And a new journey begins.

Day one of my new journey began with reading Genesis 1-3. I'll be sharing awesome things that I learn each day! =)

First thing I learned... Adam named each of the wild animals and all the birds of the sky animals.  How awesome would that be!?

Question: What kind of animals were created? (I know fish of the sea, birds of the air, and land animals) But were the animal still some of the same animals we have around today like Bison, horses, cows, eagles, hawks, salmon, sharks, dolphin? I had never really thought about that until now and Google is NOT helping me answer that question!


1. The serpent lied. (3:4)
2. Woman was dumb & ate the fruit.  (v. 6)
3. Adam was dumb & ate the fruit.

Because of this...
WOMAN is CURSED with pain during pregnancy and birth & the "desire to control her husband, but he will rule over you."

MAN gets the GROUND CURSED. (v. 17)
1. "You will struggle to scratch a living from it."
2. It will grow thorns & thistles.


Thought: I wonder have life would be different is Adam had eaten the fruit first?! Cause pain during pregnancy and child birth is WAY WORSE then a few thorns in bushes!


Another thought: I didn't know that God only gave us vegetation and grain to eat in the beginning.  Animals weren't introduced as food until after the flood (according to Google, in case that isn't completely right).  Now I understand where that Paleo Diet is coming from... getting us to eat what we literally born to eat.


That is all.  Stay tuned for more interesting facts I learned in the coming days, weeks, months... :)
I really want to keep this up... now I know I won't be blogging about this every day, most likely. But one of my goals is to read the entire Bible.

Letting It All Hang Out

Honesty time.  This has been on my mind for quite some time. 

As I was cleaning my room a few weeks ago I came across a note card that had leadership characteristics written on one side and this question on the other…

Would the life you’re living now be a life you would want someone else to follow?!

The answer to that question is NO!  I have been struggling with my walk with the Lord and my entire life of calling myself a Christian.  In the past 2 years or longer I have not been consistently involved with church or even had a quite time.  A few people have brought my lifestyle to my attention over those past couple of years.  One of these people is very special to me. (She knows who she is.) She tells me how much her children love me and look up to me... and it just sunk in that I am not worthy of those children looking up to me!  They are more of a leader than I am. And they are 10 years younger than I am.

Within the last couple of days I have had the desire to seriously get my life back on track and actually have a relationship with the Lord. 

When my dad was arrested before my senior year I had such a great support group with all the trainers, Coach Jenkins and my Sunday school class.  They kept me from completely falling apart and I was connected with the Lord.  But a few years after that something else happened and that is when my life began to fall apart.  I didn’t have that support group anymore and I turned from the Lord. That was about 2 ½ years ago. :(

Lyrics from 2 songs have been stuck in my head for some time now that describes how I’m feeling…

“Who is that girls I see staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?” –Reflections by Christian A

In The Light by D.C. Talk… “I keep trying to find a life on my own, apart from you. I am the king of excuses. I’ve got one for every selfish thing I do.  What’s going on inside of me? I despise my own behavior.”

I went by Lifeway today to pick up some highlighters so that I could start studying and highlighting my Bible. You know that quote about “A bible that is falling apart usually belongs to a person that isn’t” Before today I only had a couple of verses even highlighted in my Bible.  I also got an awesome new journal to start writing down what I am learning on this new adventure that I am starting! :)

I had a bunch of journals from high school and the beginning of college that I would takes notes in from Sunday school and church.  I decided I would start with those and reading through those. 

I have only gone through a few pages and have already learned SO much… in which I would like to share….

Who is the glue that holds my life together when everything is falling apart? (It needs to be God.)

Often storms are there to bring us closer to the Lord.  He uses the storms now to help us with something else later down the road.  Phil 3:10 talks about we have to go through suffering to become more like Christ.  I have had plenty of suffering in my life time, but I haven’t let God use it in a way to better myself or help others.  I have only let it destroy my life.  During tough times RUN TO GOD and cry out to Him. He is my rock. He will be there to pick me up.

God will make the desires of your heart match up with His will, but we have to give it ALL to Him.  *Ask Him to change the desires of my heart, if it doesn’t match God’s will.

-That one is powerful!  I have been struggling with what career I want for so long, but if I give that to God then HE will show me where I need to be. (Sarah, that’s for you too)

Something else… If I’m worrying about something, ten how can I fully trust God?!

And this coming up is what really spoke to me tonight… It was a lesson that Josh taught back in 2008.

“Characteristics of the Mature Believer”

The lesson was taken from Hebrews 2

“We must pay the most careful attention, therefor, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.” (v. 1)  So, the only way to NOT drift from where we are supposed to be in our Christians walk is to keep our eyes focused on the Lord.

Hebrews 5:11-14

“We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.  In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again.  You need milk, not solid food!  Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.  But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good form evil.”

            “If you’re not growing, you’re dying” –Whoa!

            Drinking milk from a bottle is OKAY for BABY, but NOT for older teachers.  WE should be better than we are!! We should be teachers by now.  What am I doing still drinking from the bottle?

Q: Do I realize what I do and how I act impact how others see Christ?

A: If someone is looking at my life to see Christ… I have given then the WRONG message.  Not that I’m a bad person or do bad things, I’m just NOT the person that the Lord has intended for me to be.  I am sorry to anyone that I have lead astray by my lifestyle.

If you’re not willing to walk it, then don’t talk it!

God cannot guide me if I do not talk to Him, read His word and let Him ride with me.

And that’s just from the first few pages.  Prayers for this new journey are very much needed!  I am ready to change my life for the better. 

And what this whole journey has taught me before I even began was… I have been trying to fix EVERY area in my life (fitness, nutrition, so on…) but I haven’t tried to fix my relationship with the Lord.  I was told a long time ago that you can’t fix your life’s problems without first getting right with the Lord.  So, that’s what I’m doing. I am trusting my Savior and then everything else will fall into place.

Meaning of...

When you hear the words, "Genuinely becoming" what does it mean to you?