The More I Seek You -- Kari Jobe

 This post and the next post are both lyrics to a song. If you haven't heard them, I strongly encourage you to go to Google or YouTube and look them up. They have spoken so much to me lately and I wanted to share them with you all. 

This first one is The More I Seek You by Kari Jobe.

It is very simple and repeats a lot, but it is so true and beautiful. 

Enjoy! 

 The more I seek You,
The more I find You.

The more I find You,
The more I love You

I wanna sit at Your feet
Drink from the cup in Your hand.
Lay back against You and breath,
Hear Your heart beat

This Love is so deep, 

It's more than I can stand.
I melt in your peace, it's overwhelming

The more I seek You,
The more I find You.

The more I find You,
The more I love You

I wanna sit at Your feet
Drink from the cup in Your hand.
Lay back against You and breath,
Hear Your heart beat

This Love is so deep,
It's more than I can stand.
I melt in Your peace, it's overwhelming

I wanna sit at Your feet
Drink from the cup in Your hand.
Lay back against You and breath,
Hear Your heart beat

This Love is so deep,
It's more than I can stand.
I melt in Your peace, it's overwhelming

I wanna sit at Your feet
Drink from the cup in Your hand.
Lay back against You and breath,
Hear Your heart beat

This Love is so deep,
It's more than I can stand.
I melt in Your peace...

A New Post Coming Soon

Hey everyone! 

So, I'm going to start working on a new post, but I don't know how long it is going to take to get it finished with school and everything now going on. 

But, here is a tiny sneak peek at what it is going to be about. 

Displacement -- "to move something from its natural environment"

I want to follow Jesus into displacement. But, to actually change something, we have to be willing to sacrifice wholly. Which requires action. 

"Christ knew that unless He fully embraced humanity and displacement, redemption was impossible. 

Displacement is action. It is choosing to do more than talk, learn, or lecture about change. It is the literal removal of yourself from your natural environment and actually becoming that which you are seeking to redeem."

-- Adam Thompson, Red Revolution

I went to a conference once and we got goody bags with different stuff in it. Well, everyone also got a bible study book. The one that I received was Red Revolution by Adam Thompson. 

The book sat on my shelf for a long time. I never picked it up. (How familiar is that?) 

But, I recently opened it and have begun to do the study...and it is changing my life and changing how I see things. The subtitle on the cover of the book says, "Seeing the world through the Lens of Christ."

That is all that I want to do!
But, it is hard.

Very, hard. 

So, as I go through this book there will probably be some posts about it. Posts about how I am going to change things about myself and grow more into the servant that Christ wants me to be. 

So, stay tuned! It's going to be a great ride!! 

Because, 

following Christ is the greatest adventure there is! 

:-)

Back to School!

New students.

More students.

More traffic.

More cars.

Construction.

Remodeling.

Classes.

Professors.

Syllabi.

Dining Halls.

"Fake Money"

School books.

TCBY.

Hamburger Hangouts.

Pencils.

Pens.

iTouch.

Cell phone.

Facebook.

myBama.

Church events.

Friends.

Dorms.

Dorm elevators.

Dorm beds.

Lights.

Movies.

Action.

It's back to school and with it comes all that that entails! 

There is so much going on right now it is crazy! But, I'm just trying to organize my life for another semester of school here at the University of Alabama.

So far I like all of my classes, even though all we did was go over the syllabus for each class. 

It's going to be a great semester.

I have a feeling. 

:-)

Happy Birthday, Ethan!

Happy 7th Birthday, Ethan! 

You are one of the coolest little kids I know and one of the best nephews anyone could ask for! 

I hope you have a great birthday and have lots of fun! 

I love you! 

Aunt Jessica

More Photos from This Summer

WARNING: MANY PICTURES AHEAD!!

Here are some more pictures from my summer internship. 

I can't tell you how much this summer meant to me, but hopefully soon I will write a post about the rest of it.

