who

i heard something today that made me think. ( i love it when that happens, because so often i don't think about what i hear - not enough to make a difference, anyway) anyway... someone said "it's not WHAT you are, it's WHO you are." a WHAT can be anything, but a WHO is very specific. God made me WHO i am. and no matter WHAT i may be, (an employee, a fiance, a friend, a daughter, or a "christian") it is who i am that matters.

"who" is also a process. i've been thinking a lot about consistancy lately, and how (in some cases) it is important to focus on the bigger picture instead of overanalyzing the details. for instance, if i want to know God better, i have to spend time with him on a consistant basis. if i don't do that, knowing him will never be part of "who" i am. (see the post entitled "just do it"). this goes for a lot of other things too. practice takes time, willingness, humility, and it eventually makes perfect (or close to it).


"Not that I have already obtained all this [knowing God], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philipians 3:12-16

FYI

i changed my url (now "sunshineprover.blogspot.com")

FYI

i added to the post called "memory verse".

and it was all yellow...

memory verse

"a wife of noble character who can find?
she is worth far more than rubies.
her husband has full confidence in her
and lacks nothing of value.
she brings him good, not harm,
all the days of her life."
(proverbs 31:10-12)

it's really strange to think of myself as a wife, but that's what i am becoming... and i'm slowly learning what it really means. before i met my fiance, i have to admit that i didn't care much for wives. not the wives themselves, but the idea of being one. it seemed selfish and unambitious, because i had watched so many wives set aside their potential to live (what i deemed to be) painfully mediocre lives, serving only the interests of the family they created while the whole world went without the (whatever) they could have provided (inspiration, ingenuity, etc.) and on top of that, some of them weren't even happy.

it seems harsh, but that's really how i felt.

so where am i now? well... i know i was wrong. i still don't know exactly what being a wife is all about, but i'm ready to learn, and i figure the Bible is a good place to start (since this whole "marriage" thing was God's idea in the first place, right?)

wow, i'm kinda bad at keeping up with this thing.

thought for the day: walks are nice. they're even nicer with a friend :)

exhortation of the month (AKA: proverbs by nike).

my latest discovery is that it's no good fighting with yourself about legalistic, yet overall beneficial things. i used to fight with myself a lot about getting up and reading my Bible in the morning, and sometimes i wouldn't do it just to spite myself - but then i realized that in the long run, it doesn't really matter how i feel about it on a particular morning, because there is so much good to be gained from doing it consistantly. after about a week, waking up at 6 wasn't even so bad. now it's just something i do, and i can tell a difference. so for all those struggling with habits, i'm sayin' JUST DO IT. (and stop analyzing).