powerful thoughts!

there's a lot going on right now! my mind is spinning just thinking of it all. so this weekend i read a lot of chapters in my book by Joel Osteen. i'm tellin' ya...if I never recommend another book in my life, i'm recommending you read this one. it's powerful. i get leery of reading books by preachers. i mean, there are so many quacks out there. to be honest it's hard to put my trust into most of them. but i have been watching this guy on tv on Sundays for awhile now, a few years. from the first time i saw him on national television i just felt a connection. i call it the God connection. :)

anyway - things i wouldn't have ever expected starting happening since i've started this book. first of all, out of the blue almost i decided to go back to school. i want my associates in Photography to begin with. after a rocky start with registration and much prayer and just POSITIVE THOUGHTS and saying my words out loud (i am favored, i deserve good things, i will prosper and succeed at everything i do!) -- i got a phone call today from the school i would like to attend. they are going to let me start next Monday!!!! my first day of school will be Jan 14th. i'm nervous but excited to get this ball {finally} rolling. i almost didn't think it was going to happen, but then it did and now i'm going. wow!

also, i get my church's prayer chain emailed to me weekly. now, if you click on the website on my sidebar of my church...it's not a small one. in fact, it's rather large compared to the churches i grew up in. they have 3 services on the weekend and well over 1,000 people at each service. well this request i read on the latest prayer chain...well...it was definitely geared toward me. i don't know who could've sent it in, but it specifically said "Melissa" and "her sister" in it and it was just touching and amazing and i couldn't believe it. if you want to know, email me but i don't really feel like blogging too much about it. kind of personal. :)

i'm feeling like God is preparing me for something great this year. i don't know what, and usually i'm NOT spontaneous at all (ask Tim, lol!) ~ but i'm beginning to like the "not knowing" of it all. i really am! it's like i'm being led by someone who knows EXACTLY where i need to go. it's truly hard to explain and yet amazing!