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Name: Elizabeth
Interests: Learning more about God, and all that He has done, how awesome He really is... totally enjoy being in the outdoors... Jake, my husband is an interesting study as well :) I love getting to know him better!! Building relationships, drinking chocolatey, coffeeish stuff, or fruity things, sweet smelling lotion, interior design/decorating... somehow it just does something for me...
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10/18/2005
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| moving to blogspot http://elizabethhatcher.blogspot.com/ but leaving this portal open... | | |
| We are in Jake's home state for the next three weeks it's gonna be good, right now we are relaxing with the family the last few nights we've been up late with Jake's buddies grilling and eating and talking it's been good. I love these people... there's a part of me that misses my own people and places but getting to know Jake and his world is always enjoyable (and sometimes a little frightening  ). Miss all of you back in Indy, but I wouldn't trade this for all the gold in the Orient... | | |
| Today as I celebrate with family and friends the things my husband and I have achieved I mourn at the loss of a dear friend. Though we have not long been close I can not begin to process what it is to have lost him. The joy of achievement is scarred with the reality of this loss. He was in our home only weeks ago laughing, and playing games. As the resonnance of his laughter is silenced there is a deeper part of me that is becoming aware of how his laughter now echoes in a space much more vast than this. I can picture his face now glowing in the light of his Savior in the knowledge that his earth bound soul is free. Though dreams have been thwarted by his departure there are other visions more realized now than ever they were or could have been here. Yesterday when he celebrated with us our accomplishments in graduation neither we nor he could have known it would be the last communication between us on earth. God in His sovereignty knew all of our hopes and dreams, allowed them to grow in us but had an even better future for Wes than any of us could have imagined. This is the hope we must cling to. And now brothers and sisters, I want you to know what will happen to the Christians who have died so you will not be full of sorrow like people who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus comes, God will bring back with Jesus all the Christians who have died...then together with them we who are still alive and remain on earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and remain with Him forever . So comfort one another with these words. 1 Thess.4:13-18 | | |
| It's the middle of the night and I can't sleep. There's so much on my mind. My brain is moving too quickly for me to write with pen and paper so I am typing my thoughts. These things are for me to know and be able to examine so maybe I won't even let you see them. Then again your input might give me insight.
The Bible says that we 'wrestle not against flesh and blood' and tonight I sense it. This battle that is raging over my allegiance and where it is placed is not resting so neither am I. There is much work to be done but I am reminded also of the place where Jesus said that this 'kind comes out only by prayer and fasting.' I suppose that I am stretching the meaning of these texts a bit. Yet I see where the message applies to me right now. I have a big decision to make that concerns the rest of my 'free' life. My heart is drawing me to take a risk. A big risk. There are no guarantees, but there will be the rush of adventure, and challenge. My mind on the other hand is urging me to follow the guarantee which leads to confidence, prestige, and security. Either of these options could be yearnings of the flesh, or the guiding of the Holy Spirit. Either could be temptation, or an open door. Both are in premise good, right, sound, and otherwise holy. I have the support of my husband either way, and am determined to make the best in either situation. So which do I choose?
God I beg your wisdom, I am so completely at a loss over this. I believe that You will be honored in either situation, but yet I worry that one may be better than the other. There is a part of me that wants a guarantee either way. I want to know that either way my every worry and care will be met. Help me not to make this decision out of worry, or fear, but in joy and anticipation. You know my heart, and all my thoughts and so I know that you see my duplicity and I ask you to please cleanse me, use me, mold me. Give me clarity on this Lord, and in the end help me to look to You and give You all the glory...
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