New Adventure of Life

"Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it". ~Corrie Ten Boom~ I read that quote in my devotional book last week.  I pray whenever I think of something or someone to pray about.  I feel like I don't spend a lot of time in prayer, but at the same time I feel like I do. When I pray I ask God to help me through a certain situation. I also thank Him when I pray for the things He had given to me. I love God's creation. I love thanking Him for making the mountains, the sunsets, the SNOW. I Everything in nature comes from God. This past month my prayers have been ones about wanting a baby, but also wanting it to be His timing. I've gotten so stress in the last few months that I was emotional. I have gotten a lot better with my desire/ stress of getting pregnant. Yes I want to be pregnant, but I'm not stressing about it anymore. I have several other things in my life that our stressful, that I don't want to make getting pr...

So last week James started his new job in Bethel, AK. It's about an hour flight from the place we live now. While James is working down there he is suppose to look for a vehicle and a house for us. We know that this is where God wants us, but it's a little hard waiting and see what he has planned for us. I'm hoping and praying that James will be able to find a place for us to live and a vehicle to drive, so we can be reunited again as husband and wife. I get to see him Friday- Sunday, but it's not the same as seeing him everyday. Trying to have important conversations on the phone because they can't wait is hard. Last night I was started crying over some of the important yet silly little things. I really wanted him here with me so he could take me in his arms and tell me everything is going to be all right, instead he had to tell me through a text message. Another on my waiting game is getting pregnant. Last night I just cried and poured my heart out to God about it...

I love my husband. I can't stand being away from him overnight. Our whole dating relationship was long distance. He asked me about 2 weeks before I had to leave to go to college. So I didn't see him until I would go home on break. I feel in love with him through talking on the phone and texting each other everyday. When I came home that first break I knew I was in love with him. I hate be separated. Always have. We had five months together with me not be away at school and it felt great. Then we got married. I was hoping we wouldn't have to be separated much. We both went on separate youth group retreat and I went to Tennessee for 5 days about 3 months after we were married. That was the longest we ever had been separated in almost a year. Now we are going to be married for 2 years this coming May and I still hate separation. You think I would be use to it since the beginning of our relationship we were away from each other, but no I can't. I did pretty well today when ...

For awhile now I have been wanting to get back into studying God's word. I occasionally will read my Bible when I feel that I need some advice or some sort of comfort. Back in November I got a catalog from Baker Book House, which is a book store in Grand Rapids, MI. Anyways I came across this devotion book by Joyce Meyer called Love Out Loud. It's a 365 days of devotions about loving God, Loving yourself, and Loving Others. I am going to try my hardest to stay focus and be able to stay committed in reading this. As I am also reading this devotion I am also going to be reading my Bible. Right now I am in the book of Lamentations. Why I am reading that book right now, I have no idea. Awhile ago I was doing really good at reading my Bible everyday and I read Galatians- Colossians, which there are also two books in between those two. After I got done ready them, I was trying to figure out what else I should read. Well I randomly decided to read Lamentations and...

Last night we lost power. Normally when we lose power it comes on rather quickly, but this time it lasted around 19-20 hrs. James and I had to sleep in the cold with no heat, but we were thankful that our uncle had a generator hooked up to his house and it was keeping the house warm. It was nice to be able to come over this morning and have it be warm, but eventually it was just getting to cold and he had to get a kerosene heater and turn on to warm up the house. It's hard to realize that we take things for granted. We take our electricity, water, and heat as if we should never have a problem. Yes we have to pay for those things, but sometimes things happen that no one knows about and it drives you crazy because it's an inconvenience not to have our morning shower or a fresh pot of coffee. Even to be able to flush the toilet is a big deal when you can't use. We get frustrated when the person who is in charge of the electric just doesn't fix it. I wonder how th...

I enjoy watching it snow, which is a good thing since I live in Alaska.  I grew up in Michigan, so I have been around the snow my whole life. This year the snow seems different to me. I hated it when it would snow back home because that meant I had to drive in it. This year I don't have a vehicle to drive, I only have a snowmachine (which is what people in Alaska call snowmobile).  I have had to learn how to drive a snowmachine, which has been very interesting to me. The first time I tried learning I hated it. I mean I was determined that I wanted nothing to do with them at all. Well the only sad thing is if I wanted to go anywhere I would have to learn how to drive one. One day James and I were at the post office with a different snowmachine, I decided I need to learn how to drive it, because I would need to be able to go somewhere if he wasn't around. I drove home from the post office and I will admit that it wasn't that bad. I've just been trying to be confident to d...

I've have been married for a year and a half and for the last year of it I was always getting asked if I was pregnant yet. My answer would always be no I am not. I remember my last 6 months at work I was always asked at least 3 days a week multiple times a day. I even had someone tell me congratulations because of some joke that kept going on from some people I hung out with at work. I finally decided I had enough of it because it hurt me deep down when I would have to tell people I am not pregnant. I wanted to be pregnant, but I knew that it was not the time for James and I to start trying for a baby. We were getting ready to move from MI to AK, we couldn't afford a baby and the stress of me being pregnant when we were about to make this big move. When I got to Alaska, I got asked a couple of times if I was pregnant yet and I would have say no. About 2 months had past before I was asked the question again, the answer was still no. To this day I still get people asking me if I...