Bog Živi

We had a devotional at work today and the topic was about bearing testimony.  It reminded me of when I was a new missionary in Croatia that could barely communicate anything to anyone.  We were on a light rail car that was packed with people and I wanted to talk to them and teach them about the gospel but I didn’t know what to do.  The windows were all fogged up so I reached over and wrote “Bog živi” (God lives) on the window.  My companion just laughed at me.  I thought I was being quite clever.  The car looked like this...

 

It is interesting to see how God works in people’s lives.  I am currently reading a book called, “Kisses from Katie” about a Christian gal from Tennessee who wanted to do a service mission at an orphanage in Uganda.  This was on her Christmas break, her senior year of high school.  She was invited back to teach kindergarten after high school and she did it.  In the end she adopted 13 kids by the age of 22.  It has been interesting to see how God has worked in her life to bring her to that point.  It leaves me wishing that I could see a clear purpose to my life right now but I am sure he has something up his sleeve.  I just need to wait and pray for his purposes to be revealed to me. 

The only thing I can see that God has for me in my life right now is that I think he wants me to go to Hawaii.  That is nothing like adopting 13 kids in Uganda.  Kinda makes me feel like a selfish jerk after reading about Katie but I just happened to come into some extra money and then this great opportunity to go to Hawaii just fell into my lap, so I think it is God.  I don’t know, am I crazy?  I just know that God loves me and he wants me to be happy, just like he loves all of us and wants us all to be.  Sometimes we aren’t happy and we have hard lessons to learn but the other times I am pretty sure he wants us to be happy. 

Cash Money

I received my unclaimed funds from the state today and I am happy to say that after expecting less than $10.00 but hoping for $40ish, I am happy to report that the check was for $71.18!  My roommate reminded me that with this and the insurance money, I have been blessed lately.  Hopefully it keeps coming.

Also Fernando cracked me up again last week.  My co-worker Kelli was talking about a guy with big muscles and Fernando said, "He must have taken asteroids or something."  Laughing is good.  I need to do a little more of it. 

Healthy Halloween Hit

As a child I was CrAzY about candy.  I can say that I was CrAzY about it because I used to have nightmares that I got grounded on Halloween by my stepmother and didn’t get my annual stash.  I was as distraught as I would have been if a family member died (I see now this is a completely pathetic admission of a true addict).  Then I would wake up and be SO relieved it was all just a bad dream and see that there was still hope.  All that sugar must have taken its toll on me in my youth because since then my body can’t handle it anymore.  I have given it up completely and I always feel torn on Halloween with the thought of passing out what I know they are already getting WAY too much of.  I understand that kids don’t usually want to be given toothbrushes and pencils and I didn’t want to be known as the annoying house giving out lame treats but I saw this blog post and I decided that juice boxes were a better alternative candy. 

Well I think I might just stick with that idea from here on out because the last group of kids that came to my door were pretty happy.  The first kid (probably about Jr. High age) said, “Juice boxes! Are you kidding me!?!  Do you know how thirsty I am right now?"  They were grabbing them as fast as I could get them out of the packaging.  They may cost a little more than the candy but there were only about 20 kids at my door.  It certainly didn’t break the bank and I felt a whole lot better about it.