Favorite hair styles I’ve created.

I’m gonna be an AUNT.

I’m gonna be an aunt:) sooo excited and happy!!!! Praying for healthy mom (hailey) and baby; xo.

A brief update on my not so brief life ;)

It’s been ages since I’ve made time to blog. So much has happened and changed since then. I am done with my intro phase of school; working on guests and learning what I love to do.

Since I have moved here, I have learned and grown in a few ways; the first couple months were not too great in terms of living on my own in my cute, brightly designed apartment. Spending my nights alone for the first time terrified me – even to the point of paralyzingly fear. Prayer was what pulled me out of this – and continues to keep me free from this fear:

“I have been tested.
I am being tested.
I will praise God for that very fact.

As I ventured into this new phase of my life, prayer and utter surrender were required of me. I did not realize the intensity I was about to experience the two.

Fear, being a constant battle, has been thrown on me.”

I wrote this a month into being here in Indianapolis. God has and continues to do a work in me. The last couple weeks, I have not been afraid at night. I am sleeping thru the night and feeling fully rested.

I have learned to have a lot of patience and to remember the kind of person that I am. Being in the environment I am in, I have heard more gossip and cussing than ever. It’s been easy to fall into all of it but I’m doing well.

There’s so much in my brain right now to blog. I hope to have more time after my MUCH needed vacation; but I wanted to give a little of an update on where I’m at and what I’m doing/learning!!!

- cf.

Inspiration for the morning

I’ve discovered two things,though: I can’t hold it all together, and my life is in the hands of a God who loves me. Even people who don’t claim to be Christians might use the phrase “it’s in Gods hands” But my is not in the grasp of some impersonal, far-off, distant “god”. The living God loves me, so much that He wants me to take all my worries to Him.

timing is not our own.

IN HIS PERFECT TIMING, LIFE BEGINS TO MAKE SENSE. ALL OF THE DECISIONS AND DESIRES THAT WERE ONCE FINALLY ARE. IN THE PAST FOUR MONTHS, I HAVE BEEN WONDERFULLY SURPRISED BY ONE WHO TRULY WORKS ALL THINGS FOR GOOD AS WE LOVE AND SUBMIT TO HIM. HE IS THE ONE WHO DESERVES OUR ADMIRATION – ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO HOW HE UNFOLDS OUR LIFE IN FRONT OF US. WE OUGHT TO RECOGNIZE THE PERFECT MIND AND HEART OF THE ONE WHO IS IN CONTROL, AS HE GUIDES AND REDIRECTS ALL THAT WE AS MERE HUMANS CANNOT QUITE TURN TO OR TURN AWAY FROM. WE OUGHT TO BE HUMBLED BY THE SIMPLE FACT THAT WE HAVE LITTLE CONTROL IF ANY IN THIS WORLD. WE MAY CHOSE A CERTAIN DIRECTION FOR OUR FUTURE, BUT AS WE SEEK HIS FACE AND HIS PLAN FOR OUR LIFE – ALL IS CHANGED. WHILE THE TRANSITION AND SWITCH TO THE NEW PLAN MAY NOT BE WHAT WE EXPECT, HE HAS SOMETHING FAR BETTER IN STORE. HIS LOVE DISPLAYED ON EARTH THROUGH INDIVIDUALS OR THROUGH A CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL PLANNED AHEAD OF TIME, CREATED PERFECTLY AND WONDERFULLY, SHOWS THE VERY ACT OF LOVE THAT CHRIST HAS DISPLAYED OUR ENTIRE LIFE. AS MY HEART HAS TURNED TO THE DIRECTION AND LOVE OF GOD, WITHOUT ANY OTHER DISTRACTIONS OR LOVERS, HE HAS MOLDED AND CREATED ME TO BE A CERTAIN WOMAN. HE HAS PREPARED MY HEART AND IN HIS TIMING ALONE, NOT MY TIMING, HE BEGAN TO SHOW ME THROUGH HUMAN FORM THE VERY LOVE AND PROTECTION AND PROVISION HE HAS DISPLAYED. ACCEPTING THIS KIND OF TIMING AND GOING WITH THE FLOW OF WHAT GOD HAS PLANNED IS KEY. WE MUST CONTINUALLY KEEP ON IN THE DIRECTION LAID BEFORE US. EARS AND EYES WIDE OPEN – CAUSE YOU JUST NEVER KNOW WHAT OR WHO IS GONNA WALK IN YOUR LIFE. REMEMBER THIS LIFE IS NOT BASED ON OUR TIMING BUT HIS ALONE.