True Rest

I have only been blogging for about two months and I'm already off to a bad start. It's been like a month since I've been on here and it's definately not because I haven't had anything to write about. For the past three weeks our church has been in a time of prayer and fasting. We have been having morning prayer every morning at 6. Barton and I have been trying to make all of them but we have missed a few days, like Tyler Tullos said a couple Sundays ago at church, my bed never feels more comfortable than it does at 5 in the morning when it's time to go get up and go to prayer.However the feeling throughout the rest of the day when I do make it to prayer in the morning is that of no other feeling. I just have peace and patience to deal with whatever the devil decides to throw at me during the course of that day. These past few weeks God has really been speaking to me more than he has before, I believe it's becuase I am letting myself slow down and hear that small voice that is God speaking into me.I love that voice, it's so comforting when I feel like everything around me is going wrong and falling apart, I can rest in him knowing that it's not up to me, it's all in his hands and he knows what he's doing.

Happy New Year

Another year has come and gone and so much has happened to me in those twelve months. I got married to a wonderful man, started a job that is a gift from God, and by God's grace graduated from college. It seems that the older I get the faster the years fly by and I have to try harder every day not to take them for granted. I have been thinking alot lately about what I want to accomplish in the next year and there are many things that come to my mind, however the main thing that is of most importance to me is that I continue to live whole heartedly for God. If I continue to do that then everything else that I set out to do will work out.This New Year's Eve was very different from those of my past. Barton and I hung out at his parents house and popped fireworks. I had m ore fun popping them with his little brother than I ever have before. Just being with my new family was so much fun, just to relax at the house and not have to worry about traveling all over the city from party to party as we usually are doing on New Years Eve. Here are a few pictures from last night just to show you how much fun we were having. Of course it was cold as it should be on New Years, so I was bundled up.
Lance and I lighting fireworks at midnight

Barton and Major (he was so scared of the fireworks)

Barton and I

My brother-in-law and I, we were the only ones popping fireworks

New Year's morning Barton and I met my whole family at Cracker Barrel for our annual breakfast. It is always fun to be with the whole family and there are a bunch of us. Good food, family, and God what more could one ask for.Happy New to eveyone I pray that you have a wonderful year and that God keeps you and your families safe.