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Name: Becca
Country: United States
State: Wyoming
Birthday: 1/16/1979
Gender: Female
Interests: Learning about the character of God, discovering new surprises that He has for me, hiking, sleeping in, fall days, China, coffee, and midnight walks.
Bodacious- (adj.) A blend of bold and audacious, it means outright, unmistakable, remarkable & noteworthy.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Nonprofit
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Member Since:
7/9/2005
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| One of my friends felt the need to tell me that the ratio between the sexes in El Paso is 6 women to every 1 man. Now that is freakin' depressing.
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| If cleaning my apartment for God is not fulfilling, how can cleaning a house for my husband ever be fulfilling. As a single woman I have the choice to do my dishes as soon as I finish eating or to leave them til the next day. I started to get into a pity party/argument about how it doesn't matter when I do my cleaning b/c I am alone in the house, when God told me that I should do my dishes for Him. To which I immediately thought, "Well, that isn't fulfilling." and He reminded me that "Preparation time is not wasted time" as my old Laramie Pastor once said. So to all my friends I ask, please pray for me that I get off my "but" and start to take advantage of my time b/c "the days are evil." Eph. 5:16.
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| This is definitely going to stretch and grow me. There are so many things that I used to be able to do that I know I cannot continue to do, like sleep in or not eat breakfast b/c I'm not all that hungry. If I sleep in then I am not available to wake my gpa up to take his pills or to take care of the dogs since as part of the package it is something I need to do as a helper in the house. As far as breakfast, how can I expect gma and gpa to eat if I am not eating also. I find myself praying for the health and well-being of the dogs b/c one of them is 15 and a larger dog so time is marching on and they are the pride and joy of my grandparents day.
I went to the church that I wanted to check out last night and got to attend a service. It was good but the best nuggest of goodness I got out of being there was something out of song being played over the p.a. system before service started. The song quoted that "no man made weapon can be forged against us" and the first thought I had was about money and how you need a job to earn money and then I realized that Adam didn't have an employer, he just had a relationship w/ God. God is my provider and He will not leave me w/o a job when I need to find one.
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| Have you ever followed what God told you to do and completely paved the way for and then as soon as it was done and too late to take back or disobey as it were, you felt like you made the absolutely wrong decision? I had that experience just this morning actually.
I was asking God where I should go and so when my Gma asked me to come home and be here for her I didn't hesitate to say yes to her. The next day my step-father offered to pay for the entire move to El Paso and as soon as I got back to Laramie my best friends mom told me she found me a laptop for a good price, I was able to get out of all of my other obligations like job, rent, bank accts for a city I won't be in any longer without any hassle what so ever. I also got hooked into groups in El Paso before I even moved here and I was able to cut the ties material stuff held on me by getting rid of, donating, or selling everything I didn't need or what was really important to me. Then I got the best blessing ever. I went to my Monday pm bible study and asked everyone there if any of them would be able to help me pack up the u-haul. One of the men at my study, K, talked to me about it afterwards and when he learned that I was being forced to drive a 16 foot van w/ my car being towed behind it and I only had about 5 feet of actual stuff to pack he offered to drive me to El Paso. I noticed that the group leader didn't give any signals to not go w/ K when K announced to the room, most specifically to the leader, that he was planning on taking me to ELP. I told K that I had gas money and he told me not to worry about it. This was such an incredible blessing even though it was completely over the top in the generosity dept. and I am not at all used to such wonderful treatment.
So the point of all of this is that even though God totally paved the way for me to be in ELP to help Gma in such a way as to be undeniable, I mean I have never ran into a stranger who offered to load his truck, pay for the dolly to tow my car behind, buy all the gas and on top of that treat for dinner not to mention miss Thanksgiving w/ his friends and drive over 1,800 miles to do this nice thing for me. There is no way I can deny that God wants me here but as soon as I opened the garage and loaded my first boxes into it I felt almost sick w/ grief that I had just done the wrong thing in a bad way. I know that this was the perfect time for the enemy to try to poison me since I was delerious from sleep depervation, exhausted from sitting for 16 hours during the drive, anxious b/c I knew I had a massive cleaning project infront of me before I could even start loading my stuff into my room, and b/c I don't have a job yet. K verified that I did the right thing and that it was nothing but the devil messing w/ me.
I am so going to need your prayers, this is a new chapter for me and an adventure in the making w/ all the challenges and delights of going down God's path for your life. Pray for me that I let God's Will prevail in my life and that I don't cling to what I think I want when that would totally be setting for second best when God has only top shelf choices for me.
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| I am moving to El Paso, Texas on Wed. I went home a week ago to have early holidays w/ my family and my gma asked me to stay and help her w/ gpa. It is sad for me to be moving so far away but God has been taking care of all of my worries and the obstacles that have come up like having my step father offer to pay for the move and not having to cancel my bank acct since there is a branch in El Paso. I will miss all of my friends when I move and I will miss a lot about living in Laramie but this is the adventure that I've been praying to God for. Wish me luck guys and i will be keeping in touch w/ all of you who I have emails for. Look out El Paso, here I come! | | |
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