How to Begin

It's very hard to come back to all of you after such a long separation. Partly because I am embarrassed that it has been this long, and partly because so much has happened since I shared with all of you last time.

I took a new job in the healthcare field

I moved into a new place with my friend Margaret from church until the wedding

I planned/am planning a wedding




You see, I am learning how to begin a new life. A life shared not only with my God, but also with this person I love and who is becoming part of me and vice versa. It's interesting and beautiful and distracting and fun and challenging and this guy's pants just ripped on American Idol that I Tivoed so I am losing my train of thought.


Just seeing if you were paying attention.


I think that God's desire is for us to learn to live a new kind of life not just during periods and seasons of transition, but daily as we strive to surrender ourselves to the power of the Holy Spirit and to the Gospel of Love and Truth.


He is good. My life is good, and although you won't hear from me as much in the next few weeks as we prepare for this exciting and amazing transition, I pray that you'll consider how God may desire you to live a new life...

Maybe it means
finally letting it go
quitting that bad habit that separates you from Him
moving out of that ungodly relationship
taking a risk for His Glory
letting Him chip away the walls around your heart
learning to 'love in the Spirit' (as my friend Grace said last night)



I know what it means for me...and it's not all roses and sunshine around That Girl--the chances to live out redemption are begging to be taken all around me and the challenge is to live out what I believe in EVERY aspect of my life. I am praying God will show me how to begin.

I hope you will too...






(PS 37 more days!!)





(PPS I couldn't resist)