So I'm sitting at my mom's office desk at Fontanel waiting for the phone to ring so I can play "secretary" and I was browsing on The Rabbit Room and found The Coolest Mugs EVER!!!!! Much to my dismay, they are already sold out, but Pete Peterson(Andrew Peterson's brother and the person who blogged about said mugs) said he was going to order more and they should be in by June. Needless to say, as soon as they get here I'm SO getting one! I have a feeling my favorite Cinderella mug is going to be on the shelf more often. Any-hoo, you should go check them out, they are super cool. And see if you can guess which one I want. ;)
Jessie Rae
"It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring..."
P.S. I really really really want to go play in the rain. Just sayin'.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Brasso,Yummy Cookies, and New Freedom
I hit the ground running today at work. There were tons of people there today and it seemed like everytime I went to clean a certain area of the house...alas I was in someone's way. :/ So my trusty sidekick Ally and I hid away in the master bathroom, polishing brass. Now polishing brass isn't exactly fun, but add some music and good converation and you don't really realize that you are working. However, after about and hour and a half of sucking in Brasso fumes....ya start to feel a little funny. :P I had opened a window when we started to try to keep the room from getting too unbareable, but that apparently didn't do much. So I thought it best to be done polishing brass for a while and decided that sweeping the Great Room floor for the thousandth time wasn't so bad. :)
Other than getting high on Brasso fumes it was a pretty ok day. Lunch time is always my favorite part of the day and today was no different especially since we had leftover cookies from church yesterday. :D If you didn't get one yesterday then I pity you greatly! The recipe was a creation of my mother's that she came up with a long time ago. It's been in our recipe box for ages and I up and decided to make them...good move! Have I made you hungry yet?
Since my last blog post I've discovered how freeing it is to not try to plan your own life out. Even today I just felt at peace that God is in control, not me and that he knows what's best. Takes a load off my mind! :)
I'm also asking God to give me a more thankful heart so, here's a little list:
I'm thankful for:
My mom who keeps me laughing
Music that I can sing along to at the top of my lungs even when the person in the car next to me is staring at me like I've lost my mind. :)
Peace that passes all understanding
Encouraging e-mails from sweet sisters in Christ
Restoring of friendships
The sweetest little brother ever who as I typed the above line began to excalim"you have the most beautiful eyes ever! I envy your eyes, they're so blue! You could swim in them!"
I'm posting a Relient K song that I think is so sweet and I love it! You should totally listen!
"Thou the spring of all my comfort,
More than life to me
Whom have I on earth beside Thee,
Whom in heav'n but Thee"
Other than getting high on Brasso fumes it was a pretty ok day. Lunch time is always my favorite part of the day and today was no different especially since we had leftover cookies from church yesterday. :D If you didn't get one yesterday then I pity you greatly! The recipe was a creation of my mother's that she came up with a long time ago. It's been in our recipe box for ages and I up and decided to make them...good move! Have I made you hungry yet?
Since my last blog post I've discovered how freeing it is to not try to plan your own life out. Even today I just felt at peace that God is in control, not me and that he knows what's best. Takes a load off my mind! :)
I'm also asking God to give me a more thankful heart so, here's a little list:
I'm thankful for:
My mom who keeps me laughing
Music that I can sing along to at the top of my lungs even when the person in the car next to me is staring at me like I've lost my mind. :)
Peace that passes all understanding
Encouraging e-mails from sweet sisters in Christ
Restoring of friendships
The sweetest little brother ever who as I typed the above line began to excalim"you have the most beautiful eyes ever! I envy your eyes, they're so blue! You could swim in them!"
I'm posting a Relient K song that I think is so sweet and I love it! You should totally listen!
"Thou the spring of all my comfort,
More than life to me
Whom have I on earth beside Thee,
Whom in heav'n but Thee"
Friday, April 23, 2010
Letting Go, Surrending All
Back in December, God started turning my world upside down and started ruining life as I knew it. The past four months have been full of struggles, heartbreaks, and consequences of my choices. He began to show me areas of my life that I hadn't surrendered to Him and was bringing about trials to help me grow in Christ and surrender all...But, I'm a slow learner and maybe even a little stubborn. Up until a couple of days ago I was pretty sure I knew what God's plan for my life was. I had it all planned out for Him because I was unwilling to live by faith and trust that His plan was the best even though I couldn't see that plan.
Some of you may have experienced this before, but let me tell you my plans and dreams were/are very dear to me. I like my dreams. I made them up. I chased after them. So when my "light bulb" moment came a couple of days ago and I realized that I needed to officially let go of my dream, it wasn't like your typical "light bulb" moment. Typical light bulb moments are inspiring, happy, even fabulous...but not this one. It was like a door being slammed in my face and when I turned around to find a window, there wasn't one. It was painful. It hurt a lot. And and an all too familiar sick feeling came into the pit of my stomach. It hit me...I have to let it go, I have to move on. Because even though I have a life, it isn't mine. When I became a Christian I gave my life to God for Him to be Lord over it for His purposes. And even though this process is painful, I'm praying for the faith to believe His promise that all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose. And that this pain, this trial, and even the mistakes along the way are part of my sanctification.
