the fall is flying!

I have had a wonderful October and November. Getting to be with friends for my 30th birthday, a fun and relaxing shopping trip to Sacramento with my sis, Jenny,a wonderful biblestudy came to a close, Michael and Allie made the basketball teams(after an entire week of tryouts). But mostly this fall, God has been moving in my heart!!!

I don't know why it still suprises me when the Lord answers my prayers specifically, considering all the times He has, but I guess sometimes I think of my prayers as arrows going out into space, and it is so humbling when the Lord specifically answers you in a way that makes you very aware that He is involved in the details of your heart. This week, I began to pray that God would re-focus my desires, and thoughts. It is so easy to look like I belong in this world, and to begin to fit in, but I don't want to, I want to stand out as a passionate follower of Jesus Christ. My attitudes were beginning to take on the appearance of the world. Colossians says to "fix our eyes on heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God, not on earthly things." but how much of my day is spent on thoughts that are temporary and of this world...... Yesterday was when I SAW God answering my prayer. Everywhere I went, I saw hurting people. It was like they were in " bold" and holding signs. An elderly couple in the grocery store, struggling to get their bags into the cart, too sick to be able to help eachother, a boy at the kids school, from a very HARD home, being teased and rejected. A lady I know well, prominent and lacking nothing on this earth, wasting away from designer drug abuse, and a little boy in a grocery cart, being yelled at and pulled on by his very angry, incompetent parent. They were everywhere! Seeing so many lost or hurting people grounded me, and made me accutely aware of where my focus has been wrong. God showed me all day, how much I have, not just earthly blessings,but the love of my family and friends, and mostly, the Love of my Father, and the hope of my salvation and future! Praise the Lord that "here" is not my home, and that I can know that. As fall has flown by, and we are gearing up for the holiday season, I pray you too, will be encouraged to "fix your eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith" ......Let's not fit in! May we not look like the world, but like Jesus.