Memorizing scripture

Starting this week; I am going to start memorizing scripture again. I have done this on regular bases since high school. In high school when I was memorizing scripture weekly and I had never felt closer to God, I miss the simple days of high school, when I was able to get what I called a weekly recharging section on Wednesday night service at Church. As a college student I do not have that option, because I have class and have to work on Wednesday.

However God didn’t leave me he stayed constant I am the one that drifted away. I realize now that it’s time for me to come back to the loving arms of my Heavenly Father.

To get me back in the habit of memorizing scripture I’ve decided to start with two verses from the Old Testament, a verse from Proverbs, and two verses from the New Testament

      Ruth 1:16

      Psalms 37:3-5

      Proverbs 17:22

      Philippians 4:11

      Matthew 4:4

Memorizing scripture will have help keep up with my daily Bible reading as well. Starting in April I plan to read a Chapter of Proverbs a day, and two Chapters of Psalms a day. Along with a few verses from the book of John this is the book my life group is doing our Bible story on. Also along with a few verses a day from the Book that I’ve chosen to read for my walk. I know I can do this, I will do this.

Book review of Pearl in the sand

Title: Pearl in the Sand

Author: Tessa Afshar

            Pearl in the Sand is based on the Biblical story of Rahab, and Salmon(e), and the fall of Jericho. Since the Bible does not really say anything about Rahab’s life before the two spies make their way to her door. Or even after the fall of Jericho. Tessa Afshar had a little bit of poetic license in writing the novel. The author suggests that Rahab might have been sold in to prostitution at an early age by her father.  

While Salmon(e) is a leader of the tribe of Judah. When Salmon(e) first meets Rahab he cannot see passed her past as a Zonah Hebrew word for prostitute however after a while the two fall in love. Even though the life of a Zonah wasn’t something that she chose, she still had to repent.  The healing process comes to Rahab because of pearl earring that had been left in the sand over night and almost destroyed; she realizes that she is still beautiful and treasured by God.  I wonder if that is why the author named the book Pearl in the sand.

How does a cannaite harlot find happiness, marriage, and love with a leader of Judah? Simple through God’s Grace. Pearl in the Sand is more than just a love story between Salmon(e) and Rahab. It more importantly a story of God’s Grace and Mercy, how with Faith and belief in God and Jesus the sins of the past are washed clean.

If you want to read more about Rahab you can read her story in Joshua in the Old testament, Hebrews, and Matthew in the New Testament. Joshua and Hebrews mention Rahab’s past it mentions her past covered with God’s Grace. Matthew includes her along with four other women.

Other fiction title about Rahab include Unashamed Francine Rivers, and Daughter of Deliverance Gilbert Morris

Valentine's Day

Valentine’s Day

     Everything in the world seems to put the importance of being in a relationship on Valentine’s Day. So what’s a single girl to do? Trust God. Even for me that statement was hard to how on to let alone do. For me the last few years for me have been hard. This year however is easier to face as a single young woman, because I am trusting God with every aspect of my life and my future. Especially my dating life and my future husband whoever he may be. It’s in God’s hands. God’s timing is not my timing. God’s best for me is far better that anything I could come up with. 

     This single season of my life is a time of waiting and preparation for what God has in plan for me, and it’s going to be good. The whole thing of trusting God with my dating life reminds me of something my eleventh grade Sunday school teachers use to say. “God will bring Mr. almost wonderful into your life, if it is His will for your life. He’ll be Mr. almost wonderful and not Mr. Perfect because only Jesus is perfect.”

     He’ll be Mr. almost wonderful, because he is only human. He will love God more than he loves me. He will treat me like a princess, because I am the daughter of the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

     So for now I am enjoying this season of singleness, and the love of my Heavenly Father. Waiting for God’s timing for God to bring my future husband, my prince into my life, when the time is right.

     There are a few Bible verses that I have been reading to help me grow during this season. Psalms 16, Psalms 40, as well as my life verse Psalms 37:3-4 I am thankful that my devotional this morning had the line that “if you’re single, remember that your value doesn’t come from having a ring on your finger but having Jesus in your heart.”

