From dry to squeezable

I guess it's been quite a while since I last posted. I've been really busy with so much that has been going on I've barely had time to write in my own personal journal.

God has just been blessing me amazingly lately. I can't bear it sometimes. He has just brought me up to a new level of understanding and peace of heart and mind. He has shown me through the encouragement and praise of others just how valuable and special I am, and ironically enough it has come from people othere than my core group of friends. But I've come to acutally understand His ways on a deeper level and begin to let go and trust Him in ways when I've always had to keep my hand on things I've trusted him with before.

Just recently some of the blessings of God, and I say these things not to boast of myself, but because of the power of Christ working through me.

I was somehow through my actions and the way I live my life able to make Fran (the lady I cat sit for) have a burden on her heart to deepen her faith in Jesus and she actually started going to Church by herself on a regular basis and praying and spending quality time with God. She told me this the other day when she took me out to dinner and told me that she feels God put me in her life not just to be her cat sitter, but to bring her back to him and what a blessing I've been to her.

I told the people in my house church about the situation with my mom and the medical expenses she has and how I felt the burden on my heart to help her.

I felt led to pick up hours as a caregiver for HomeInstead to earn extra money to help my mom pay for her bills and maybe even save for a used car for her. I am so excited to start because I miss working with the elderly so much and I know the blessing will be even more greater than the paycheck. I just pray that God continues to use me in this new situation.

Anyway, last night someone in my house church gave the house church leader an anonymous donation for me to give to my mom and tell her it is from God's provision over her.

I was deeply touched. This is a testament to how Christians are to be like the lessons we have been learning in chruch. We are like sponges and we can be dry, if we pour out but don't receive, or nasty if we receive, but don't pour out God's blessings. But when we are at the center of his will and putting our faith into action we are filled up and in turn are poured out like a useful sponge. We are putting our faith into action, and that is the intention of the christian church from the beginning. I feel like God has just poured into me so much recently and all I want to do is be a blessing to others by doing the will of God and get farther and farther from myself.