Golden Birthday, Graduation, and Blessings!

It has been a huge week this week! Jovan had his Graduation ceremony this past friday! What a proud moment this was for his family and for him :) It was a great ceremony, and a lot shorter than CBU's that's for sure (thank the Lord lol)!



Also this week, I officially celebrated my Golden 23rd Birthday! To celebrate, I threw a party at my house with some friends, a plethora of food, Halo, and Rockband! Oh what a sweet time it was! My roommate created the menu for the night which included homemade spinach dip, bean dip, pigs in a blanket, hot wings, pumpkin cupcakes, chips and salsa, and jalepeno popper! All around goodness!

I was blessed with several gifts which was not expected but I was so blessed. One of the biggest highlights was Jovan's gift. Several months ago, while we were out to lunch, I pointed out a woman's set of pearls she was wearing. I always thought they were so classy and I admired how they went with everything. I had always wanted a real set of pearls. Sure enough, he had remembered and I opened a beautiful box with a ribbon with a string of pearls and a matching set of pearl earring. I almost cried! :)



I had a wonderful birthday and I couldn't feel more blessed!

The Life of A Graduate Student...

I am blown away that it's almost October and I have already been in my graduate program for a month now! Time flies by! I have to say to be honest, there are times (more often than I care to admit) where I don't even know what day of the week it us I just know that I have to work or go to class.

For being a structured person, this rigorous and hour-by-hour schedule I have is become a little too routine! haha I am beginning to get nostalgic and going back to the days where I'd have midnight runs to get "fro-yo" or late night walks on campus. Now I try my best to be in bed by 10ish so I get get up for work and try and stay awake for 6 hours of class that night. Wow, so this is what adult life is like?! haha

I am enjoying my classes and it has really given me a strong desire to work with people even more. I just hope that my program will go by as fast as this last month has. I'm picking up a 6th day at work just to get a little ahead financially so I'm able to save some for emergencies. Also, I am going to start a counseling ministry program that is about to start at Sandals Church which is a HUGE answer to my prayers regarding ways to serve more in my church in an area I feel God has blessed me with. Please pray for endurance and strength as I try to give my all to each of these opportunities!

The thumb is doing much better! Just healing now and stitch free (thank the Lord!) Can't wait to fully be able to grip things again...I'm getting that golf itch--can't believe it's already been almost 5 months since I've touched a club! Just hope I can find a day to just mess around and play some.

Jovan and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary at the beginning of this month and Jovan surprised me with a romantic dinner at a place called Peophe's in Coronado and it looked over the whole bay at night. It was gorgeous. We spent the whole weekend relaxing and we went and saw Inception at the theaters and just enjoyed some quality time together! Following dinner, we exchanged gifts and Jovan got me two amazing books, one about prayer that I'm really enjoying and the other is a daily bible reading tool :) I loved it! I made Jovan two jars full of quotes, scriptures, and little notes and challenges from me so he can have something to start of his days at work :)

We had a wonderful time and I cannot believe it's already been a year! Thanks for all your prayers and support! Till next time <3

The Cheese Slicer Won...

Well today was an interesting morning at work. About a half hour into prepping our meats and cheeses for the day I had a battle with our meat slicer. Needless to say, it one and took a chunk of my right thumb with it. My boss came and i went to workman's comp and got 5 stitches and all bandaged up. I took the rest of today off but should be and hopefully will be ok to work on saturday. My poor right hand! 5 years ago I got 7 stitches in my pointer finger. Of course I'm right handed! The Lord has a sense of humor! He got me through it and I'm so thankful!!



Keep me in prayer, stitches aren't very fun and my thumb wont be the same after this. Love you all and thanks in advance for the prayers!

A Series Of Fortunate & (Not So Fortunate) Events!

Well it has been a while since I have written a blog so I figured I'd take this time to update you all on what's been going on during this wonderful summer! These last 2 1/2 weeks I have had the lovely pleasure of having Jovan around since he has been on his summer break from work! We've been spoiled being able to see each other just about everyday which is so very rare of us. Our usual reunions occur once a week at the most for only 24-36 hour intervals. So we've taken turns spending time with his family and friends in La Habra and spending weekends here in Riverside. It has been wonderful because we've been able to try new things to do with our time together that we wouldn't have time for otherwise.

