Relationships

So I see this facebook thing on Heritage's website and I decide I will sign up. I sign up and think to myself, yeah I will never use this again. I don't even know enough people to have any friends. Well this thing has really got me thinking. I have lived my entire life trying very hard to 'hide' myself from others and not let them get to really know me. Sure I have lots of acquaintances that know me, know who I am, even know some things about me, but they don't really know me. They don't know who I really am deep down inside. They don't know why I have made the decisions in my life that I have made, be those good or bad. I have tried to dodge having any meaningful 'relationship' with anyone other than those few very close friends. So looking at facebook today, I am thinking look at all these relationships. All of these people connected to each other in some way or another. I start to hear in my head what I have learned so much about in these last 6 months at Heritage, life is all about community, relationship, bonding with others. Getting to know people, sharing our lives together with God. I am starting to learn how important it is to have the support of Godly people in my life. God meant for us to uplift and hold each other up. We were not meant to go through this life on our own. We were meant to do it with Him, and with those strategic people that God placed in our lives. Each for their own reason, to fulfill your life in some significant way.
So now I am seeing facebook and thinking "I can have community here with the people I don't get to see on a regular basis." God uses everything for His good in his beloveds lives. Isn't that great? I am rethinking my constant 'hiding.'
God help me to stay in the center of your will, in every thing I do.

First Blog

Okay, so here I am. I have joined a blog spot. Wow, and since I have said that we all have something to say, well then I realize that I am at a loss for words!! I am all talked out I guess. My friend Haley and I were talking for a long time about our new attitudes. It can be so lonely sometimes, when you get to that point in your life where you realize that you can't do it alone anymore and you have to change. You have to surrender your life to the One who has been waiting all along. It feels like the most wonderful thing in the world to you. But you know that those who have known you all along are going to think you have flipped out or gone all 'Jesus Freak'. Maybe I have. Or maybe they don't understand. I read 1 Corinthians 2:14 tonite and it made me feel good. It says "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned." So reading that, I guess God was trying to tell me exactly what it says. I also realized tonite that the people who really really love me will accept it and not only that will be very happy for me.
So that being said. I am a new person, but it is not of me, because I could not be it alone. It is definitely God changing me and making me a different person. I am so excited about it.
I am going to have come from nearly losing everything, to God blessing me with all He has to offer. So this story is definitely to be continued...