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Yes I am alive :)

I know I went MIA for a few but never fear I'm back!

These past few weeks have been crazy, confusing, and distracting.

I just kinda lost sight of a few this to be honest.

However, the Lord never leaves us we just have to wallow in the pig pen for a little while in order to see what we really need.

I lost sight of my priorities and got wraped up in

my plans,

my goals,

my tests,

my papers,

my meeting,

mymymymymymymymy.

my

MY

MY

my

Get the picture?!

The Lord always calls me back though.

This morning he splashed some cold water on me and woke me up.

He pulled me out of the pig pen.

Save your best striving for seeking My Face.

I am constantly comunicating with you.

To find Me and hear My voice,

you must seek Me above all else.

Anything that you desire more than Me becomes an Idol

[school, extracurriculars, significant others]

When you are determined to get your own way,

you blot Me out of your conscioursness.

Instead of single-mindedly perusuing some goal,

talk with Me about it.

Seek me first and foremost; then the rest of your life will fall into place.

[Jesus Calling]

He has my whole life in his hands.

I just need to trust him.

Because I know that I cannot do this on my own...

Thats why I have melt downs, and get stressed.

I am thankful for a God

who will help me get through college,

who helps me get through papers,

who helps me to schedule my life.

I just need to trust him.

 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 6:33

With Love From My Father,

Diane Elizabeth

I love my sisters a whole bunch :)

I love my new roomie a whole bunch!!!

(Hayley we need a new pic with just us)

And MY BEST FRIEND and BOY FRIEND is COMING TOMORROW

Irrelevance

So I sat down tonight to have quite time and I tried something a bit different.

Instead of sitting down thinking of what I want to get out of this...

I prayed about what the Lord wants me to get out of it.

So I opened the book I am reading for my Bible study and immediately I read some incredible stuff!

Seriously the Lord can do amazing things if you just let him reveal himself to you!

The book I am reading is In the Name of Jesus by Henri Nouwen.

I read it last year for Work Crew training but I always am able to get more out of the books the second time.

The book is about a man who had taught for twenty years at Notre Dame, Yale, and Harvard.

He was a genius.

He taught pastoral psychology, pastoral theology, and Christian spirituality.

He began to feel empty, dry, and spiritually drained.

So he prayed for an answer.

That answer was L'Arche Community for the mentally handicapped people.

He gave up all his knowledge and credibility to teach what people thought were the unteachable.

In his book he talks about reflections on Christian Leadership.

Relevance

is the name of the first chapter.

The temptation in it for leaders is our desire to be relevant.

He writes,

"I am convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus came to reveal God's Love. The Great Message is what we have to carry."

When was the last time you were told to be Irrelevant?

Our world thrives off of our self relevance.

We do anything to boost our selves.

Thats not what we need to be Christian Leaders.

The Lord's love is what is most important.

Henri Nouwen went to a place where

the people couldn't read his books,

the had never heard of the schools he taught at,

his higher level education did not matter ONE BIT.

Talk about irrelevance.

Jesus was tempted with the same things.

He was tempted to turn stones into bread.

When he was asked to prove his power as the Son of God by the relevant behavior of changing stones to bread, he clung to his mission to simply proclaiming the word.

I agree that it is hard.

Being put in a new environment,

new people,

new teachers,

new friends,

new younglife.

I strive to get back my credibility that was built back up at home.

The thing is I DON'T NEED IT.

The Lord will give me what I need to spread his word.

I can not do it on my own accord.

I need to be irrelevant in order to be a servant for the Lord.

His relevance> My relevance

With Love From My Father,

Diane Elizabeth

PS. I am currently writing this in the basement of my dorm during a tornedo drill. How fun...

Bones

206 Bones

I hate each and every one of them.

Seriously I cannot do this.

I have a week and a half to learn them all not to mention other random things.

**FREAK OUT**

The crazy thing is right when I felt the anxiety tightening in my chest,

the Lord lead me to this.

Psalm 94:17-19

Unless the Lord had given me help,

I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.

When I said, "My foot is slipping"

Your love, O Lord, supported me.

When anxiety was great within me,

your consolation brought JOY to my soul!

When you call out to the Lord and say "I NEED HELP"
He will come and give you support.

If the Lord can conquer death whats a few bones to him?!

I will be praying for Theta Iota Chapter at Gettysburg College in Penn.

Sorry this post is short and sweeet.

