Faith Noodles

How deep the Father's love for us, How vast beyond all measure That He should give His only Son To make a wretch His treasure

I am trying.. trying to figure out how to serve God with my time. Or maybe a more accurate way of phrasing this is I'm struggling and trying to give God (full) control over my time. Out of all my resources, time is the most precious resource to me and the hardest for me to give up to God. And this is very helpful as I ask God to show me how: "One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy." Elisabeth Elliot "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34

By Keith and Kristyn Getty, "Perfect wisdom of our God" Each strand of sorrow has a place Within this tapestry of grace So through the trials I choose to say "Your perfect will in Your perfect way"

I just had lunch with the girls who are a year above me, and man, I'm so freaked out about next year. :( Key advice was to finish my thesis this year, NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES. I've got 166 days (or 23 weeks and 5 days) to put together two journal articles and one full thesis. I was looking through some stuff people put on the net to motivate PhD students and the first few memes that popped out were of Ryan Gosling. -_- No way am I posting any memes of him on my blog. But you know what's (A LOT) more encouraging than Ryan Gosling? THIS: "Rejoice in the Lord ALWAYS. Do not be anxious about anything, but in EVERYTHING by PRAYER and SUPPLICATION with THANKSGIVING let your requests be made known to God. And the PEACE of GOD, which SURPASSES all understanding, will GUARD your hearts and your minds IN Christ Jesus." Philipians 4:6-7 This is true even when you have so much to worry and be anxious about! Since I was 14 years old, this truth has really ...

I just love these tiny bits of wisdom from the Narnia series :-) This one's from Prince Caspian. “This is Caspian, Sir,” he said. And Caspian knelt and kissed the Lion’s paw. “Welcome, Prince,” said Aslan. “Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?” “I—I don’t think I do, Sir,” said Caspian. “I’m only a kid.” “Good,” said Aslan. “If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not. Therefore, under us and under the High King, you shall be King of Narnia, Lord of Cair Paravel, and Emperor of the Lone Islands. You and your heirs while your race lasts.”

What is wrong with me?! I'm normally really good with my spending, but these past two weeks, I've felt this insatiable urge to spend on so many things. Mind you, I haven't spent a cent yet, but it's been on my mind. This is probably not a good idea, but I am going to list the stuff I really wanna purchase, you know, just in case I forget. :D 1. $30 Book - All the light we cannot see (but this I can borrow from the library) 2. $25 for a $50 online tea voucher (their tea tastes soo good, but no, just no) 3. $50 for this mineral clay mask and rosehip oil lip balm (apparently au naturale eeek tempted) 4. $40 A woolly top for winter and new tights (I see clothing sales everywhere agh but do I really need more clothes? :S) I think I'm definitely going to get #3, probably the closest to a "need" than the rest although it still doesn't necessarily qualify as one. Or maybe I should just lock up my credit card somewhere, and try and avoid going to t...

This past month I felt like God really wanted me to learn to ask Him. For what? I'm still learning, but I've been praying for anything and everything that's been on my heart like my needs, needs of others, (less frequently) world issues (of course my heart is super flawed, so at the same time, I've been praying that He will align my heart's desires with His and He has been correcting and leading me). There have just been situations, things that people have said to me, devotions and bible studies that just seemed to have the same theme: learn to ask Me. Without going into detail, the coincidences were so frequent, I really felt that God was trying to get my attention. And I'm finding that as I learn to ask God more and more on a regular basis: - I am really learning to depend on Him (I am learning to ask as a result of the realisation of my own spiritual poverty - I am just completely incapable of doing anything right for God in my own strength and I need t...