The Calling
This weekend Jeph and I attended a Young Adults Retreat in Sunriver with our Netarts group. The whole theme for the weekend was the call...answering God's call in all areas of our lives.
Sometimes it seems obvious what God is calling Jeph and I to...and so many times it seems so fuzzy. We find ourselves asking so many questions...is this what God wants? If we don't do what God wants are we going to be punished? Do we have certain desires of our hearts and in the end they aren't what God wants so we will be miserable? Is God's best, not what we ultimately want?
After this weekend I have to say I have a whole new outlook on God's call on my life(Jeph and I both do). We really have come to the realization that God wants us to love Him, love others, and share Him, obey Him, and everything else will fall into place.
Wow, what a concept! So simple and yet we complicate it so much...I really feel now as though there is no distinct thing I have to choose..Jeph and I both will follow His commandments and move forward with starting a family and thats just fine and that makes God happy to see us happy!
This weekend was filled with good times, good worship, good food, lots of laughter, and I feel really cleansed and able to move forward once again in the kid direction. Thank you God for an eye opening weekend...it was much needed!
John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you; My peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled." (thanks Marcy)
This weekend Jeph and I attended a Young Adults Retreat in Sunriver with our Netarts group. The whole theme for the weekend was the call...answering God's call in all areas of our lives.
Sometimes it seems obvious what God is calling Jeph and I to...and so many times it seems so fuzzy. We find ourselves asking so many questions...is this what God wants? If we don't do what God wants are we going to be punished? Do we have certain desires of our hearts and in the end they aren't what God wants so we will be miserable? Is God's best, not what we ultimately want?
After this weekend I have to say I have a whole new outlook on God's call on my life(Jeph and I both do). We really have come to the realization that God wants us to love Him, love others, and share Him, obey Him, and everything else will fall into place.
Wow, what a concept! So simple and yet we complicate it so much...I really feel now as though there is no distinct thing I have to choose..Jeph and I both will follow His commandments and move forward with starting a family and thats just fine and that makes God happy to see us happy!
This weekend was filled with good times, good worship, good food, lots of laughter, and I feel really cleansed and able to move forward once again in the kid direction. Thank you God for an eye opening weekend...it was much needed!
John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you; My peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled." (thanks Marcy)
1 comment:
Love your post! Isn't it awesome to reconnect with God and come away with a new focus and security that HE is in control?
As far as the jeans go, I think one pair was $78 and the other was $75. They are from a store called Buckle. They have one in the mall in downtown Salem, but you can also find them online. There jeans average anywhere from $60-$120. I definitely have to save up.
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