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Sunday, February 6, 2011

My Heart

Sometimes he lets it rain

She sees the storms clouds gather.
The sky is turning cold and gray.
She knows that somethings coming,
when she starts to feel this way.
She pleads for intervention,
but heaven offers no relief.
She would understand, if she could only see.

Sometimes he lets it rain.
He lets the fierce winds blow.
Sometimes it takes a storm to lead a heart where it can grow.
He can move mountains of grief and oceans of pain,
but sometimes he lets it rain.

When her heart surrenders
to the master in control,
her spirit learns the lessons of the tempests in her soul.
When its no longer ragin'
she can see how far shes come
through the wisdom and the mercy of the Son.

Sometimes he lets it rain.
He lets the fierce winds blow.
Sometimes it takes a storm to lead a heart where it can grow.
He can move mountains of grief and oceans of pain,
but sometimes he lets it rain.

He lets it rain.
There is no joy without the pain.
Sometimes he has to let it rain.
he lets it rain.
There is no joy without the pain.
rain
Sometimes he has to let it rain.
There is no joy without the pain.
oceans of
rain
he lets it rain
mountain of grief
there is not joy without the pain
sometimes he has to let it rain
let it rain
just let it rain
just let it rain
sometimes it rains
let it rain
let it rain

After All I can do

Anguished heart,
desperate soul.
My spirit fights to take control.
I am holding on, but my strength is gone
and on my knees he rescues me.

After all I can do,
His mercy claims my grief and pain.
When each test of faith is through
his grace is sure and true,
after all I can do.

Broken heart,
contrite soul.
I plead for him to make me whole.
When in faith I fall and surrender all
with arms of love he lifts me up.

After all I can do,
his mercy claims my grief and pain.
When each test of faith is through
his grace is sure and true
after all I can do.

Every blessing from the father
floats to earth through living water.
Ever in his debt.
I hope that he accepts
what I can offer.

After all I can do,
his mercy claims my grief and pain.
When each test of faith is through
his grace is sure and true,
after all I can do.

Friday, February 4, 2011

The sun will come out!

I was not sure if that was going to be the case today. It has been soo cold this week, as noted by my previous post. Colder than it has been for over 20 years. Yesterday the weather said it felt like 9 degrees. NINE DEGREES??? This morning there is a blanket of snow on the ground. I opened my window blinds in my living room so I could look out on the snowy substance as I work. It is only a little snow, enough to close the school down though. As I looked out it was dark and cloudy. On the day I wanted/needed the sun to come out I did not think I would get to see it.

Then a miracle occurred, a small and simple miracle, as it always seems to happen.

There was a bright light out my window and when I went to look the clouds were cleared and the sun was shining down on this white earth. The sun that means a new day has come and brings with it the hope of tomorrow.


Thursday, February 3, 2011

Seriously


Did someone forget we are in Texas?

First Warning Weather: "we are getting reports of snow in Georgetown via Facebook and Tweets!" Thank goodness we have facebook and twitter to keep us up to date on our weather as opposed to, I don't know, the weather channel.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Have you heard?

My beautiful family

My brother Seth is on a mission in the California Los Angeles Mission!


I am dating this handsome man!
Why on earth are we up with smiles on our faces at 2:00am?
I have a niece!
Kyrah Lea Clements born on Jan. 17 2011 @ 12:35 am. 7.9 lbs. and 20 inches.
(She is 5 days old here.)
Doesn't this just warm your heart and make it smile. :)

Friday, December 31, 2010

Living in Anticipation!

Since the beginning of this year when I stated that this was going to be a grand year I have been living in anticipation of what each day and month would bring.

At the beginning of this year I wrote a post about how I was going to Choose to be Chosen.

In it I stated: "This year I am choosing to be chosen!! What does that mean?
It means at work I will make an extra effort to stay motivated despite the hardships that come from working in a manufacturing industry, I will be a better employee so as to be chosen by my employer. It means at school I will choose to excel a little more and find ways to apply the things that I am learning in my life. I will seek opportunity to further my career in health and fitness so I will be chosen for the things that I want to do. It means that I will be the right kind of girl so that I may eventually be chosen by the right kind of guy. It means that I will choose to serve the Lord more fully so that he may choose me. 3 Nephi 19:20"

I have been blessed with incredible opportunities this year. There have been ups and downs. My character and strength has been strengthened this year. It has been an incredible journey, a few of the lessons learned I have posted about. Others have just been thoughts in my head building my understanding of God and his works.

I said I wanted to be chosen as an employee, as a student, as a woman, and by the Lord.

As an employee I had some amazing blessings (raises, bonuses, work from home) come to me because of my work ethic which then opened up opportunities as a student.

As a student I created better relationships with my professors in my chosen field of study. As a result I was chosen to participate in an independent study with a professor for college credit. This allowed me to pursue more of my own personal goals, such as becoming Zumba instructor certified. I was also nominated for Major of the Year in the Texas Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine by my professor. I have a great internship lined up as well for the Spring semester with MediFit at Dell.

As a woman the right kind of guy chose to date me, which lets be honest was a pretty darn big highlight to my year! I won't get all sappy (I don't want to cause people to puke on their keyboards ;) but I am happy about it as well. Miracles do occur!

I have been blessed to serve the Lord in many different ways this year and honestly have felt that all of the above mentioned blessings have come from him. Yes I did work hard, because I did need to Take Action, but I have been greatly blessed in the actions that I have chosen. Which is great because I did seek the Lord's guidance as I made tough choices this year. I chose to move and that required some faith and hope on my part. I put aside my fears and decided to trust in what I felt in my heart and mind to be right and true and I have been greatly blessed as a result in many aspects of my life.

Basically this sums up my year: My joys are being fulfilled, my dreams are closer, and my prayers have been answered.

2010 was a grand year! I am excited for 2011 and the beauties and wonders I will behold.

Monday, October 18, 2010

When patience is required

"God's Promises are not always fulfilled as quickly or in the way we might hope. Patience means staying with something until the end, it means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings!" ~ President Dieter F Uchtdorf

This has been the lesson God has been teaching me over the past year and continues to teach me and remind me.

Ruth 3:18
Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.




Someday I will get my SMORE