Renewed Ambition

Well hello blogging world. I doubt any of my original followers remain after my nearly 3 years of absence from the blogging world. Fine with me. In many ways I do not even feel like the same person who started this blog five years ago. Two years in a foreign country, a Seminary education, and two dating relationships with unexpected endings will cause changes in a person. Hopefully, I have changed, grown, and matured into a better more God honoring person, but sometimes I wonder.

I'll start slow with this first new post. Maybe with a list of my favorite things and a list of some things I've discovered about myself.

Favorite Things:

1. Flowers (as indicated by this blog). I've really grown to love "gardening". Although the only edible thing I grow is tomatoes. Everything else is just really pretty flowers. My flowers this year are the prettiest I think I've ever grown. I don't have any great pictures of them (I'll post some later), but I'll show you a pic of some of the first verbena I ever grew.


2. Sea Turtles. I have always been a big fan of turtles and especially sea turtles. I'm a collector and I've been collecting turtle figurines since I was 7 or 8. Recently I asked my friend Lindsay Core to paint me a picture of a Sea Turtle. She did an amazing job!! See for yourself.

3. Gus. However, if you know me you already knew this!

Now for things I'm learning:

1. I'm not a "follow through" kind of person. I hate this. So, I have started a project for myself. I bought a journal yesterday. . . it is now 1 of about 5 sitting unfinished in my room. But I promise that this one is going to be different. This one I am going to write in everyday for at least this entire summer. That is the goal anyways. I'm off to a great start with entries from yesterday and today! :) Plus it's a really cute journal--
the actual reason I bought it!

2. I'm a planner. I plan way too much and much of it never happens, but this has never stopped me from making lists, buying planners, and keeping electronic sticky notes on my computer desktop. I just can't help it. Go ahead. Call me OCD.

3. I really do love the Lord Jesus Christ with my whole being. I want to honor, serve, and please Him so badly that it hurts sometimes. My prayer today comes from Isaiah 1 (Which is where I started for my summer of journaling in my new journal!)
Isaiah 1:16-17 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
So, today I am praying for forgiveness from my sins of arrogance, vain worship, pride, and self-righteousness and I'm pleading that God will teach me to do good.
And along the same vein-- I will be going to help the fatherless in about a week and a half in Shell, Ecuador at an orphanage. www.lacasadefe.org.