In Christ Alone, My Hope is Found

I was listening to this cover by Owl City of In Christ Alone just a moment ago, and I've actually listened to it 3 times in a row. Go, listen:

http://owlcityblog.com/2010/10/25/my-hope-is-found/#more-1942

I've heard the song before, but somehow when I listened to it today, the words, the meaning, the incredible truth of it all hit me. These lyrics are amazing. They are God sent biblical truth. And we should be standing on it everyday, not cowering to satan's lies. I've been reading a lot lately about spiritual battles in the mind and how to come out of them closer to Christ than before, instead of worrying and giving in to despair, not trusting God. You know its so simple, stand in His truth, but why does it seem so hard? Because its a battle! We have to use His Word and cling to His truth to fight the enemy off. I especially like the verse "when fears are stilled, when strivings cease" because I think that is exactly what I need, the Lord saying "Be still and know that I am God." Anywho, the song is extremely encouraging to me, and I hope it is for you too. :)

In Christ alone, my hope is found


He is my light, my strength, my song


This cornerstone, this solid ground


Firm through the fiercest drought and storm


What heights of love, what depths of peace


When fears are stilled, when strivings cease


My comforter, my all-in-all


Here in the love of Christ I stand

There in the ground His body lay


Light of the world by darkness slain


Then bursting forth in glorious day


Up from the grave He rose again!

And as He stands in victory


Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me


For I am His and He is mine


Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death


This is the power of Christ in me


From life’s first cry to final breath


Jesus commands my destiny


No power of hell, no scheme of man




Can ever pluck me from His hand


Till He returns or calls me home


Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand

Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving we are house/animal sitting for 3 families. One family is letting us stay at their house, and it totally feels like a vacation. :) They have a hot tub, a trampoline, lots of food, 2 sheepdogs, 2 cats, and a ferret. It is so nice to leisurely wake up (because I'm off hurray!) and take the doggies for a long walk, and just have fun. Brian and Stephanie visited us this past weekend and were able to enjoy it too for an evening. Tomorrow we are going over to my parents' to eat Thanksgiving lunch and later hopefully hang out and play games with Shanna and Tim. :) But now back to the house sitting...

These animals are such a hoot! Andy here loves to jump on the trampoline:

And Gypsy does a little dance if you scratch the right spot:

They have so many random decorations at this house! There are pictures and statues of pirates and mermaids all over the place. :) The toilet seat has seashells and seahorses in it. There are two old timey clocks that chime on the hour in the living room. Even just now as I sit on the couch I see a large stuffed giraffe, Indian medicine men statues, a boomerang with cool carvings, an arrow, a gargoyle, a pirate dog statue, a large amethyst rock, stained glass ship in the window... see what I mean? Its fun. Oh and there's a ceiling fan shaped like a plane in the office, it kinda looks like a plane crash landed in the house. I would share more but just uploading those two pictures made the internet crash 3 times. So there's my story! Til next time!

Patient Trust

It is so hard for me to be patient with life circumstances. I don't know about you, but when its something important, its the last thing that I want to have up in the air. Today I have been praying a lot about where we are going to live in Dec, as well as how we are going to afford it. I have been apartment hunting more than I should probably, because it has been stressing me out. Jason has now taken over for me. Still I know God has a plan. But can't he hurry up with it? I suppose then I wouldn't learn much. In fact all of this worrying has led me to the breaking point, and then strengthened by our friends' strong prayer medicine, back to hoping and trusting again. So maybe there are still lessons to be learned... and that pretty much sums up life right now. Waiting, hoping, waiting... trying, failing, trusting. But God says that he will never give us more than we can handle. Praise Jesus. :)

The beginnings...