     Some Christian songs that I enjoy listening to during this season are:

     Wait for Me- Rebecca St. James

     Free to be Me-Francesca Battistelli

     My Paper heart- Francesca Battistelli

Top Books I read 2010

At least in my humble opinion these are the best books that I read last year. ·         A Hopeful Heart  Kim Vogel Sawyer

·         Fire Proof Eric Wilson

·         Daring Chole Laura Jensen Walker

·         Turning the Paige Laura Jensen Walker

·         Becca by the Book Laura Jensen Walker

·         Love is a battlefield Annalisa Daughtery

·         Love is a Monumental Annalisa Daughtery

·         Love is Grand Annalisa Daughtery

·         Cool Beans Erynn Mangum

·         Love is Monumental Annalisa Daughtery

·         The Mother Daughter Book Club Pies and Prejudice Heather Vogel Frederick 

·         The Frontier’s Man Daughter Laura Frantz

·         Courting Morrow Laura Frantz

A few teen books that I want to read this year

Decided to add the few teen books I wanted to read this year to my blog, to see if I can actually read them during the course of the year.

Teen fiction to read 2011 just a few

In The Shadow of the Lamp Susanne Emily

Real Live Boyfriends E. Lockhart  Jan 25 2011

Double Take: A Novel  Melody Carlson

What Happened to Goodbye Sarah Dessen

Prom and Prejudice Elizabeth Eulberg (Hardcover)  Jan 26 2011

Beastly   Alex Flinn  Feb 12, 2011

The Lost Crown Sarah Miller

Little Women & Me Lauren Baratz Logsted

Revolution Jennifer Donnelly

According to Jane Marilyn Brant

Beauty Robin McKinley

I was Jane Austen’s Best Friend Cora Harrison

Jane April Lindner   2/9/2011
Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares Rachel Cohn

Christian fiction to read this year (2011)

Latte Daze Erynn Mangum read 4/15/2011

Double Shot Erynn Mangum read 4/20/2011

Doctor in Petticoats Mary Conneally

The Colonel’s Lady Laura Frantz

Leaving Karen Kingsbury

Simply Sara Hillary Manton Lodge

Girl in the Gatehouse Julie Klassen

The Amish midwife Mindy sterns Clark

A place of piece Amy Clipston

An unlikely Suitor Nancy Moser

Caroline’s Choice Martha Rogers

Lady in the mist Laurie Alice Eakles

Here burns my Candle Liz Curtis Higgs

Mine is the night Liz Curtis Higgs

My hands came away red Lisa McKay

The Missionary William Carmichael

Blood Ransom Lisa Harris

The Damascus Way Davis Bunn & Janette Oke

Sweet caroline Rachel Hunck

The Longing Season Christine Schaub

Finding Anna Christine Schaub

The Lady of Bolton Hill Elizabeth Camden

A heart Divided Kathleen Morgan

Pearl in the Sand Tessa Assnar March 21, 2011

Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line

by Abby Johnson

Before the Season Ends Linore Rose Burkard

Wolves Among Us Ginger Garrett

Holding her Head High Janine Turner finished reading Jan 15, it was a good book.

Favorite Quotes

What we are is God's gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God.  ~Eleanor Powell

I guess sometimes you can meet the right person when you least expect it. Love is Monumental, Annalisa Daughety

I guess sometimes the right guy can make you forget you ever thought you had a type

Love is Monumental  Annalisa Daughety

From way up here, it's crystal clear that now I'm in a whole new world with you.

-- Aladdin

There may be something there that wasn't there before.

-- Beauty and the Beast

Much deeper than snow...
The strongest love we'll know we'll ever know.

-- Beauty and the Best, Enchanted Christmas

Hope is the greatest of the gifts we'll receive.

-- Beauty and the Best, Enchanted Christmas

If you must love someone, may I suggest you love yourself!

-- Beauty and the Best, Enchanted Christmas

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.  ~Corrie Ten Boom,

A nurse will always give us hope,
an angel with a stethoscope.
~Carrie Latet

Nurses are the heart of healthcare.  ~Donna Wilk Cardillo
Nursing is an art:  and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit?  It is one of the Fine Arts:  I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.  ~Florence Nightingale


Caring is the essence of nursing.  ~Jean Watson

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.  ~Mother Teresa

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder