Blessings...

I have been wanting to start a blog for awhile, but I never got around to it. Well tonight seemed like the perfect night, because I want to share with all of my friends some really awesome stuff that has been going on in my life.

This semester has been full of everything you can imagine. Friends, laughter, boys, heartbreak, love, school, stressing, family, but most of all God. I cannot remember a time in my life where I have been so blessed. I realize that God has been with me throughout my entire life but he has been so clear and so evident in my life the last four months and I could not be more thankful. He has been blessing me with more things that I could ever have dreamed. I have the best roommates a girl could ask for, the best friends in the world, and a family that loves and supports me (even if some of them still don't know what my major is!). When I say God has been evident in my life, I mean like slap you in the face I am right there next to you evident. My prayers have been answered when I do not deserve it, and God continues to bless me even though I continue to screw things up.

The one thing that I am most thankful for is this:

As many of you may know, I have lived with my grandma for the last six/seven years. We have been through many ups and downs, twists and turns and things just never seem to work out for my Grandma. For those of you know her, or have heard me talk about her, this woman deserves a whole lot. She is a district licensed pastor, 65 years old, going to school to get her bachelors degree in pastor ministry. She will not even finish school until she is 67. She is the associate pastor at my church, and gets paid 1 dollar a year. She has been working in a factory for the past 18 years, and has ever disease you could probably think of include west Nile virus. She has done everything in her power to help me become a better person, she has shown me Christ and has been praying for me everyday since the day i stepped into church. She is a prayer warrior that really makes things happen (ask one of my ex boyfriends about that one!). Well with all that being said she has suffered a lot, and without getting into details about her past, I am going to focus on the present. She has been going through Bankruptcy for the past year. When my grandfather died about 10 years ago he left her with a lot of debt that she could just not handle anymore. Through this bankruptcy she was only going to be allowed to keep her car and the house. Now let me tell you a little bit about this house, it did not have have walls until about 3 years ago, the sewage drains underneath the house, it is so small it barely fits the two of us, we have had to replace all of the floors and ceilings, and it still continues to fall apart around us. That does not seem like a house someone wants to live in, but it has been my home and hers for many many years. Well we found out the other day that we were going to lose the house, which seems like a really sucky thing. But because of God and how much he cares and loves us he turned it into a blessing. In about 3 weeks, my grandma and I are going to be moving into a much nicer, much better house. She is going to be paying less for this house and it is about 200x better than the one we are living in now!!!It is right next to my brothers school, even closer to my mom's house and has a big fenced in back yard for our dogs!!! it has 3 bedrooms and a basement....... it is absolutely perfect. When we went to see the house on Sunday we were scared we wouldn't get it just because of the amount of people looking into it. But we got the phone call this morning and they offered it to us!!!!!!! AND WE ARE MOVING OVER CHRISTMAS BREAK! I honestly could cry right now. I am so thankful and so happy for my grandma!!! I serve such an amazing God.

I could keep going on abut how much God has been there for me this semester but I will leave you with that last story!


.Prayer.

its all about love.... jes