Fortune Cookies...

The other day I was hanging out with a group of friends and picked up a fortune cookie. Now let me tell you something about myself, when reading fortunes for fortune cookies, I don't really take them and believe that they really have anything to do with me or my fortune or whatever the case may be. But in this case, it was quite piculuar(sp?) to receive this one fortune. It said
something along the lines of " You must make changes before receiving your reward."

Now take a peak at my past blogs, I've been seriously changing alot about myself in the dating ascpect(I used to be TERRIFIED of dating), I learned how much I've changed in just one year in being away from my friends & co-workers (I was searching for way to get back), and just recently I've found out that I have some serious trust issues(never knew I had). Can we talk about changes?! The real question is what is the reward?!

I suppose for now I just need to be patient and live my life as if I had never came across that fortune cookie. Like it says in the Bible:

"Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice...
Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God."
Philippians 4:4, 6

My requests right now are that my mind to calmed and my heart be put to rest through God's peace. No stress!

Make Your Requests Know To Him! He's Listening



Kim S.

And You Thought Men Had Commitment Issues...

It wasn't until someone that I had talked a couple times and hardly knew me, could randomly blurt out one kind of pressure filled night of a conversation, "Why don't you trust people?!" That totally caught off by surprise. I didn't even respond to it. How could they, who I hardly talk to & doesn't even know my life story, accuse ME of not trusting people? Well as I've looked at it more and more since that question came to me, I realized maybe I do have some trust issues. Oh sure I can trust that a person will do something but its those really important things that matter to me.

Did you know that in the dictionary there are 12 definitions for the word, commit?

Commit:

1.	to give in trust or charge; consign.

2.	to consign for preservation: to commit ideas to writing; to commit a poem to memory.

3.	to pledge (oneself) to a position on an issue or question; express (one's intention, feeling, etc.): Asked if he was a candidate, he refused to commit himself.

4.	to bind or obligate, as by pledge or assurance; pledge: to commit oneself to a promise; to be committed to a course of action.

5.	to entrust, esp. for safekeeping; commend: to commit one's soul to God.

6.	to do; perform; perpetrate: to commit murder; to commit an error.

7.	to consign to custody: to commit a delinquent to a reformatory.

8.	to place in a mental institution or hospital by or as if by legal authority: He was committed on the certificate of two psychiatrists.

9.	to deliver for treatment, disposal, etc.; relegate: to commit a manuscript to the flames.

10.	to send into a battle: The commander has committed all his troops to the front lines.

11.	Parliamentary Procedure. to refer (a bill or the like) to a committee for consideration.

–verb (used without object)

12.	to pledge or engage oneself: an athlete who commits to the highest standards.

But I think the only commit that really matters to God is when we give Him our whole hearts.

"So that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God and that there is no other. But your hearts must be fully committed to the LORD our God, to live by his decrees and obey his commands, as at this time.Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD. "
1 Kings 8: 60 - 62

He doesn't except for us all to be perfect, but I know that God expects me to live my life to be more Christlike. He will guide me through these trust issues and help me overcome them. I trust in Him.



Kim S.

On The Edge...

Right when I thought I had everything under control, I was hit with something unexpected. That tends to happen to all of us, I would suppose. These past couple weeks have been a doozy of a life for me, and I know they're just the beginning of my life but God has made it so that I have to put my life in His hands. I really worried alot about what others would think or how they would react to certain news, but then when I finally told them, they shrugged it off like there was nothing. I felt like some manic depressive or something because I was stressing over the REALLY small stuff in life when God wanted me to just live for Him. Whoever came up with the phrase "don't sweat the small stuff" was a pure genius but I don't really think anyone listens to it until its way too late and they're already sweating it all. LOL

Seriously, Don't sweat the small stuff in life. That's all God's work, even then He doens't even sweat it. He knows its going to be okay in the end.

"Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard you hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus."

~ Philippians 4:6-7

Kim S.