What Time Is It???

So I've decided that life is all about timing....

"And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek GOd, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us." Acts 17:26-27

I just love those verses. I was listening to a sermon the other day on this very topic of time. It related to dating, but I feel that you can relate it to anything in life. For example, say a few years back you met someone. The sparks were flying and time felt like it stood still when you were with them. Everything was going great, just so peachy, until time passes and you see your paths leading down different roads. You begin to have a change of heart. Why is that? Probably because the feelings that you felt at the being of the relationship: the sparks, etc, were not feelings of love, but feelings of timing. That God placed the right person in your life at that moment and it just fit.

Lately, I've been seeing this happening in my life. Like me coming to Memphis, it was God's timing. I wanted, longed so much to go to Auburn, however, God saw a different way. And looking back now I can see how many amazing things that God has done in my life, with the friendships that he's given me and the struggles that I've faced in nursing school. I just think that it's so amazing how God knows our allotted periods, he knows our dwelling place. That every relationship, job choice, or place is somehow shaping us into the person that God wants us to be. We just need to trust him and let him lead us.

Don't Go Chasing Crabs.

So I'm on vacation with the family that I nanny for. Well I guess it's not really a vacation seeing that I"m working, but still it's at the beach so that kind of makes it a vacation. Yesterday I was playing in the ocean with the girls and I had a super cheesy moment, ha so I'm going to share it.

Sumner was catching waves and I was too, the next thing that I know Sumner's screaming. A crab just pinched her! That so freaked me out. I mean I've only been to the ocean a total of 7 times in my lifetime, so I don't really do sea creatures. Sumner and Lizzie decide to go get their nets, so they could catch the crab! For the next hour we are walked down the ocean shore on the look out for a crab! After we searched high and low we ended up with nothing!

Later in the day Sumner was asking me about guys. And she goes "Katie, don't you want to find a guy?" I just was laughing because she's ten and way too in touch with everything. My response to her was the story of the crab. I explained that when you go out looking for a crab you end up finding nothing. But if you go on with your life and don't think about the crab, then it will end up finding you. Man I don't know where all this cheese is coming from, but I feel that it's one of my gifts in life. So the moral of the story is to not to go chase guys because it'll just leave you with a broken heart. You just have to learn to live your life without one and he'll find you.

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