Deciding to let go is a lot easier than actually doing it. And now that the process has finally begun, it's tempting to turn back, to try to pry ope those doors that God is shutting. But His grace and the power that I have in Jesus Christ I can do all things. His grace is sufficient.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, please please please, pray for me. This is so hard and I can't do it alone. I'm sorry if this post sounds a little abstract or just doesn't even make any sense to you. But that is all of the detail I feel like giving on a public blog.
Along with this post I'm putting up songs that I feel like express in a more poetic way what I've already written. I hope you enjoy them.
Love Always,
Jessie Rae :d
"From life's first cry, to final breath, Jesus commands my destiny..."
Some of you may have experienced this before, but let me tell you my plans and dreams were/are very dear to me. I like my dreams. I made them up. I chased after them. So when my "light bulb" moment came a couple of days ago and I realized that I needed to officially let go of my dream, it wasn't like your typical "light bulb" moment. Typical light bulb moments are inspiring, happy, even fabulous...but not this one. It was like a door being slammed in my face and when I turned around to find a window, there wasn't one. It was painful. It hurt a lot. And and an all too familiar sick feeling came into the pit of my stomach. It hit me...I have to let it go, I have to move on. Because even though I have a life, it isn't mine. When I became a Christian I gave my life to God for Him to be Lord over it for His purposes. And even though this process is painful, I'm praying for the faith to believe His promise that all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose. And that this pain, this trial, and even the mistakes along the way are part of my sanctification.
Deciding to let go is a lot easier than actually doing it. And now that the process has finally begun, it's tempting to turn back, to try to pry ope those doors that God is shutting. But His grace and the power that I have in Jesus Christ I can do all things. His grace is sufficient.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, please please please, pray for me. This is so hard and I can't do it alone. I'm sorry if this post sounds a little abstract or just doesn't even make any sense to you. But that is all of the detail I feel like giving on a public blog.
Along with this post I'm putting up songs that I feel like express in a more poetic way what I've already written. I hope you enjoy them.
Love Always,
Jessie Rae :d
"From life's first cry, to final breath, Jesus commands my destiny..."
Monday, April 19, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Epic Failure
Ok, so maybe that's a little dramatic of a title, but would you expect anything less from Moi? :)
Any-hoo, the "Epic Failure" is my failure to keep up with the blog you are presently reading. I still need to blog about the ball a few weeks ago, I just got back from a fabulous Florida vacation that needs a good post, and I'm sure I will have LOTS to say about my weekend with Sister and the Owl City concert on Monday!!!! For the first two items I am in need of pictures (hint hint cough Carmen cough) and the last 2 items(obviously) haven't happened yet. But when I get pics and the events do happen I will indeed blog about them. :)
In the meantime,
Pray for me. This past week has been a struggle for me. Getting back into the swing of things after vacation, trying to shake the laziness, battling in my thought life, and fighting the cloud of discontentment that threatens to ruin the beautiful sunshine. In my life right now I feel like all I do is wait. I feel like I never get to do...I just wait for another job,a car........ a husband..... It's almost like I'm in a never ending cycle of get up, go to work, come home, fix dinner, clean something, go to bed, get up, repeat. I feel like I'm whining right now and I hate whining, but I'm just being honest..trying to stay open rather than keep this all to myself like I really want to.
To you Dear Reader, Thank you for reading my whining. Blogging for me is a humbling thing if I actually blog about what is in my head. I'm forced to ruin my reputation by showing all of me, even the ugly sinful parts of me. I pray that as I decrease, Christ would increase.
:d
Any-hoo, the "Epic Failure" is my failure to keep up with the blog you are presently reading. I still need to blog about the ball a few weeks ago, I just got back from a fabulous Florida vacation that needs a good post, and I'm sure I will have LOTS to say about my weekend with Sister and the Owl City concert on Monday!!!! For the first two items I am in need of pictures (hint hint cough Carmen cough) and the last 2 items(obviously) haven't happened yet. But when I get pics and the events do happen I will indeed blog about them. :)
In the meantime,
Pray for me. This past week has been a struggle for me. Getting back into the swing of things after vacation, trying to shake the laziness, battling in my thought life, and fighting the cloud of discontentment that threatens to ruin the beautiful sunshine. In my life right now I feel like all I do is wait. I feel like I never get to do...I just wait for another job,a car........ a husband..... It's almost like I'm in a never ending cycle of get up, go to work, come home, fix dinner, clean something, go to bed, get up, repeat. I feel like I'm whining right now and I hate whining, but I'm just being honest..trying to stay open rather than keep this all to myself like I really want to.
To you Dear Reader, Thank you for reading my whining. Blogging for me is a humbling thing if I actually blog about what is in my head. I'm forced to ruin my reputation by showing all of me, even the ugly sinful parts of me. I pray that as I decrease, Christ would increase.
:d
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