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- Name: Shannon
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Saturday, 03 May 2008
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Quote.
"We can do no great things--only small things with great love."
-Mother Theresa
This is a quote that I learned this week and challenged me like crazy.
No matter what thing you do that seems so great is nothing in comparison to who Christ is.
It's small in comparison to what He does every day in all of our lives.
If I think about all the things He's done for me, and even His grace alone, it's beyond whatever I could do. The greatest things you could do for Christ, are nothing to what He does.But whatever small things we do, if there is no love it means nothing.
His love.
His love is what makes our small acts great.
But it's not about our acts, it's about His love.
So whether I am giving a girl in Repo a hug, or share Christ with a stranger, or listening to someone share their life with me, or helping someone who needs a friend, I must do these small things in love.
His great love with shine through my heart that is willing.
Friday, 02 May 2008
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Friends.
This last Sunday, XMIN students/intern did something that they never did before....
HANG OUT.
Sounds weird because we are together all the time, but always at the church, or at someone else's house or with the team. But we've never really hung out just us 5.
We all decided together to go eat downtown Royal Oak, they ate noodles and I ate Jimmy John's (of course). And then went to Starbucks and hung out there for a while. It was cool to just hang out and talk and see what God's been doing in one another's lives.
Of course, I got out the camera to capture the moment.
It was really funny!
I was trying to get a picture of these 3 and they wouldn't even lean in for the picture and then I told them to act like they were actually friends... I think Kyle got the hang of it, not too sure?! -
Proverbs.
Everyone has been in a place in their life where they just wanted to give up.
I look at different times in my life, past and present where I have had to endure through things that I didn't want to do. You always come up with a second option to God's will when you are allowing your flesh to make you weak.
You always justify the sin you are tempted with.
What you want to do looks so much better than what God tells you is good.
But your mind and temptations are good at lieing to you, good at discouraging you.
The one thing that keeps me going is the whisper of God in my ear....
"FIGHT SHANNON! FIGHT!
Fight for truth, fight for obedience, fight for pure desires, fight for holiness...
Shannon, don't give up, I have a plan and I love you. Trust in me, obey me, and FIGHT to do what is right."
Proverbs 16:2
"Humans are satisfied with whatever looks good; God probes for what is good."
Proverbs 16:3
"Put God in charge of your work, then what you've planned will take place."
Proverbs 16:9
"We plan the way we want to live, but only God makes us able to live it."
So am I going to give up?
HECK NO.
I'm going to FIGHT!!!
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
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Patience.
Today in Logos we talked about Patience.
"Of course I have patience, I have God and love in my life....WRONG!"
This is a fruit of the Spirit God has continually, my whole life, had to work on through me.
Of course like we all know, when we pray for something God doesn't just give it to us like that. Like there is a magical button God pushes in our hearts and personalities that only He can turn on but when He does it all of a sudden appears in our lives.
No, it's not that easy. God does place people and situations in my life ....opportunities....for patience. Erika shared with us a lot of different verses, quotes and truth that really challenged me today in Logos.
"Patience is a companion of wisdom" -Augustine
A chapter in the Bible that always kicks my butt
Romans 12:9-13
"Love fromt he center of who you are; don't fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle. Don't burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the <aster, cheerfully expectant. Don't quit in hard times; pray all the harder. Help needy Christians; be inventive in hospitality."
Romans 8:24-25
"That is why waiting does not dimish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged int he waiting. We, of course, don't see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and themore joyful our expetancy."
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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Monday.
Monday's are always fun and usually productive.
Me and Brooke hung out during the afternoon and went job searching.
Then I went grocery shopping for the next two weeks.
Then I watched a really good movie I've never seen, Sense and Sensibility with Kari and Tracey.
The whole movie was really sad, these girls had no good luck.
They were getting dumped and hurt over and over again.
I was waiting and waiting in anticipation for happiness to come, for something good to just happen in their lives.
Then I started to slowly lose hope, thinking that maybe this was one of those awful movies that ends depressing that leaves you annoyed and upset, and I got really worried I was waisting my time.
But, then out of no where, the good news, also known as Hugh Grant, finally came and saved the movie.
I was getting a little worried.
A lot of times I'm like this with God. When I know that God has an amazing plan, I think that everything is going to go perfectly the way I think it should. A lot of times that just leaves me with dissappointments.
I expect this or that to happen in God's plan, and become impatient.
Then I start to lose hope or maybe is it that I lose trust?
I get all these amazing ideas and dreams and expectations of my life and then expect God to work it out exactly how I want it to, instead of just trusting Him to work it out.
Ideas, dreams, expectations are all of God if they lead me to trust in God.
God already brought Jesus to save our day all I have to do is trust that it's all going to work out for the good.
Knowing and learning Romans 8:28 for Real.
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I am in a discipleship program called X-Min in Hamtramck, the center of the Universe! And I love my church, family, and friends.... but most importantly above all else, I love Jesus Christ my Father, Lord, and Savior!
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