Philp 1:3-14 from Bread Breakers

Today I have spent working on school. I have taken 2 chapter test and wrote 1 essay. I need to get more done today but needed a break so I decided to give you some notes from Bread Breakers last night. We looked at Philippians 1: 3-14. It's of note that Paul was in jail and had been beaten, whipped, stoned, and was in jail. I like the first sentence and often send it to friends as an encouragement. "I thank my God every time I remember you." 1. I thank God for you and 2. I do it EVERY time I remember you....and I tend to get people on my mind and I want to pray for them and be thankful for the role they played in my life. Some I would classify as positive and others not but they each played the role God allowed and those are making me more like Jesus. Then, "he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion..." Jesus didn't bring me this far through the journey to leave me incomplete!! I'm so thankful for that! "...that your love may abound... in knowledge and depth..." Love should be a chief/key motivator for us. We are bound by the law of love. In this love we can know Christ and each other on a deeper level. Finally, "...served to advance the gospel...because of my chains..." It's hard for me to grasp the fact that people see Christ me more readily when I am in my tough times and even through the ones I'd like to hide/forget/hate/struggle with the most. It's encouraging that God can take those seemingly "bad" things and make good come from them. To think this abundant life I live has come from the ashes a past I WOULD NOT have chosen...what a miracle!

The living dead

As I said in my 1st post I'm studying Beth Moore. We are in week 5 of Breaking Free. I'm actually facilitating the class...sort of a scary thought. :)
As I've been studying and thinking tonight I've came across a few things I wanted to share and they are a good combination to explain why I named my blog a resurrected life.
1. the meaning of resurrect: to bring back to life; raise from the dead
...God not only resurrected the life I wanted to end, He resurrected the testimony I thought I'd lost, the career I thought was over, the loss of friends, and hopes I'd deeply buried.
2. "Perhaps the most profound miracle of all is living through something we thought would kill us. And not just living, but living abundantly and effectively-raised from living death to new life. A life indeed absent of something or someone dear but filled with the presence of the resurrection and the life....the life of a Christian is never about sameness. It's always about change...Christ binds and compresses it with a nail-scarred hand. Life will not ever be the same, but I have the invitation from Christ to rise to a new life--a more compassionate life, a wiser life, a more productive life. And, yes, even a better life. I never cease to be amazed at the bad God can use for good." (Beth Moore)
3. My story is more than my losses and I am finding my way through the wilderness of loss and loneliness.

So, as you begin to read through my journey my desire is not to glorify myself or my mistakes and successes but the One who allowed them, even those He didn't author. I was among the living dead and God has taken those ashes and making beauty from them...

A little about me

I'm 28 and a Randolph County Native. I enjoy writing far more than talking about my feelings/emotions/life. I am an oldest child. I went to school at Grays Chapel, Eastern Randolph and Guilford Technical Community College. I am a Dental Hygienist and love what I do. I am going back to school, currently at GTCC for an associates in Psychology. I want to transfer out and get a degree so that I can counsel folks, especially those involved with me in ladies ministries. I am in counseling myself and want to help others like me. As you can probably guess from my blog title, I have been in some deep pits and I'm working (with God) to climb out and stay out! The other thing you might guess is that I am a blood bought and born again Christian. I'm sure that some negative connotation with some, but for me it means that I get to spend this life with the blessings of heaven on earth though I'm FAR from deserving. AND when this life is over I'll be face to face with my creator crying holy, holy, holy with the seraphem. I am undecided yet as to how specific I will be with my past sins as that I didn't want God's grace to be limited by my struggles. The truth is the truth and God is God regardless of how it applies to you and me.
I hope to share my struggles and successes with you in a way that points to Christ. I believe in being authentic you will see a woman whose heart has been broken and is continuing to be healed. I am in the middle of Beth Moore's Breaking Free, Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace, Psychology 241, and starting P90x. As that those are consuming my time, you will be reading a good bit from that for a few weeks.
My prayer, even now, is that you will be closer to Jesus as a result of this blog.