.....stress: relieved!

oooookay. So basically this past week was full of questions in my head. If you are anything like myself, you get in this slump and don't really feel motivated to seek answers for these questions. You write it off as something that you aren't "supposed to know." There are many questions that i feel definitely fall within this category. However, towards the end of the week i experienced a little something called gumption! i told myself, "Dillon, get over yourself and go to God with these questions!"

What a better place to look than one's own friends?! My bible study group couldn't have come at a more perfect time! My bible study leader just recently made a very huge decision in his life. Very huge! One that usually takes about two years to decide. He's made it in about three months. When he shared it with me and the rest of the fellahs, i began to worry. Being the child of Mona Chustz, i look at everything in terms of the consequences and i always want to make sure that the step i take is a step for the better. Nothing is insanely wrong about that. Except if you're a christian haha.

I consulted with my best friend, Mr. Smith, about the decisions and questions in my like presently. He realized how apprehensive i was to taking even the first step. He knows how i work. He knew that he would have to decompress so many layers of fear and doubt. And of course, being the genius that he is, he just plainly told me, "Dillon, if this is ordained by God to happen, then NOTHING that you do is going to mess it up!" AHH! I'm always so quick to point out if something is or is not supposed to happen; whether something is meant to be. Yet, this somehow must have slipped my mind! DUH! Of course if it's "supposed to happen" then there is no way that i can mess it up! If the creator of the universe has something in store for me, it WILL happen. My clumsiness, my accident-prone nature, my chronic case of diarrhea of the mouth, nothing can keep that from happening! Stress: Relieved!

"You care for the land and water it;

you enrich it abundantly.
The streams of God are filled with water
to provide the people with grain,
for so you have ordained it." -Psalm 65:9

"your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be." -Psalm 139:16

Also, as Mr. Max Lucado helped me to realize, while i am going through such a confusing and frustrating time in my life, i CANNOT allow it to hinder my witnessing of grace! I can't allow these issues to take my focus away from the issues that other people are facing and how urgent it is that i go to them and be a servant!

There is no exaggeration in expressing how grateful i am to have a God and Savior who knows the plans for my life. Someone who keeps me on track even though i keep falling off of it!

I suggest two songs this week" "Your Hands" by JJ Heller and "Healing in Your Hands" by Christy Nockels :)

Below are pictures that have recently made me happy :)