Home

I have a very strong tendency to be independent, and I work pretty hard to keep that under control. I tend to think that I know best, and even when I submit in action, in though and attitude I'm totally out of line.

I get tired of being places really fast. Tired of being home with my family all the time. Tired of running back and forth from place to place all the time. Tired of being away from home. Then I realize that it's not that I'm tired of any of those things, it's that in the midst of those things and places I lose my sense of 'home' by losing my focus on Jesus.

"In thy presence is fullness of joy." That is home. Anywhere I go, anything I do, I can be home! That is so comforting.

I'm getting a bit tired of being here at my aunt's house. I'm always a bit afraid that I am secretly being judged for something. While these fears have perfectly good grounds, I'm letting them ruin my time here, and if anyone who reads this will just pray for me and my sister while we are here, it would mean the world to me. I want to enjoy my time here, and learn to love my aunt and uncle more. I want them to enjoy me being here, too. So, I'm really going to pray that God will help me out.


I've been doing so much Bible reading lately that I'm starting to crave it. Which is totally exciting!! I've craved God's word before, but not half as often as I am now. I never knew that when you make yourself read it that it would make you WANT to read it! Isn't God amazing?!

I can't wait to join the choir when we get back home. Caiti and I LOVE singing, especially singing hymns together. We used to have "kitchen duty" every night, so we'd always clean the kitchen and sing as many hymns as we could think of. She always takes the melody, and most of the time I sing harmony. God blessed me with a pretty good ear for harmony, and he blessed Caiti with a better voice than me, so it works out great. We haven't been singing any since we were here. Last Sunday we 'sang' some shallow, shallow praise and worship tunes, but that doesn't count.

I'm going to read my Bible! =P

-Laura