We went miniature golfing with his friend David and girlfriend Melissa...(it should go without saying, I owned them! lol) It was super fun! We also went to a Nickle arcade in La Habra which I have to say is a genius idea and they should build one in Riverside pronto! While he has been in Riverside, I had decided to do something special and take him to one of Riverside's beautiful parks, Fairmount Park, that is 2 minutes away from my house and have a picnic for the two of us. It was such a relaxing time and we enjoyed it so much. We fed ducks afterwards and just had a great time walking around and just talking. Thank goodness the weather was super ideal! :)



I can now begin the countdown until my graduate school program starts and as of today I have T-Minus 19 days! :) I'm nervous but excited to start this huge chapter in my life, I cannot wait to see what the Lord has in store for me! Now moving on to not so fortunate news. During my once a month or so visits to the high desert I broke down on the way back to Riverside. Luckily, I didn't get very far down the Cajon Pass, but needless to say I needed a tow truck for the poor boat. I have to say though this car is a champ! It has super low mileage on it for being almost 16 years old and it has put up with me taking it everywhere and anywhere. Thank the good Lord it was a quickish fix and just have to replace the catalitic converters. I get my sweet ride back tomorrow afternoon. After that I will give it a good wash to let it know how much I've missed it! lol



Till next time....<3 and blessings!!

The Gift of Prophecy...

A couple weeks ago on July 4th I attended a new church with a friend of mine to a place in San Bernardino called Kingdom Culture Worship Center. My friend Chris has told me about it amazing it is and although it's a small and growing church, the Holy Spirit is so powerful there and it's such a free place to worship and I needed to experience it. He also shared with me that the pastor there, Sherman Dumas, who has the gift of prophecy. I was scared and to be honest a little skeptical about the whole thing because I had never experienced anything like that before, but only read about it in the Scripture. I knew that type of gift existed but I just wasn't sure because people these days, especially in America, use that type of gift as a rouse to con people. I did a lot of praying about it and after I heard so many positive things about it from respected believers, I decided to go to their morning service.

It goes without saying that I was blown away. The worship time was probably one of the most liberating and blessed worship times I've had with the Lord in a long time. I felt so free and at peace with the Lord and there was no doubt about it that the Spirit was full of life there! The message was wonderful and it talked about how we ourselves should be offering ourselves up to the Lord as sacrifices and how to worship Him the way we were design to worship Him. And at the very end after the offering was given, Sherman got up and looked at me and asked me to come down because the Lord has showed him something and He had a message for me. I was blown away by what was said and I knew it was the Lord because a lot of what was said were things I had only prayed about with the Lord. Here's the video (I'm a couple minutes into the video with a blue flannel shirt) If the video doesn't work use this link:

http://www.livestream.com/kingdomculturetv/video?clipId=pla_60118474-bff8-4abb-b6f5-40929cd2812c

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I left encouraged, inspired, overwhelmed, and so very blessed! Since then I have heard God more clearly and sought to be a better child of God for the benefit of what God's purpose for me is in this life. I pray you are blessed by this video as I was. God is mighty and powerful and so very gracious! To Him be all the glory forever and ever!!!

My Journey Through the Word!

I mentioned a couple posts back that one of my goals was to go through the Bible in one year or less. Along the way really meditating on what I am reading and learning about while taking copious notes to help me absorb all the rich knowledge and wisdom also doing my best to live out what God has shown me each day. I am happy to say that I am on Day #11. These last 11 days has been an incredible time of just eye-opening information and wisdom. I look forward to stories I have heard before and seeing them through the perspective I have now through all of my years of biblical studies classes. Also, I seem to just relish in the new stories that I had never heard before and really getting a beautiful image of who our Creator is and and how He used people in the Bible. I feel so honored that I get to see their lives just unfold and see their Author of their life stories just beautifully illustrate their purpose and His will for their lives.

Through these last 11 days it has inspired me to take a deep look at myself and meditate on what God wills for me and how I'm doing at being more sensitive to His calling and desire for my life. I have learned so much and look forward to each day I get to spend in the Word. I have come away with a refreshed appreciation for the privilege I have by just being able to openly spend time in the Scriptures while other parts of the world have to keep it a secret and risk their lives preserving God's Word. I am humbled by that fact and just come to God in awe and thanks for His mercy and grace on me as well as my brothers and sisters across the globe who share His Spirit.

Please pray for me as I take this journey through Scripture, that it would never become just a routine but that it would fill me up everyday and allow me to break down the walls around my heart so that I may grow in Him more and more. Pray for all those I come in contact with that I would display the Joy of Him in my life and the courage to share His mercy. Pray for growth and maturity and continuing to attempt to be in God's will each and every day!

