Saturday, November 3, 2012
Starting the Nursery
We have a crib!!! A good friend of Jim's at work offered to give us his daughter's crib as she is now sleeping in a big girl bed :) Check out this cutie! My hubby and the crib :)
THANK YOU JENSEN'S!!!!
Dreams Really DO Come True
August 18, 2012 marked the start of a new beginning for me...embarking on life as a wife! Something I had only dreamed and prayed about for YEARS! I remember getting ready to walk down the aisle and wanting nothing more that to just bawl and bawl and bawl because I was so happy to be blessed with what I had prayed for for so long. God really does "give us the desires of our hearts" and makes sure they come true...its just all in HIS timing. Not ours.
We couldn't have asked for a more perfect day! :)
Sunday, August 12, 2012
ALMOST!!
Less than 1 week and I will be married!!!! Crazy how slow yet how fast time has went! I absolutely CAN NOT wait to become Mrs. Foote! August 18th, are you here yet????
Sunday, January 22, 2012
con·tent·ment/kənˈtentmənt/ Noun: A state of happiness and satisfaction.
Contentment.
This is the image that comes to my mind when I think about being content. Relaxed. At ease. Peaceful. Happy. Satisfied in the moment.
As summer 2011 came to an end and fall started to creep in, a lot of things were changing in my life. All for the good. I remember thinking to myself "Is it legal to be this happy and content???" I had just moved to a cute, 1 bedroom apartment with a balcony overlooking a pond and it was all mine. There was a super great guy in my life who was treating me extra special and pursuing relationship with me. A great job with a salary and benefits had been handed to me with barely any decision from me. The stars had aligned....
And now, all that seems to have slipped away. I mean, I still have my cute, little 1 bedroom apartment with a balcony overlooking a pond. I'm still employed in a full time position with benefits. The sweet man in my life has even become my fiance now :)
The last few months have just brought a lot of transition to my life. It hasn't been slow transitions, but unexpected, quick transitions:
*Going from single, to dating, to engaged all within a matter of months when I hadn't intentionally been seeking out a serious relationship
*Leaving the life of a student and nanny and becoming a full time employee in a job where I actually need my college degree
*Becoming fully responsible for my self as an adult
As my state of contentment has begun to fade, I have found myself questioning where my contentment comes from. I seem to have been finding contentment in my situations, my life circumstances. These things are all temporary. If I am looking to them to find my contentment, I will only continue to find myself feeling dissatisfied. As I become satisfied with my life, I will only want more. Our greedy, self-centered society has taught me to always pursue more. To want more. To want better.
Today, I was reading in Ecclesiastes and it says, " No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are never content....I observed everything going on under the sun, and really, it is all meaningless - like chasing the wind."
Finding myself dissatisfied with my job, I have realized a few things:
*I often find my identity in my work
*If I don't find my identity in my work, I look to my relationships
Neither of these places are where I should be finding myself. Christ wants our identity to be in Him. As I have been unable to find myself in my work (because I dislike my job), I have also been unable to cling to my fiance to find myself in him (which is not healthy anyway). I have been chasing after finding a new job to find myself in and making more time to be with my fiance. However, Ecclesiastes tells me this is like chasing after the wind. I'm just going to find another job where I will eventually become dissatisfied or become upset with Jim for not letting me connect completely with him to find myself.
While I still don't have a concrete understanding of what contentment is for me in this season of my life where I am at a job that is not satisfying and in a relationship that is in a temporary season of transition, I have come to a few conclusions:
Contentment ...
*can be found in any situation, not only through changing your situation
*comes in relationship with Christ. Trusting in the guidance of the Holy Spirit to have you right where you are supposed to be in every season of life.
In this season I am called to be content with the blessing of a paycheck and the opportunity to minister to my clients, as well as the opportunity to grow in my own person to become a better wife to my future husband.
This is the image that comes to my mind when I think about being content. Relaxed. At ease. Peaceful. Happy. Satisfied in the moment.
As summer 2011 came to an end and fall started to creep in, a lot of things were changing in my life. All for the good. I remember thinking to myself "Is it legal to be this happy and content???" I had just moved to a cute, 1 bedroom apartment with a balcony overlooking a pond and it was all mine. There was a super great guy in my life who was treating me extra special and pursuing relationship with me. A great job with a salary and benefits had been handed to me with barely any decision from me. The stars had aligned....
And now, all that seems to have slipped away. I mean, I still have my cute, little 1 bedroom apartment with a balcony overlooking a pond. I'm still employed in a full time position with benefits. The sweet man in my life has even become my fiance now :)
The last few months have just brought a lot of transition to my life. It hasn't been slow transitions, but unexpected, quick transitions:
*Going from single, to dating, to engaged all within a matter of months when I hadn't intentionally been seeking out a serious relationship
*Leaving the life of a student and nanny and becoming a full time employee in a job where I actually need my college degree
*Becoming fully responsible for my self as an adult
As my state of contentment has begun to fade, I have found myself questioning where my contentment comes from. I seem to have been finding contentment in my situations, my life circumstances. These things are all temporary. If I am looking to them to find my contentment, I will only continue to find myself feeling dissatisfied. As I become satisfied with my life, I will only want more. Our greedy, self-centered society has taught me to always pursue more. To want more. To want better.
Today, I was reading in Ecclesiastes and it says, " No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are never content....I observed everything going on under the sun, and really, it is all meaningless - like chasing the wind."
Finding myself dissatisfied with my job, I have realized a few things:
*I often find my identity in my work
*If I don't find my identity in my work, I look to my relationships
Neither of these places are where I should be finding myself. Christ wants our identity to be in Him. As I have been unable to find myself in my work (because I dislike my job), I have also been unable to cling to my fiance to find myself in him (which is not healthy anyway). I have been chasing after finding a new job to find myself in and making more time to be with my fiance. However, Ecclesiastes tells me this is like chasing after the wind. I'm just going to find another job where I will eventually become dissatisfied or become upset with Jim for not letting me connect completely with him to find myself.
While I still don't have a concrete understanding of what contentment is for me in this season of my life where I am at a job that is not satisfying and in a relationship that is in a temporary season of transition, I have come to a few conclusions:
Contentment ...
*can be found in any situation, not only through changing your situation
*comes in relationship with Christ. Trusting in the guidance of the Holy Spirit to have you right where you are supposed to be in every season of life.
In this season I am called to be content with the blessing of a paycheck and the opportunity to minister to my clients, as well as the opportunity to grow in my own person to become a better wife to my future husband.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Pinch me....
I think I might be dreaming!!! In the past few weeks, my life has done a complete 180! I went from single, full-time student working as a nanny very part time....to having my OWN place, living alone, working a full-time REAL job that I LOVE and thought I could only ever get with a master's degree (soooo not true). Oh and to top off everything else that I'm trying to "learn" and figure out in this "new" life, I tossed a boyfriend into the mix. Its been a crazy few weeks, but I have been having the time of my life and just loving it! Almost daily I find myself thinking that its all going to slip away and I'm going to realize its all just been a dream... I have lived my entire life to this point PREPARING for the life that I wanted (basically what it is now) and now I get to actually LIVE it! Its just soooo crazy to me! Not sure life could get any better right now :) Well...it could. I could get a pay check any day now ha ha!
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