I'm a living vapor...

Tuesday, the youth at our church hosted a little girl's party and it was Hello Kitty themed! Yay! :] I was in charge of face painting so I was researching ways to face paint Hello Kitty. I practiced on myself nights before and I was really excited to actually paint on kids' faces. Come Tuesday, my excitement turned to exhaust when I realized...there were too many requests to have their faces painted. I was no professional, so it took me a while to do one person's face. I felt like I was working overtime, lol. I wasn't able to enjoy the party much. Everyone else got to hangout, play around, take pics, and I was stuck painting faces (I had allotted a time to eat dinner for sustenance, haha!).  But you know, it was kinda fun. I really like painting and people's faces was like a new canvas! I painted on myself (again) and I didn't like the idea of washing it off, so I took pics! Yay!! Now, if I'm needed for another kid's party...I can give Hell...

I just want to share what I read for my devotional today. It is taken from My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers. I absolutely love this yearly devotional because Oswald Chamber has a way of going straight to the heart of the topic in only a few paragraphs. I highly recommend this book! Anyways, here's what I read today: "Abide in Me..." (john 15:4) In the matter of determination. The Spirit of Jesus is put into me by way of the atonement by the Cross of Christ. I then have to build my thinking patiently to bring it into perfect harmony with my Lord. God will not make me think like Jesus--I have to do it myself. I have to bring "every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:5). "abide in every one of the matters that make human life what it is. Our lives are not made up of only one neatly confined area. Am I preventing God from doing things in my circumstances by saying that it will only serve to hinder my fellowship...

A couple nights ago I couldn't sleep, so I stayed up finishing the book Captivating (by John and Stasi Eldredge). I mentioned this book in my last post, and I've got to say that it has been an eye opener. It spoke so much of what I couldn't clearly identify when I was feeling the way I did...as a growing woman! Here are two passages that really stuck out to me...and this was only from the first chapter: We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil. [pg. 17]   A woman in the presence of a good man, a real man, loves being a woman. His strength allows her feminine heart to flourish. His pursuit draws out her beauty. And a man in the presence of a real woman loves being a man. Her beauty arouses him to play the man, it draws out his strength. She inspires him to be a hero. [pg. 18] ...

As a result of the wounds we receive growing up, we come to believe that some part of us, maybe every part of us, is marred. Shame enters in and makes its crippling home deep within our hearts. Shame is what makes us look away, so we avoid eye contact with strangers and friends. Shame is that feeling that haunts us, the sense that if someone really knew us, they would shake their heads in disgust and run away. Shame makes us feel, no, believe , that we do not measure up--not to the world's standards, the church's standards, or our own. Others seem to master their lives, but shame grips our hearts and pins them down, ever ready to point out our failures and judge our worth. We are lacking. We know we are not all that we long to be, all that God longs for us to be, but instead of coming up for grace-filled air and asking God what he thinks of us, shame keeps us pinned down and gasping, believing that we deserve to suffocate. If we were not deemed worthy of love as children, it is...

Yesterday I watched this movie titled, Faith like Potatoes . I've seen the DVD in the Family Christian Bookstore and according to Netflix, it was rated 4/5. The synopsis from  Sony Pictures  states that: ...this inspiring film tells the story of Angus Buchan, a South African farmer who suffers a series of insurmountable losses, but through an unlikely friendship with his Zulu farmhand and Divine interventions, discovers the key to handling himself and learning to accept others lies in his unwavering belief in the power of prayer. The thing about the movie [and this is a SPOILER if you're planning to watch it] is that this man is clearly a maize (fancy way of saying 'corn') and cattle farmer. At some point, he felt that God is telling him to plant potatoes, even though the whole country is undergoing this heavy drought known as, El Ni ño . And the thing about potatoes is that they grow underground so you can't always see them growing. You really need faith in timi...