Love & Blessings to all who read this!

It Was Love At First Touch....

Thanks to my amazingly kind, giving, and wonderful boyfriend...as a belated Graduation gift, I picked up my new iPhone 4 yesterday! After several years of waiting, I'm happy to say I'm a proud and very excited iPhone owner! :) Sadly, the hardest part was picking which 6 GB out of my 28GB filled iPod (Athena) to transfer to my new phone without overloading it. That was a rough filtering process, but after about an hour-I'm satisfied with my musical stylings of my amazing new phone! Now I'm just awaiting my pretty blue case and my scratch proof frosted screen shield to come in (hopefully in a week) so that I won't have to carry around my new phone like it's a newborn child!

My favorite free app so far would be my Bible App where I can look at any translation and it helps you set up one of dozens of reading programs to get you through the bible in a year or discipleship programs and so much more! It'll be my new best friend! :) What an awesome thing! Thanks for listening and sharing in my joy of my new amazing gift that'll help me to do so many things more efficiently and give my Max (my awesome 12 inch, 5 yr old laptop) a bit of a breather!

Goals-To Get Started You Must Have A Destination

As I write this I just am amazing on how quickly the month of june has gone by and how july is already around the corner! This whole concept of time has flown by much quicker than I remember it when I was younger. The Lord has really brought to my attention just how precious each day, each hour, and each moment is and how important it is to rely on Him in these short spans of time. As most of you know, I am a constant "goal-maker." I make goals for every school year, golf season, and every summer. It's a habit I've had most of my life and it's my way of doing my best to fulfill a purpose the Lord has for me. Well for this summer my goals are as follows (but not limited to by any means lol):

1. Drink the recommended amount of water per day (easier said than done)
2. Trust God whole-heartedly with my finances and giving. I've always struggled with this one but sure enough the moment I began doing it and letting go of what control I thought I had, the Lord blessed and abundantly provided
3. Give away anything I don't use or need or have any intention of using. (I've found boxes of clothes I'll never wear again and electronics that are just gathering dust. Goodwill and I have become closer)
4. Do my best to see God in every situation and to also trust Him in every situation
5. Instead of tapping into my default settings and worrying about all the "what if's" in my life, I'm praying instead...how theraputic!
6. My ultimate goal-I'm going to read the Bible in a year (or less). I'm on day 6 and have already learned so much

Please pray for me as I continue to work through these and live my purpose that God has intended at this point in my life! So many things have been happening and I just am seeking God's will and design for all things! Any encouragement and accountability would be greatly appreciated! :)

What Are You Waiting For?

I have become more than complacent over the last couple of years than I care to admit. With my spiritual growth and search for wisdom that is. It has just come to my attention how lukewarm I have become in regards to spiritual life and how difficult it is for me to make it a priority. This is not easy for me to admit, nor am I very proud of this however, it deserves to be said and it deserves to be rectified.

Through the last few weeks I have been slowly working through Francis Chan's book Crazy Love. It has punched me right in the stomach some days and has really forced me to really examine myself as 2 Corinthians 13:5 says, "Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test yourselves. Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you; if not, you have failed the test of genuine." I have found that I am guilty of being lukewarm and of not going outside of what I feel to be comfortable. I've done what I can to be "godly enough" and acceptable enough to see the Lord when He decides my time is up, but I have come to really ask myself, "Is that really helping anyone or is it just pleasing yourself?"

I have let a lot of people down but most importantly I have let down the one person in my life that has been with me through thick and thin, death and life, joy and pain, growth and setbacks....Jesus. I have not given Him the attention, love, and worship that He deserves and I have come to find that I cannot change on my own but only through His Spirit. I can only learn how to love Him more and more genuinely with His help. My prayer is to love Him more and to want to love Him more. It won't be easy because I'm such a faulty human being but with the Lord's help, anything is possible.

This is a prayer from Francis Chan's book and it spoke volumes to me today and it will be my prayer that will guide me to the place where I need to be:

"Jesus, I need to give myself up. I am not strong enough to love You and walk with You on my own. I can't do it, and I need You. I need You deeply and desperately. I believe You are worth it, that You are better than anything else I could have in this life or the next. I want You. And when I don't, I want to want You. Be all in me. Take all of me. Have Your way with me."

Amen.

