quiet reminders

Have you ever been doing something mundane, almost seemingly pointless or just plain..strange? Then you start really thinking about what you're doing, and why you're doing it. Then you start thinking about how this relates to your spiritual life and the next thing you know you have to share this awesome epiphany with someone.Well folks...here is my epiphany!

Lately it's been taking longer than usual to dry my hair in the morning, but it's been such a gradual thing that I didn't really take notice as to how long it was really taking me.  Also, I've been smelling a really hot plastic smell, my heating elements have been glowing orange and I seem to not have as much air flow as I once had.  I remembered a very long time ago that I popped off the back of my hair dryer and was able to clean some lint out, so I did that...and this is what I got!

Naasssttty!!! I must admit, it has been a very long time since I even thought about doing this, but let me tell you what, I dried my hair in less than 3 minutes! As I was picking my tiny lint balls from the wire mesh trap in the back with a bobby pin I began thinking about my walk with Christ and how all he wants of me is to be all that he created me to be. All of the lint that was causing my hair drying to run to sluggishly and was inhibiting the hair dryer to run at it's fullest capacity. Sure, each ball of lint itself is no larger than the eraser from a pencil, and each ball individually would not have made a difference, but all together those 25 lint balls make one pretty large mass, inhibiting critical air flow that was needed. Is it too strange to think of our spiritual lives in comparison to a hair dryer? I'll be the first to admit that I have little things that are keeping me from becoming the woman that God truly desires me to be. My friends..1 ball. My job...1 ball. Media...1 ball. Pride, insecurities, worry, doubt, 4, 5, 6, 7 balls...you get the picture. I am working on removing the negative parts of my lint balls and becoming the perfect hair dryer for the Lord :) I pray that if you're reading this you are too, there is nothing better than the freedom we have through Christ. 

Love Hungry and Mindless Ramblings

Love Hungry has officially begun and in 25 days the youth group at Word of Life Chapel hopes to have over $10,000 raised to help feed and care for the people of Haiti. If you'd like to help out by donating to this cause I will be setting up an online account through World Vision sometime within the next few days. 

Just recieved a letter from the township, they're changing our address upon approval from the Lancaster County Wide Communications people. I guess there has been a problem with emergency response vehicles being able to correctly identify our buildings, so this change of address should help to clear things up. I never really realized how many places I have my address until now and somehow I am feeling slighty sentimental about the possibility of no longer being 2017. After I order new mailing labels, and get a change of address card I will have to update my sales license, 401k, health insurance, car insurance, credit cards, bank accounts, magazine subscriptions, loan payments...blah blah blah. However, when I've eaten myself into a food coma I guess I will be happy when the ambulance can find me in a timely fashion and pump my stomach accordingly!

I was going to say something sarcastically Witty about the roommate, but now I'm really drawing a blank on what it was, which I must admit is slightly disappointing. I think my brain is officially done, my body is telling me to take a break and I actually may listen to it this time. I'm utterly exhausted and having problems formulating complete thoughts but my legs are wanting to do nothing but move...hm, restless leg syndrome? I'll have to Google that... Nope, just A.D.D.

snowflakes to snowballs

While I was growing up, and my A.D.D. was probably more than my parents could handle at the time, they would send me outside to build, create, and explore. Most often it was my Mom who encouraged me to pass the time by exploring with science and nature... playing with things that I could tangibly see cause and effect, rhyme and reason.  I had a book filled with science experiments and in this book was a clever way to catch snowflakes and keep them frozen long enough so you could admire many at once without them melting on your mittens. I still remember, walking out onto my front porch, with my cookie sheet, plastic wrap and black construction paper to see if I could prove science wrong and find 2 snowflakes exactly alike. Thus, becoming an instant millionaire and never having to return to school again! I bet I sat there for a solid 30 minutes (stop judging me, I could barely sit still long enough to use the bathroom let alone stare at particles of frozen water formed into stars!). Defeated I went back inside where I believe I got the "snowflakes are like people, they're all similar but each one is unique in it's own way, and they are all designed different just the way God designed each person differently" speech. Darn, science wins again... back to school it is.

More recently I began thinking about snowballs. It's amazing how a snowflake singled out is so vulnerable and delicate, but when packed together with some of it's closest friends it can be used to bring life to Frosty and chase away bullies! Maybe my mom was right afterall, snowflakes are just like people, alone we are vulnerable and delicate, but when we have friends and a support system, we somehow feel like we can be a part of something truly larger than ourselves.