My life should be a movie

So, my life is crazy!! True story. Let me fill you in on what last week consisted of!

Last Sunday, May 29th, I went to Pensacola, FL to catch my plane to Arlington, TX, where I would be for the summer doing missions with NAMB. Everything is running smoothly for the day. I got to airport on time, checked my bags, told my mom, Ethan, and Tim goodbye, went through security, and boarded my plane. Then, the problems started occurring. I never left the runway because of engine problems. So, we sat on the plane for about 45 minutes for the maintenance crew to fix it. We then deboarded the plane and waited for 2 1/2 hours for them to fix it. The rest of the flights were booked for the day, so I re-booked my flight for the following day and the same time.

On Monday, May 30th, my mom, dad, Tim, and I did the same thing all over again. This time though I don't arrive as early I should have and then got stuck in security. I make it to my gate and the plane is still here, but they decided to take my baggage off and not let me get on the plane. They put me on standby for the next flight that is 4 hours later. So, we wait around for that time. I am #3 on the list for standby for a booked flight. The employees thought there was a lady missing from the plane. They offered the seat to the people ahead of me on the list, but they were a couple and did not want to be split up, so the seat was offered to me. They give me my new boarding pass and put my luggage on the plane. I started walking from my gate onto the plane and as I am about to put my foot on the plane the flight attendant stops me. They wouldn't let me get on the plane because the lady they thought was missing was on the plane the whole time!

God made it clear that I was not supposed to get on that plane or any other plane that would take me to Texas! The following day God opened two opportunities for me for the summer. The first option was to move in the Hooper family and be their nanny for the summer and make money. The second option was to stay at home and intern at my church as missions strategy coordinator and make no money. I really thought I needed money and wanted to babysit for the summer, but after much prayer and reading God's Word I found that I needed to be obedient to Him and intern at my church. I would benefit the most from doing that and it was just what I felt like God wanted me to do. I was happy in my decision and worked at the church on Thursday and Friday. Then, this weekend the Hoopers get in touch with me and told me that they had been praying about my situation and knew I was being obedient to God and they felt they needed to be obedient and still give me the money we had talked about since I was not going to make any at the church. How awesome is that?!?! God is amazing and ever-present in my life and is CONSTANTLY proving His sovereignty and faithfulness!!! I serve a crazy awesome God! :)

So, yeah..my life has it's ups and downs, but God is always in control of it and my faith in Him has definitely been strengthened this past week! :) Hope this is encouraging to you as well.

Dreams really do come true

I thought I would let the world know that God decided to let me in on His best kept secret. His best kept secret is a guy named Timothy John Mathis. :)

You know every girl(and some guys) has this list of what she wants in a significant other. She has this dream/picture of what he like and how things will be in her future. Well, guess what!! My reality with Tim is far, far better than I have EVER dreamed possible! It seriously is! I am head over heels for this man of God! He is truly one of the biggest blessings I have ever had!

In past relationships, I was trying to make the guys fit into what I wanted, but with Tim..he just fits perfectly. God's plans are so much better than mine and that is proven time and time again in my life. I thought I had this "perfect guy" in my mind, but God placed Tim in my life and blew me away. I underestimated and was cheating myself out thinking the guy in my mind was as good as it was going to get. God showed me otherwise. Praise the Lord! :)

Would you like to hear about mine and Tim's little fairytale? :) I love telling it, so I will share it with you! We met in March 2010 at FBC Abbeville's Disciple Now. One of my best friends, Morgan, went to Honduras with the youth pastor of FBC Abbeville and Tim. The youth pastor, Ryan, asked Morgan to be a leader for the D-Now weekend and then asked her to find another girl to help as well. Morgan asked me to help and I was all for it! It was that weekend that I met Tim and I thought he was awesome! He had already added me on Facebook before that weekend and I think we had maybe talked on chat, too. We were able to talk some and shared our testimonies on the way to a Rush of Fools concert in Dothan. I was able to learn more about him and the amazing person he is. But at that time, I was dating someone else and he was liking another girl. So, nothing happened between us at this time, but we kept in touch with each other. In October is when we both ended our relationships with other people, not knowing what God had in store for us. In November, we started talking more and getting to know each other better. It was then on November 16th when I randomly asked Tim to join me in a 30 day blogging challenge. He agreed and we blogged almost everyday the month before I left for China. During that time, we were talking everyday and learning more and more about each other. I left for China on December 17th and came back in January. When I came back home we started talking just about everyday again. We had exchanged phone numbers and started communicating through texts. I went home one weekend with Morgan at the end of January and he came over to her house and hung out with us. At this point, I still had no idea that he liked me and he did not know that I had feelings for him as well. That next week on February 6th, Tim told me his intentions about our friendship and where he was planning on it going. He told me that he felt like I possessed the qualities he wanted in a wife and he wanted to date me and hopefully eventually marry me. I flipped my lid!! No joke! I had been praying about it all and never thought he would actually be interested in me, too. I was blown away by his boldness and being a man about it all and initiating things between us because hardly any guys do that nowadays. Ever since then God has blown my mind through this amazing man of God! Things between us couldn't be better! It may seem like a short period of time to have fallen so hard for a guy, but when you meet the right one and know you have a future and lifetime with him..you just can't help yourself. :)

So, this is just the beginning of my real life fairytale with Tim Mathis. I could not be happier with the one God has blessed me with!