Hallelujah, All I have is Christ!!

Isn't it amazing how faithful God is?

And how ridiculous my tendency to lose focus and faith is?

Ah, the Lord is teaching me alot about this sin in my heart.

I prayed and prayed and prayed for things, and after a long period of waiting for them and learning to trust God, he supplies all I need! YET in the middle of God faithfully providing for me, I oh so quickly turn my eyes off of God and on to me and my situations. Yes I say "Praise the Lord, He is faithful" but I realized that in my heart I started getting stressed out, mostly because somehow, somewhere in my heart I said "now I can take it from here". And from there I SOMEHOW begin to think about how great I am and that I was able to do all of these things and that I really don't need to make God number one in this season. Isn't this sick?

And yet, again, the Lord is SO faithful to remind me how weak I am. To remind me that HE is the ONLY reason I am where I am, and HE is the ONLY WAY I am going to make it through this next season. He reminded me of His unchanging grace, and how He will be there to guide me. And also how I need to rely on Him, and Him Alone and He will give me strength.

Wow. What a wake up call. 

I am so amazed by God's gifts. But I am so ENTHRALLED with the giver of these gifts!

God is teaching me that He wants to be my all-in-all. And when I react to closed doors with "Hallelujah, ALLL I have is Christ" the Lord never ceases to provide.

Praise the Lord!

Thank you Lord for your amazing gifts and for answering my prayers! But Lord thank you even more for how you gently take my eyes off of myself and fix them back on you. Thank you for using people and situations and your very WORD to draw my heart back to you, time and time again. I want you to be ALL I'm living for! Oh Jesus, please be my all...

Waling it up...

Praying for you, JJ!

Love you, and miss you! 

Job Update!

So I want to thank all of you who have been praying for my job situation...

God has provided me with a great job!

I finished all the training today! I have it officially!! (after 20 hours of training)

I am now a receptionist at Gainesville Health and Fitness Center (aka, our really nice gym).

I start monday, and I am going to have to change my sleeping schedule dramatically. However - I am thrilled! Here's to the last couple of days of summer!

That's all for now.

But here are a couple of faces I miss terribly!

Welcome to the crazies!

So, I have so many pics I would LIKE to post.

I have no energy right now.

Here's what my life has been looking like for the past couple of weeks....

grandparents/family in town, excessive job training (not that I'm complaining... at all), recording (which requires a lot of time in orlando), band stuff in 

general, doctor visits, pancake fundraiser, helping my best friend pack for college/throwing a going-away-party for my best friend/saying a sad goodbye to her last night, finishing up summer projects. 

Here's what the next couple of weeks look like....

More job training, finishing re-writes for the album, finishing all school prep, scholarship program orientation, missing Sam Storms for another weekend of recording, starting new job (Lord willing) with a CRAZY early shift (which will require dramatic lifestyle change), school starting........ and so forth. 

but it's AWESOME. 

I am loving life, even if it is insane right now.

Just got to hang out with one of my best friends - Mallory! She is amazing. 

And I get to do one of my favorite things this afternoon - PHOTO SHOOT! For the Water's family (some of my favorites)!

Now I know you're just dying for some photos... (haha) ;-)

Here are a few.... (recording at full sail)

Lack lack lack

I apologize for not meeting my promises to post more pics sooner.

I do have pics. But time to post them I have not had.
BUT here is an album from when the boys were here!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2076758&l=5fe9e&id=201410486

These past few weeks have been insane. We spent a week in orlando and ormond... which was AMAZING! I will post pics soon hopefully. We spent a few days with Stephanie which was a blast! And then we drove over to Ormond and spent a few days with Rayna and her family (!!!). David and Abbott came to the beach while we were there! What fun! And then we went BACK to Orlando again! THis week was definitely a highlight of the summer! (if only I had gotten a picture my octupus' garden plate, steph!, haha)

When we got back we got straight involved with the petition drive our church was involved in. (long long story into a sentence - the city went too far and passed a very bad law and so we reacted in getting petitions signed to bring it to a vote). THe Lord was SO faithful to us. Oh my goodness, the stories I could tell you! While we were protesting, there were other protesters that came protesting against us; calling us liars and many other names. One very angry, very emotional lesbian lady told me she would kill me if I took another picture of her. haha, fun times, eh?

Other fun things: ladies game night and scrapbooking day! tennis, our night and all day Saturday with my dear friend Ellie (who is about to move to go to South Eastern :-( ) and many other things. And now Mamaw and Papaw are coming tomorrow! And Steph and the kids later this week! Amazing!!

And for some very exciting news - - - I am now and art scholarship student! The scholarship I wrote about months ago, the one I thought the door had completely closed on... I got a call from SFC saying I was an alternative for the scholarship... and somebody didn't take it! So I am now under the scholarship program! I am going to be a lot busier this fall as a result of it, but still! God is so good!

All the while God is moving and doing cool things in us! How I love our savior!!

Here's a picture for you.


Now I must go and clean.