For now, enjoy these pics of these precious kids who stole my heart! 

:-) 

Sweet Laila. :-) 

 

Levonta!

Isjiaa!

Me and Erin one of my co-workers!

Satoryia steering the boat!

Jacolby helping with the sails.

Lemarkques and Me

Demetrius and Me

Levonta and Me :-)

Shakkarria!

Petting a snake!

Turtles!

Some of our Kids who were old enough got to go to Camp Blue Lake for a week. They love going and it was a challenging time, but it was also really great! This is the kids arriving at Camp!

Levonta and Satoryia on the slide! 
This ended up being one of my favorite photos of the summer!

  Curtis and Me. 

Isaiah

My girls from Whistler that got to come to camp! Tiffany, Brandi, and Satoryia.

This is one Sunday! We hadn't had many kids come to church all summer, but our last Sunday we gave out awards to all the kids that had come to our Kids Camp throughout the summer and these are the ones that came that day. We had 20 kids come and some of their families even came! It was amazing! We weren't expecting anyone to show up and then most of them did!

Levonta on Messy Day!

Oneka and Laila

Markel on the slip-n-slide! They absolutely LOVED this!

       This one is very blurry, but I like it. Me with Brandi, Shakarria, Isjiaa, and Jacolby.

Hope for Orphans

My sister just posted about this and I loved it! 

So, I decided to dedicate a post to it as well! 

:-)

Have you ever heard about The Vintage Pearl? Well, she has a blog and also a business that makes hand-crafted jewelry. I looked through her store today and loved all the stuff that she has! I've never been big on jewelry (mostly just necklaces and my wrist is covered in random stuff ha), but her stuff is really beautiful. I really liked it.
Well, they just released this Hope for Orphans necklace. 

Isn't it awesome? 

It's a ready to ship item too! So, there won't be a long wait to receive it! 

Even better, all profits from this necklace go towards families that are wanting to adopt!
We can help the families and help the children/babies that are waiting for homes. 

This wonderful little necklace is only $25.00! 

A wonderful contribution to a wonderful cause! 

:-)

Stand Firm...Through It All

"Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain."

1 Corinthians 15:58

Picture this. We find something new and exciting. Something that we cannot wait to get our hands on and get fully involved with. It goes great, could not be better. Everything is going the way it is supposed to, the way that you dreamed. Your expectations of what you wanted to happen were exceeded. 

Suddenly, something happens. One of your plans gets disrupted. One of your other plans depended on that one, so now it is messed up. People start noticing that something is up and that things are different. All your hard work and time is starting to feel like it was for nothing. You wonder why you went along with this in the first place. A good idea it may have been, but now, you feel as though you were just set up for failure. 

What good could come out of it now? You have nothing left to give. No more time, energy, or willingness. 

It is hard to keep going along with something when you cannot see the outcome. Sometimes, that is what it is like when following Christ. But, we serve an Almighty God who has the ultimate power and authority! We work for Him in the hopes that the Kingdom will be expanded. That is a big task! So, of course it can be discouraging when we do not see any results. 

This is where our faith comes in. We have to remember that we are working for the One who saved us. The One who deserves all of our praise and all of our life. He sees the outcome of our work. When we feel like it ended in a failure or a dead-end, He sees the true outcome. We plant and He sows. 

We are building cathedrals that we can not see.

We have to stand firm and trust that our God is who He says that He is. We have to remember that our struggles, failures, and hard work is not in vain. We have to rest in the fact that we are working for a Holy God and He will not let us fail. It is all for His glory, so that His name will be resounded! We cannot let anything move us. We cannot compromise our beliefs for anyone or anything. We have to give all or nothing. God cannot have only part of our lives, He has to have all of it! He created us for a purpose! We need to live out that purpose. We need to claim that we are children of God sent to do His work. We need to remember that nothing will ever be put in our path that we cannot handle. 

For in our weaknesses we find strength.

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose."

Romans 8:28