Quick Post About the Thunderstorm

If you've been reading this blog long enough or if you know me well enough, then you probably know how much I love thunderstorms. In fact, if you are in one of the previously mentioned categories you are actually probably sick of hearing (or reading) about my love of thunderstorms and it's okay. I get it. I know I mention it a good bit.

Tonight, I wasn't expecting a thunderstorm and ended up in Yogurt Mountain for a good while waiting out what I think was probably the worst of it. Now, as I get ready to go to bed, I listen to the sounds of thunder roll across the skies. I watch as my window lights up over and over with the magnificent flashes of lightning and I am at peace.

As I said in the title, this is a quick post, because I mentioned above I am going to bed. However, I wanted to be sure to share a verse that I've shared before out of Job. Well... more like a passage.

"My heart pounds as I think of this. It trembles within me. Listen carefully to the thunder of God's voice as it rolls from his mouth. It rolls across the heavens, and his lightning flashes in every direction. Then comes the roaring of the thunder--the tremendous voice of his majesty. He does not restrain it when he speaks. God's voice is glorious in the thunder. We can't even imagine the greatness of his power." - Job 37:1-5 (NLT)

I know I am among many that sleep peacefully during thunderstorms but I pray tonight that everyone, whether you usually sleep peacefully during thunderstorms or not, would rest easy with this verse on their hearts. May the Lord bless you richly. Goodnight:)

Right Where I Don't Belong

I have a song on my phone called Where I Don't Belong. As I listen to this song on repeat tonight I am caught up in this moment, where God has once again met me where I don't belong, just like He has so many times before. The words in this song say that He meets me where I don't belong, asks no questions and embraces me as His own.

When I hear this specific part, I think about the prodigal son and how when he came home, the father didn't ask him questions about where he was or what he had been doing. He simply embraced his son enthusiastically and welcomed him back as his own.

So tonight I am listening to this song on repeat, as God does some serious open heart surgery. As He works on my heart that has recently been so filled with doubt, uncertainty, confusion, and lies that I have sat down and let the enemy pour in. I have been lazy in my faith and I am paying the price in the distance I feel between me and God right now.

Don't get me wrong. I know that God has not put the distance there I have, I know that God has not put the wall up, or stepped away... I have. No, God has continued to chase and purse, and call. I have just been too wrapped up in doubt to listen. I have sat down on the sidelines of the race, watching everyone else as they run.... I've been sitting there with the enemy sitting right beside me filling my head and heart with lies that dug deep into my heart. Allowing him to pull me away without even putting up so much as a fight and becoming too tired to try.

I don't belong on the sidelines. No Christian does. They belong in the race. The race that Paul talks about in 1 Corinthians. I have been where I don't belong for too long. So now I sit here with my heart open before God, His hands deep at work within.

Why am I posting this? Because I know I'm not alone. There are other believers out there who have sat down somewhere they don't belong. There are other believers who have become so tired that they've stopped running and they are now listening to the lies of the enemy as their hearts fill with darkness and the distance between them and the Lord grows. With each lie their bodies are growing weaker, their eyes are getting heavier, and their breath is getting more shallow.

I'm posting this to tell them to GET UP! GET UP DEAR BELIEVER!!!! Don't let the enemy feed you lies anymore! Don't let him take your strength anymore! Don't let him sedate you! Don't let him steal your joy! Don't let him kill you! Don't you realize that is what he is doing??? He is killing you!

So STAND UP with me dear believer! We have been sitting on the sideline so long that we have gotten out of shape, it's not going to be easy to get back into the race but we have to. We have to start running again... but in order to do that we have to bring everything to God. He already knows, you aren't going to surprise Him with anything.... but you have to bring it ALL to Him. Don't withhold anything! It's time.... today is the day.... right now....

God may have to do some open heart surgery on you like He is having to do on me... it's not easy, and it's going to be painful but He is going to do so with love.

Remember, you're not alone.... I've been right where I don't belong and I can testify... God can pull you out... But you have to be willing....

This is the post about nothing

Hello. This is the post about nothing. This is literally a post I am writing out of sheer boredom. I am bored. Therefore this is a post about nothing. I guess it's actually a post about the random things coming into my head, so technically it's not a post about nothing it's a post about my random thought process... or rather the thoughts that are thought during my random thought process.

So hello.... this is the post about my random thoughts in my random thought process however that title is too long to put in the title box I think.... even if I did it probably wouldn't capture your interest as well.

I'm confused about why you are still reading anyway.... you must be bored too.... welcome to this post that I will no longer name because it's too long.... also welcome to the club of boredom.

I am thinking about cookies. I like cookies.... I really like Oreos.... Not without milk though... I don't care for them really without milk. Yummy, yummy ice cold milk....

Funny enough though I actually can't stand plain milk.... I can really down a glass of it after eating like three Oreos and becoming thirsty because of them though. But that's it... other than that I really love chocolate milk.

I guess that's all.... as I said I am bored.... therefore I am going to try and go entertain myself some other way rather than boring the heck out of whoever is reading this... but honestly....

