bind my wandering heart

Father hide our hearts in You lest we steal them back and lay them at the feet of man.

21. Female. Canadian.
canadianinnola: Here is the girl portion of my team this year for Missionlab. they are the sweetest girls ever ! We’ve been training all week, learning about the different ministries, tasks, and roles each of us will play during the summer. I cannot wait to get my first group of teens in! The heat is incredible for me, the Canadian. I’ve been teased a lot this week for my red hair and Canadian heritage, but its all in good fun :) The food here has been AMAZING. I feel like they’ll have to roll me home by the end of summer though. We were learning about what service is and isn’t, and one thing that really stuck out to me was the story of a widow who went to see the prophet Elisha because she was going to have to sell her sons into slavery as they had no money to provide. And Elisha asked her what she needed, and what she already had. That is what we need to remember when serving this summer and anytime, to not assume we know people’s needs just because they look a certain way or live differently than us. And that we need to preserve the dignity of those we help by letting them help themselves, using the resources they have and the power of God to provide! I am sleepy and warm and I think a nap is in order before dinner. God is moving in this city and I am learning to rely on him every step of the way. He is doing something miraculous in me already. Bring it on, summer :)

canadianinnola:

Here is the girl portion of my team this year for Missionlab. they are the sweetest girls ever !

We’ve been training all week, learning about the different ministries, tasks, and roles each of us will play during the summer. I cannot wait to get my first group of teens in! The heat is incredible for me, the Canadian. I’ve been teased a lot this week for my red hair and Canadian heritage, but its all in good fun :) The food here has been AMAZING. I feel like they’ll have to roll me home by the end of summer though.

We were learning about what service is and isn’t, and one thing that really stuck out to me was the story of a widow who went to see the prophet Elisha because she was going to have to sell her sons into slavery as they had no money to provide. And Elisha asked her what she needed, and what she already had. That is what we need to remember when serving this summer and anytime, to not assume we know people’s needs just because they look a certain way or live differently than us. And that we need to preserve the dignity of those we help by letting them help themselves, using the resources they have and the power of God to provide!

I am sleepy and warm and I think a nap is in order before dinner. God is moving in this city and I am learning to rely on him every step of the way. He is doing something miraculous in me already. Bring it on, summer :)

To the drunks, the addicts, the perverts, the victims, the porn stars, the prostitutes, the adulterers, theives, the obese gluttons who think a waste is a terrible thing to mind, the Twilight fans, the murderers, the mommy’s boys, the losers, the freaks, the geeks, people who think wrestling is real, red necks, guys who own action figures, chain smokers, everyone who does not use a turn signal while texting and talking on the phone in their car, men who live with their mothers, women who get paid in dollar bills, dudes in dresses (seen it at Mars Hill), democrats, republicans, the guys at the gym who walk around the locker room naked singing Bon Jovi’s Living on a Prayer, mormons and anyone else who wears sacred under breeches, whoever is responsible for the creation and ongoing sale of men’s Lycra biking shorts… yoga instructors, witches, pot heads, meat heads, crack heads, dead heads and meth heads… people who don’t recycle, the rainbow-loving tree-hugging … lefters, and religious people who do not know what I am talking about because these subjects were not on The Little House on the Prairie or covered in their Home School co-op — I have good news for you: Jesus loves you. You’ll fit right in. And because He died for your sins, you get to repent.

—Mark Driscoll, Jesus Loves Sinners (via chelsatonic)

(Source: whenthewoodisgreen, via jesusmysuperhero)

My gooodbye to my niece and nephew.. :)

My gooodbye to my niece and nephew.. :)

thoughts

thoughs before i leave

My anxiety WILL get better

I am going to have a great summer in New Orleans

I can’t wait to eat chic-fil-a

I secretly hope you’ll just show up in NOLA in a fit of romance. i’d take you back in a heartbeat. How sad is that? and I, my friend, wouldn’t bail on you. I’d stand by your side.

BUt you wont do it. It would take too much effort.