Musing on Monday

Here is the Musing for Monday,  June 11, 2012!

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

~John Andrew Holmes

Happy Birthday to...

My younger sister!

Today is my younger sister's birthday. And I thought I would share a story with you.

I was the youngest in my family. And for as long as I could remember I wanted a young sibling, a baby sister to be exact. I prayed and I prayed and I prayed for a baby sister. One day, I remember telling my mom, "I want a baby sister." Her reply to me was that she was too old. My response to that was, "But Sarah and Elizabeth in the Bible had babies when they were old." I am not sure what my mom thought of this...but I figured if God could give them babies when they were older then my parents could still have another baby, too. After all, I didn't think they were old.

So I kept praying. I knew God answered prayers. Both of these couples had wanted children and God answered their prayers. I trusted in Him and believed He would answer my prayer as well.

After being the baby of the family for almost 9 years, God answered my prayers. The Christmas before I turned nine, my parents announced that my mom was pregnant! I was so happy, I started crying. It was the first major prayer God had answered for me! Months later, my mom had an ultrasound. I was privilege to be able to go with. I, of course, wanted to find out if the baby was a girl or a boy, but we weren't able to find out. But I continued to trust God. I knew the baby was a girl. I knew that God had indeed fully answered my prayer. I kept telling everyone the baby would be a girl.

So that June 4th came, just a month before I turned nine years, and I baby girl was born into our family. God answered my prayer. He gave me a baby sister. The one I had prayed for...for nine (almost!) years. Even more, it was in His perfect timing.

Lord, thank You for answering my prayers. Thank You for doing it in Your timing and not in what we may think would be the right time. Thank You for miracles! Amen!

Never give up hope! All things are possible with God!

Matthew 19:26
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Here were the Bible verses that reference the stories of these people who were older, who prayed for their children, and God blessed them with children:

Luke 1:7
But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren; and they were both well along in years.

Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.

Luke 1:36
Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month.

Genesis 18:11
Abraham and Sarah were already old and well advanced in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.

Genesis 21:1
[ The Birth of Isaac ] Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.

1 Samuel 1:20 (ESV)

And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.”

Blogging...

I have been thinking about blogging lately. I would really like to start blogging again and have it be consistent. At this point, I am making it on here to blog about once a month... I would like it to be 2-3 times a week.

But then there are always problems (or maybe excuses), like...

1. When do I find the time?
2. What do I write about?
3. Can I commit to actually blogging that often?

So the answers to the questions...

1. If you really want to do something, you make time, right? I am sure you have heard it said, "everyone has 24 hours in a day, it is all in the way they decide to spend it" or something like that.

2. Well, this blog is called musings, and musings are "thoughts, pondering, reflections, etc..." (More on the word "musing" here)
So what will I write about? Whatever I am thinking about :) I am going to try to post quotes, definitions, Bible verses, and randoms thoughts.

3. Yes...and no. I am going to start out small. I have decided I will try to blog at least once a week. Each Monday, you will (hopefully) find a Musing.

So stay tuned for some more musings made by me!

And let me know what you would like to hear about!

Have a great rest of the weekend.

The Gettysburg Address on Memorial Day

As I was thinking about Memorial Day this year, I thought of this famous speech from Abraham Lincoln. I have highlighted a few sections that stand out for me, but I love the whole thing. Please take a few minutes to read it! This is the speech that Lincoln said would not remember...Let us not forget.


The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Find your Muse - CP! Blog article

Here is an article about finding your muse. What inspires you?

http://www.collegeplus.org/blog/2012/05/11/finding-your-muse

Quotes from some of the Founding Fathers

Here are some quotes I found the other day!

The Founding Fathers knew a government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they knew a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.

-Ronald Reagan

“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.”
~George Washington

Every dollar the Federal Government does not take form us, every decision it does not make for us will make our economy stronger, our live more abundant, our futures more free.

-Ronald Reagan

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
-Benjamin Franklin

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
-Patrick Henry

"Republican believe everyday is the Forth of July, but democrats believe that everyday is April 15".

-Ronald Reagan

Here are some more quotes from Reagan: http://www.slideshare.net/bmw53/rreagan-economics2

 

So close, yet still out of reach - still waiting

This has been an interesting last year. Many things have happened and I had much going on. About a year ago, I committed to several different things. One was a year long job, another was finishing college (among other smaller commitments).

I think that the timing on these things are very interesting. Each of these things will be ending within the next month to two months.

As to college, I am 12 credits away from finishing. I am taking two classes that will end in June. And then I have a math class that I need to finish up and science DSST test that I need to take. 4 courses. 10 weeks. And then I have the summer stretching out in front of me...

I have big plans and big goals. There are many things that I want to do this summer. I want to minister to people, I want to be politically involved, I want a job, I want..., I want..., I want...

Yet with all my wants, hopes, goals, and plans, I know the most important thing is to follow God's will. I want to wait on Him and His plans. While I know I must continue to live my life, I must make goals and plan things out, I know God has a plan laid out. I am trusting Him in this situation. I truly believe He has big plans for me this summer, and this coming year. I have no idea what they are and they may not seem "big" to anyone else, but I know God is writing the story. I just pray that in living my daily life, that my life glorifies God (1 Cor. 10:31) and that I live out 1 Thess. 5:16-18.

In the mean time, I am waiting. (I love the lyrics of this song).