January 17, 2010

Life Changes

I haven’t used this in a long time, but just felt the need to journal a little bit today.  Hope that’s ok with you! :) Probably due to the fact that I feel like life has been changing alot lately.  Missio Dei is changing (which is exciting, but sad at the same time - people are being called different places, thus the duality of sadness and excitement).  My MC has changed and now exists with only three people, which you think would be discouraging because we lost alot of people, but alas its not.  Jonee, Mat and I share the same vision and seem to be more on the same wavelength so its really invigorating and down-right exciting because God is going to move and challenge us in ways we never thought possible.

Still have no full-time teaching job yet (though working at Lakeshore is good - made some new friends so we’ll see where that leads), but there is still hope (I have a lead on a job so if you could pray for that - that would be great!) and I have made alot of contacts in the last year so I know this is where God wants me - just trying to stay strong and be faithful.  It seems like I have been learning the lesson of faithfulness this past year; of staying strong and believing everything will work out in his time and not mine.  Faithfulness requires vulnerability and dependence / humbleness as well - which by the way, is not the easiest thing to do.  I just keep thinking - Thy will be done. :)  I got this quotes somewhere, don’t really remember but thought they were appropriate for this phase of my life - enjoy!  Hope you are having a fantastic day and are being continually challenged by God :)

Meg

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves, we must die to one life before we can enter another.” - Anatole France

“Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. ‘Waiting’ like that is not merely wasting time.” -Eva Burrows

“Wrangling fear is the biggest challenge the world faces now and the challenge we all face, now and again, at our crossroads, in those dark moments, at those times we are asked to compromise, at those times when we know deep down that we must revolutionize our own lives.” - Holly Morris

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January 13, 2009
i think this picture looks so cool - San Diego at night, if you were wondering…

i think this picture looks so cool - San Diego at night, if you were wondering…

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January 12, 2009
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
C.S. Lewis
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December 16, 2008
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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November 26, 2008
ok, so I am feeling indignant.  that’s right, indignant.  I am feeling this way because number one, I like the word and try to use it whenever I can and number two, I happen to like thanksgiving and feel that it does not get the credit that it deserves (which is the bigger reason for being indignant).  Thanksgiving is celebrated for a reason - a day to be taken out of our busy schedules and be thankful for the people and blessings around us (which we should be doing everyday anyways, but thats beside the point)….it is not a holiday to be skipped, just because christmas is right around each corner.  I am not the only one that feels this way - note the picture.  Jen and I found this at the Chandler Mall the other day and I got excited :)  Celebrate one season at a time and enjoy the present - thats my philosophy :)  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
*end rant*

ok, so I am feeling indignant.  that’s right, indignant.  I am feeling this way because number one, I like the word and try to use it whenever I can and number two, I happen to like thanksgiving and feel that it does not get the credit that it deserves (which is the bigger reason for being indignant).  Thanksgiving is celebrated for a reason - a day to be taken out of our busy schedules and be thankful for the people and blessings around us (which we should be doing everyday anyways, but thats beside the point)….it is not a holiday to be skipped, just because christmas is right around each corner.  I am not the only one that feels this way - note the picture.  Jen and I found this at the Chandler Mall the other day and I got excited :)  Celebrate one season at a time and enjoy the present - thats my philosophy :)  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

*end rant*

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October 22, 2008

Quoting others

If you haven’t noticed by now, I am a quote person.  Mostly the quotes just tell how I am feeling at that moment in time or in my life….or maybe they just moved me in some way.  I also like to use pictures to depict how I am doing at the moment ( I am a little bit of a picture person too) - you can expect those as well.  I probably won’t write my own thoughts down alot in this blog….just the thoughts of others :)

-meg

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Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
Ida Scott Taylor
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October 3, 2008
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’
Mary Anne Radmacher
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September 27, 2008

ok…so here is the deal.  Jen and I are going to be video blogging so that you guys can hear what is new in our lives.  We are going to be doing it about once a month.  Here is the 1st installment. Enjoy! :)

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so i am not really a blogger, but i have a blog…so that i can keep people updated on my life.  expect updates :)

so i am not really a blogger, but i have a blog…so that i can keep people updated on my life. expect updates :)

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