Ok I know its been a while since my last blog....I have been quite busy. Finals coming up next week .....ugh!!!! Anyway aside from that life is good. God is doing wonderful things in my life right now. Not that he hasn't before they are just easily recognizable right now. I have learned so much in these last two weeks about God's faithfulness, and mercy, and joy. It just seems like God has finally got my pilot light lit. I want to know more, I want to experiance more, I want to feel more.....I just want more of God. I want as much as he can give me right now. I know part of my happiness has been brought about by the newest relationship in my life. It is incredible what joy that can bring. I have been trying hard to keep everything in perspective though. I have been trying to include God in every part of the procces. To keep my eye on the prize so to speak. Its hard....it is hard not to be totally rapped up in this other person who can captivate my thoughts. The good part is that she is a comitted christian and we have been working through this together. That is the best part. So far God has been very present, and we have made a point of keeping him there. Anyway I could ramble on about this until I have nauseated everyone so I will give it a rest...

I have been reading in Mathew, and I really like The Message translation for casual reading. I got to the beautitudes and the first one really struck me: "You are blessed when you are at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule." (Mat 5.3) growing up Catholic you hear the Beautitudes on a very regular basis..but they never really hit home....they sounded great but that was about it.
I began thinking"have I really been making room for God in my life?"...probably not as much as I should have. How do I walk this out? how do I make this work? I am not really sure right now...but I think I am going make an effort in this area. I believe that this perhaps could be a ready made prayer:

"Lord, less of me, more of you".

there that was pretty simple, straightforward and to the point. I like that.
now if only my finals where that simple ....

oh well....