Can anybody hear her?

Have you ever lost a best friend? Have you ever experienced the ache deep down when you know that you can't just call them on the phone to vent to them, or when you need advice, or just someone to listen? Did it ever feel like a part of you was just not there? What do you do with that? Do you shove it away to be apart of the past? Or do you keep it with you knowing that for some reason that you aren't sure of yet, it was worth it? Do you ever wonder where things went wrong and how you could have changed it? I'm still trying to figure it all out. The one thing that I do know is that my heavenly Father loves me more than anyone and will be there to catch me and set me back on my feet again. He is my comfort and my strength.

An island in His hands

Have you ever stood in a crowd of people and felt completely alone? Have you ever had people look at you funny because they know you are different and don't know how to treat you? Tonight felt like that. I was with a group of friends listening to a band surrounded by a lot of people and felt like I was on an island. Is this what it is like to be a Christian? Are we to stand alone knowing that people may look at us weird and leave us out? Yet we still have to lift our heads high and go on knowing we are doing His work? That's what life is supposed to be.
God called us to serve him no matter what. He told us that the world may hate us but that we were to follow him no matter what because that reward will be greater than we will ever be able to imagine. We will spend our eternity with him! He never told us that it would be easy...He knows that there will be times that it will seem to be impossible, but I was reminded by a friend that God never gives us anything we can't handle. He knows what we are capable of handling and knows that we will make it out the other side relying more on him than we ever did before. He wants to draw us closer to himself even if it hurts. He will never let us go no matter what! He loves us that much. That is what I have to keep reminding myself of... Im here for a purpose and I can handle whatever comes my way!

Life is PRECIOUS

Today tornadoes ripped through Tennessee. Many people are now without homes and loved ones. One moment life goes on life normal and the next thing we know is that we are running for cover praying that we will live to see the next day. Tonight a tornado hit Union University destroying dorm and leaving people with nothing. One of my best friends goes there and she told the story to us tonight. This is what she said. "Hey yall,
I cannot describe what life was like tonight. I can now say I have been in the middle of a funnel and survived by the grace of God. I left my top floor dorm room and went to a friends in the first floor of the building across from us. About 10 minutes later me and ten other girls were squeezed in the bathroom/hallway of the dorm. The tv said we had about 15 minutes before it would hit so we took one last look out the window of the bedroom right next to the bathroom. I saw the funnel coming towards us and the next thing I see is blue and green light all around me. Later found out that was the lightning in the middle of the funnel or the tornadoe. We screamed and somehow the pressure and the wind oushed us all back to the bathroom. This all happened within a split second. My head felt like it was about to pop, the pressure was so bad. Glass was flying everywhere. The ceiling fell in and water was falling on top of us. A couch fell on top of one of us, but she is ok. It was pitch dark and what was left of the ceiling was falling in on us and water was filling up the bathroom. We were in the bathroom for about 40 minutes. We looked back in the room we were in when the tornadoe hit and it was no longer there. I survived by the grace of God. Firemen helped us out of the rubble and i will never forget what I saw next. The bathroom wall that we were in was the last wall standing of our dorm room. girls were being dug out of the room next to us. It was unbelieveable. Everysingle girls dorm room was ruined, but my building was hit the hardest. I have not seen my room but I have been informed that it is no longer there. I have to go , but I wlill finish later! Pray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Crazy huh? I think we all take our lives for granted and for many of us it takes life threatening situations like these for us to realize how precious our life is. I wish it didnt take events like this to wake us up.