Everylasting, your light will shine when all else fades..................

8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead

Phillppians 3:8-11

This upcoming year is going to be very interesting...I only want to be renewed with his spirit so that his light may shine through me to others. Life is about becoming new through him so that we may gain all eternal joy..and learn while we are here on  this earth what life is all about...

Neverending you glory goes beyond all fame....

-Ericka

Life

 Edit////7:25P.M I am now sitting here babysitting three adorable little kids.They come into the gym I work at. I offered there mom a couple of weeks ago to help babysit if she ever needed it one day during the week?. She called me yesterday and asked me if I could come over tonight to help out? I hesitated a bit because the day I realy have off is Monday and usually it is my time to relax and just do whatever to prepare myself for the upcoming week of non stop going! I called her back to tell her I would be happy to babysit for her finally, I got directions and now I am here. In the short time I have been here  I have learned that her husband is in the Navy and has been gone for 3 months in Iraq.To me that is so incredibly amazing to see a woman of 3 very small children without her husband months at a time. I just wonder what kind of strength that takes to have the courage,trust,patience, and endurance to go on everyday..That humbles me in such a way that is inexplainable. I think God directs in ways that I will neve begin to fully understand, or the people he puts and takes out of my life on a daily basis. I know there is a reason why I met this lady tonigh,t , or the people I will come in contact with all week at school. Possibly nothing huge but I feel as if God is telling me I need some more humbleness  and patience in my life through this woman and other things that have been brought to my attention.

Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. -Deuteronomy 8:2

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, "This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.-Exodus 10:3

 I am learning a little more each day what life is realy all about.Its exciting.Scary. Most of all extremely humbling. What does God have planned for my future? Who knows? I do know that he does have a plan and I am so excited to live each day knowing that. I am so blessed to know my father loves me more than I could possibly fathom.

Breathing and taking it in   is what I can only do in moments like these....

Patience

Patience

Patience......

I surrender God for your glory

-Ericka