Nintendo and Jesus!
I have some writers block today everytime I am about to write what I think I want to write and get about half way there and stumble on what to go off of next. So I guess will just write from what has been going on in my life. This past week has been very good. It has been kind of a hard few weeks lately just understanding what and why I go threw certain things. And it is amazing just how God simply sits you down and reveals to you exactly what it is and why you go threw it. That is at least when you are listing to him. I tend to be the one always talking but you probably have no idea what I’m taking about. Right? So lately I realized I had been meeting this block in my life, I wanted to go deeper I wanted to stop feeling like I kept running into the same situtations over and over again and I wanted to know WHY I was dealing with this! It was simple but yet so hard at the same time because it required me to first of all listen to God, and stop talking so much, second I need to be willing to do what he has asked me to do. See many think it is so easy to obey but, come on we are human and of course why would we do something if He asks us to be selfless. That is when Jesus said, Kateland you need to do this, and this, and this and all of a sudden I knew that he was right as usual. When I dealt with the situations as he had told me to a peace that surpassed all understanding came in my heart and I knew that this block no longer held me back. See sometimes it is hard to get over that block. Its like the nintendo game Mario if you don’t defeat the next level you are stuck there till you can find the way to beat it or the bad guy and if you run out of lives then you just eventually die there. I know, kind of morbid but, so very true at the same time. Honestly, I felt like I was up to one of my last lives and I final saw how to get past it and I got myself the mushroom to make me grow and powed myself threw some of the walls and got to that lovely green tube that would take me to the next level. Now if this metaphor did not make you laugh then I am sorry but I think it is great. Once we know how to defeat a level and come up against again you know how to face it and beat it no longer is it a block but a door way to what is next or a green tube if you want to stay with the theme. God is so willing to show us how if we are willing to listen and obey. A true life long lesson that I continually learn daily.
Have a great day! Kateland
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Well Hi again,
I am so glad you came to read this lovely little blog today. How are you today? Well, I hope good. Today I went to the most important or one of the most important events in Wilkes County the Apple Festival. The whole town pretty much shuts down and they all eat horribly bad yet absolutely scrumptious food and of course they sell apples which is kind of what the whole festival is about. I can say it brought some comfort to me because it remind me a little of my state fair. I look forward every year but since I was here this year of course I did not go to it but the Apple festival made up for it the best that it could. I love seeing all the people come out and just have fun. It was something I defantly need I just felt like I have had so much on my mind lately and it has been a little frustrating with all going on here in my life and wishing I could be home to help them there. God though has been teaching so much on how to trust him and how he is protecting my family. I was really upset one day and he told me that Kateland did I not promise you that before you left that your family was under the protection of heaven and all the sudden I just had peace that surpasses all understand. God has really just been showing how he is constantly there for me. Through all that is constantly on my mind and things around me I have to be telling myself that everything is good as long as I trust God. Every little thing will be alright.
Later Kateland
Filed under kateland | Comments (151)The Rain, How I love it!
There isn’t onething I love more then the rain. I know, you all maybe asking is she crazy and yes I probably am about the rain at least. You see most people see it as a draby let down kind of a day because its raining outside but that is the seceret about the rain. It is the onething that keeps us inside it clams people down from their fast pace lives. It was the onething I could always rely on that would bring family and friends together. When everything was cut off from us to do because of the rain we were able to enjoy each others company, talk, laugh, watch movies and make memories. It slowed us all down from our busy lives to just enjoy what we had infront of us and not what we had to do next or what we could be doing. We ceased the moment in the rain and just had fun with what we had before us. So you see, the rain is way more important then just making sure the earth is watered. It slows us down. It keeps us aware of what we have. It even makes us get to those projects that have been pushing aside done (ahahaha… yes that can be sort of dreadful at times because it may led t fix it projects but you never know it could be fun..). So next time it rains don’t hate it because it is stopping you from what you need to be doing. Maybe its just God saying hey I made it rain today just for you so you could enjoy me and what I have given to you. Love the rain it might just be what you need that day.
Filed under kateland | Comments (16)The sun shine over me.
Let’s see two months ago exactly I said goodbye to all my friends and family back home. I traveled over 12 hours to get here and I suddenly find myself looking back and reflecting on all that has taken place and is it even possible to have all of this happen. I have come to the conclusion that, YES, yes it is possible to have your dreams come true. You see before I came to North Carolina it was only a dream for me because I had always wanted to come and see my favorite lighthouse. Off of Cape Hatteras Island stands the tallest lighthouse in North America and I have only dreamed of coming and seeing it. Well before the internship started I was able to go and see Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and even climb it. I stood on the top and I realzied that I was doing something that I really thought would never happen and I had just had one of my life long dreams full filled. Now most of you reading this are probably say okay that doesn’t seem that grand and its just a lighthouse but when you live as far away from the East Coast as I did it can be a big deal. I loved it so much it is a memory I will remember for life.
Another opportunity that I got that only seemed like a life long dream that would never happen was the meeting with Bob Jones. I remember telling people that I was going to meet Bob Jones and they would tell me, Kateland I never got to meet Bob Jones when I thought I was going to and so I highly doubt you will meet him. I was always like well that is your fault for doubting but I am still going to meet him and I did. I not only got to talk to him but also was able to have him pray for me and he took me and the rest of the interns out for LUNCH! I mean really this meeting was once in a life time and it was everything I had hoped for and more. I learned so much and came back with lots of revelation and understanding of different things.
All this just reminds me to keep on dreaming and that no dream I mean NO dream is to small for our Big GOD. He knows our desires and he knows our hearts and he will give them to us what we want. Many of you may be saying well you say that only because you had your dreams fullfilled but the truth is I have waited for years and I mean at least a good five years to happen. So sorry but that excuse doesn’t work anymore just keep dreaming and when it seems as though it has been lost that just means you got to keep dream even more because it probably will happen soon. Nothing is impossible with Jesus and I am not just saying that anymore I believe it. Now that some of my dreams have been full filled I have to get some more crazy dreams to have full filled.
Hope you have a wonderful day! Kateland
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