This is your life

"Don't close your eyes, 
Are you who you wanna be?
Is it everything you dreamed that it would be, 
When the world was younger, 
and you had everything to loose."This is your life-Switchfoot


Those are some powerful words, when I needed God to shine His truth and light to me, He did through this song. I have been sick with my allergies and congestion pretty much since I walked off the plane, but I want you to know that God has totally used this to humble me and let me rely more completely on Him. I have been really under the weather for a few days and it has been really difficult to cope with that when my family is far away. BUT don't you know that God is faithful to give you exactly what you need at the right time. He gave me a loving kick in the butt and yet let me cry it out. These past few days have made me reflect even more on this song than I ever have before. I love this song and I have listened to it for years. Don't you know that God will reveal something new to you, just when you need it and when you feel as though you want to throw in the towel. God has a wonderful way of not letting you do that. Then yesterday, one of the sermons I listened to was about attitudes and how that can change everything for you. I reflected on the things God was trying to show me and I decided that my attitude needed adjusting. I wanted to make sure that my first act of attitude adjusting was to be THANKFUL in EVERYTHING! I thanked God for everything He has done for me that I never deserved. I was up all night coughing and so I continued to Thank Him. I am just grateful that no matter what happens, I am learning how to be more like Jesus, have attributes that others can see Jesus through. I am blessed to know that even in my aliment Jesus is teaching me how to be more like Him. That is what I want my life to look like and that is what I want it to be about. I want to look back on this trip and answer "YES!" when I read those words that Switchfoot says. I want to know that I am who I wanted to be and that I am  proud to say that. "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,"-Ephesians 3:20 

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