What's Going On Now?

Hello friends!

So it's been a really long time since I've sat down and blogged, about 6 months to be exact, and well let me tell you, so many things have happened in those 6 months! God has been working like crazy in my life, and I can definitely look back and say that I am not the same person that I was writing these posts back in May. I have grown up a lot! There have been several serious changes in my life and so many new experiences! Oh my goodness has it been a crazy but beautiful time in my life! And God has been by my side every step of the way! So what is God been teaching me these days, and how am I growing? Lots and lots my friend, lots and lots!

Right now I am halfway through the first semester of my junior year of college, and it is a scary and exciting thought! This is where college really gets tough and where you really begin to see your future in the career area start to be laid out. As I'm getting ever closer to student teaching in the spring, God has been showing me just how much I want this, and just how much he wants this for me. As the days go by, it is becoming ever more clear that God's purpose for me is to teach, and specifically in a low income school.

There are lots of interesting things going on in my family, some good, and some that aren't so good, and that makes for lots of interesting situations and lots of lessons. God is teaching me lots of lessons on how to deal with the frustrations that my family sometimes causes me, and also how to love them the way that I need to be loving them. God has also been opening up doors of communication with them which has been such a blessing!

I've got some really awesome devotional tools that are really helping me connect with God, which is awesome. One is this daily Bible in a year reading devotional book, which is really awesome and helpful for me. I want to get deeper into God's word, and I can't do that on my own. I also got this other devotional book which focusing on the evidence of God throughout history, science, and just stuff like that. Being the science nerd that I am, I am just loving this book so much! Science is my thing, science is what brings me in awe of God the most. Anyways my Theology class has also been helping me in my walk. Getting deeper into God stuff is helping me to discover what I really believe about God and the Bible and such.

The last time I blogged, I wrote about my trying to become content with singleness. Well this summer I found contentment, and then things changed a little bit when God brought the most amazing man into my life, the one and only, Noah Messick. God has been really shaping me and growing me when it comes to relationships with guys. This is probably the area where I've experienced the most growth in my life as God taught me how to deal with my initial feelings for Noah, being content with friendship, entering into a courtship, and now the possibility of marriage somewhere in the future.

Speaking of marriage, that's where me and God are right now, in the process of shaping me into a godly wife. No, I am not getting married right now. The probability that I will get married someday in the future is just a little bit higher than it was before, and I just want to start the process of thinking about what it means to really be a godly wife, and start moving in the direction of becoming that. So that is mainly what God is speaking to me about these day.

So anyways that's a brief little view on what's been going on in my world these days. Now I shall let the regular blogging commence! Read them if you like! Some will be super deep and theological, and some will be some brief thought that is somehow related to God. Just sit back and enjoy my bits of rambling. :)

Love you my friends! :)
Gabs