I'd be lying if I didn't mention that this week has been a rough one. Coming back from spring break can be really hard to find any motivation to do school work. I had papers due and tons of other work to get done. I really got out of habit in reading my Bible and spending time with God, and honestly, I felt it. My day's are so different when I don't spend time with God.
I'd also be lying if I didn't mention that coming back and hearing about everyone's incredible spring break trips around the world didn't make me a little jealous. I wanted more than anything to be in Nicaragua for spring break, but money is sort of an issue these days. I know that I need that whole situation to just be turned completely to God because I don't know when I will be back and that is really hard for me. My heart was left in Nicaragua last summer and I've been waiting to go back since the very second I left. I know that next summer, 2012, I will hopefully be spending the summer in Nicaragua with an organization called Adventures in Missions. Obviously I'm listening to make sure that is what God wants me doing and not what I want to be doing, but I honestly cannot wait to go back.
Anyways......I want to talk about being blessed because it has been on my mind a lot this week as I have been encountering the idea of "worth" in Lent with World Vision through act:s. I honestly wonder so many times why I am so blessed. God has given me so much-wonderful family and friends, the ability to be at college, the freedom to have my own beliefs, simple things like being able to wash my hair (which I haven't actually done for the week for Lent). Seriously, I think back to when I was dealing with depression and I don't understand how I didn't see even one little blessing in my life. It's kind of mind blowing to think about how much I have grown, but I honestly can't even fathom that I seriously hated life as much as I did. I love seeing how far I have come and solely because of my relationship with God. I would be nothing without Him and that is why I find my worth in Him rather than earthly things and people. You know, I've been hurt and lost so much, and I've seen what it did to me when I was looking for my worth in other things that weren't God. I encourage you to think about where you are searching for your worth right now in life. Are you searching for it in people or earthly possessions or your talents, or are you searching for it in God?
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