My Last Round Of College Golf...I Bid Adieu

4 years ago, I never thought this day would come quickly enough and I stood amazed on my final hole of day #4 of our National Championships in Rapid City, South Dakota with the realization that the last 4 years and 4 seasons have gone by so quickly I wish I still had more time. I found myself as I walked up to my final putt on the 18th green on friday getting somewhat misty eyed and overwhelmed with emotions of gratitude, bewilderment, sadness, joy, and excitement of what is to come next in my life. I was very proud of all that I had done the last 4 years and found myself every hole just praising the God I so lovingly worship for all that He has taught me, for without it, I would've never accomplished any or all of my goals I had set out.

Although, we left Rapid City with only a 3rd place trophy and not our Championship Banner that we had longed for, we were still very proud of what we had done. We put on a phenomenal performance and beat out 25 other amazing teams from all around the country! Not only that, but one of our own, Nathalie Silva from Brazil won the entire field and left with her own National Title! We were so very proud of her and just how we handled ourselves during the week. I had struggled during the second day with what I think was either food poisoning or the 24 hour flu. It hit me hard and not being able to keep food down for over 24 hours and fighting a fever off made it an uphill battle to do my best. However, the Lord gave me strength and I was able to make it through and push forward towards the final days. I hit the ball better than I have in a long time and the course just proved to be difficult for me with being so aggressive with the pins. However, I would not change a thing and I feel satisfied with my last "Hoo-rah."

I had accomplished all the goals I had set out for the season which were to being my stroke average down to a 78, shoot in the 70's for both rounds at Monterey Bay's most difficult golf course, Place in the top 10 in a tournament, achieve Academic All-American and also receive the honor of being an All-American with my performance throughout the season. I got word after my final round of Nationals that I became a 2nd team All-American honoree. It has been an amazing 8+ years of competitive golf and I've learned so much from the game and the people I've met over the years. I will never let go of those relationships and the wisdom I've gained from it.

As for now, I will be taking a long awaited break from golf for a while and just let my body heal and relax and focus on my new job and my church and catch up on some reading and studying. I know that in about 6 months (if I make it that long haha) I will be yearning to go out on the course again and it wouldn't surprise me if I paid a visit to the new CBU golf team next year and played a few holes with them just for fun. But as for now, I am anxious to start working at my permanent store at Sips Coffee in Colton tomorrow afternoon and do my best to provide for myself and to do what I can in my Walk with the Lord. I am anxious to see what He has next!

Thanks for all your prayers and support this last week and the last 8+ years! It has gotten me to the place where I am at today and I will cherish that forever. Enjoy the pictures!

Regional Champions, New Job Training & A Diploma! :) God is GOOD!

I am just really experiencing my cup being overflowed with the Lord's blessings! My Graduation went so well, a little long, and I had a wonderful get together afterwards! So many of my closest friends and family came and even a few unexpected people who I hadn't seen in years joined the festivities! I felt very much spoiled!

I was sad that I had to leave the party kind of early to head to Primm, Nevada for my last Regional golf tournament. Our team had a rough start this spring and didn't win any events and this was a huge tournament for us leading into the national tournament on the 22nd of May. The best teams in our region, most of which will be there at the National event, were there and we had to go hard to win. We did just that! We won the whole field and by 9 strokes and took home trophies! I had one of my personal best set of rounds for the year and finished in 8th place! It was a wonderful victory and I was so very proud of me and my team!

Since then, we've just been training really hard to be ready and prepared as we leave on the 22nd. It will be an intense 4 days and we are praying that our commitment and preparation will pay off and we'll bring home our National Champion rings! You all can watch us live and see how we do with each hole on www.golfstat.com so you can be in on the action.

I also started training at Sips Coffee and am slowly learning the in and outs of making coffee. It is a slow process but I'm doing really well so far. I love the people and the company itself. They are very kind, flexible, and understanding and it has been such a blessing. I start my 3rd day of training tomorrow and it feels so good to work again. I am anxious to start my Graduate School work in late August! I also just applied to help in a Counseling Ministry and my home church at Sandals. I am very excited to see what that will bring. Please keep me in prayer that I can balance everything and maintain just a healthy walk with the Lord and be active and intentional with my relationships, especially with Jovan. Till next time....<3

Excited About An Ending & Anxious For A New Beginning!

