New Beginnings!

So my PR teacher required us to start a blog but with all of the exciting, new things happening in my life, I am glad to have a place to write everything down! An online journal is my best bet anyways because I tend to buy journals and use about ten pages before I find a new one I like better...but that's besides the point.

I am so excited about my life right now because I can clearly see God working in my life and I've been missing that for about three or four years now, which is embarassing to say the least. I think I've always been a Christian because my family instilled in me such an obvious love for God that you just can't escape.

I'm so grateful that throughout my life my family has been such a wonderful support to me. Through my cancer, my parents' divvorce, just life in general, I counldn't have been blessed with more loving people in my life. My mom especially means so much to me because I have always been able to draw on her strength and kindness. My friend's joke that I don't have a heart..might be true ha..but my mom has nonetheless instilled in me the responsibility to loved ones and strangers alike to help those in need. (To whom much is given much is expected and whatnot.)

I want in my life to look back and see all of the opportunites that God gave me to help people and realize that I rose to the occasion in every circumstance to the best of my abilities. My heart yearns to cater to the needs of the children at St.Jude. I spent a solid 15 years of my life there and it's only fitting to return to the epic blessings of my life to give back.

I've started going to a new church, Fellowship, and I really love it! The service was amlost 2 hours long granted but I've been craving some time with God so much that I could have listened to him talk for hours more. Another great place I've been hearing about God is this new Bible study I started going to Monday nights on the book Fearless by Max Lucado. The Bible study is hosted and taught by Jeanne Stock whom I've known for years because her daughter Emily was involved with theater in high school with me. I am so grateful that God put this in my life! I really need this time with women who want to be there and learn what God has in stor for our lives together. I truly do miss God and I am so so thankful to have the opportunity to grow and not continue to be satisfied with how things are.

I'm excited and it's been a long time since I've been legitimatley focused on my life enough to have such a sincere emotion...good luck to me on this new journey! God, give me strength.
Diane