¿Puedo obtener un descanso?

(Can I get a break?)

Spanish homework/assignments/papers have been running my life for the past 6 days

The only things that have kept my head about water this week are:
1. Reading blogs
2. Twitter humor
3. Lent
4. God's sovereignty

I have recently downloaded a RSS Reader App for my BlackBerry and it has been heavenly. I can now read entry after entry, regardless of internet coverage. A few I really enjoy are:

http://www.jessieandbailey365.blogspot.com/

http://thatgirlgwen.tumblr.com/rss

http://stuffchristianslike.net/

http://xxxchurch.com/rss/blogs/women.xml


Twitter has also become a favorite past time of mine. I can't promise my tweets are always the most humorous, but I'm getting better. I love the tweet-wars between friends back home that help me feel less homesick.

http://www.twitter.com/shi2803

I am delighted about the Lenton season. I have chosen (by the inspiration of Gwendolyn) to give up eating at restaurants, fast-food, coffee shops, etc. (Basically only eating/drinking out once a week) I am looking forward to a season of looking away from my own desires and focussing more closely on the desires of God's heart. (Something I should do year-round and am now taking an opportunity to focus in on.) Let me know if you are fasting about something I can encourage/pray for you about.

God is so good! He has been opening doors left and right lately. I've been quite astonished by the ways He has made himself known lately. I have seen Him in all the little day-to-day tasks I usually get bogged down by. On of my favorite things about God is the way He pursues us. I cannot sit idly by and just wait for Him to pay for attention to me....it is when God is showing Himself to me that I desire more and more to seek His face.

As always, when pursuing His face, the Enemy has tried sneaking in my head and whispering little lies. I'm glad I am surrounded by friends who can discern that and join me in prayer against such things. Earlier this week, a friend told me, "Feel like you are feeling stressed out cuz your living the right way and trying to love and follow God...and Satan doesn't like it and is mounting up his troops and trying to get you down and feeling less than what you are...a child of God with all the joy in the world!!!!! :)" How could my day/week not be instantly brightened with that kind of encouragement?

Thanks for reading. I look forward to more rambling about God's grace/majesty/power/sovereignty....as I figure out more and more what it means to follow Him wholeheartedly.