Earlier today I was thinking about the voice of God and what it must sound like. And I don't mean the still small voice, I mean the audible voice of God, and I don't think my human mind can fathom the sound.

But this is what I've come up with. It's powerful, mighty, booming, yet quiet, gentle, and loving... all at the same time. Able to make you feel extremely loved and at peace, while at the same time fearful.

I read this in Psalms yesterday:

Psalm 77:16-18
 The waters saw You, O God;
         The waters saw You, they were afraid;
         The depths also trembled.
The clouds poured out water;
         The skies sent out a sound;
         Your arrows also flashed about.
The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind;
         The lightnings lit up the world;
         The earth trembled and shook.

The waters were afraid, the thunder of His voice... the earth trembled. We serve a mighty & powerful God.

After service at my church on Wednesday nights, the Pastor encourages us to stick around and pray. It's great.

Tonight, as I sat there, praying for my unsaved family... praying for their salvation, praying that God would use me and bring other Christians across their path to share Christ with them as well... it hit me. That stranger, that coworker, that person you have an opportunity to be a witness to, is someone's mother, sister, dad, brother...someone else could be praying the same prayer - that God would bring a Christian across their path, and you... are that Christian. I am that Christian...

I've prayed this so many times but tonight... it was so clear. If we want God to use others... we have to let Him use us!

So here's to letting God use me and you, to answer other people's prayers.
Think about it.

... a question I've been hearing all morning, yep, I'm home from Texas, got in last night!

I asked a coworker this question after telling her how much fun I had on my trip to Texas, how nice it was and all the stuff we did. She had gone away for the weekend. She then begins to list every complaint, everything that didn't go quite right, every bump in the road, etc, and 5 minutes later still didn't say anything about what she was going for - her niece & nephews graduation parties. Not one pleasant thing to recall from a weekend away?

It made me realize that I did not once mention to her my ipod freezing at 5:30am right before my 6am flight out of Rochester to start vacation and it not working until I got to Texas - 2 flights later, or the people I sat next to, or the delayed flight, or anything like that about my trip. I'm so thankful for a different perspective, for a God who blesses me through the less than pleasant things, and the grace He gives me when I need it.

I'm so thankful: I choose to dwell on the blessings (and not just regarding this trip), I had the opportunity & the money to go, I made it there and back and had no major flight issues! I have so much to be thankful for. I am a blessed girl.

More to come on the things I actually did on this trip! It was great!