it's been so good!

Today has been a wonderful wonderful day! If everyday could be like today, I would be the happiest person ever. I started the morning off by meeting a friend for coffee at my favorite coffee shop. We had a great conversation, caught up and were just plain honest with what's going on in our lives. Afterwards, I stayed at the shop for a bit to chat with "D". He's a really sincere person and a good listener. He said something that profoundly stuck out to me. I was telling him that I have a lot of questions (Who am I? What do I want to become? What does it mean to be in community? What is important to me? What is essential to my faith? etc.) He said that sometimes we don't find answers. We don't come up with a solid conclusion that we were hoping to get. Instead, the contentment comes when we pursue the questions with God. When we ask the questions to God and with God. The understanding and the assurance comes when we are walking with Him. He may help us answer some of our questions, he may just reveal things to us in a certain way that will change the way that we approach the question. He may have a fresh revelation one day and then the next time we pursue that question find something else new and exciting. That's the joy of pursuing life's questions with God. I find that to be such a good word. He is My Jesus who is with me. So after coffee, I went to work for five hours. A great shift. It would be grand to just work five hours a day! After work, I practiced some guitar and listened to my mom talk about how proud she is of my brother for registering for University. Her kids are growing up and she's one proud mamma. I'm sure that's such a special thing to be watching your children grow up and make decisions. I could see how happy she was. It was one of those moments where I thought she might cry again (just like when she was so proud of me for getting my driver's lisence). So afterwards I went over to "M's" house for dinner- an adapted Korean Feast! yummy yummy. It was nice to share a meal with a friend and eat from caserole containers. Then, before we started my guitar lesson, I got to hear one of M's original worship songs. Again, I fell in love with it. This song was about, "Jesus, my Jesus" and Him walking before us, and us resting in Him. I don't know how he does it, but the lyrics of his songs always speak to me. These ones spoke once again to where I was at. It's almost like sometimes I want to cry when I hear them because they are so beautiful. I love hearing the stories that are behind the songs, it helps. But I also love making the songs mine and just sitting back, closing my eyes and enjoying them. His music is so refreshing. Anyway, after the worship song he played another one that's still in the works. So I was hoping he would have had more, but unfortunately I was sort of left hanging. I loved the words- something to the extent of, "Beloved, don't give up your dreams." I like to think, "Beloved (daughter), you are Mine, and your dreams are specially unique to you. Embrace them and don't forget them. Look for avenues to see them be fulfilled. Find joy and be who you are created to be." Then I had my guitar lesson and made some progress today. That's always good. I reviewed my chords and the strum pattern and then worked on a new strum pattern and transitioning between chords. After an hour my fingers were sore. ahhh. This was such a good day. I think I forgot to mention that the sun was shining and it actually felt like summer. It was even late until 10 tonight. I feel so alive and so refreshed! so it's the end of the day- 11:24 pm and I think I should end by praising God for the poeple he's placed in my life, and the day of joy and encouragement. My Song, "It's in times like these- It's in times like these where there are so many questions, so much spinning 'round in my head. So much already seen and already learned, but yet so much more to come. I want to be so free. I want to be alive- alive and awestruck by the One who knows me. It's in times like these where I look at the past. I think about who I was and where I've come from. It's in times like these where I look at everything around me and say. I want to be so free. i want to be alive- alive and awestruck bythe One who knows me. It's in this time- in this time where life is going so so well. The meaningful converstaion along the way. The whisper in my ear from the One who knows me. The dreams that come to pass, so I can be so free. I can be alive- and asestruck by the One who knows me." (maybe more will come, these words just came to mind at the moment. But I've been thinking of the line, "In times like these" for the last little while."). So there we have it... a GREAT day! Praise God for today!