Well, in less than 48 hours will officially be a college graduate! I still cannot fathom that it has already been 4 years and I'm about to walk out in my black robe and accept my college diploma with honors! I am proud to say that I have finished up my last semester of my undergraduate work with straight A's! It is the first time I have done it throughout college! Wow, and what a ride it has been. In a month I am about to finish up my golf season that's had an amazing 4 year run. With 2 tournaments left to go I have participated in over 84 tournament rounds all over the United States, been a part of about 10 victories, and won a small match myself. I can only pray that me and my team will finish out this season strong with Regionals this week and the National Championship in 3 weeks.

I have been blessed to have met some amazing people throughout my 4 years at CBU. I have been fortunate enough to have gained many life long friends that I know that if I was ever in need I could call them up and in a moments notice they would be there. In the last three years I have traveled to 3 different counties and been fortunate enough to serve on several different ministries. The Lord has brought me through a lot and grown me and broken me as He has desired, and I am grateful for every trivial and difficult thing I have faced in the last 4 years. My life would not be what it is today without all of those and I wouldn't have the ability to speak to people and relate to them the way that I am able now.

I am very anxious to complete this chapter in my life, but also am very anxious for the several new beginnings in my life. I start my new job at Sips coffee very soon, I will be living in a new place with one of the greatest women I have come to know, I will be starting my dual-masters program at CBU in Counseling Psychology and Counseling Ministry in late August, and will continue to grow in the Lord and grow in my relationships with the Lord being the center of it all.

One of the greatest blessings I have had is Jovan. The Lord has done some amazing things in our relationship and has grown us so much closer to Him. We have both been stretched out of our comfort zone and are stepping up to the plate to be great stewards for the Lord's work in our lives. He has been able to keep us strong through the 8 months we've been together and kept us stable even though 2 hours keeps us a part most of the time. I have been blessed with a great man and I look forward to seeing what God has planned for us in the future. Thanks for all your prayers.

Just to tell you all about how much of a wonderful man Jovan is in my life, I just received and email from him today titled "11 Reasons Why I Love You" and it made me want to cry. The Lord has blessed me! Thy will be done Lord, on earth as it is in heaven. We are just constantly praying for guidance, direction, and strong spiritual foundation for our lives and we ask that our friends and family pray for that also. With the distance it is hard and we are doing our best to best examples of Christ we can be when we are apart but most importantly together. We consider our relationship a blessing from the Lord and we want to do our best to honor that. Prayers are powerful and we all need it! :) Thanks for all your support and prayers!

"For His Name Sake" Psalms 23:3

Oh Pride....The funny thing about pride is that I get sucked into the idea that I'm like the opposite of prideful then I boast about being humble! Oh the irony of being a human with no idea what they are doing! My devotional the other day really put things in perspective for me as I faced my struggle with pride, no matter how tiny I feel the problem is, it is none the less a struggle.

Max Lucado explained that no only are we just tools that God uses to do His will, He himself should receive all the Glory. I think this is a very serious problem with Christians today and being humble enough to give God the glory when we do something amazing. Even the most humble person has a slight moment of arrogance and thinks "Hey, what about me?!" Lucado then bears the question, "Does a scalpel have a smug look after a successful transplant? No, it is only a tool, and we are the same and ultimately God gets the glory."

When I was young in my faith I was not sure why God needed an ego boost all the time. Did he really need to feel that important? However, I am come to find that it isn't God that has the ego problem, it US! He takes on the things that we cannot handle and we definitely cannot handle being given all the glory. We struggle being humble most of the day, we would never handle being given all the glory for the things that we do! We'd be arrogant and completely selfish, more so than ever before!

As Christians we even fall into being prideful in our prayers. We pray things like "Thank you Lord for blessing me and not putting me on welfare like that man on the street corner." One thing we definitely aren't is we aren't real with ourselves and we aren't being real with God. Humility is the only way we can mature as spiritual beings. We must die to ourselves and understand that although we are blessed, we are still filthy rags before the Lord and we all fall short of His glory! Instead our prayer should be, "God have mercy on me, a sinner, like my brother on welfare-I am dependent upon your grace."

Max Lucado put it best when he said, "The Maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. So if you need to brag, brag about that, and check your chin at the door!"

Let us remember to not give ourselves the glory for we cannot handle nor do we deserve it. "Don't praise yourself. Let someone else do it for you." (Proverbs 27:2)

The Beauty Of Who You Are....