Ok, ok, so I'm not the best blogger the blogging world has ever seen. My readers must forgive me. :)

There have been so many changes since I first posted. Lets see, we have moved twice, I have changed jobs, Jason has done a lot of odd jobs and endless job searching... and now its October. The month of Halloween and fun fall things to do! Like fairs! Oh I hope there is a fair coming soon, pretty sure there are two, just don't know yet which we may get to go to. We have a wedding to attend to this weekend, well actually, we both are in it and so very excited for Brian and Ashley! Jason is the best man, and he's been stressing, which I find quite funny, about being the planner of the bachelor party. (He'll never admit he's stressing but he does pace a lot when he thinks about it.)

I've been really enjoying my work! Its challenging in a good way, the kind of way that you know you are learning something new and useful. I actually feel like a teacher, not just a babysitter. Though both are valuable! I figure not everybody knows what I'm doing so here's an explanation: I'm a preschool teacher at my church, I am lead teacher for 3 year olds on Tues and Thurs, and a 2 year olds assistant Mon, Wed, and Fri. Mon are my long days, Tues and Thurs my busy days, Wed my early day and therefore tiredest day, and Fri my get off early day! Hurray! I love my kids soooooooooooooooo much. I wish I could post their pictures all over this page so that I could truly share my life-story with y'all, but I am not allowed, alas.

Last Thurs was a really fun day, the firetruck came and the firemen let the kids hold on to the hose as they blasted water out of it! They squealed with happiness and fear of getting wet. :) I loved their fear mwahahaha, it was so funny to see them run like that, they were just being silly. Today we were supposed to have a field trip to the Pumpkin Patch, and I'm sorry to say that it got rained out. Sad day, the kids were pretty bummed, not to mention the teachers, even though we are going on Thursday. Its a Pumpkin Patch set up in our parking lot that really is quite super cool if I do say so myself. The parents will be joining us for the shopping and art project, and it will just be a good time outside in the cooler air. Instead I had to come up with last minute fall projects to fill the time. But even that worked out great as we created a tissue paper burning bush! (From the story of Moses) The best part is that I just thought we were making a tree with fall leaves until one of my smart children corrected me that it is a burning bush, and seeing that we just read about that last week, I had to agree! :)

I can tell everyone in the "office" is getting somewhat keyed up lately... they are all preparing for the intenseness that is Christmas and Thanksgiving around here. Apparently my work goes allllll out. There is a musical performance by the children and a fancy feast with the parents, as well as lots and lots of really cool art projects that the kids bring home... which are developed by their teachers... aka. Kelley you have some work to do!

Fall change is in the air. Even all of this happy fun is going to change soon, at the beginning of Nov: as the church expands to have full time children I will be changing classes to accommodate. I will miss my kids in the 3's room, but it makes way for benefits, so I can't complain. :) And with Jason having several job interviews this month (two tomorrow even!) who knows where the winds of change will take us then? I just know that God has a plan and we are to simply lean on Him. Both me and Jason are definately learning a whole new meaning of the concept of trusting in Him for all things. I think that is the point of all this waiting and waiting on the job situation. I am so glad it has a purpose! Yay God! So on that happy note I will leave you!

Blessings,

Kelley

Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. Prov 3:5-6

Well hello there everyone, in particular Miriah, Cassie, and Linsey, my fellow bloggers! I figured I should join the newlywed train of writing fun stories online to keep in touch. :) Hurray!

My name is Kelley Wells... Wells... so much shorter than before! Crazy. Ah, Higginbotham, I miss you already! However, thats cutting off 7 letters! I'm still getting used to this whole name change thing. But its so fun signing it! I love all the e's and l's in my name! Woot!

At this current moment I am attempting to entertain myself with blogging while Brian A, Brian W, and and my hubby play a zombie boardgame. I am amused at their present nerdiness, who wouldnt be with grunts coming from Jason as he "attacks" Brian as the zombies. There are a lot of threats that are hilarious going on. When the zombies spawn is particularly fun to me. Just the word "spawn". What a strange word, it makes me think of salmon and other swimming things. Now they are guilting me to get them cookies and milk. I am ignoring them. Its a good time. I might actually do it, hmmm, maybe. I'll think about it. Until next time, God bless!