me a story of a young girl who dropped her whole life, and I mean EVERYTHING (Her boyfriend, college, living a comfortable life etc.) to live in Ethiopia and adopt 14 children. Katie, this girl I speak of, was 18 years old when God called her to Africa. She fearfully, but faithfully obeyed his calling. Her story is such an inspiration of how to live. This reminds me of the scripture in 1 Peter, "You love Him though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him now, you trust him; and you rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible joy. The joy for trusting him will be your salvation." Every picture on Katie's blog you see is of her smiling with so much geniune joy. She is finding fullfillment in serving the Lord even though she is fearful and had to leave everything behind. She is not finding joy in this World but in his works.

I challenge each of us to live a walk of faith, taking up our cross and dropping everything else. This is our souls we are risking ya know.

peace and love,
Heather