Chaos? Yes, definetly

Life has been unbelieveably crazy recently. If a fortune teller would have told me 2 months ago the path my life would take, I would not have believed them.

1. I have been in the process of buying a house since the end of February. I say in process because after I moved in early March 22, the seller passed away in his sleep the next day. And if that wasn't bad enough, the house has had to go through probate since then because the deed did not have a survivorship clause. The realtor told me last week that I should be able to close by the end of the month. Until then, I have put all unpacking and purchasing on hold, which has been very difficult because I would love to plant flowers and get things organized.

2. My brother had a bad reaction to a medicine recently and has been in the hospital for a week. This has caused my dad and I alot of stress because the reaction has been of a behavioral type not a rash or physical pain. He is being released tommorow, so I do not know what things will be like.

Those have been my two major stressers recently, but there have been some positives
1. Alaska trip is paid in full -- I cannot wait to have a week off of work in June and spend time with relatives.

2. I have closed two cases at work and am in the process of closing a third. The first one received a "Good Job!" from my boss, which is very high praise indeed!

3. I have started carpooling with a girl from my small group to Church and other related events. She is really nice and it is nice to have someone to share the 30 minute ride to.

4. Saw Matt Redmen, the Christian music artist, at the Justice Revival for my church. He led the worship on the first night. It was great and the seminar really made me think about Social Justice and how I need to be serving others more in the community. God has blessed me in so many ways and in turn I need to be a blessing to the "widows and orphans" of Columbus and the world. Our small group has done a study recently on the woman that put all the coins she had into the offering and how that was more pleasing than the silver and gold the rich put in. Since then I have been really convicted that I haven't been making a sacrifice financially to the church. Its not that I haven't given money, but like the rich men in the story, the amount I have given hasn't "pinched" or made me rely on God to provide for what I need. It is my goal to start feeling "the pinch" by putting together a budget and working on tithing and to find a way to use my gifts to help someone.

5. Serve Columbus was yesterday and it went really well. They were calling for rain and lots of our projects were outside. We all prayed for the rain to hold off and ... it did! Over 1,000 turned out to serve the city by cleaning up, serving people, etc. My group picked up trash and planted flowers at a park. I of course helped plant flowers. I cannot wait to get started on my own yard. It was such a good feeling to have the soil beneath my hands and making it look beautiful with all the flowers we planted. Spring is finally here! =)

well thats all of the update I have for now. I need to go grocery shopping, church, and call my brother still today.