With Love From My Father,

Diane Elizabeth

P.S. So I have hard core studied for an hour and a half and I know EVERY BONE in the Skull! I CAN DO IT! I would like to thank Jesus for patience and a brain to learn. And a Special Thank you to Hayden Scott for the quizes :)



Now my Little Cranium and Occipital bone are hitting the pillow :)

Beta Nu

Please...

Be still

Stop running

Weep no more

For..

It is finished

I have overcome the world

I have already won...

Seriously I wish I could implant this into my brain.

I can never remember this.

I stress and plan and organize and work....

for nothing.

It is already done.

The Lord has already beaten this world.

"Walk upon salvation, let your spirit live in me"

I want that joy and easiness to be with me everyday.

I go mindlessly through my day only to realize that I am missing the picture.

I need to wake up every morning and be Thankful for another day.

We are doing this really cool thing in my Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi

where we pick, at random, another chapter in the country and pray for them.

I specifically pray for

their well being,

 that they just get covered in the Lord's love,

that they can advance his kingdom,

and for him to show himself to them in a mighty way.

This week was Beta Nu.

Seriously I think this is the neatest thing... Thank you Courtney Rogers (aka my aunt)

I have club tomorrow night and I am so excited!

This week has been going by smoothly my first test is tomorrow and only one more paper!

THE LORD IS SO GOOD!

With Love From My Father,

Diane Elizabeth

2 Papers

3 Exams

 All this week...

Only the Lord's peace will get me through this!

But I am looking forward to my the FIRST VESTAVIA CLUB of the semester

THIS THURSDAY.

YAY for Valentine's Day Club!

I get to do the game :)

I will make it through this week!

With Love From My Father,

Diane Elizabeth

unstoppable

Here I am Lord,

Take my life

Let it be consecrated to you.

Take my moments, my days, and my time.

Take my hands and my feet,

Take my voice and my lips

Take my money, my energy, and my resources.

Take my motivation, my goals, and my intelligence.

Take my friends, my classes, my future.

Let them be all for you.

Let them be beautiful.

Let them be pleasing to you.

Let them be all for you.



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Lord, I own nothing.

Nothing that I have is mine.

You control my life, my world, my circumstances.

Whatever you put in my way,

I pray that I reflect you through it.

At the end of Acts 7 Stephen is stoned and becomes the first Martyr.

After his death, the church scatter.

They were scared and confused.

However, the Church in Antioch,

[The center of missions to the Gentiles],

was started as a result of the persecution.

 

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Praise God for the stoning of Steven.

Because he is sovereign over

 the leaders in the world,

the persecutors,

death.

He used that persecution to advance his kingdom.

He holds our lives in His Hands and will accomplish the plans for our lives.

Our God is UNSTOPPABLE!

 

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With Love From My Father,

Diane Elizabeth

refuge and strength

Oh Saturdays.

I forgot how special they are.

Seriously the best day of the week.

I love just relaxing and getting to do fun little things all day.

I have been watching cake shows 24/7 lately... bad idea.

I have been craving one so badly so finally tonight we went to YOLO and got cupcakes :)

how yummy does that look?!

So I just read Jesus Calling and of course the Lord just touched my heart.

I am still amazed that the passages I read fit so well with my current situation.

The only thing you can grasp without damaging your soul is My hand.

Ask My Spirit within you to order your day and control your thoughts,

for the mid controlled by the Spirit is Life and Peace.

[JesusCalling]

I really like this because I feel like this is one of the biggest struggles in my life.

I have, still, and will still struggle with this.

I always try to grasp or fill that whole of my heart with things other than the Lord.

Whether its a boy or friend or some other person or thing I always try to grab for things that are not the Lord for help.

Not that I have not done this myself, but it always breaks my heart when I see friends that are so lost because all they have in their life is a boyfriend and he lets her down.

Attention all girls:

If you only rely on a man to make you happy you will always be disappointed.

He won't text you back when you want him to.

He won't say the right things.

He won't always be there for you.

He is unreliable.

He will never fill that place in your heart that the Lord was made for.

Not saying that you can't have a boyfriend or that he won't make you happy.

But if you don't love and trust the Lord more than him, you will always be let down.

Psalm 46: 1-2

God is our refuge and strength, and ever-present help in trouble.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea.

With Love From My Father,

Diane Elizabeth

Ps 32 days HSH