Lou Engle said this…
“God had a dream, and He wrapped flesh around it, and you were born.”
I love that so much. Though it would be a good 15 years of my life before I would say yes to the Lord, a dream of His heart really was made manifest to the world when I was born and its through my new birth in Him that that dream gets to truly live 
Maybe people say this every year, I dont know, but I really do feel like this is one of the best birthdays I’ve had in a long time. I just see the goodness of the Lord all around me. So much so that it’s almost too much for me to take in all at once. So, let’s start with the beginning of the day to tally all the little gifts He’s given me today, mostly so I can just see it for myself, but also as a witness to everyone of how kind He really is to His beloved 
- As I’ve already bragged about via facebook and what not, I received probably one of the best gifts ever as soon as I woke up this morning. My beloved Courtney left me the most amaaaaaaaaazing voicemail message where she sang me a song that she had written about me based to the tune of Cory Asbury’s “One thing/My Beloved”. It was so creative and every lyric is just perfect in every way, I can not help but laugh with joy evertime I listen to it. It really was the perfect way to start the day.
- Really just all the words from people that I love were such gifts in and of themselves. All the little conversations and texts that I got today blessed my heart beyond measure
- As if it’s not amazing enough to have my friend from FITN Jenna coming to visit me and Dora in the East Coast wild, I just found out today that my roomate Steph will be spending Christmas over here
! I am beyooooooond excited for both of these guys to come out here, I just cant get over how good the Lord is to have two of my friends from FITN come out here, it’s gonna be totally surreal, can’t wait! - Every single card that I got from someone was absolutely perfect for me.
- I’ve been asking the Lord every day for my eyes to get healed, I’m shootin for 20/20 vision, especially after hearing that testimony from IHOP about a girl’s eyes getting healed, it just boosted my faith even more. So, today I had an eye exam and if you know me, you know that my eyes are pretty bad, and every year I go for the checkup they always get one notch worse. Buuuuuuuuut, when I went today it turns out that my eyes didn’t get worse! They just stayed stable! So I’ll take that! I’m gonna keep petitioning for complete healing, I’m tired of wearing glasses, He didn’t make me with glasses in mind
- My parents gave me a good chunk of money that’s really gonna help me out and I havent seen my grandparents and everyone else yet so come Thanksgiving I’ll probably have a little more. Thank you Jesus! This just makes me want to give more and more and more!
- And speaking of testimonies that have to do with giving – (I’m gonna actually write a separate post about this because it’s just that awesome) Okay so, My car has a good $500 worth of damage done to it by myself, a nice white scratch down the passenger side and a piece of the metal on the bottom is sliced open pretty bad and starting to rust. In short summary, I’m getting all that fixed for FREE! The story behind this is awesome and makes me fall in love with the ways of the Kingdom even more, it’s fun dude! Stay tuned for the full story!
Man, I dont even know. The Lord is just so good. Even beyond all this stuff, just bringing myself to think upon the gift of His leadership in my life and how good He’s been to me through it all. The best gift I could ever receive is to know His love for me more deeply and to feel that for Him and I know that this whole season I find myself in now is the means for doing just that. As much as I may not always feeeeeeel the blessedness of it lol I know it’s the best and most perfect thing for me. I love Him so much for leading me cause I really don’t know what’s best for me. I used to think I did buuuuut I’ve come to terms with the fact that I don’t and that’s quite alright with me
It’s time to learn to lean
