Baptism

I was baptized last Sunday! It was so cool. Our church does a whole day once a summer where the whole church service is worship and testimonies (One requirement in becoming baptized is a testimony of how God has changed your life and share with the congregation) and then everyone meets at a lake for the baptism, fun and games, food, and music.

I had my good friend Dawn help baptize me. I love Dawn - God had her lead me to Him. I really believe He put her in my life right now for a purpose. She's amazing. In fact, excuse me for a minute while I leave her a note on her facebook page....

Ok, I'm back...

It's like I have a clean slate now to start over and become a new person.  The person I have always wanted to be.One I'm going to let God control because I didn't do such a great job of it myself....it's much easier to deal with things when you have His help and it comes in all forms. From others helping you all the way to something not happening like you want.

1 Corinthians 1:26-31

Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don't see many of "the brightest and the best" among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That's why we have the saying, "If you're going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God." 

 

Now, I'm going to dedicate and commit to getting healthy, so it's very likely you will all get to hear about trials and tribulations of that....I'm trying to get used to the term "getting healthy" over "losing weight". My husband won't let me call it the latter. He says it's negative and implies you're only losing weight to weigh less. Being Healthy means replacing the weight with strong healthy muscle. Exercise, stress reduction, eating healthy (organic, gf/cf) and prayer.

God is awesome! Don't you think?

My first blog

Ok. Like so many other people, I decided to start a blog. Not sure if anyone will follow it, and quite honestly, if no one does, that's okay. It's mostly a way of journaling for me.

So, a bit about me. My name is Jennifer. I am 38 years old and I have 2 daughters - Emma (who is 10) and Lucy (who is 4). I've been married to my wonderful husband for 14 years.

I want this blog to be just about my life, discovering who Jesus wants me to be. I'm becoming more spiritual as I get older. I realize it's not my life to lead, but it belongs to Jesus, so that's who I want to live it for. Doing what He wants me to do, be who He wants me to be. And I'll be happier than I've ever been doing it. I realize that the life He's given me isn't going to be all fun and parties (I'm not a party person, anyway. I can't stand crowds) He's already told me numerous times life will be hard. But I'm 100% positive that He will be there every step of the way, helping me.