A thought I've had MULTIPLE times this week: I'm so thankful I'm not allergic to peanuts.
Watched a SIX MONTH OLD purple nurple his dad.
Leesville is a place where only the most kind & wonderful people are allowed to live.
EVERYONE here is angelic & very very southern.
My dream! My home! I love Louisiana.
Got my year long pass onto the Fort Polk army base!! Flashbacks to Maryland every time I go.
Had to leave the Jackson zone with something to remember me by!! Got a lil creative with 5 packs of hot dogs, string, & some tape....
Just some thoughts that have been SWIRLING around in my brain lately.
Thoughts I've been desperately trying to apply.
Luke 6:32-33
"For if ye love them which love you, WHAT THANK HAVE YE? for sinners also love those that love them.
And if ye do good to them which do good to you, WHAT THANK HAVE YE? for sinners also do even the same."
It is so so easy to love the people who love you!
It is so easy to be kind to the people who are kind to you!
That brings God joy, but if you want to IMPRESS God...
LOVE THOSE WHO DON'T LOVE YOU.
Be filled with CHARITY & PATIENCE for people who refuse to give you the same.
Picture God personally thanking you for being the one who was willing to love His son or His daughter when no one else would.
What thank have ye in that situation???? A LOT.
ANOTHA!
"faith forged in the furnace of trials and tears is marked by trust and testimony."
FAITH that is FORGED IN THE FURNACE of trials & tears.
Doesn't that sound like POWERFUL faith?? I want that kind of faith. A HIGHER level of faith. Brother of Jared typa faith!
That also sounds like the most painful thing ever. Furnace of trials?? And tears???
No thank you.
The question is... what do I REALLY want?
Am I willing to be tossed in a painful furnace to gain that faith? Or would I rather be plucked out as soon as the flames make me sweat a lil?
Do I want the faith and the pain that comes to gain it? Or do I want comfort?? And no growth???
I WANT THE FAITH.
I don't want the trials and I don't want the tears.
But I will go through it if it means I come out of it all living a little more like Christ.
I'm thankful that God puts me in places where I get to deliberately CHOOSE to respond like Christ.
Where I get to actively USE & STRETCH my faith and trust in Him and His plan.
I love my Savior and I so badly want him to think of me as a disciple he can always rely on.
Channeling my inner Melissa Spangler.
-SISTER SPANGLER
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