Lost time

Since my last post, I've lost another grandfather. I just reread all my older posts and that jumps out as a fact I should mention since I talked about having lost two already. 

I am still ridiculously over the moon happy with my decision to move to Columbia. 

I had a rough year teaching Kindergarten but loved my class dearly and made some great new friends.

This year I am teaching third grade and love my job immensely. And recently found out I get to teach third grade again next year. And I haven't worked at Walgreens since October of 2012!

Kind of continued the running thing. I've run in two 10k runs and seven 5k runs... It's fun and I love the feeling of finishing a race. 

I dated the previously mentioned boy off and on for over a year but he wasn't interested in an actual relationship with me and turned out to not be anything special. Not heartbroken though I may have shed a few tears over him in the course of our nonrelationship. 

Decided to give online dating a try. After almost dating an ex-con (involuntary manslaughter), I met a pretty amazing guy and have happily been dating him for over seven months now and would say yes in an instant if he asked me to marry him tomorrow. One of the most amazing things about him is his relationship with God. 

I think that about sums up MY life during my absence from the blog world... 

Today I was listening to sermons from Aaron's church as they go through The Story (it's a book that's the Bible written more in story form. I am reading along and double reading the actual Bible because I think that's important, too. I'm not very far yet because I kind of stink at making it a priority. (It's a heart issue I'm working on...) The sermons I listened to today were about Abraham and Joseph. Both are stories I am already familiar with but it never hurts to have a little reminder... Anyway, it really reconvicted me about how you have to have faith and trust in God even when you don't understand what God is doing. I mean, He told Abraham to climb a mountain and sacrifice his son and Abraham was like, "Sure thing, God." And he just had faith that God would resurrect Isaac and things would work. And Joseph. Even when Joseph's brothers were being complete jerks, Joseph was like, "Whatever guys. What you intend to be evil against me is really awesomeness from God and it's all part of his plan." So how can we freak out about our jobs or our families and friend and other life things not working out the way we expect them to if we have faith in God? It's hard sometimes to sit back and breathe and just be like, "It's God's plans and it's in His hands." We need to help each other remember that. We need to read and pray and surround ourselves with examples of faith in Him. And maybe things won't be as awesome as we want them to be here on earth but we need to take solace and comfort in the fact that we are given grace (totally undeserved by the way) and eventually will be with God in His heavenly kingdom. I feel like this is one of the most obvious things that I somehow always seem to forget....