Thoughtful Thursday : All The Way

 

    This morning I had the luxury of sitting on the couch, eating my peanut butter toast, drinking coffee, and listening to Ravi Zacharias. He has a lot of good, free, podcasts available online, and I really enjoy listening to him.  If you are interested in listening too, Click Here to listen to the message I was listening to this morning.  Its a really good message and I felt convicted after listening.  Ravi told a story saying, 

   "Years ago I was given the great privilege to be in Shanghai in the home of the famed Chinese evangelist Wang Ming Dao. He told us that he was put in prison for his faith in Jesus Christ, but he soon renounced his faith and was released from his imprisonment. Thereafter, he says, he lived with such torment of his soul that he walked the streets of Beijing saying, “My name is Peter; my name is Peter. I’ve denied my Lord.” Soon, Mao Zedong put him back into prison—this time for eighteen years. Wang Ming Dao said every day in prison he woke up and sang the hymn by the hymn writer Fanny Crosby,

All the way my Savior leads me;

What have I to ask beside?

Can I doubt his tender mercy,

Who through life has been my guide?

Heav’nly peace, divinest comfort,

Here by faith in Him to dwell!

For I know whate’er befall me,

Jesus doeth all things well.

At first the guards tried to silence him. When they weren’t able to succeed, they resignedly put up with his singing. Gradually, as the years went by, they would gather near the opening to his cell to listen as he sang of God’s faithfulness to him. Eventually, they began to ask him to sing to them and to teach them the words of the song. Such is the impact of one who walks faithfully with God."

It convicted me... Is my life a life of faith that impacts others? 

Show me your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths.
 Lead me in your truth, and teach me:
for You are the God of my salvation;
on you do I wait all the day.
Psalm 25:4-5

All about this blog and it's name

   First things first.... what is this blog going to be about? Well let me explain.... A few months ago I got married to my handsome husband and moved to the states, yes the United States. At the moment I am currently not working and living the life of a homemaker, sipping tea, laying on the couch, reading blogs, looking at Pinterest and dreaming of having babies. I jest!  Actually for the most part I have been cleaning, doing laundry, and writing Thank You notes. Yes, they are actually being written. Of course I do go on Pinterest sometimes, and have sat on the couch occasionally, but we actually have had a very busy five first months of marriage. ( Happy Anniversary Love)

    Since we got back from our Honeymoon we have had a grand total of 4 free weekends with nothing to do. I am not complaining. I love having company. Actually, I was super tired last week and in a complaining moment said to Adam, "Ok, we really just need to stop having company, not go anywhere, and just stay home and sleep." Within two seconds of that extremely over tired statement, I promptly forgot my current disdain for company and was like " Oh you know what we should have all the cousins over for a pizza party again." I can't help it, I really do like both sleep and company.

   Now that I have gone off on that tangent, on to the real purpose of the blog. There are two reasons actually. One its mainly so I can show our family and friends back home whats going on in life, with out sending tons of different emails. Warning: the posts in this blog could be at times very boring and not very wordy! I'll try to post once a week for sure, although right now I'm kind of excited about having a blog again so I might post more often that once a week. The second reason is because I have been taking too many pictures with my phone.... I am a professional photographer people, do you hear!! Professional! ( Insert huffing and puffing* ) Once again I jest. Well actually I am a professional photographer, but I'm not that upset about it. I do, however, want to start using my real camera again.

   As for the name (what's in a name?) .... Well you know it wouldn't be American if the title didn't have something to do with freedom, I jest a third time ( you should probably get used to this) Actually despite how busy our lives have been since Adam and I have gotten married, our home is my little patch of freedom. I grew up in the country where our neighbours were at least a field or two away, so when Adam and I started looking for our house, the idea of living in a postage stamp home seemed rather confining. I know I could have made it work, but none the less when we saw the property of the house we own now, it was like a breath of freedom. I feel like I am living in the country, we have a ton of large trees and almost an acre of property. So now you have the scoop, and welcome to A Little Spot of Freedom.