"For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do." 1 Timothy 2:10



I will openly admit that I have been convinced that beauty is skin deep and is whatever an individual says it is. It is amazing to me how polluted our minds have become to the definition of attractive or beautiful. Our culture makes the claim that beautiful is a certain size, weight, or personality. It neglects the strength and integrity of that persons character altogether. I feel that women in our generation have a lot to battle with in regards to feeling accepted and attractive in the eyes of society. It is a blessing to know that as a believer of Jesus Christ, we as women have hope and reassurance that we are beautiful and attractive in the eyes of our Heavenly Father. For those of us who fix our eyes and our hearts upon the promises of the Lord, we are called beautiful and attractive. As we die to ourselves and the standards that our generation and society put upon us, the beauty of our character is illuminated to its fullest. Our desire should be to please the Lord and to be Godly women. Although it is hard to go against what we have been taught to be "attractive", our Lord will honor our efforts and our "cup will overflow" with blessing.

Something happened this weekend spurred this epiphany and rattled my perception of how I defined beauty. I was in San Diego with my wonderful boyfriend Jovan and we got up early to get ready for church. I had slept really well and was very much groggy and out of it when I was woken up by a kiss on the forehead. Needless to say I was not feeling very beautiful because I was in my finest black sweatpants, grey golf t-shirt, and my elegantly disheveled hair that was everywhere. Although, I did not consider myself as being attractive based upon society's definition, Jovan did. He looked me straight in my sleepy green eyes, smiled very wide and said, "You are so beautiful. I can't get over how pretty you are!" I was so humbled and flattered that I found another man, other than my Lord, that sees beauty based on who I am and my good deeds and not what I look like. It was then that I understood how God sees beauty. Thank you Jovan for helping me see what you and the Lord sees in regards to beauty.

Lord help me to follow you with every breath I breathe, with every decision I make, and with every act I perform. My desire is to follow your standards and not those around me who do not follow you and call you Father. Help me to trust that in serving you, the beauty you have implemented in my heart that you created, to shine to those who I encounter. Amen.

Whaddifs & Howells?

For those of you who know me (which I hope if you're reading this you do) know that I am a constant worrier. I worry about yesterdays decisions, homework that's due 2 weeks from now, my golf swing, if I'll get through my devotion time, what will I do after I graduate, what if I don't get a job...I'm sure you get the picture. Well, I haven't been more reminded of how incredibly tedious playing the "Whaddifs and Howells" game really is on my emotions, and more importantly how taxing it is on my spiritual life. My boyfriend bought me a devotional about a month or so ago and it's called "Traveling Light" by Max Lucado. He goes through each verse of Psalms 23 and centers around the goal of how to release the burdens we were never intended to bear. The devotion that I was going through focused on verse 2 which says "He leads me beside still waters." To be honest I never really thought about this verse too much until I read this devotional. He leads me...He's not pushing me but guiding me and telling me where to go and where not to go and what to watch out for. God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes. Jesus really hit it home when he said in Matthew 6:27, " You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it." Wow, I am quite the idiot! haha His timing is perfect and He knows what we need. He has proven that so abundantly these last couple of months. He got me through my Graduate School application, my tiring golf season thus far, my intense school load, and has miraculously found me the perfect job with a kind, understanding, and compassionate boss. All things that I thought were so impossible, were a sinch to God and all I had to do was trust Him. He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future. We do not need to know what will happen tomorrow. We only need to know he leads us and "we will find grace to help us when we need it." (Hebrews 4:16).

My First Sigh Of Relief! *whew*

With 24 days left until I graduate I have been feeling uneasy and weary about my future. Mostly my financial future. With applying to about a dozen jobs since January it seemed hopeless. Golf was also making it difficult for me to start right after graduation with Regionals and Nationals occupying my first month off of school. I was frightened and concerned because I felt that since I had been blessed to have given the opportunity to live in such an amazing apartment with someone I look up to and admire and being 1 interview away from being accepted into my dream double-masters program...why didn't I have a job by now? But the Lord proved that it was in His timing once again. Funny how we forget that so easily....

I had an interview today with Sips Coffee and it was probably the best 1st interview I have ever had! He was more than willing to wait till June 1st for me to fully be able to invest at Sips. He was so friendly and excited to work with me. I sat there just stunned and amazed of how flexible and willing to work with me he was. All I could think to myself was "Praise you Lord!!!! You always provide!"

I can't wait to slowly train with them for a couple hours per week and learn to become quite the little barista!!! :)