My WeEk!!!

Last Saturday, I ran the half marathon in 2 hours 8 min and 46 seconds! My goal was 2 hours and 10 min.!!! I WAS PUMPED and DETERMINED!!!

Saturday afternoon, we celebrated dad's 55th birthday by giving him a party and a new bike! I can't believe dad is 55!! 

 

Sunday night, I had to move back home because my house in Murfreesboro was broken into for the second time (I had nothing in the house of value, it was all with me). Kaycee, my dad, and I were all in favor of us moving out ASAP. I found out about the break in on  Saturday, got out of my lease saturday, and moved out on Sunday.. 

(My closet at home)

Monday, I went to visit Mema in the NHC (nursing home)..We went with a few others to sing some hymns. I cried watching Mema and the other elderly people sing.. I can't imagine being that age...

I finally finished classes. 

I turned in four papers, presented three presentations, and had 4 tests all in two weeks.

In my child development 2 class I made a 130/130 on my profile paper.

My teacher brought my graded paper to me and told me she made a copy, because she loves good examples..

(This has never happened to me!! I texted everyone in my family to let them know, hahaha)

Today, Cort and I spent a lot of time trying to take it easy by shopping at T.J. Maxx (you should go!) 

Cort asked me to watch Izzy while she tried on clothes. I did watch her, but I was unsuccessful in making her put on her shoes. She really enjoyed hiding and running from me in the store while I pleaded with her to put on her shoes...

I love the little rascal!

I've had a pretty GREAT/ Successful week!

He opened my eyes and allowed me to choose Him! =)

He chose me,a filthy sinner!

The creator of the universe picked me!

He wanted me!

He saw me and chose me

to be set apart!

WHY ME!?!?!??!

All I can say is Your GRACE for me is more than I can fathom..

I LOVE YOU..

Thank you for opening my eyes Father God!!!!

His GRACE overwhelms me...

In response to Romans chapter 9, I'm completely humbled ....(read the chapter before going on....)

God's Sovereign Choice ROMANS 9:10-28

 ¹⁰Not only that, but Rebekah's children had one and the same father, our father Isaac. ¹¹Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God's purpose in election might stand: ¹²not by works but by him who calls—she was told, "The older will serve the younger."^[d] ¹³Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."^{[e] ¹⁴What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! ¹⁵For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,  and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."^[f] ¹⁶It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy. ¹⁷For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."^[g] ¹⁸Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.¹⁹One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?" ²⁰But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' ^[h] ²¹Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?²²What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? ²³What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— ²⁴even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? ²⁵As he says in Hosea:  "I will call them 'my people' who are not my people;  and I will call her 'my loved one' who is not my loved one,"^[i] ²⁶and,  "It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.' ^{²⁷Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved. ²⁸For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality."}}

Father, why did you pick to open my eyes? Why do you love me so much?! I feel so incredibly humbled to have my eyes opened to YOU!!! I have done nothing to deserve You.