*life*

What to do with my life? Stay in DK?

Thats a good question. Ive been asked a few times since ive been here, “so what are you planning on doing?” being a teacher, ministry, what? 

Well my answer, i dont know. Is that bad, I mean that im almost 21 and have no idea what to do with my life. I feel that its actually a good thing. At the moment im really just leaning on God, well really since i graduated high school. I went through that whole, what am i gonna do, i dont like school why would i go to college thing right after i graduated, but now im just living, listening and doing what God says. Well when i know for sure that God wants me to do something. 

Right now im “struggling” with (more like  trying to wrap my mind around) why God wants me in Denmark. I’ve been praying a lot about it, and since the second week I arrived here have felt like i will be here for longer than my year. But thats just it, why does God want me here, what am i going to do, go to school, be a missionary, what??? I have no idea! That is the next thing Gods telling me to do..not think about 5 years in the future, i need to be in school to get a good job to get married raise a family…..that sort of thing, all i hear right now is STAY in denmark. 

Soooo if anyone is reading this, i would greatly appreciate it if you could pray for me, that i would listen and be ready for whatever God wants me here for. and that, like everything else that has been a God thing, would work out! Things seem to run a lot smoother when there God and not me things ;) 

a “Christian country”

So I’ve been reading in Jeremiah about how Israel refused to change and God warned them of His wrath and even told them He would destroy them. He would raise up and far off country to come against them with mighty warriors… WARNED them! … now i haven’t finished all of Jeremiah, but at one point God sent someone to go and search as hard as they could of find someone “good”( jere 5) and they refused to take correction and repent. This makes me think about the US. Of course we have people that really and truly believe, but we are what they call a “Christian Country”. When did the quotations get put in that statement? When did we start to lose the morals we were founded on, the Bible, our entire country was founded by Godly men and we seem to forget that. Why do we sit back on the couch and mumble under our breath at the news and things people do that we dont agree with on TV…”hmm thats just horrible how they are allowing young girls to kill their babies,… or yah sure go ahead and make pot legal, its a “plant from the earth right?” (yah so is poison ivy, try and smoke that) <—— (that was something helle said, the poison ivy part =D) any way… my point is, we are a “sure ill stand up for what i believe in, as long as i dont have to leave my couch “Christian Country”. i dont want to live that life… a couch christian… sounds lame and you only get to see the world through the worlds view, corrupted, confused. Lets get off our couches and go, God has called us all to at least that much, even if its in your own backyard. Obey the call, be engaged in what God is doing! 

We are trees =D

As i was looking out my window, i was just watching the trees blow in the wind. Thinking about how strong a tree is, yet it can still be pushed about and even blown over. So i had a thought….

Our lives our like trees. We are rooted deep in something. Depending on how good the soil is, is how we turn out. 

As Christians we should be rooted in Christ Alone! We all go through seasons, our leaves change with each one. When storms come we’re blown in the wind and pieces of us may even fly away, but the water nourishes and gives us strength. The deeper our roots go the stronger we are to endure storms, waiting for the sun to break through and bring more life. 

This is my prayer for us all:

God help us to be grounded in you. Going in whatever direction you take us, allowing you to transform us through every change we may encounter.  -Amen 

Girl in a box… ;)

One day this week Claus brought home a printer. Anna and Caroline were playing with it for a bit and then asked me to help move it down stairs. Anna said, “Erin, dad says we should move this box, it has clothes in it to give away.” so i bent down to help her lift it and it was a lot heavier than just clothes. I said, “are you sure this is just clothes?” anna laughed and said yes…. i believed her for a split second and then looked inside. to my surprise there was a little caroline girl hiding in there…. “HELLOOOOOO ERIN!!!!!!!!”  followed by a TON of laughter and “WE got YOU!!!” hahah 

They are too funny :) 

Goodbye Georgia :(((

I am very sad right now and overly excited at the same time… well i guess not at the same time, but within minutes of each other. Im kind of feeling a little bipolar.. yah thats it! I am so thankful for this opportunity to live in GA although i have to say i hate goodbyes so im sad that God is making me do this yet again.. wish i could stay, want to go over seas, love Texas too AAAAAHHHHHHH all too much…. well on the bright side my week is going to be very event full =D yay for talent competitions and white water rafting! ;)