Pursue more of His fruit in your service. If your service for God lacks the fruit of changed lives, you don’t have to try harder, pray more, or claim greater territory in service. Instead, you should examine your personal relationship with Jesus to see how closely you’re connected to Him. It’s the quality of your connection to Jesus that will determine whether or not you’ll have the power to bear good fruit for His kingdom. The fruit you bear isn’t produced through your own efforts; it’s produced by the Holy Spirit through you as you consistently rely on God. Jesus is the Vine and you are the branches. God may sometimes choose to prune you to bear good fruit by cutting out of your life everything you depend on – except your relationship with Jesus. When you’re forced to pay attention to your relationship with Jesus because that’s all you have, your connection to the Vine gets bigger, empowering you to produce more fruit. Trust God when He prunes the branches of your life; He knows what’s best to help you grow. Pray for greater fruitfulness in your service, asking God t conform you more closely to the image of Jesus, use you to make others want to know Him better, give you opportunities to share His Gospel and give you the fruit of changed lives as a result, draw others to Himself through a Bible study you lead, or give you one person to share His love with today.
- Pursuing More of Jesus by Anne Graham Lotz

Looks like its been a while since I've written here. I'm not sure if anyone follows anyway. Theres a heck of alot going on in my world...most of which i'll leave there and not attempt to explain.

I'm finding that i'm being forced to plan my life at least 7-9 months in advance. I guess I kinda knew it would happen this way but i somehow figured it would be as hard as it sounds....Mmm- It is. It is as hard as it sounds.

This summer is looking to be grand, however. Staying in VA- but moving to a much better place with much better people (at least one much better person). I'm probably more excited than i should be. Its just about consuming all my mind space right now and theres not much of that to go around....oh well. :)

Its hard to catch up after not writing so long...I think i'll give up :)

 

 

Baby # 102 slipped into my hands last night...It's been so long and it felt so good. Doing what I'm supposed to be doing kind of a thing.

I've had an epiphany- i'm crazy, amazingly, outrageously blessed. For real!  I can't get over how God is lining things up only how He could do it. Its like He's pulling all the strings just to pour blessings on me. Like I'm the only one He's got to worry about. Like Hes just thinking about me all day long and how He can be good to me, how He can overwhelm me with Himself. Its like...thats His character. He is only good.

In other news:

I get to see my neices next week! Im crazy excited, maybe planning a little sleepover...and ofcourse i'm excited about seeing my sister and brother too. And then I get to see my parents! Both of them, on their way back up to NY from Fl. Excited kaayo ko.

One of the clients bb's tested positive for an incredibly rare and serious metabolic disease. Hes getting diagnostic tests done today. The situation surrounding it is even more heartbreaking and difficult. We're praying that the test was a flop and the bloodwork comes back negative.

My car passed inspection! There were those who had doubts but...it seems like it just keeps getting better and better. At one point i thought sure the transmission was going to die tomorrow. Now, its not giving me any trouble at all. It starts everytime, it goes when i push the gas and stops (eventually) when i push the breaks. I'm happy as a clam :)

I've made plans for the next couple of years of my life. Their kinda what i was expecting except for a few major details :) Either way- I'm crazy, crazy excited. And hoping I can get TK in on some of that excitment ;)

I've been home for 6 months. Have i already posted that? Either way, the States isn't so bad. But i def. realized how easy it is to get sucked in. Wouldn't mind going overseas to get my mind straight again. And i'm thinkin I my as well make it the Philippines :) How sadly unrealistic :(. Then I could see Joan and play ball with Krys and frisbee with Jo and Jw. Ok, enough of that.

I'm exhausted, hence the rambling.