WHO ARE YOU??? Have you made it this far.....??? Wow.... you are bored aren't you....

Goodbye.

-Kelcy

116 Days to Go!!!!

OH MY GOSH!!!!!! I'm getting married in 116 days!!!!! I can't believe it. In 116 days I will marry my best friend:)

For those of you that don't want to count it up but are still curious that is 3 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, and 19 hours until Charles and I say I do! I CAN'T WAIT!!!! Believe it or not, it actually just sink in the other day that I'm ACTUALLY getting married:) Then reality hit of how close the wedding is and I am now even more excited than ever before. We of course still have many things to do before the wedding gets here but I am so super excited!!! 

Wedding dressed was purchased not long after the proposal, wedding bands have been picked out and purchased, honeymoon booked, and now we are just taking care of some final planning things. I know I have already said this a lot but I will probably say it a lot more in this post and many others, I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED and I CAN'T WAIT!!!!


116 DAYS UNTIL #TOBEJAEGERED!!!!

Get ready. I am about to become the most annoying person for the next few months:) 


-Kelcy (soon to be Jaeger) =D

It's My Birthday!!!!!

That's right! I am officially an A-D-U-L-T! Look out world... can you tell I'm just the slightest bit bored?

Well, anyway... so today I hit adult age legally however after having already started the "adulting" portion of my life...  ya know, paying bills, cleaning the apartment, working....etc... I just wanted to make a public service announcement to every young person dying to become an adult....

SLOW DOWN!!! It's not all it's cracked up to be and your going to miss the time when you weren't the one paying for the power you used, the hot water you used, or the gas to fuel your transportation. When you buy that first grocery bill and read your total be sure you have someone you trust standing close so that they can catch you because it's going to be A LOT.

I'm not saying that being an adult is 100% miserable all of the time, but I am saying that it's a big time wake up call that your parents are trying so hard to prepare you for with all of that advice you keep ignoring...

So I repeat... SLOW DOWN. Spend every second you have enjoying your childhood and don't waste a minute of it. Listen to your parent. Learn responsibility, but right now... have fun. Don't run head first towards your adulthood because I promise you you'll wish you hadn't.

Am I happy? Absolutely!!! I am getting ready to marry my best friend! I am moving towards the "I do's" with each passing day.

Now... to my original point of this post (hence the title of this post) IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!

I have been alive for 21 years today. God brought me into the world screaming and crying knowing the plans He had for me. Knowing that I would one day meet Charles and be planning our wedding. Knowing that I would start Great News Ministries. Knowing that I would be writing to you all right now on this blog...

He knew all of the crap I would go through before coming to know Him as my Savior and Redeemer on April 4, 2012 and He knew that I would be spending today knowing that He has allowed me to be on this earth for 21 years and spend the last 4 years of those 21 in service to Him.

God continuously blesses me beyond anything and everything I could ever hope and imagine, and I pray that He will help me to serve Him with all I've got for as long as I've got:)

We Got the Apartment!

Okay, so somethings changed right after I posted and no one got to really know... THEY CALLED!!! WE GOT THE APARTMENT!!!!

Yes, we've done a happy dance. Yes, we are thrilled. Yes, God IS AMAZING! I can't wait to see what He has in store for us next! Thank you all for your prayers!! This is the shortest post ever but... that is all :)

-Kelcy

Crazy. Random. Nervous Post O_O

It always seems that my posts have more and more time in between them, but life is busy as I am sure most of you know all too well. There has been a lot going on since I last posted. School, wedding plans, trying to get a place to live so that we aren't homeless after the wedding... 

I am sitting here as I type awaiting a phone call that will tell me whether or not Charles and I have gotten an apartment. I don't think I have ever been so nervous for anything in my entire life. THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Don't get me wrong, I know that if it's in God's will and apart of His plan it will all work out... however, I can't help but be nervous and hope and pray that it is in His will and that this phone call would hurry up and come and be good news.

Can you see my stress yet? Can you almost see the gray hairs this has created on my almost 21 year old head? This has been an ongoing super stress since Thursday of this past week. I am sick to my stomach, and I feel like my head won't stop spinning until the phone rings... then again that might make it spin faster until they tell me yes or no... 

You know the nervous I'm talking about, right? That, crawling-out-of-your-skin kind of nervous. 

I just looked at the clock and it is 8:52AM.... Their offices open at 8.... I hope they don't wait all day.... 

You all think I am crazy right now for typing this all up in a blog, but let me tell you it's helping. This post may be all over the place but hopefully it will make me feel better. 

I know what you're thinking though... You're wondering if I am going to write this post until they call.... well, I would like to say yes because that would mean they were going to call in the next few minutes however my answer would be, of course not! That would be insane! 

I am actually about to stop writing now... however... while we already have a small army of people praying for this to work out, we would love for that army to be enlarged. So will you pray with us... please? Pray that God would allow this all to go well... 

Thank you for putting up with this crazy post (if you made it this far, that is). May God bless you all with a wonderfully awesome day! Will hopefully post again soon (prayerfully with good news!)

-Kelcy